About Bugra

Bugra Balci is an electric, acoustic bassist, and composer. Bugra has performed in Turkey, Europe, and the US. He has had the honor to play with musicians such as Bob Quaranta, Robert Schoosleitner, Vinx De'Jon Parrette, Kim Plainfield, Ian Rapien, Alessandro Sgobbio, Gregorio Ferrarese, Nicola Pannarale. He has recorded 4 albums so far including Alessandro Sgobbio and Pete Jung.

Born in 1986, he started studying Classical composition, piano, and music theory at the age of 12 under Huseyin Cebi, who introduced him to composers such as Prokofiev, Bach, Bartok, and Schoenberg.

He later chose electric and acoustic bass in order to become familiar with Jazz music. Through the hard work of self-teaching, he started touring nationally in Turkey with bass guitar during his high school and university years, and won the Yamaha Best Electric Bass Player Award of Turkey in 2008.

At Dokuz Eylul University, he studied Classical piano with Esin Durmaz and Classical harmony with Professor Turgut Aldemir. He also studied double bass under Kursat And. In the summer of 2007, he received full scholarship to attend Italy's Siena Jazz, where he studied with Pietro Leveratto, Furio Di Castri, Stefano Zenni, and Massimo Manzi. He also received full summer scholarship to Berklee College of Music in 2009 and studied under Lincoln Goines and Bruce Gertz with improvisation as the focus.

In 2010 he moved to New York to study at The Collective School of Music in the Advanced Program and became the program's substitute bass instructor upon graduation. Later, he decided to pursue a Masters degree in Jazz at Queens College. He also started his composition career and his piece “Metamorphosis in 60 seconds” was selected for premier in Chicago by PianoForte Foundation this year.

Now residing in New York, Bugra is finishing his last year at Queens College while actively composing and performing in the city.

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Works

Concerto

Op.21 Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor
Op.27 Piano Concerto No.2

Orchestra

Op.29 Wind Symphony in D minor

Etude

Op.22 Etude for Piano No.1 in E flat minor
Op.23 Etude for Double Bass in D minor
Op.24 Etude for Clavier in A minor
Op.25 Etude for Piano No.2
Op.28 Etude for Piano No.3

Septet

Op.30 Vita Brass Septet in C minor
Natus, Crescatis, Consenescunt, Obitus

String Quartet

Op.1 String Quartet One Poem for Tolstoy

Trio

Op.3 Piano Trio in D minor Three Dimension
Op.18 Waltz for Clarinet, Cello, Piano in D minor

Duo

Op.4 Kānēshon カーネーション Clarinet, Double Bass

Songs

Op.12 Song No.1
Op.19 Song No.2 in A minor
Op.20 Vocalise No.2 in C minor

Solo

Op.2 Metamorphosis in 60 Seconds
Op.5 Clavier Partita No.1 in D minor
Op.6 Clavier Partita No.2 in C minor
Op.7 Partita for Flute in E Minor
Op.8 Partita for Flute in A minor
Op.9 Partita for Flute No.5 in F minor
Op.10 Partita for Cello in D minor
Op.11 Little Piece for Organ in C minor
Op.13 Piece for Solo Cello No.2
Op.14 Piece for Violin
Op.15 Partita for Violin in D minor
Op.16 Thinking of Debussy Piece for Piano
Op.17 Piece for Contrabass Clarinet
Op.26 Piece for Piano

Music

Writings

Academic writings

• An Approach To Playing Acoustic and Electric Bass



Introduction:
One must examine music universally and not restrict themselves to specific genres or time periods in order to be an effective musician. However, given the timeless statue of Classical music and the improvisational freedom of Jazz, they will used as principle use cases in this writing to explore the methods in playing more effectively, in particular, with acoustic and electric bass.

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