Gülce Sucular

Gülce Sucular was born in 1997 in İzmir and started her music education in 2008 at Çukurova Conservatory in Adana -which is in Southern Turkey- as the student of Serdar Büyükedes. During her education here, she took part in variant concerts and had the chance to work with Ruth Philips, Greg Hesselink, Jiri Barta and Ellen Jewitt.

In 2011, she was accepted to Mimar Sinan Conservatory in İstanbul as student of Dilbağ Tokay. During her study there, she performed as soloist accompanied by Bakırköy Chamber Orchestra and Mimar Sinan Fine Art University Conservatory orchestra conducted by Gürer Aykal and Can Okan and gave many more concerts in Istanbul as well as other cities. She was a member of 4Cellos which was dedicated to arranging selective pieces to cello quartets. In 2015 she had a mention award at Music of Germany and Austria International Competition in Burgaz and later on the same year had third award at Virtiuoso Competition in Italy, Barletta. She had masterclasses from Peter Bruns, Maria Kliegel and Claus Kanngieser. In the summer, she was accepted for the bachelor Classical Cello in the class of Larissa Groeneveld at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, Netherlands.

In 2017 she was accepted to Lucia Swart’s baroque cello class at that same conservatory. Since then, she had the chance to play with the 18th Century Orchestra, she performed in a concert series with Holland Baroque, participated in Ton Koopman Academy and worked with various musicians such as, Albert Brüggen, Catherine Jones, Jaap ter Linden, Michael Chance, Robert Smith and Job ter Haar. Her love is not only limited with “violoncello” and therefore she took viola da gamba classes from Mieneke van der Velden and Johannes Boer. Whenever there is the possibility, she plays cello piccolo as well.

She has a Saxon origin cello collected from The Netherlands Musical Instrument Foundation with an etiquette from Johannes Cuypers whom he worked in the Hague from 1752 to till the early 1800s. Gülce is a member of L’olivastro. L’Olivastro is a baroque ensemble specialized in Italian music of the XVIIth Century. The name of the ensemble is inspired from a poem with the same name, written by Giambattista Andreini, a poet, actor and creator of the Fedeli, a Commedia dell’Arte troupe of the time. He collaborated with many composers including Claudio Monteverdi on the creation of several of his first operas.

The artistic goal of L’Olivastro is to give to this music of the seconda pratica, a small touch of the color of the theatrical context it grew up with.