Serol Yapici

Hello! I am Serol, from Maastricht/Netherlands. I began my musical training at a very young age. I started to play the piano at age of five and at age of eleven I started my oboe education at the conservatory in Istanbul. I graduated at Istanbul University State Conservatory with the honorary ‘outstanding success award’. I moved to Netherlands to study my bachelor and my master in oboe at Conservatorium Maastricht and I graduated from both degrees with Cum Laude and Distinction. In addition I also graduated from oboe with highest honor degree in London College of Music, with theory of music and piano as my side subjects.

I have got the teaching certificate at Conservatorium Maastricht. I attended as teacher to Orlando Samenspel Cursus and gave lectures and masterclasses. Furthermore, I did my internship at Muziekschool Kumulus and gave lessons in there. Beside that I gave a workshop at Bruis Festival as a representer of Muziekschool Kumulus in the same year.
I attended to Suzuki Method Teaching Workshop of Müge Eraydın Suzuki Education ABRSM Music School in Istanbul, Turkey. Currently I'm oboe teacher in UWC Maastricht and Dé Muziekschool Deurne.

I performed with various orchestras as oboe soloist, most recently I performed as oboe soloist in a concert tour in multiple cities in the Netherlands. Beside Classical Music, I am also playing in a broad spectrum of genres, e.g. Jazz, Tango, film music etc.

Students of every age are welcome to my Oboe Class. I can teach every genre of music such as playing movie music with oboe, playing oboe sonatas and concertos etc.. As an alumni of Conservatorium Maastricht, I am also willing to help students who would like to enter to conservatories and do auditions.

( As extra info: I attended in many oboe masterclasses which given by: Prof.Stefan Schilli, Prof. Emanuel Abbühl, Prof. David Walter, Prof. Jean Louis Capezzali, Prof. Lajos Lencses, Prof. Kai Frömbgen, Prof. Nick Deutsch, Prof. Jozsef Kiss, Prof. Ricardo Lopes, Prof. Marc Schaeferdiek, Prof. Ralph van Daal ; and baroque oboe and baroque music masterclasses given by: George Fritz, Robert de Bree/The Scroll Ensemble (improvisation in baroque music), Sandra Sinsch, Leyla Pinar. )