Müge Büyükçelen (BC) (2019–2024)

I’m very hap­py and hon­oured to serve as a board mem­ber of the CNMN. As an active per­former and huge advo­cate of con­tem­po­rary music and specif­i­cal­ly Cana­di­an con­tem­po­rary music, I’m aware of the impor­tance of net­work­ing, com­mu­ni­cat­ing with wider com­mu­ni­ties. I’m hop­ing to be able to share my excite­ment and joy of work­ing with com­posers, per­form­ers in cre­at­ing new works. I’m hop­ing to uti­lize my expe­ri­ence in the field to assist in pro­mot­ing new Cana­di­an music.

Müge Büyükçelen is a pas­sion­ate vio­lin­ist known for her mul­ti-genre ver­sa­til­i­ty. High­lights of her recent per­for­mances include the pre­mier of Jared Miller’s vio­lin con­cer­to ded­i­cat­ed to Müge, the Beethoven vio­lin con­cer­to, a con­cert tour through Aus­tralia and New Zealand, per­for­mances of new works by Jen­nifer But­ler, Paul Frehn­er, as well as var­i­ous con­certs with the Emi­ly Carr String Quartet.

She is a cur­rent mem­ber of the Vic­to­ria Sym­pho­ny, Emi­ly Carr String Quar­tet and the Aven­ta Ensem­ble as well as an active vio­lin teacher at the Vic­to­ria Con­ser­va­to­ry of Music. Müge has been a fea­tured soloist with numer­ous orches­tras around the world. In 2009, she pre­miered “Archimedes’ Codex’ a Cana­di­an work ded­i­cat­ed to her by com­pos­er Michael Oester­le. She holds a Mas­ters degree in music per­for­mance from Bilkent Uni­ver­si­ty, in Ankara Turkey, an asso­ciate teach­ing diplo­ma from the Vic­to­ria Con­ser­va­to­ry of Music and was a teach­ing assis­tant stu­dent at the Toulouse Nation­al Conservatory.