Art Director & Conductor
Having started his music education in A.U. State Conservatoire Violin Department at the age of 12, Cemi’i Can Deliorman took part in various orchestras and chamber music ensembles, attended masterclass workshops and performed concerts during his violin education. In 2003, he became the youngest conductor accepted to the preparation class of the Universitaet für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien, Department of Orchestral Conducting. Following this success, he was awarded a full scholarship by Borusan Kocabiyik Foundation and began his studies on conducting in Vienna.
LiHe continued his education at the orchestral conducting class of Maestro Martin Sieghart at the Univesiteat für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Graz. Also following the choral conducting classes on invitation of the famous choral conductor Johannes Prinz, Deliorman attended the seminars of Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Singverein Choir on conductorship every year. He graduated from the department of orchestral conducting at the Univesiteat für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Graz with a degree of “Master of Arts”.
Deliorman has performed concerts with the University Symphonic Orchestra in festivals organized in memory of the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth. He has conducted Graz Symphonic Wind Orchestra in Croatia, various city choirs in Austria and Savaria State Symphonic Orchestra in Hungary. He became the art director and permanent conductor of Grazer Blaeservielharmonie in 2008.
Thanks to his successful studies in Austria, he was sent to Westminster College of the Arts in the U.S.A. by the Univesiteat für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Graz. He completed his graduate study in Princeton with the prominent choral conductors Dr. Joe Miller and Dr. James Jordan. He has worked with “Westminster Symphonic Choir”, which is one of the most prestigious choirs of the U.S.A., performing concerts at esteemed performance halls such as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. He has worked on Mendelssohn’s cantata “Die erste Walpurgisnacht with the famous German conductor Kurt Masur”, and on Mahler Symphonies with Pierre Boulez.
Among the orchestras he has worked with are Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, Sicily Symphonic Orchestra, Savaria Symphonic Orchestra, Bursa State Symphonic Orchestra, Antalya State Symphonic Orchestra, Anadolu University Academic Orchestra and Cukurova State Symphonic Orchestra.
Cemi’i Can Deliorman has been the art director and the permanent conductor of the Ministry of Culture, State Polyphonic Choir since 2010.
