Oscar Whight is a London born trumpet player who previously held the position of Principal trumpet with the Cairo Symphony Orchestra. Currently, he is enjoying a busy freelance career with many of the UK’s leading orchestras including the Philharmonia orchestra, Ulster Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra amongst others.
Previously based in Germany, he has performed with the Bremer Philharmoniker, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie and Staatsorchester Braunschweig in venues including the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.
He achieved a Master of Music from the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien, Hannover, studying with renowned Professor Jeroen Berwaerts. Beforehand, Oscar gained a BMus (Hons) with First Class from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he received a Concert Recital Diploma for an outstanding final recital where he studied with Paul Beniston. In the summer of 2022, he gained a place at Grafenegg-Academy where he worked closely with Håkan Hardenberger and Colin Currie performing works by Varese, HK Gruber, Helen Grime amongst other eminent contemporary composers.
Oscar received his preliminary training at the Royal Academy of Music Junior Department, culminating in a special recital at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London. During this time he held the position of Co-Principal Trumpet with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.
Oscar’s formative years as a musician were spent in Trinity Boy’s Choir, where he was fortunate enough to sing at Glyndebourne Opera, The Royal Opera House, and at the BBC Proms under the baton of Claudio Abbado.
The Turkish pianist Zeynep Özsuca has performed worldwide as a soloist, chamber musicia
n and accompanist. Born in Ankara, she began piano lessons at the age of four and continued her studies at Ankara Conservatory of Hacettepe University. After winning Istanbul Symphony’s Young Soloists Competition in 2001, Zeynep moved to the United States to complete a Bachelor’s degree in Piano Performance at the Oberlin Conservatory under Prof. Peter Takács. She then majored in accompaniment and vocal coaching at Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler”, Berlin with Prof. Alexander Vitlin and graduated with an MA in 2013. Zeynep currently lives in London and pursues her career as concert pianist and repetiteur.
Zeynep has worked with conductors including Gustavo Dudamel, Simon Halsey, Sir Simon Rattle and Sir Antonio Pappano, and acted as rehearsal pianist for singers Magdalena Kozená, Rolando Villazón, Gerald Finley, Annette Dasch and Michael Schade, to name a few. She has been working as a repetiteur and orchestra member with renowned opera companies and orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, Staatsoper Berlin, Aix-en-Provence Music Festival, Royal Opera House Covent Garden and Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
As a chamber musician, she has performed on prestigious stages including the Berlin Philharmonie, Palau de la Musica Valencia, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Queen Elizabeth Hall as well as live radio broadcasts on Deutschlandfunk, Deutschlandradio, RBB Kulturradio (Germany), RNE (Spain), BBC Radio 3 and 4 (UK), alongside co-hosting the BBC Young Musician Podcast. She also regularly appears in concert with her duo partners saxophonist Jess Gillam and clarinetist Sacha Rattle, as well as her wind and piano sextet Berlin Counterpoint.
Zeynep has a close working relationship with the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she has acted as accompanist, music director of opera scenes and currently as lecturer of the Opera Skills course.