BIOGRAPHY
Ramis Sulu was born in 2005 in Istanbul, Turkey. He began his first piano lessons with Şevki Karayel at the age of 10 and simultaneously started theory education with Emre Dündar. In 2020, he entered the Music and Performing Arts High School of the Istanbul State Conservatory at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and became a student of Prof. Metin Ülkü. Later, in 2021, he became a student of Prof. Gülden Gökşen. In 2019, he won the first prize at the International Hisar Piano Competition. In 2023, he graduated from the Piano Department of the Istanbul State Conservatory High School at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University.
His conducting career began in 2021 with the support of Erdem Çöloğlu. In the same year, he founded a 65-member orchestra called "Istanbul Youth Orchestra" and received support from notable names such as Cem Mansur, Erdem Çöloğlu, Can Okan, Remzi Buharalı, and Murat Cem Orhan. He performed numerous concerts in various venues across Istanbul with this orchestra. While advancing his individual conducting studies, he started training with Murat Cem Orhan in 2022. In 2023, he served as an assistant conductor for W. A. Mozart's opera "Don Giovanni" at the Süreyya Opera House. In the same year, he was admitted to the Orchestral Conducting Department at the Istanbul State Conservatory at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and continues his education there. In 2024, he served as an assistant conductor for G. Rossini's opera "Il barbiere di Siviglia" at the Süreyya Opera House. He had the opportunity to work with Gábor Takács-Nagy, l'Orchestre national de Metz Grand Est and its conductor David Reiland, Sinfonia Rotterdam orchestra and its conductor Conrad van Alphen, and Ertuğrul Sevsay.
Between 2021 and 2023, he wrote essays on Henri Dutilleux's "Ainsi la nuit, Au Gré des Ondes, Mystère de l’instant," Bela Bartok's "Concerto for Orchestra," "W. A. Mozart’s Musical Understanding," and "The Classical Period in Classical Music." He is currently working on an essay titled "The Artist and the Audience."
Between 2020 and 2023, he composed a total of nine works, including three for solo piano, one for solo oboe, one for solo clarinet, one for solo percussion, one for violin and piano duo, one for tenor, piano, and narrator trio, and one flute quartet.
He has performed concerts at various venues, including Metz Arsenal, Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall, Saint Michel French High School, Atatürk Cultural Center, and Yeldeğirmeni Art Center.