Artist Bio
American pianist Evren Ozel has been described as “an absolute wow” (Third Coast Review) and “an artist capable of lifting everyone to another level” (La Scena Musicale). He is the Bronze Medalist of the Seventeenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, where he also received the special prize for the Best Performance of a Mozart Concerto. Ozel is the recipient of a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant, a 2022 Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant, and is an Ambassador Prize Winner of the 2021 Victor Elmaleh Competition. Highlights of Ozel’s 2025–26 season include solo recitals for Portland Piano International, the Chopin Society of Minnesota, and Chamber Music Detroit. Ozel spent four summers at the Marlboro Music Festival, and is currently a Bowers Program Artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Ozel holds bachelor’s, master’s, and artist diploma degrees from the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Wha Kyung Byun.
