Zeynep Gedizlioglu is a Turkish composer, born in Izmir on December 4, 1977. She studied oboe, composition, solfège, and music theory at the State University of Fine Arts in Istanbul and at the Istanbul Academy. She continued her studies in Saarbrücken with Theo Brandmüller and in Strasbourg with Ivan Fedele, and spent a semester in 2007 studying with Wolfgang Rihm in Karlsruhe. She also attended the Darmstadt Summer Course for New Music and studied with François Donato at IRCAM.
Gedizlioglu made her debut in Istanbul, writing music for productions of plays by Samuel Beckett and Edward Bond. Her works include pieces for piano, electronics, voice, choir, and a range of chamber ensembles, such as the octet Studies (1998), Calls for solo clarinet (2002), Evocation for 11 wind instruments (2004), and the string quartet Do Not Be Silent (2007). She has written for the Arditti Quartet and Ensemble Recherche, and took part in pianist Seda Röder’s 2010 project Listening to Istanbul: An Encounter with Contemporary Turkish Music.
Her music has been performed by the Southwest German Radio Orchestra, the Navarra Symphony Orchestra, the Lorraine National Orchestra, Ensemble Recherche, and the Arditti Quartet. She received an encouragement award from the Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar in 2010 and the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize in 2012. She lives and works in Paris.