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Bestli Belkan - Solo Guitar

As a classical guitar soloist Bestli Belkans style leans towards playing soulful world music and modern classical guitar.

Solo repertoire of World folk tunes in:

Hawaiian slack-key
African soukous
Latin - Tango, Brazilian, Cuban
Calypso
American jazz and blues
Modern works for classical guitar from Australia and Europe
Traditional wedding ceremony

Bestli Belkan  has already performed at many five star venues including The Crown and the Rialto in Melbourne.

In 2003 Bestli Belkan won Young Guitarist of the Year - Classical/Flamenco at the Frankston Guitar Festival when 15 years old and repeated her win in 2004.

BIO: Bestli Belkan started playing traditional/classical piano at 7. Commencing her musical career on a school violin program. At the end of the program she switched to guitar, and has continued piano and guitar ever since.

Multi-instrumentalist, she then began learning jazz piano when she was only ten with Gil Askey who was an arranger for:

Motown
Stevie Wonder
Jackson 5
TheTempations
The Supremes
MD for Diana Ross
Academy Award nominee for "Lady Sings the Blues'" film score
And who now tutors youth jazz ensembles in his retirement and mentored musicians in bands currently enjoying success like The Cat Empire.
Ash Entered the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School in Year 8 where she studied Classical Guitar.

First entered a guitar competition at the Frankston Guitar Festival in 2002 where she received an Encouragement Award. Bestli Belkan participated in four other Eisteddfods that year.