Biography

Live concerts at Radio RTV N-H in Holland and TRT Tv & Radio, Concerts at halls such as Utrecht Vredenburg, Concertgebouw & Dutch National Opera DNO in Amsterdam,  Anton Philipszaal in Den Haag, Onga ku do in Japan, Atheneum in Bucharesht, AKM, CRR, and Lütfi Kırdar in Istanbul and Worked with conductors such, as Jaap van Zweden, Harmut Haenchen and Carlo Rizzi.

Laçin began his musical studies at the age of 9 with piano and continued his professional musical education on piano at Fine arts high school in Izmir where he also studied Violoncello and Classical Guitar. In 2006 started studying voice with Kevork Tavityan and gained his BA in both Voice and Music Pedagogy majors from Marmara University in istanbul. After graduation he went to Amsterdam to study with David Wilson-Johnson at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. During his education, additionally he worked with tenors such as Hein Meens, Alexander Oliver and Dennis O’Neill and coached by repetitors such as  Antoine Palloc, Peter Lockwood, David Bollen, Dido Keuning, Paolo Villa Matteo, Joined to masterclasses of D.Wilson-Johnson, Willem Brons, D. O. Norris and M. Freni.

Made his operatic debut at 2009 with Dutch National Opera ‘DNO’ in Amsterdam and with NPU at Utrecht Verdenburg as the concert soloist singing Stravinsky’s Pulcinella. Sung and gave masterclaases at Den Haag Festival Classique, Youth & Muse festival, Apple Hill and Point Counter Point at USA, Cervo & ClassiCastello at Italy, Istanbul Pera International Music Festival and ChiChibu International music festival at Japan. His repertoir is mostly concentrated on romantic Italian and French works by G.Donizetti, G.Verdi, G.Puccini, Gound, Massenet, Berlioz. Also oratorios from Handel to Mozart, Dvorak to Stravinsky.and modern composers such as B.Güneş  which he made the world premiere of his ortatorio… Beside of his operatic and classical concerts, he strongly believes in traditional music and performes with famous orchestras such as Kazakh orchestra ‘Sazgen Sazy’ and Turkish folk orhcestras. In addition to his solo concerts, giving chamber music concerts as piano duo, with string quartets and mostly ViolAria which formed by his Violist wife Beste TIKNAZ. As a full time educator he is giving masterclasses and teaching at I.T.U Conservatory as a voice professor and in 2015 tought at Wales International Academy of Voice as a guest faculty. He still teaches at ITU Conservatory and continues his solo concerts in all over the world…