Rüya Taner (born 1971) is a

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. She was born in Germany and settled in

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, Turkey, in the early 1980s, where she studied at the

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. Taner is acknowledged as one of the leading Turkish pianists of the contemporary generation.

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Official WebsiteAbout her recent performance (in German)
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