Chopin's works for solo piano are the foundation of the literature for the instrument, and include a large number of polonaises, scherzos, mazurkas, waltzes, nocturnes and studies. This selection by Zeynep Ucbasaran, performing her ninth CD on the Eroica label, contains two polonaises and five scherzos. There is a very wide and viruosic range in these marvelous piano gems and masterpieces. Chopin's emotions range from elegance to fury, from the unabashed pride in his native Poland, to the bitterness of his inability to return there. Perhaps the music is best described by Frederick Niecks as "Full of conspiracy and sedition. The ill-surpressed murmurs of discontent, which may be compared to ominous growls of a volcano, grow in loudness and intensity, til at last, with a rush and a wild shriek, there follows an explosion!" Zeynep Ucbasaran Pianist Zeynep Ucbasaran started her music studies at age four at the Istanbul Conservatory. She has a Concert Artist Diploma from the Liszt Academy of Music , Budapest, where she studied under Prof. Zempleni Kornel, Prof. Katalin Nemes (pupil of Bela Bartok), Balazs Kecskes, and Prof. Istvan Lantos. She also has a Diploma in Aufbaustudium from the Hochschule fŸr Musik , in Freiburg, Germany, and a Master of Music degree in Piano Performance from University of Southern California. Her awards include American Liszt Society Award, Rozsnyai Memorial Award, Ina Broida Award from UCSB, and USC Associates Music Merit Scholarship. She is also a recipient of the MAA 2001 Aspen Summer Music Festival Scholarship, where she was selected to play in the distinguished artist Master Class of Leon Fleisher. She won the Second Prize at the 1996 Los Angeles Liszt Competition and an Honorable Mention in the same competition in 2000. She has given many recitals in Turkey, Hungary, Germany, Slovenia, and in the United States. At present she is a DMA candidate in Piano Performance at USC , studying with John Perry. Since 1996 she has been living in Santa Barbara, California.