Burak Bedikyan is a jazz pianist and composer.
Bedikyan is "a Turk of Armenian ancestry".
[1] Early in his life, he was interested in contemporary classical music.
[1] From 1996, he studied with pianist Aydin Esen.
[2] The first, Circle of Life, was a quartet recording with Chris Potter (sax), Peter Washington (bass) and Bill Stewart (drums) that featured some of his own compositions as well as covers.