Filiz Ali

Filiz Ali (born 30 September 1937) is a Turkish pianist, musicologist, music critic and writer.

Graduating from Ferhunde Erkin's class in 1958, she received a Fulbright scholarship to study in the United States.

In 1986 she received a master’s degree in Advanced Musical Studies from King's College London where she was a Chevening Scholar.

[3] Filiz Ali was the founding artistic director of the CRR Concert Hall in Istanbul between 1989 - 1992.

She produced music programmes including World Folk Songs, Piano Literature, Vocal Music and Jazz Today for the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation from 1962 to 1995 and for the London based BBC Turkish in 1985-86.