[1][2] Zeynep Gedizlioğlu was born 4 December 1977 in İzmir and grew up in Istanbul.
Her mother is the actress Şahika Tekand and her father, Levent Gedizlioğlu, is an architect.
Over the years she has learned composition from such people as Cengiz Tanç, İlhan Usmanbaş, Theo Brandmüller and Wolfgang Rihm.
[4][3] Gedizlioğlu has had her music appear and be performed by philharmonic orchestra all over Europe.
[1] She has won the Heidelberg Artist Prize as well as receiving several scholarships including one from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation in 2010.