title: Burak Bedikyan
text: # Burak Bedikyan
  
  Burak Bedikyan is a jazz pianist and composer.
  
  ## Life and career
  
  Bedikyan is "a Turk of Armenian ancestry". Early in his life, he was interested in contemporary classical music. From 1996, he studied with pianist Aydin Esen.
  
  He has released four albums on SteepleChase Records. 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.
  
  ## Discography
  
  An asterisk (*) indicates that the year is that of release.
  
  ### As leader/co-leader
  
  | Year recorded | Title | Label | Personnel/Notes |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 2014* | Circle of Life | SteepleChase | Quartet, with Chris Potter (sax), Peter Washington (bass), Bill Stewart (drums) |
  | 2015* | Leap of Faith | SteepleChase | Quartet, with Chris Cheek (tenor sax, soprano sax), Ron McClure (bass), Billy Drummond (drums) |
  | 2016* | Awakening | SteepleChase | Quartet, with Loren Stillman (alto sax), Ugonna Okegwo (bass), Donald Edwards (drums) |
  | 2017 | New Beginning | SteepleChase | Trio, with Jay Anderson (bass), Adam Nussbaum (drums) |
  
  ### As sideman
  
  | Year recorded | Leader | Title | Label |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 2012* | Bora Celiker | Borabook | Equinox |
  | 2014* | Ferit Odman | Nommo | Equinox |
  