Büşra Kayıkçı grew up with music in her native Istanbul, started piano lessons at the age of nine, studied ballet, and also attended a weekend art school. However, she decided to pursue interior design as a profession after high school, and studied interior architecture and environmental design at university, but ultimately, she found the creative freedom she had been seeking all along in composition. She wrote her first works in 2019, just before the pandemic began. Soon she’s released the single ,Doğum’ and her debut album ,Eskizler’, followed by a couple of more singles, like ,Qarib’ – a contribution for the first Piano Day Compilation, a collaboration with the New York Theatre Ballet as well as first international sold-out live appearances. Her new album “Places” - on Warner Classics - is a continuation and consolidation of her first compositional sketches. Kayıkçı’s approach at that time as well as on the present album is in some respects synesthetic – in other words, her idea of combining music and architecture goes far beyond purely interdisciplinary thinking. “In a way, as a composer, I design a place, and the audience walks around in it and moves within its architecture.” (Büşra Kayıkçı)