{"id":10029,"date":"2026-01-27T16:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T13:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=10029"},"modified":"2026-01-28T09:50:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:50:21","slug":"bilkent-student-achieves-international-success-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=10029","title":{"rendered":"Bilkent\u00a0Student Achieves International Success in Italy\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Efe&nbsp;Er\u015fahin, a Grade 12 student in the percussion department at&nbsp;Bilkent&nbsp;University Music Preparatory School, was awarded second prize in Category A at the 22nd Italy Percussion Competition, organized by the Italy Percussion Arts Society.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The international competition featured a distinguished jury that included Frederic&nbsp;Macarez&nbsp;(France), John&nbsp;Wooton&nbsp;(USA)&nbsp;and&nbsp;Alexej&nbsp;Gerassimez&nbsp;(Germany). As no first prize was awarded,&nbsp;Er\u015fahin\u2019s&nbsp;performance highlighted both his artistic excellence and the strength of the Turkish percussion tradition. He is a student of Ayd\u0131n&nbsp;Mecid.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Efe&nbsp;Er\u015fahin, a Grade 12 student in the percussion department at&nbsp;Bilkent&nbsp;University Music Preparatory School, was awarded second prize in Category A at the 22nd Italy Percussion Competition, organized by the Italy Percussion Arts Society.&nbsp; The international competition featured a distinguished jury that included Frederic&nbsp;Macarez&nbsp;(France), John&nbsp;Wooton&nbsp;(USA)&nbsp;and&nbsp;Alexej&nbsp;Gerassimez&nbsp;(Germany). As no first prize was awarded,&nbsp;Er\u015fahin\u2019s&nbsp;performance<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=10029\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,80,208,193],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10030,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10029\/revisions\/10030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}