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WISE UP

ROAD TO SUCCESS

This is the story of a talented
Turkish girl.

Melda Umur Saguner is a Turkish
musician. She is a successful
double bass player. Her music
story begins from her childhood.
She loves music and she says
“My life is music and music is my
life”.
She studies the instrument
double bass at Dokuz Eylül State
Conservatory for seven years
and graduates at the age of 22.
She gets a scholarship from the
University of Arts Bern and moves
to Switzerland. The frst days
are really hard for her. There is
nobody around her. No family members, no
friends… It is a different country with a different
culture but she never gives up.
She has two master degrees between the
years 2009-2012. Then she performs concerts
with State Symphony Orchestra of Bern in
Switzerland as an intern.

From that moment, she starts to play flm musics
with many Oscar winning composers and
performs numerous concerts all over the world.
As a little child, she imagines herself in different
countries, meeting new people from different
nationalities. “I give concerts in different places.
One day we are in Tokyo with Japanese people
and one day we are in New York and another
time I fnd myself in Royal Albert Concert Hall
in London. It is really interesting to meet new
people from different cultures”, she says.

Her motto is “Nothing is impossible. First believe
then hold on to your dreams.”

Answer the questions.
1. What does Melda do?
2. Why are the frst days in Switzerland
diffcult for her?
3. Do you think her life is interesting?

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