ALPER TUZCU MOVES FROM LATIN AMERICAN RHYTHMS TO MEDITERRANEAN MELODIES, and FROM dreamy GUITAR TEXTURES TO Jazz. 

Alper Tuzcu is a composer, producer, and guitarist who creates music that erodes cultural borders.

He has collaborated and recorded songs with Grammy-winning musicians such as Marcelo Woloski (Snarky Puppy), Ganavya (Esperanza Spalding, Residente), and Javier Limón (Paco de Lucía, Wynton Marsalis). His songs have been played on NPR, BBC Radio, RTVé, and many other reputable media channels.

Alper’s 2021 EP, Raíz, was selected as one of the Top 10 EPs of 2021 by NPR-affiliate the Latin Alt HD3, and one of the songs on this EP, "Afortunado," was selected for the NPR show World Cafe’s Best of 2021 LatinX playlist.

Alper is not just a musician, but also an educator. He is an Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music at the Electronic Production and Design department and he also teaches private lessons. Topics range from how to use Logic Pro X and Ableton Live to how to compose and produce songs independently.

Alper is also a voting member for both the Latin Grammy and the Grammy Awards. He has been a member of the Recording Academy since 2016.

As a songwriter, he has been a semi-finalist in the International Songwriting Competition two years in a row, in 2021 and 2022. 

His bossa nova song "Felicidade" has upwards of 2 million streams on Spotify, and his songs “Şehir Akşam ve Sen” (composition of a Nazım Hikmet poem) and “Uzaklarda” have been featured on Spotify's editorial playlists. His full catalog has reached more than 9 million streams and more than 3 million listeners around the world.

Alper loves performing and has been on the stage at prestigious festivals and venues including the Umbria Jazz Festival (Italy), youbloomLA Festival (Los Angeles), Shapeshifter Lab (New York), and Sofar Sounds Washington D.C. and Boston, among many others.

He graduated from Berklee College of Music magna cum laude in 2015 after winning a scholarship at the Umbria Jazz Festival. Alper also has a degree in Economics from Denison University, from where he graduated in 2011. In an alternate universe, Alper could be an economist or an investment banker had he followed this path!