“Bartu is an extraordinary human being that is needed at a time when we need people to do special things. The immense gifts that he has for creating music, playing and conducting is a treasure trove that symbolizes the great capacity of the human experience. Bartu’s gifts awakens peoples’ internal awareness to manifest their own talents and life’s mission which is critical in today’s world.”
— Wayne Shorter, American musician, winner of 11 Grammy Awards and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
“It is with great pleasure and friendship, given his human and musical qualities, that I meet regularly with Bartu to pass on some of the approaches I believe in on the perilous and demanding path he has chosen. He is an excellent musician, passionate about learning. A talented violinist, he approaches conducting with the commitment, modesty, sensitivity and rigor that are appropriate! I wish him courage, perseverance and success in this path which can become luminous if one is worthy of it, but I have every confidence in him!”
— Jean-Claude Casadesus, French Conductor and Founder and Director of the Lille National Orchestra
“I can’t say enough good things about Bartu! He is incredibly talented & at the same time, he is extremely inquisitive, hungry to learn, hungry to grow and hungry to expand his vocabulary. His level of proficiency and grace are far beyond his years on this planet and I am very excited for his future as well as the future of music!”
— indy Blackman Santana, American musician and winner of the Women's International Music Network Award
“Bartu is one of those exceptional talents who make us meditate on the infinitely mysterious powers of music... A prodigy, he moves us by a kind of ageless wisdom and by his way of appropriating quite naturally the highest human aspirations. t is certainly this capacity to gather all his being in his art, cultivated every day like a vital and holy thing, which strikes immediately with the listening of Bartu.”
— Alexis Galpérine, concert violinist and professor of the Paris Conservatoire
“Bartu Elci-Ozsoy is a compassionate virtuosic musician who uses his immense talents to help make the world a better place. Not only does Bartu’s ethereal and enlightened music reach toward the highest order, but it mirrors his great capacity as a human to emanate kindness, generosity and beauty. We are all lucky for his presence in this time and space, as it is these virtues that will carry us all towards a peaceful, just, and sustainable future.”
— Sarah duPont, President and founder of Amazon Aid, producer and co-director of the award- winning documentary River of Gold
