Pervin Çakar

Pervin Çakar — Biography

Pervin Çakar, known on stage as Pervin Chakar, is a soprano who left Turkey to find a place on European opera stages. She is known for prizes won at international competitions, and alongside opera arias her repertoire includes songs in Kurdish, Armenian and Zazaki. She has lived in Germany since 2016.

She graduated from the Diyarbakır Anatolian Fine Arts High School in 1999 as top of her class, studied music teaching at Gazi University and finished in voice in 2003. From 2004 she trained in Italy, earning a diploma in 2008 from the Morlacchi Conservatory in Perugia, followed by a master's degree. She first appeared on stage in Eskişehir in Carmina Burana, and in 2006 made her Italian debut in Milan singing Sophie in Werther. In the following years she sang Maria Stuarda at La Fenice in Venice, La Cambiale di Matrimonio at Wexford and, in 2010, Lulu at La Scala.

In 2010 she placed third in the Leyla Gencer Voice Competition, and in 2011 she won first prize at the Maria Caniglia Competition; in 2012 she received the Orphée d'Or Leyla Gencer Grand Prize, and in 2013 the Donizetti Classical Music Award for best female opera artist. In 2019 she gave concerts in Berlin and Istanbul for the 150th anniversary of Komitas. In November 2023 she appeared at the Süreyya Opera House in Istanbul, in 2025 she began giving music training in Diyarbakır and she also performed in Kars.