The Turkish tenor Ilker Arcayürek graduated from the Zurich Opera Studio and immediately became a member of the ensemble at Stadtheater Klagenfurt in the 2013–14 season. Since 2015, Ilker Arcayürek has been a member of the ensemble at Staatstheater Nürnberg. Arcayürek is named among the top ten of a “new generation of upcoming stars” and has been praised for his “golden” voice by Opera Now magazine. In 2016 he won the International Art Song Competition at Stuttgart’s Hugo Wolf Academy and was among the finalist at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. In 2017 Ilker Arcayürek was named a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist.