Begüm Aslan is a double bassist and coloratura soprano based in Germany.

She completed her studies at the Barenboim-Said Akademie and the International Ensemble Modern Academy. She studied double bass with Gunārs Upatnieks and Nabil Shehata, and is currently pursuing Master’s degrees at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München.

In addition to her instrumental training, she began vocal studies as soprano with Anna Samuil (Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin), integrating classical vocal technique into her artistic practice.

She is the First Prize winner of the Dittersdorf International Double Bass Competition.

As a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral performer, she has appeared at the Lucerne Festival, Gaudeamus Festival, Berliner Festspiele, Impuls Festival and the Sion Festival, and has performed in venues including the Berlin Philharmonie, Konzerthaus Berlin and the Pierre Boulez Saal. She has collaborated with artists such as Daniel Barenboim, Michael Barenboim and Emmanuel Pahud.

In 2024, at the age of 21, she gave her first bass masterclass at the Bayerische Bass-Tage in Germany.

Building on this classical foundation, she has developed a distinctive solo format in which she performs double bass and coloratura soprano simultaneously, expanding and pushing the limits of classical repertoire for the instrument, combining extreme ranges in one body.

She is the founder of the Aslan Composition Prize, an international call for new works for this constellation, which received 42 submissions from 23 countries in its first edition. To date, more than 50 new works have been written for her.

In 2024, she was invited to give her first masterclass as 21 years old, at the Bayerische Bass-Tage in Germany.

Her work has been supported by GVL and the Crespo Foundation.