Owned scholarships from Berklee College of Music, Western Oregon University, MMA, NHBF, The Collective School of Music. Got accepted to Queens College Jazz Master Program in 2011.

Studied classical harmony with Turgut Aldemir, classical piano with Esin Durmaz, jazz piano with Jeb Patton, jazz harmony with David Berkman, composition and orchestration with Michael Mossman, bass with Kürşat And, Lincoln Goines, Lonnie Plaxico and Furio Di Castri. 

Appeared in major jazz festivals and venues, such as: Eskişehir Jazz Festival in 2006, Istanbul Jazz Festival in 2006, Italy Siena Jazz Festival in 2007, 6th Izmir International Jazz Festival in 2007, Karya Jazz Days in 2008, 15th Istanbul International Jazz Festival in 2008, 17th Izmir European Jazz Festival in 2009, Rockwood Music Hall in 2011, Gotham Hall in 2012, Nikola Tesla Festival in 2013, Cafe Vivaldi in 2016, 13th Marsyas Music Festival in 2017, Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall in 2017, Russia Moscow Music Festival in 2018, Ahmed Adnan Saygun Art Center in 2022-2023, Hikmet Şimşek Art Center in 2023, Ahmet Piriştina Cultural Center in 2023.

Some of the names shared the stage and recorded with: Ara Dinkjian, Nilüfer, Demet Sağıroğlu, Robby Ameen (Grammy Awarded), Hüsnü Şenlendirici, Gadi Lehavi, Yeni Türkü, Bob Quaranta (John Scofield). Marko Djordjevic (Professor at Berklee), Alex Alexander (Dido, Eminem, Chaka Kahn, Ritchie Blackmore), İzmir State Symphony Orchestra in 2006 and Olten Philharmonic in 2017.

Got invited to replace a tutor at The Collective School of Music, New York in 2012. (One of the most prestigious music schools in the World where also John Patitucci and Jaco Pastorius were tutors.)

So far, among the places played in Russia, USA, Italy, Turkey and Cyprus.

Gave workshops and masterclasses, including at IKSEV and Ege University Conservatory.

As an author, wrote The Virtuoso Series: More than 22000 pages more than 600 books. (The first book was a best-seller in the category of etudes). The purpose of this series is to make musicians virtuosos by playing music and also introducing them the music of the next centuries.

As a composer, composed classical pieces. Op.1, Op.20, Op.13, Op.46, Partita for Tenor Saxophone in D minor (Andrew Hosler), Music for piano and viola in A minor (The Contemporary Art Music Project (CAMP)), that were chosen to premier in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. Premier performer names include, The PianoForte Foundation in Chicago and CUNY Graduate Center Academic Coordinator Jacqueline Martelle in New York.

Also acted in the short-movie of the director Maya Sharpe: "The street talks" that was screened at the New York Film Academy in 2011.

Besides music, became a manager at Datapipe for Microsoft Azure Implementation (Azure is one of the key companies in the World for having the classified information of governments) in 2015.

Became the board advisor of Ezetech Wall Street in 2016. Ezetech, launched successful startups that were also used by Facebook, Black Rock (a company that has 10 trillion dollars as the assets), %60 of the Switzerland Banks and Charles Schwab.
Co-founded Dowse (World's first studio search engine, "Google for Musicians") and Redcurtain (World's first musician story sharing platform "Medium for Musicians").

Author of the book THE CEO (the best way of understanding business fundamentals of the century and the entrepreneurship of modern working ways of becoming a millionaire for everybody, for large size company boards to business schools and students at M.B.A. Universities.)

Advised companies on tech such as Nexlend Capital Management in New York, (the financial and technology investment management firm focusing on the direct lending market place). The firm manages assets through investment vehicles with an emphasis on consumer loans through Online Platforms. Portfolio construction and risk management is led by a team of fixed income specialists with deep credit analysis experience. Our loan selection and purchasing technology analyzes hundreds of factors to determine which loans meet our risk return profiles, allowing us to take advantage of pricing inefficiencies at high speeds.

Awarded by NASA, IBM and InVision for several other projects in 2016. Awarded by AT&T for film scoring in 2018.

Endorser artist of Yamaha Grand Pianos and Aguilar Bass Amplifications. Also Bugra is on another one of the most important World-famous names in the music industry Studiologic's artist page.

CoFounder of NUWA NFTs. What we do at NUWA is that we love people and the Universe and as our contribution to Life, we work day and night to put together the best visuals with best musics together by using AI art as Picasso would use and the solo piano music as Bach would make. The result is the best NFTs ever happened to the World. Would you like to buy one, now?

"Especially for his age, tons of accomplishments"

-NoTreble Magazine

"Remarkable piano technique, extraordinary feeling and meritorious ability in jazz and classical composition." 

-Kim Plainfield

"Unique voice on his instrument. I was particularly impressed with his intuitive style, and his remarkable proficiency on the piano."

-Lincoln Goines

"I first worked with Bugra in the Advanced Performance Program. I was immediately impressed with Bugra's extraordinary technique"

-Bob Quaranta

"Passionate, very musical, creative. He's well rounded as a musician on piano and composition."

-Lonnie Plaxico