Pianist Korkmaz Can Sağlam first gained international recognition as the Grand Prize winner of the 2021–2022 Vendome Prize for Piano, where he also received the CD Recording Prize and the Audience Prize. Since then, he has performed in major concert halls across Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia, and released his debut studio album, Solace, on the Sono Luminus label in 2024. He has been praised for the “maturity of his interpretations and the seeming effortlessness with which they’re realized” (Textura).

Can Sağlam has appeared in venues including Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, Kioi Hall in Tokyo, Wiener Saal in Salzburg, and Melbourne Recital Centre. His recent achievements include First Prize at the 5th Samson François International Piano Competition and the 8th Weatherford College International Piano Competition, in addition to prizes at the Sydney and Hamamatsu International Piano Competitions. From 2018 to 2022, he was supported by Young Musicians on World Stages (YMWS), the artistic development programme founded by Güher and Süher Pekinel.

As a soloist, he has performed with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, New Manhattan Sinfonietta, Bilkent Symphony Orchestra, İzmir State Symphony Orchestra, and Muğla Municipality Symphony Orchestra. An active chamber musician, he has collaborated with artists including Stephen Tavani, Aaron Boyd, Christopher Adkins, Andrew Haveron, and Keiko Urushihara. His festival appearances include the Sydney Festival, Bellapais Music Festival, and Mannes Summer Piano Festival, and he has also collaborated with the acclaimed Italian contemporary dance company Aterballetto.

Born in Ankara, Turkey, Can Sağlam began his musical education at the age of seven with Gamze Kırtıl at Bilkent University's Music and Ballet Primary School. He studied with Antonio Pompa-Baldi and Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music before earning his Bachelor of Music degree from The Juilliard School, where he was awarded the Ahmet Ertegün Memorial Scholarship and twice received the Susan W. Rose Piano Fellowship. He subsequently completed a Master of Music degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music and an Artist Diploma at the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University under the guidance of Sergei Babayan.

Now based in Berlin, Can Sağlam continues his artistic studies with Kirill Gerstein at Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler.