Southport Performing Arts Conservatory and Entertainment

Mrs. Fusun Naska is a native of Turkey, she started playing violin at the age of eight as a student of well-known composer and violinist Ekrem Zeki Un and Prof. Yusuf Guler Aksoz. After she graduated Istanbul State Conservatory, in 1988, she worked for 10 years in Istanbul State Opera and Ballet Orchestra as assistant-concertmaster.

In 1999, she moved to the United Stated and since then, she has worked in Civic Orchestra of Chicago for 3 years, The Classical Symphony Orchestra as concertmaster, Northwest Indiana Symphony, and New Philharmonic Orchestra as assistant second principal.

In 2003, she received her master of music degree in violin performance from Chicago Colleges of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University, where she studied violin under tutorage of Mr. Cyrus Forough. Mrs. Alpakin also teaches in De Paul University Community Music Division and People's Music School as a traditional and Suzuki certified violin instructor.

In 2005, together with her husband Altin Naska she founded S.P.A.C.E., Southport Performing Arts Conservatory & Entertainment.