Turkish Composer To Give Concerts In Germany

Turkey's internationally renowned composer and pianist Fazil Say will give a series of concerts in Germany.
Say will perform George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" in Konzerthaus Berlin on September 24, 25 and 26.
Fazil Say will be accompanied by Konzerthausorchester Berlin during his performances.
He will also give a concert with Patricia Kopatchinskaja in Gottingen on September 28 and perform Mozart's Piano Concerto KV 467 and Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue in Zweibrucken city of Germany on September 30.
Fazil Say, born in 1970, is just as much a composer as he is a pianist. At the age of seventeen he was awarded a scholarship that enabled him to study for five years with David Levine at the Robert Schumann Institute in Dusseldorf.
He wrote the work Black Hymns at the age of sixteen. In 1991 he premiered his Concerto for Piano and Violin with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, and in 1996 his second piano concerto Silk Road was given its first performance in Boston.
From 1992 to 1995 he continued his studies at the Berlin Conservatory. In 1994 he was the winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, which gave a rapid start to his international career.
His oratorio Nazim, based on poems by the famous Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet and commissioned by the Turkish Ministry of Culture, was premiered in Ankara in 2001. He has composed highly virtuosic adaptations for piano and orchestra of such works as Mozart's Rondo alla turca and Paganini Jazz.
Say is a regular guest with the New York Philharmonic, the Israel Philharmonic, the Baltimore Symphony, the St Petersburg Philharmonic, the BBC Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de France and other leading orchestras across the globe.
(EÖ)