A Piano Solo Musical Improvisation Compact Disc "shadowy Arcade"

The improvisational innovation cycle happens more successfully if the practitioner seems to have a thorough intuitive in addition to technical understanding of the particular essential competencies and even issues for the improvised area.

Music improvisation might be imagined connected with"on the location" as well as "away the actual cuff" impulsive action.

The composer, conductor and musicologist as well as pianist Okonsar declares having taped those pieces without the pre-conceived strategy or scheme. "I merely sat on the piano, fixed on recording and played", however, he moreover adds "I barely kept essentially one 5th of every one of the particular takes. Okonsar, composer, conductor and musicologist in addition to pianist, did not likely prepared a individual mood neither got the particular titles, uncommonly creepy and elongated, prior to the specific music. "It is in fact solely as soon as the pieces were found to be recorded that I listened to all of them and subsequently started to research for any quotations that may possibly fit to them".

The tracks of the CD are: "He has snatched away the thunderbolt from heaven and the scepter from the sovereign"; "Briefly thyself remember" (Lear); "Every hero becomes a bore at last" (Emerson); "What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted" (Henry VI); "A change came o'er the spirit of my dream" (Byron); "Such stuff as dreams are made of" (Tempest); "A merry heart goes all the day" (A winter's Tale); "Angel visits few and far between" (Campbell); "The gods too are fond of a joke" (Aristotle); "Flowers preach to us if we will hear" (Rossetti); "Illusion is the first of all pleasures" (Wilde); "I give him joy that's awkward at a lie" (Young); "Beauty born of murmuring sound" (Wordsworth) and "As Morning Light Breaks" (Bob Dylan).

Track one, "He has snatched away the thunderbolt from heaven and the scepter from the sovereign", will start lushly and is simply similar to the method of Lyle Mays within his record "Solo". On the other hand the actual intricacies of the harmonies are often more within traces together with Alban Berg, Alexander Scriabin; from time to time Polish composers, remarkably Karol Szymanowski comes straight into your mind.

Quoting Oscar Wilde in track number 11, "Illusion is the first of all pleasures" happens to be some sort of "scherzo" still significantly less demanding than the track 3 it is certainly a "pianistic meditation" anywhere between the actual moody tracks as well as the particular delighted ones.

"A change came o'er the spirit of my dream" through Lord Byron, track number 5, mixes the particular "ancient" sounding fearless chords and even quite heavy keyboard idioms with a lighter touch as compared to the tracks One or even four upon which the large Middle-Ages sculpt was basically a lot more notable.

The actual continuity and even the particular feeling of coherence is really particular in The Turkish born Belgian pianist's performances. The works accomplished take form in addition to unfold as a very well elaborated story. This is actually caused by genuine loyalty for the composer's symptoms in addition to it is in fact learned in the great music artists, The pianist and composer Okonsar received the particular privilege of studying with. They are usually Alexis Weissenberg, Jean Claude Vanden Eynden and also partially Eduardo del Pueyo.

There is no such thing as a needless gesture at the hands of The multi-faceted music artist Okonsar. Any technique is just scheduled to reach the key in a means to stimulate the mechanics driving it for the purpose of the wanted sound. Hands are comfortable and even they grow nearly at eyesight. The Belgian pianist from Istanbul, Okonsar's hands and fingers really do not replicate a playing "apparatus" one can pretty much witness the particular extension and the spectacular flexibility.

Pianists, like any musician or vocalist by the way, are typically separated straight into two groups . The ones along with a typical dynamic range and also others with a marvelous palette of sound which in turn works together with nearly just about every single instrument.

Mehmet Okonsar was born in Istanbul (Turkey) and lived in Paris throughout his primary instruction. He started learning piano at the National Conservatory of Ankara, with Nimet Karatekin and Necil Kazim Akses.

After about a year and half studying at the Ankara Conservatory, the Okonsar family transferred to Belgium where Mehmet got into the class of Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden at the Brussels Royal Conservatory of Music.

Additionally, the particular style and ideas of Pierre Sancan who have been the educator of Michel Beroff, met with Okonsar in the person of one of the master's students he met during his short stay in the Turkish capital at the last years of the 1970's.

Always looking forward to mastering a lot more, Okonsar pursued still at the Brussels Conservatory, on Composition and Orchestration classes and once more he had the very best instructors accessible: Madame Jacqueline Fontyn the main Belgian composer and also occasionally he also studied with a student of Messiaen, Claude Ballif.

One afternoon the phone rang and a lady phoning from Switzerland inquired him. Alexis Weissenberg, a pianist Okonsar venerated along with almost worshiped, wished him to study with in Switzerland. Money was short however the master provided Okonsar a total scholarship grant. One can witness in all performances by Okonsar how deeply Weissenberg had an effect on him.

"Actually I don't reside in Turkey but in the Internet" says Okonsar.

He's got built an excellent presence over the Internet, operating numerous sites, weblogs and publishing organizations.
He's the actual producer of his personal records and books.

Doing work broadly on technological things, as he remarks "the technology might just "totally free" the artist", his studies ended up introduced in a lecture at the Yamaha home office in Hamamatsu, Japan.

Okonsar has executed recitals offering the complete piano works by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg and Anton Webern. Irrespective of he declines just about all kind of "musical specialization", his repertoire is actually to a great extent on the "modern" side with Igor Stravinsky "Three Movements of Petrouchka" the "Sequenza" for the piano by Luciano Berio and also the Klavierstucke by Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Okonsar, composer, conductor and musicologist in addition to pianist is definitely a particular adept of the entire "Free Music" vision. Each of his mp3s happen to be shared basically by the main independent creator. This is certainly an important innovative mind-set which in turn, regarding to the musician and performer will be of big profit to equally the very artist, the entire launch as well as the main classical music domain.

In a similar fashion the actual leading video sharing site Youtube(r) displays variety of the pianist and composer Okonsar's piano playing media. Routinely his Compact disc publications are simultaneously submitted as live recorded videos into the artist's Youtube(r) channel: mokonsar.