A Recital Cd Coming From Okonsar

The Gina Bachauer International Piano competition, organized each and every four years (when it comes to the "seniors" type) within Salt Lake City, Utah, is certainly one of the best in the community.

You will find several aspects outstanding to this very particular competition which in turn causes it to be so good. One pretty important for instance is that the actual selections executed by the competitors are free choice. Contrary to a good number of other piano contests we really do not have here prevalent asks such as "one prelude fugue from J. S. Bach" or "(a assortment of) Etudes from F. Chopin". Such needs tend to be necessary for Conservatory scanning or simply school concerts but at this point we enjoy a real demonstration of skilled professional music artists who definitely are supposed to have undoubtedly draw their own manner into the international music landscape.

The Turkish born Belgian artist Mehmet Okonsar is bound to have already been one those laureates who created a major influence as well as dived towards the international level according to the way of this competition. Determined performances from your different rounds of the event are published in a Disc release which is examined here.

The program of the CD (tracks) are: Alexander Scriabin, Sonata N.9 op.68 "Black Mass"; Gabriel Faure, Nocturne N.6 in D flat Major op.63; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Fantasy in D minor K.397; Jean-Philippe Rameau Selections from harpsichord pieces; Franz Liszt Dante Sonata and "Funerailles".

The Compact disc launch described here is a selection from the performances of the composer, conductor and musicologist as well as pianist Okonsar in the different rounds of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, 1991, where he has been granted the sixth prize.

This individual piano competition, compared with a lot of others throughout the world, makes use of a formidable selection of jury members, normally through performing performers, not really piano teachers. It in addition, gives the players a strong incomparable chance to freely identify their own programs. This will give each and every composer to present what they feel is their particular ideal.

The technique at the keyboard by Mehmet Okonsar is exceedingly fine-shaped. The fact that is, needless to say, the specific result of a life-long training, applying use of the ideal technical precepts Mehmet Okonsar gained out of his illustrious professors. You don't have uncertain or mannered gestures. The whole thing serves a precisely outlined musical purpose.

There isn't a uncalled for gesture at the hands of Okonsar. Every action is just intended to achieve the key throughout a option to trigger the mechanics powering it for the purpose of the wanted sound. Fingers are calm and even they expanse practically at sight. Okonsar's hands and fingers do not imitate a playing "piece of equipment" one can practically watch the particular extension and the astounding flexibility.

Following having a number of especially cautious interpretations which are issued on records in recent times I had almost forgotten what a splendidly fascinating work the particular Dante Sonata is. This can be by far the most pleasant performances of the Dante Sonata I already know.

The Fantasy in D minor, K.397 by W. A. Mozart shown in this album is definitely weird in quite a few points.This actual piece is actually carried out extremely slow. More or less "a la Glenn Gould", the main melody develops here a very unique fascination. A bit of people would certainly say "incredibly affectionate" but I am convinced this is actually very interesting an interpretation connected with that specific piece.

No matter how shockingly extraordinary the particular performance is, one has got the strong sensation that every little thing here is without a doubt assumed about inside each aspects in addition to once the initial shock is over and the piece gets to its conclude, it becomes clear that the artist, as always, very carefully crafted each and every specifics of the performance.

Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)had been a Russian composer and pianist who invented the very first coloration keyboard and musical notation with regard to lights and even colors based on his own continuum of "Synesthetic" colors.

His symphony "Prometheus: The Poem of Fire" (1910) had been the earliest output inside history that bundled notation with regard to lamps in addition to hues.

Scriabin's large-scale public appearances throughout Moscow and New York were the first live shows ever together with lighting fixtures as well as colors experienced on a colour keyboard and even projected to the beat in addition to chords connected with his compositions, as a consequence preceding contemporary rock live shows.

This specific version of the so-called "Black Mass" sonata, number 9 op.68 from Alexander Scriabin happens to be one of many most unusual ones.

Certainly there is such a number of highlights in addition to colorations inside this amazing playing. The actual essence connected with Scriabin's work appears together with a stable feeling of architectural continuity.

The trills are really exactly what they should be: visionary shaking sounds as well as the most challenging climax is simply carried out along with greatest exactitude.

In his piano works, Faure showed disdain for the instrumental virtuosity in support of the classical lucidity of the French. His particular piano musical works many times use arpeggiated lines, along with the particular melody interwoven between the a pair of hands, as well as contain finger alterations natural with respect to organists.

These features make them challenging for several pianists, and also even a virtuoso like Franz Liszt recognized Faure's piano music difficult to play. The early piano works are usually evidently swayed from Chopin. An even greater impact was Schumann, whose piano music Faure adored much more than any other.

Along with the sixth Nocturne op.63 in D flat Major provided through The Turkish born Belgian artist within this specific project, Faure totally come forth through any predecessor's shadow. The pianist Alfred Cortot mentioned, "There are few pages within every one of music just like these." The critic Bryce Morrison seems to have observed the fact that pianists usually choose to play the fabulous earlier piano works, for example the Impromptu No. 2, instead of the later piano works, which convey "such private passion and also isolation, such switching inflame and resignation" the fact that audience remain anxious.

Faure had been unimpressed by quite frankly virtuoso pianists, expressing, "the greater they are, the worse they play me."

Mehmet Okonsar's playing of that Nocturne demonstrates without the need of debate that for the purpose of a pianist educated within the level of Alexis Weissenberg, Liszt's Dante Sonata as well as Faure's amazingly reserved Nocturne N.6 are virtually all doable and so perfectly.

For the duration of this era involving uncertainty who was the particular nineteen seventies in Turkey, Okonsar linked on both friendly and professional basis with a pianist and conductor, ex-student of Pierre Sancan. Via this particular friendly relationship he discovered the basics of the keyboard ideas of Pierre Sancan who was the teacher of pianists like Michel Beroff and the student of Yves Nat.

His initial crucial recital happened in 1979. The program included Preludes by Messiaen and the Pictures of an Exhibition by Mussorgsky.

The piano studies of Okonsar terminated with all the top honors any student can ever get at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. "Premier Prix avec Distinction", performing the "Dante Sonata" by Liszt pursued by "Diplome Superieur de Piano Avec la plus Grande Distinction, Premier Nomme", in 1986, performing the Piano Concerto Op. 42 by Arnold Schoenberg.

Often in need of learning more, Okonsar went after that still at the Brussels Conservatory, on Composition and Orchestration classes and again he got the most effective educators available: Madame Jacqueline Fontyn the principal Belgian composer and also sporadically he likewise studied with a student of Messiaen, Claude Ballif.

Alexis Weissenberg, soon after hearing a recording by Okonsar invited him (on a scholarship or grant) to study in Switzerland.

"Doing work through Turkey is not extremely hard within our days" suggests the pianist.

It holds true that he's particularly confident while using computers and possesses an incredibly powerful appearance on the Internet.

Okonsar is very effective from Turkey where he performs, exercise, compose and writes. He operates a CD company along with a publishing house.

Mehmet Okonsar's worldwide career commenced with the first prize at the International Young Virtuoses Competition of Antwerp in 1982. His orchestral debut was the 3rd Concerto by Rachmaninoff performed at the "de Singel" Concert Hall in Antwerp, Belgium. His various other prizes are: Paris, 1989, "J. S. Bach" at the Salle Gaveau: second prize; 1990, Rome, Association Chopin "Premio Etruria": 1st prize; and 1991, United States, Utah, the sixth prize at the "Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition".

He has recently been a visitor judge at the National Piano Competition of Japan under the auspices of the P.T.N.A. ("Piano Teachers National Association").

His studies on music and also technology had been displayed in a lecture at the Yamaha headquarters in Hamamatsu, Japan.

Okonsar has performed recitals presenting the whole piano works by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg and Anton Webern. In spite of he refuses many sort of "musical specialization", his repertoire is heavily on the "modern" side with Igor Stravinsky "Three Movements of Petrouchka" the "Sequenza" for the piano by Luciano Berio and the Klavierstucke by Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Okonsar, composer, conductor and musicologist in addition to pianist is certainly a powerful adept of the "Free Music" approach. Virtually all his tracks happen to be shared basically by the 3rd party artist. This is without a doubt a fabulous brand new frame of mind which, regarding to the musician might be of immense returns to both the main artist, the release and also the actual classical music arena.

Moreover the best video sharing site Youtube(r) displays several the multi-faceted music artist Okonsar's piano playing videos. Generally his Disc productions are in addition published as live recorded videos into the artist's Youtube(r) channel: mokonsar.