Numerous Composers As Well As One Pianist: Live Disc By Okonsar

The Gina Bachauer International Piano competition, performed each and every four years (intended for the particular "seniors" group) within Salt Lake City, Utah, is certainly one of the absolute best in the community.

You can find prime features distinctive to this very special competition which in turn renders it so excellent. One really important for example is the fact that the selections accomplished from the competitors are really free choice. Contrary to a great number of any other piano tournaments we do not have here classic demands for example "one prelude fugue from J. S. Bach" as well as "(a variety) Etudes from F. Chopin". Some of those asserts are much more effective with regard to Conservatory scanning or simply graduation concerts but yet right here we have a nice authentic demonstration of impressive performers who definitely are supposed to have by now draw their very own fashion straight to the international music scene.

The composer, conductor and musicologist as well as pianist Okonsar seems to have been one those laureates who made a significant affect and even hopped to the international level by the strategy for this competition. Particular performances in the many rounds from the event are published within a Compact disc release that 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 CD launch talked about here is a variety from the actual performances of the Belgian artist Mehmet Okonsar in the several rounds of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, 1991, where he has got been granted the sixth prize.

This unique piano competition, different from a lot of others inside the sphere, has a superb array of jury members, frequently from executing musicians and artists, not necessarily piano professors. It simultaneously gives the players an outstanding opportunity to freely identify their programs. This enables every composer to present whatever they think is their own finest.

The approach at the keyboard by Mehmet Okonsar is extremely fine-shaped. This can be, undoubtedly, the actual end result of a life-long training, putting in utilization of the greatest technical precepts Okonsar acquired throughout his illustrious trainers. You cannot find any uncertain or mannered motions. The whole thing acts towards a precisely defined musical reason.

There isn't unnecessary gesture at the hands of the multi-faceted music artist Okonsar. Just about every single advance is strictly structured to arrive at the key throughout a option to activate the mechanics at the rear of it with regard to the required sound. Hands are calm as well as they stretch out nearly at view. the Belgian pianist from Istanbul, Okonsar's fingertips really don't replicate a playing "apparatus" you can practically see the particular extension and also the amazing flexibility.

One of the most innovative and inventive pianists and also composers of the 19th century, Franz Liszt was in fact noted for using beautiful masterpieces of music from literature. Some criticized him for his boldness nonetheless his works continue being many of the most exquisite works within classical music these days.

The Fantasy in D minor, K.397 by W. A. Mozart introduced in this particular project is definitely bizarre throughout lots of aspects.This piece is actually completed astonishingly slow. More or less "a la Glenn Gould", the main melody develops here a very unique fascination. A handful of people would certainly express "pretty romantic" but I think this is actually very interesting an interpretation associated with that individual piece.

Regardless how shockingly odd the actual performance is, one has got the stable sense that anything here is without question assumed about in each particulars in addition to when the first impact is over and the piece reaches its conclude, it will become evident that the musician and performer, as always, thoroughly created every last details of the particular performance.

Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)was a Russian composer and pianist who actually formulated the earliest shade keyboard and even music notation for the purpose of lights and even colors depending on his range connected with "Synesthetic" colors.

His symphony "Prometheus: The Poem of Fire" (1910) appeared to be the initial music composition throughout historical past which integrated notation for lighting as well as hues.

Scriabin's large-scale shows inside Moscow as well as New York are the very first concert events ever along with lighting fixtures in addition to colors played using a coloration keyboard and also projected to the particular tempo and chords connected with his particular music, so preceding current day rock events.

This particular version of the so-called "Black Mass" sonata, number 9 op.68 from Alexander Scriabin is undoubtedly on the list of most marvelous ones.

There is such a selection of details as well as colors inside this specific playing. The true heart and soul associated with Scriabin's composition comes out together with a stable sense of architectural continuity.

Pedal is never used to mask faults. Together with The composer, conductor and musicologist as well as pianist Okonsar pedaling is often sometimes within the lines of the harmonic blur, then again this is on intention as well as it will become without delay evident. The drawn out atmospheric effects or perhaps the countless incredibly particular sound effects required through Alexander Scriabin (i.e. the "visionary" introduction motive or when "crystal tiny droplets" of the broadened arpeggiated accompaniment figures are generally suggested Mehmet Okonsar produces extended sustained switching half and also maximum pedals who provides sections all their particular distinctive shades as pointed by way of the composer. Even in parts without any pedal the particular playing is under no circumstances dry.

The particular trills are usually what precisely they should turn out to be: visionary moving sounds and even the most exacting climax is simply accomplished along with utmost exactitude.

Gabriel Urbain Faure had been born in Pamiers, France in 1845. Faure was basically transported to reside together with a foster-nurse for four years. At the age nine he had been sent to study at the "Ecole Niedermeyer", a college which usually prepared cathedral organists in addition to choir conductors in Paris, as well as continued there for eleven years. He studied together with quite a few prominent French music artists, such as Camille Saint-Saens, who introduced him towards the works of several contemporary composers, which include Robert Schumann and even Franz Liszt. He died in 1924.

Each tone of voice is developed clearly yet they don't "compete" with one another. The multi-faceted music artist Okonsar treats every single and every polyphony being a harmonious group of voices intended and also designed to be heard jointly and also he deal with their own complementarity as a substitute for their own power structure.

Very oftentimes, everyone are inclined to believe that in a polyphony there is one "crucial voice (i.e. "theme")" in addition to "non-important voices". If a component is actually "not vital" it ought to have been displaced out by the composer, if it is an excellent composer.

The particular sophisticated polyphonies inside this Nocturne N.6 op.63 in D flat Major by Faure are performed in that method by Mehmet Okonsar.

The Belgian pianist (but additionally composer, conductor and musicologist) Mehmet Okonsar was born in the "bridge-city" of Istanbul. Essentially this concept of a "bridge" among East and West is definitely the main factor in asserting the unique position of this artist within the international classical music stage. Even though having started his education at Ankara, at the National Conservatory of this city established by Paul Hindemith, he generally claimed that all his "real" musical education has been given in Belgium.

Franz Liszt with regard to Mehmet Okonsar is not really a teenager desire for pianistic exuberance and keyboard "pyro-technie". The training Okonsar gained at the Brussels Royal Conservatory, through Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden, who himself got through Eduardo del Pueyo is truly a direct heir of the Hungarian master. That is derived from the career of Marie Jaell, a pupil of Ferenc Liszt on which in turn every bit of the technique of Eduardo del Pueyo is certainly centered.

In the course of this period connected with clash who has been the particular 1970's in Turkey, Okonsar connected on both friendly as well as professional basis with a pianist and conductor, ex-student of Pierre Sancan. Coming from this camaraderie he figured out the basics of the keyboard ideas of Pierre Sancan who was the teacher of pianists like Michel Beroff and the student of Yves Nat.

Even at his primary public appearance in 1979, the specific eclecticism connected with his recital programs into the future might be viewed. He presented a collection of the Preludes by Messiaen among others.

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

Often anticipating discovering a lot more, Okonsar went after that still at the Brussels Conservatory, on Composition and Orchestration classes and once more he had the best educators obtainable: Madame Jacqueline Fontyn the primarily Belgian composer and also occasionally he also studied with a student of Messiaen, Claude Ballif.

One afternoon the phone rang and a lady dialing from Switzerland requested him. Alexis Weissenberg, a pianist Okonsar venerated in addition to pretty much worshiped, desired him to study with in Switzerland. Cash seemed to be short but the master made available Okonsar a total scholarship grant. One can witness in all performances by Okonsar how deeply Weissenberg had an effect on him.

Right after being a Belgian national, Mehmet Okonsar and his spouse Lale, artist headed back to Turkey following an invitation by the President Suleyman Demirel who offered him the actual most sought-after title of "State Artist of the Turkish Republic".

"Operating through Turkey isn't unthinkable within our days" claims the pianist.

It is valid that he is in particular comfortable while using computer systems and possesses a really durable profile on the Internet.

Okonsar is extremely active from Turkey where he performs, practice, compose and also writes. He operates a CD company plus a publishing house.

Mehmet Okonsar's worldwide career commenced having the 1st 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 additional prizes are: Paris, 1989, "J. S. Bach" at the Salle Gaveau: 2nd prize; 1990, Rome, Association Chopin "Premio Etruria": first prize; and 1991, United States, Utah, the 6th prize at the "Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition".

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

Operating widely on technological things, as he remarks "the technologies may possibly "free" the artist", his experiments have been shown in a lecture at the Yamaha head office in Hamamatsu, Japan.

Okonsar has performed recitals presenting the total piano works by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg and Anton Webern. Even though he refuses many type of "musical specialization", his repertoire is intensely 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.

The composer, conductor and musicologist as well as pianist Okonsar is certainly a particular adept of the "Free Music" attitude. Every bit of his releases are really shared through the main individual composer. This is without a doubt a good solid healthy approach that, regarding to the particular performer will be of big profit to both the actual artist, the launch as well as the particular classical music community.

Additionally the very number one video portal Youtube(r) provides a number of Mehmet Okonsar playing online videos. Oftentimes his Disc productions are all at once submitted as video recordings into the artist's Youtube(r) channel: mokonsar.