subject: The Journey To Robert Schumann By Mehmet Okonsar [print this page] As a composer Schumann has been miniaturistAs a composer Schumann has been miniaturist. Till after his marriage the great bulk of his work including those by which he is simply best known, consisted of short piano pieces as well as songs, two genres so closely linked throughout his case as to be hardly more than two facets that belong to the same.
The song accompaniments are typically self-sufficient piano pieces, in addition, the piano pieces generally seem to have been melodically inspired from lyrical poems.
Even when the musical idea did not originate inside literature, like a waltz, polonaise, or some other striking harmonic progression found at the piano according to his improvising fingers, it was usually given a quasi-literary title or carried into relationship with quite a few literary idea.
To say that Schumann's C major "Fantasie" is certainly the jewel in the crown of the romantic piano repertoire would not be an overstatement.
As an embodiment associated with the ideals of the romantic tradition, it happens to be unparalleled with a lot of impassioned works of its time.
Liszt, to whom the "Fantasie" is dedicated, certainly recognized it as the masterpiece that it happens to be, and also responded yet many 13 years later, by the dedicating his own Sonata in B minor to Schumann.
Virtuoso pianist, conductor, musicologist, composer, author of reports upon Bach, Ligeti, Nancarrow together with web-master of various Internet sites (classical videos and even music blogs), there aren't many areas of musical life untried or maybe untouched by the Turkish born Belgian artist Mehmet Okonsar.
The Turkish born Belgian artist, have been discussing with me with regards to the conditions he confronts within a enterprise oriented studio room and he reveals this is simply the primary factor to generate his private interpretation comforts at home.
Mehmet Okonsar had been born throughout Istanbul (Turkey) as well as lived within Paris in the span of his earliest education. On account of the rich sources the Ankara Conservatory then possessed and the Mediatheque of the Centre Culturel Francais d'Ankara, he was raised studying the music of Pierre Boulez, Edgar Varese, Olivier Messiaen as well as Pierre Schaeffer, composers that will have a powerful influence on him.
His initial recital took place within 1979. The program integrated Preludes by Messiaen and even at the same time the Pictures of an Exhibition according to Mussorgsky.
It happens to be within the currently renowned European capital city of Belgium that Mehmet Okonsar attained his musical schooling. Interestingly the "ecole" had been rooted to Franz Liszt. The tutor of Vanden-Eynden, Mehmet Okonsar's principal piano coach, had studied substantially the techniques as well as the distinct strategies of Marie-Jaell, a student of the Hungarian legend virtuoso Liszt, during the master's last years at Weimar.
Political turbulences of the 1970's throughout Turkey required the Okonsar family to maneuver back to Ankara. The composer, conductor and musicologist as well as pianist, Okonsar have been routed to study together with a few local pianist and also composers he never attended to any of those instructional classes.
The piano studies of the Belgian artist Mehmet Okonsar terminated along with the top honors any student can ever get at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. "Premier Prix avec Distinction", carrying out the "Dante Sonata" through Franz Liszt followed by the "Diplome Superieur de Piano Avec la plus Grande Distinction, Premier Nomme", inside 1986, carrying out the Piano Concerto Op. 42 from Arnold Schoenberg.
At the finish of his piano studies, The multi-faceted music artist Okonsar acquired the specific benefit of working with one associated with the best composers of Belgium: Madame Jacqueline Fontyn. He furthermore studied along with a student of Messiaen, Claude Ballif. In 1989 he gets his diplomas throughout Composition-Orchestration from the Royal Conservatory of Music of Brussels.
The Belgian artist Mehmet Okonsar worldwide career started having the first prize at the International Young Virtuoses Competition of Antwerp inside 1982. His orchestral debut had been the third Concerto through Rachmaninoff performed at the deSingel Concert Hall in Antwerp. His other prizes are typically: Paris, 1989, "J. S. Bach" at the Salle Gaveau: second prize; 1990, Rome, Association Chopin "Premio Etruria": first prize; and also 1991, United States, Utah, the 6th prize at the "Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition".
His researches on music as well as besides that technological innovation have been offered inside a lecture at the Yamaha head office within Hamamatsu, Japan. The Belgian artist Mehmet Okonsar had written as well as offered a documentary series regarding the National Television Broadcast of Turkey, the T.R.T.
One individual astounding thing is simply the fact that, in relation to his a several cd releases, so few usually are usually delivered through the chief distribution networks.
The Turkish born Belgian pianist Okonsar's playing seems to have been adored through so competent a musician as Alexis Weissenberg, in addition to the fact that he seems to have become truly the solely pianist privately asked on a scholarship grant to study together with the great maestro inside Switzerland.
Additionally, a giant figure, rather undiscovered to everyone (is this fact any qualifying criterion?) Eduardo del Pueyo was basically initially passionately encouraging The pianist Okonsar's debuts. Could be these kind of great men mistaken?
Together with the numerous mp3s The composer, conductor and musicologist as well as pianist, Okonsar from at present launched inside reality very few are typically typically inside the foremost circulation pipes.
