| Fazil Say | |
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| Born | 14 January 1970 Ankara,
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| Genres | Classical |
| Occupations | Composer and Pianist |
| Instruments | Piano |
Fazıl Say (born 14 January 1970) is a Turkish pianist and composer born in Ankara, Turkey.
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Biography
Say, started playing the piano at the age of four, continued his music training in Ankara State Conservatory as a student of "Special Status for highly talented kids" and graduated from piano and compositon in 1987. As he continued his studies in Dusseldorf Music Academy with German scholarship, he earned his diploma in Germany in 1991 as "Concerto soloist" and became a piano and chamber music teacher in 1992 in Berlin Performing Arts and Music Academy. Say, who won Europe Young Concert Soloists Competition in 1994, got the first place in the World Competition that was held in New York in 1995[1]. Besides playing the piano, he composed many oratorios, piano concertos, pieces of music for chamber, orchestra and piano and many other songs[2].
Some of his composed pieces include Nazim and Metin Altiok Oratorios, four piano concertos, his orchestra piece "Albert Einstein" commissioned by Zurich Orchestra and his ballet named "Patara" which is commissioned by Wien Mozart Commitee and was composed for Mozart's 250th birth year celebration.
He has performed with New York Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony, Berlin Symphony, Czech Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France and Tokyo Symphony.
He performed an open air concert as the closing of 2007 Florence Festival with Florence Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta and had an audience of more than twenty thousand listeners. Again in 2007, he was the head of the piano jury of Montreaux Jazz Festival. His CD which also includes Say's composed piano piece that was inspired by Turkish Folk singer and poet Asik Veysel's song named "Black Earth" was listed in 6th place in American Billboards.
In 2008, he was chosen as "Culture Ambassador" by European Union and he aims to set up a new bridge between eastern and western cultures.
Compositions
Orchestral works
- Nazım - oratorio for piano, vocalists, narrator, orchestra and chorus (2001)
- Requiem for Metin Altıok - oratorio for piano, chamber orchestra and chorus (2002/03)
- Chamber Symphony - for string orchestra (1996)
Concertos
- Sinfonia Concertante - for piano and large orchestra (1994)
- Silk Road - (Piano Concerto No. 2) for piano and chamber orchestra (1994)
- Piano Concerto No. 3 - for piano and orchestra (2001)
- Two Romantical Ballads - for piano and strings (1995)
- Guitar Concerto - in d minor (1996)
- Paganini Jazz - for piano and orchestra (2003)
- Alla Turca - (Jazz Fantasy after Mozart) for piano and orchestra (2003)
- Cadenzas - for Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 25 C major K. 467 (1997) - for Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 3 c minor (2001)
Piano solo
- Four Dances for Nasreddin Hoca (1990)
- Fantasietücke (1993)
- Alla Turca - Jazz Fantasy after Mozart (1993)
- Paganini Variations for Piano in the style of Modern Jazz (1995)
- Three Jazz Pieces
- Three Ballads (1997)
- Black Earth (1997)
- Beethoven Piano Sonatas (2005)
- Haydn Piano Sonatas (2007)
Chamber music
- Violin Sonata (1997)
Experimental music
- Ten Pieces for Jazz Quartet - Fazil Say - Kudsi Ergüner (Nei)
- Four Pieces for DJ and Piano - Fazil Say - DJ Mercan Dede (2003)
Writing
- Uçak Notları - (Airplane Notes - Gedanken zur Musik) Ankara (1999)
- Fifty Essays - Columns in "Milliyet" Newspaper
References
- Biography, Käch Artists (English)
- Biography, Istanbul University (Turkish)
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