Gülsin Onay

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Gulsin Onay
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Background information
Born (1954-09-12) 12 September 1954 (age 69)
Istanbul, Turkey
Occupation(s)Concert pianist
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Onay's voice
recorded December 2018

Gülsin Onay (born 12 September 1954) is a leading Turkish concert pianist of German descent, based in Cambridge, England.

Education

Born into a musical family, Gülsin Onay began to play the piano at the age of three.[1] Her first teacher was her mother.[2]

When she was 6 years old, Gülsin Onay gave her first concert on

Musikhochschule Hannover.[1]

Career

At the outset of her career Onay took prizes in leading competitions, including the

Royal Philharmonic, St Petersburg Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony, Warsaw Philharmonic and Vienna Symphony Orchestras, under such conductors as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Erich Bergel, Michael Boder, Andrey Boreyko, Jörg Faerber, Edward Gardner, Neeme Järvi, Emmanuel Krivine, Ingo Metzmacher, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jose Serebrier, Vassily Sinaisky, Stanislaw Wislocki and Lothar Zagrosek. Onay's festival appearances include Berlin, Warsaw, Granada, Mozartfest Würzburg, Newport, Schleswig-Holstein
and Istanbul.

An exceptional

Ahmed Adnan Saygun, whose works feature prominently in her concerts and recordings, and whose Second Piano Concerto (which she has premiered in Turkey and abroad) was dedicated to her.[2] Other contemporary composers who have dedicated works to her are Hubert Stuppner, Denis Dufour
, Bujor Hoinic, Jean-Louis Petit, Muhiddin Dürrüoğlu and Marc-André Hamelin. She has also given premieres of concertos by Stuppner and Tabakov.

Onay holds the titles of State Artist in her native Turkey, and of soloist for the Presidential Symphony Orchestra in Ankara.[4] She is “Artist in Residence” at Bilkent University in Ankara and holds an honorary doctorate degrees from Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, and from Hacettepe University in Ankara. The Sevda-Cenap And Music Foundation awarded its prestigious 2007 Honorary Award Gold Medal to Onay, and she was named "Pianist of the Year" in the 2011 Donizetti Classical Music Awards.[5] In 2014 she was awarded the Honorary Medal of the 42nd Istanbul Music Festival, and the Honorary Medal of the Bodrum Music Festival in 2018.[5]

Onay is Artistic Advisor of the

Gümüşlük International Classical Music Festival.[2]

Onay is Online Master Teacher at

iClassical Academy with whom she has recorded several online Masterclasses.[6]

Recordings

"An exceptional pianist, endowed with virtuosic brilliance and boundless energy, and an interpretive power both intelligent and emotionally sensitive", Onay has recorded 20 albums. Her 2007 CD, featuring live concert recordings of Tchaikovsky's 1st and Rachmaninov's 3rd Piano Concerto, has been acclaimed by critics and virtuosi alike. In 2008

CPO released her recording of both Saygun concertos with the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra and Howard Griffiths
, to widespread critical acclaim. Most recently, the American label VAI has released a live DVD of her performances of the Grieg Concerto and the Saint-Saëns 2nd Concerto, to be followed in early 2011 by the first of two live recital DVDs, featuring her critically acclaimed performances from the Miami International Piano Festival.

Many of Ms. Onay's concerts have been broadcast on European radio and television, and in the USA on National Public Radio.

Honours

Other

Onay's mother is the daughter of the famous Turkish mathematician and scientist

Cambridge University
.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Gülsin Onay". Turkish Culture Foundation web site. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  2. ^ a b c "Gülsin Onay, pianist (interview)". Talent-unlimited.org.uk web sie. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  3. ^ "Piano Recital by Gülsin Onay acclaimed Turkish pianist". Massachusetts Institute of Technology web site Music Theater Arts News. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  4. ^ "Gulsin Onay Piano Recital". Kaufman Music Center web site. Archived from the original on 16 January 2019. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  5. ^ a b "Pianist Gülsin Onay in Luxembourg". Andante The Music Magazine of Turkey. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  6. ^ Foundation, iClassical. "Gülsin Onay". iClassical Academy. Retrieved 2019-08-29.

External links

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