Next show: Barcelona, Sun 22 Nov
With his extraordinary pianistic talents, Fazıl Say has been touching audiences and critics alike for more than twenty-five years, in a way that has become rare in the increasingly materialistic and elaborately organized classical music world. Concerts with this artist are something different. They are more direct, more open, more exciting; in short, they go straight to the heart. Which is exactly what the composer Aribert Reimann thought during a visit to Ankara in 1986 when he had the opportunity, more or less by chance, to appreciate the playing of the sixteen-year-old pianist. He immediately asked the American pianist David Levine, who was accompanying him on the trip, to come to the city’s conservatory, using the now much-quoted words: ‘You absolutely must hear him, this boy plays like a devil.’
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Fazıl Say performs classical piano and contemporary classical music, frequently integrating traditional Turkish folk elements and jazz influences into original compositions such as Black Earth.
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Fazıl Say is from Ankara, Turkey, where he studied piano and composition at the Ankara State Conservatory before pursuing his international career.
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