Fazıl Say

Fazıl Say is a Pianiste and Turkish Compositeur , born on January 14th, 1970 with Ankara in Turkey.

Author in particular of a Oratorio Nâzım devoted to Nazım Hikmet.

He studied with the academy of his birthplace, improved with Robert Levine at the Schumann Institute of Düsseldorf and with the Academy of Berlin.

In 1994, it gained the price Young Concert Artists International Hearings of New York, by beginning a brilliant international career. He plays in particular with the Philharmonic orchestra of New York, the Philharmonic orchestra of Israel, the Symphony orchestra of Baltimore, the Philharmonic orchestra of the BBC, the National orchestra of France, the Philharmonic orchestra of Saint-Pétersbourg.

Its passion for the Jazz pushed it to found the Worldjazz Quartet.

Compositions

Black Hymns
Concerto for piano, violin and orchestra , ordered by the Symphony orchestra of Berlin in 1991
The Silk Road
Oratorio Nazım , ordering of the Ministry for the culture of Turkey, on texts of Nazım Hikmet
Concerto for piano n° 3 , first world in 2002 with Paris with the Philharmonic orchestra of Radio France directed by Eliahu Inbal
Imagination jazz on the topic of the Turkish Walk of Mozart
Variations on a topic of Paganini first world in Prague in 2002

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