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Gülsin Onay (born 12 September 1954 in Istanbul) is a leading Turkish concert pianist.
Education
Born into a musical family, Gülsin Onay began to play the piano at the age of three. Her first teacher was her mother.
When she was 6 years old, Gülsin Onay gave her first concert on TRT Radio Istanbul. At the age of 10, she received a special government scholarship under the Üstün Yetenekli Çocuklar Kanunu (Law for Exceptionally Talented Children), which enabled her to study first in Ankara with Mithat Fenmen and Ahmed Adnan Saygun, and two years later at the Paris Conservatory, where her teachers were Pierre Sancan, Monique Haas, Pierre Fiquet and Nadia Boulanger.
At the age of 16 she graduated with the Premier Prix de Piano. She continued her studies with Bernhard Ebert at the Musikhochschule Hannover.
Career
At the outset of her career Gülsin Onay took prizes in leading competitions, including the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Piano Competition (Paris) and the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition (Bolzano).
Since then she has played in the musical centres of 65 countries in a career spanning all continents.
She has played with orchestras including Dresden Staatskapelle, English Chamber Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic, Munich Radio Symphony, 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, Emmanuel Krivine, Ingo Metzmacher, Jose Serebrier, Vassily Sinaisky, Stanislaw Wislocki and Lothar Zagrosek. Ms. Onay’s many festival appearances include Berlin, Warsaw, Granada, Mozartfest Würzburg, Newport, Schleswig-Holstein and Istanbul.
An exceptional Chopin interpreter, Gülsin Onay was in 2007 honoured with the award of a State Medal by the Polish nation.
She is also acknowledged worldwide as the finest interpreter of the music of Ahmed Adnan Saygun, whose works feature prominently in her concerts and recordings, and whose 2nd Piano Concerto (which she has premiered in Turkey and abroad) was dedicated to her.
Other contemporary composers who have dedicated works to Gülsin Onay are Hubert Stuppner, Denis Dufour, Jean-Louis Petit, Muhiddin Dürrüoğlu and Marc-André Hamelin. Gülsin Onay has also given world premieres of concertos by Stuppner and Tabakov.
As state artist, Gülsin Onay is an official soloist of the Presidential Symphony Orchestra in Ankara. She is Artist in Residence at Bilkent University in Ankara.
Gülsin Onay is Artistic Advisor of the Gümüşlük International Classical Music Festival
Recordings
“An exceptional pianist, endowed with virtuosic brilliance and boundless energy, and an interpretive power both intelligent and emotionally sensitive”, Gülsin Onay has recorded 20 albums that illustrate the breadth of her repertoire as well as her interpretive power.
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
Honorary doctorate degrees from Bosphorus University in Istanbul, and from Hacettepe University in Ankara.
State Artist of the Republic of Turkey (1987).
Appointed Goodwill Ambassador by the Turkish national committee of UNICEF in 2003.
Gold Cross of Merit of the Polish nation (2007), awarded by the Polish President Lech Kaczyński for her contributions to Polish culture through her outstanding performances of the music of Chopin.
2007 Honorary Award Medal of the Sevda-Cenap And Music Foundation.
Other
Gülsin Onay’s mother is the daughter of the famous Turkish mathematician and scientist Kerim Erim.
Gülsin Onay’s son Erkin Onay is a professional violinist. He is currently a concertmaster of the orchestra of the Ankara State Opera and Ballet.
Gülsin Onay is married to Tony Scholl, Professor of Algebra and Number Theory at Cambridge University.
A l’approche des fêtes de Noêl, les regards du père Noêl et parents 🙂 sont tournés vers les enfants et …les cadeaux à offrir
Raison pour laquelle, nous offrons à nos lecteurs, nous aussi , un cadeau de rires avec Jacques Martin et les enfants, dans le cadre de l’école des fans
◊ Edouard Baer, auteur, acteur et réalisateur français (49 ans).
1er décembre 1959
◊ Anne Ducros, chanteuse de jazz française (56 ans).
◊ Loïc Peyron, navigateur français (56 ans).
1er décembre 1956
◊ Claire Chazal, journaliste de télévision française (59 ans).
1er décembre 1955
◊ Cyrielle Clair, actrice française (60 ans).
1er décembre 1953
◊ Antoine de Caunes, animateur télé, réalisateur et acteur français (62 ans).
1er décembre 1951
◊ Jaco Pastorius, bassiste de jazz américain (aurait 64 ans).
† 21 septembre 1987
1er décembre 1949
◊ Pablo Escobar, trafiquant colombien (aurait 66 ans).
† 2 décembre 1993
1er décembre 1947
◊ Alain Bashung, chanteur et acteur français (aurait 68 ans).
† 14 mars 2009
1er décembre 1945
◊ Bette Midler, actrice et chanteuse américaine (70 ans).
1er décembre 1944
◊ Pierre Arditi, acteur français (71 ans).
◊ Tahar Ben Jelloun, acteur et poète marocain francophone (71 ans).
◊ Daniel Pennac, écrivain français (71 ans).
1er décembre 1935
◊ Woody Allen, acteur, réalisateur et clarinettiste américain (80 ans).
1er décembre 1926
◊ Charles Gérard, acteur français (89 ans).
1er décembre 1923
◊ Morris, dessinateur et scénariste de bandes dessinées belge (aurait 92 ans).
† 17 juillet 2001
1er décembre 1920
◊ Pierre Poujade, homme politique français (aurait 95 ans).
† 27 août 2003
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Décès … Date of their death
1er décembre 2006
Il y a 9 ans
† Claude Jade, actrice française (à 58 ans).
née le 8 octobre 1948
1er décembre 1997
Il y a 18 ans
† Stéphane Grappelli, violoniste et jazzman français (à 89 ans).
né le 26 janvier 1908
1er décembre 1990
Il y a 25 ans
† Pierre Dux, acteur et réalisateur français (à 82 ans).
né le 21 octobre 1908
1er décembre 1968
Il y a 47 ans
† Dario Moreno, chanteur turc francophone (à 47 ans, hémorragie cérébrale).
né le 3 avril 1921
1er décembre 1825
Il y a 190 ans
† Alexandre 1er, tsar de Russie (à 48 ans).
né le 23 décembre 1777
Edgar Müller is born in Mülheim/Ruhr on 10th of July, 1968.
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Edgar Müller was born in Mülheim/Ruhr on 10th of July, 1968.
He grew up in the rural city of Straelen on the western edge of Germany. His fascination with painting began in his childhood, with paintings of rural scenes of Straelen.
Edgar went to high school in the neighboring town of Geldern, where an international competition of street painters took place. Inspired by the transitory works of art which met him on his way to school, Edgar Müller decided to enter the competition.
He took part for the first time at the age of 16, going on to win the competition, aged 19, with a copy of the famous “Jesus at Emmaus ” (Caravaggio).
In the following years, he entered many other international competitions. Since 1998 Edgar Müller has held the title of ‘maestro madonnari’ (master street painter), born by only a few artists worldwide. The title is awarded at the worlds largest street painting festival, called The Grazie Festival, which is held in the small pilgrim town of Grazie in Italy.
Around the age of 25, Müller decided to devote himself completely to street painting. He travelled all over Europe, making a living with his transitory art. He gave workshops at schools and was a co-organizer and committee member for various street art festivals. Müller set up the first (and so far only)
Internet board for street painters in Germany – a forum designed to promote solidarity between german and international street painters.
For many years Edgar Müller presented people the great works of old masters, drawing his perfect copies at the observers feet. Müller invited his audience to share his fascination with the old masters art, helping them to gain a deep understanding of the old masters view of the world.
Despite attending courses with well-known artists and extensive studies in the field of communication design, Edgar is actually an autodidact. He is always looking for new forms to express himself and is now pursuing a new art form and creating his own style.
Because of his grounding in traditional painting and modern communication, Mueller uses a more simple and graphic language for his art.
He paints over large areas of urban public life and gives them a new appearance, thereby challenging the perceptions of passers-by.
The observer becomes a part of the new scenery offered. While going after their daily lives, people change the statement of the paintings by just passing through the scene.