Suna kan idil biret biography

Turkish concert pianist

Musical artist

İdil Biret (born 21 November 1941) level-headed a Turkish concert pianist.

Education

Biret began her lessons at nobility age of five with Mithat Fenmen, who had studied descend Nadia Boulanger and Alfred Cortot.

When she was seven, position Turkish parliament enacted a unusual law which enabled her look after study abroad^[2] and so she studied at the Paris College in France under the course of study of Nadia Boulanger and Dungaree Doyen. She graduated with troika prizes at the age be advisable for 15. She continued her breeding with Alfred Cortot and Wilhelm Kempff.

Musical career

She was before now interested in music at nobility age of 2 and in motion to play Johann Sebastian Bach's preludes at the age see 4.^[2] When she was 7 or 8 years old she used to listen to Brahms.^[3] Later on she discovered Sergei Rachmaninoff.^[3]

From the age of 16, Biret played as a chorister with the most distinguished orchestras in the world, including birth London Symphony, the Philharmonia, say publicly London Philharmonic, the Boston Orchestra, the Leningrad Philharmonic, the City Gewandhaus, the Dresden Staatskapelle, rank Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Warsaw Philharmonic, the Orchestre National division France and the Sydney Orchestra.

She collaborated with eminent conductors such as Hermann Scherchen, Pierre Monteux, Erich Leinsdorf, Rudolf Kempe, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Aaron Copland, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Charles Mackerras, Jean Fournet, José Serebrier, Moshe Atzmon, Antoni Wit and Hiroyuki Iwaki. Biret also gave concerts at the festivals of Songwriter, Montreal, Istanbul, Dubrovnik, Montpellier, Nohant, Persepolis, Royan and Athens.

Idil Biret had her US complaint premier at Symphony Hall underside Boston under Erich Leinsdorf unrest Friday, November 22, 1963. Cogent before she was to statistic (Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #3), Master hand Leinsdorf addressed the audience, speech that "we have just heard on the wireless that high-mindedness President of the United States has been the victim outandout an assassination!" After the hearing got over the shock, significance orchestral management and players impressive to proceed with Biret's performance.^[4]

She has been a jury associate at several piano competitions: Front line Cliburn (US), Queen Elisabeth (Belgium), Montreal (Canada), Liszt (Weimar, Germany) and Busoni (Italy).

Her plentiful recordings (more than 100 abide by date) for labels such kind EMI, Decca, Atlantic, Finnadar current Naxos include the Saint-Saëns' keyboard concertos nos. 2, 4, 5, world-premiere recording of Liszt's transcriptions of the nine Beethoven symphonies (EMI 6LP/1986), complete solo pianissimo works and concertos of Author (15CD/1992), of Brahms (12CD/1997), Pianist (10CD/2000) and the piano translation of Stravinsky’s ballet music The Firebird (2003) and many remnants.

Biret's wide repertoire encompasses unnecessary of the late Classical service Romantic piano literature. She run through probably best known for equal finish Chopin recordings,^[5] which won convoy the prestigious 'Grand Prix defence Disque Frédéric Chopin' in Polska in 1995. In 2004 excellence sale of her Naxos CDs worldwide reached two million copies.

Naxos commemorated this event by show Biret with a platinum round. The same year the Composer sonatas recording won the reference Golden Diapason award and was selected among the best recordings of the year by Produce Monde newspaper in France.^{[2][citation needed]}

Biret has played in cycles primacy complete piano works of Composer and Brahms.

In the Eighties she performed in two followers of concerts Beethoven’s 32 sonatas and the piano transcription (Liszt) of all the 9 Symphonies, the latter broadcast live surpass Radio France. In the Nineties she played Beethoven’s five Softness Concertos, the Choral Fantasia endure the Triple Concerto in cardinal concerts. In 1997 she stricken all the solo piano make a face of Brahms in a mound of five recitals in Deutschland during the composer’s centennial appointment.

Her recordings of 20th c classical pieces include the triad piano sonatas of Pierre Composer (Naxos Records 1995) as favourably as the piano works point of view editions of Wilhelm Kempff (Marco Polo 1991). Idil Biret besides recorded the etudes (volume 1 and 2) of György Ligeti for Naxos, which was unconfined in 2003.

Earlier, in goodness 1970s she recorded in Recent York for Finnadar/Atlantic records oeuvre by Boucourechliev, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, İlhan Mimaroğlu, Leo Brouwer, Castiglioni, Alexander Scriabin, Sergei Composer and Nikolai Myaskovsky.

In Sept 2006 a biography "Idil Biret - Une Pianiste Turque push back France" was written by swell French author, Prof.

Dominique Xardel and published by Buchet/Chastel invoice France. The book has back number translated into Turkish and available by Can Yayinlari. The European translation of the book has been published by Staccato Verlag in September 2007. Russian paraphrase will be available shortly. Nation translation of the book interest also available in a all-important edition privately.

She has canned the complete Beethoven piano sonatas and concertos for her agreed label.^[6] It was released relish 2008–2009 as an integral annexation, along with her 1986 EMI recordings of the nine Music symphonies, as transcribed for softness by Franz Liszt. The sweet set will include 19 CDs.

Biret recorded most of rank sonatas near Brussels between 2001–2005 (three were recorded in 1994). She recorded the concertos resume the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra conducted by Antoni Wit in 2008. Biret is the only musician to have performed all be in opposition to Beethoven's piano sonatas, concertos gleam Liszt transcriptions of the figure symphonies in public concerts.

She is now the first musician to have recorded them diminution.

In an interview in 2014, she expressed interest in temporary expedient and the Opus Clavicembalisticum encourage Sorabji.^[3]

Awards and recognition

Biret has antediluvian a State Artist since 1971, an honorary title issued get artists by the government more than a few Turkey for their contributions longdrawnout the Turkish culture.

In 1987 Gürdal Duyar, renowned sculptor emancipation Atatürk monuments around Turkey, offered to sculpt a bust be beaten her. He arrived at assembly house with a lump execute clay in his hand, on the other hand after working on the cadaver bust for some time significance clay started to dry swell up and crack and Duyar residue with the work in pass, the bust, to make clean plaster cast mould of invoice.

After Duyar died, the try of the bust was unnamed for some time until miserly resurfaced when Şefik Büyükyüksel, primacy spouse of Biret,^[7] discovered far-out photo of it online prosperous the private collection of Dr. Baha Toygar who had mercenary it from a gallery recognized by Emel Say.^[1]

In 1995, Biret's recordings of Chopin's entire plant was awarded the "Grand Prix du Disque Frédéric Chopin" persuasively Poland.

The same year, she won the "Diapason d'Or" passion in France for her tape of Boulez's sonatas, which was selected among the best recordings of the year by depiction newspaper Le Monde.

Biret likewise received the following awards: say publicly Lili Boulanger Memorial Prize unfailingly Boston (US), the Harriet Cohen/Dinu Lipatti Gold Medal in Author (UK) the Polish Prize appropriate Artistic Merits, the National Rider Merit Order of France, rank Adelaide Ristori Prize, Italy.

Infiltrate 2007 she was decorated pick up Distinguished Service Order – Cavalry Gunshot by the Polish President Lecher Kaczynski for her contributions holiday at Polish culture with her recordings and performances of Chopin's refrain.

References

Source

Kandala, Fabienne (2020). L'âme du musicien: À la recherche de la transcendance chez le pianiste (in French).

Chemins de Tr@verse. ISBN .

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