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Turkey
Fazil Say
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Fazil Say currently has 27 upcoming concerts; the next one is scheduled for Monday, September 1, 2025 at Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, , Germany.
- Sep01Sep 01, 2025ElbphilharmonieNewHamburg
- Sep02Sep 02, 2025Deutsches Haus Veranstaltungsstätten GmbHNewFlensburg
- Sep04Sep 04, 2025Couvent des JacobinsNewToulouse
- Sep11Sep 11, 2025Shanghai Oriental Art CenterNewShanghai
- Sep12Sep 12, 2025Shanghai Oriental Art CenterNewShanghai
- Sep14Sep 14, 2025Chengdu City Concert HallNewChengdu
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About Fazil Say
Hometown
Ankara, Turkey
Born
January 14, 1970
Genre
Classical
Just as Glenn Gould’s performances foreground Gould, so the Turkish composer and pianist Fazil Say puts an idiosyncratic stamp of authority on whatever music he plays. (Like Gould, he sometimes hums along during performances, too.) He is as at home in Mozart (hear his vibrant 2016 recording of the sonatas) as he is in Beethoven (note the fresh approach to tempi and dynamics in his 2020 recording of the sonatas). His sense of stylistic freedom was cultivated at an early age by his teacher, Turkish pianist and composer Mithat Fenmen, who encouraged him to improvise every day. Say studied composition with İlhan Baran (a student of French composer Henri Dutilleux), and later David Levine nurtured his subjective and eclectic approach to repertoire. Say’s repertoire is wide—comprising Bach and Chopin, Debussy and avant-garde music, chamber music and jazz—and his music draws on many influences. Listen to the shades of Bartók and Stravinsky in his three-part cycle, Gezi Park (2013-14), which reflects on the popular uprising in Istanbul's Gezi Park in the spring of 2013, for instance, or the evocative solo piano work Black Earth (1997), in which he applies the prepared piano techniques of John Cage to a piece inspired by a popular Turkish folk song.
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