Concert 100th Anniversary of the Republic of Türkiye

This concert organised by Sectoral Events to celebrate 100th Anniversary of the Republic of Türkiye

Honour Guest:

GÜLSIN ONAY - Piano

Musicians:

ERDEM MISIRLIOGLU - Piano

EMRE ENGIN - Violin

NAZLI ERDOGAN - Viola 

ÖZGÜR KAYA - Cello

EZO DEM SARICI - Violin

Program:

Program:

I.Part: 45 minutes

F. Chopin Grand Polonaise Brillante in E flat major op.22

Gülsin Onay, piano

J. Brahms Piano Trio no.1 B Major op.8

-Allegro con moto

Erdem Mısırlıoğlu, piano

Emre Engin, violin

Özgür Kaya, cello

A. Dvorak Piano Quintet no.2 in A Major op. 81

-Allegro, ma non troppo

Erdem Mısırlıoğlu, piano

Emre Engin, violin

Ezo Dem Sarıcı, violin

Nazlı Erdoğan, viola

Özgür Kaya, cello

Intermission: 15 minutes

II.Part : 30 minutes

Sari Gelin Anonymous Song arr. Cihat Askin

Emre Engin, violin

Erdem Mısırlıoğlu, piano

Selanik Turkusu arr. Emre Engin

Emre Engin, violin

Erdem Mısırlıoğlu, piano

Ahmed Adnan Saygun “Horon” from Demet Suite

Ezo Dem Sarıcı, violin

Erdem Mısırlıoğlu, piano

Gaziantep Yolunda arr.Ezo Dem Sarıcı, piano

Ezo Dem Sarıcı, piano

Emre Engin, violin

Nazlı Erdoğan, viola

Özgür Kaya, cello

Nihavend Longa

Erdem Mısırlıoğlu, piano

Emre Engin, violin

Ezo Dem Sarıcı, violin

Nazlı Erdoğan, viola

Özgür Kaya, cello

W.A.Mozart Rondo Alla Turca from the Piano Sonata no. 11

Erdem Mısırlıoğlu, piano

Emre Engin, violin

Ezo Dem Sarıcı, violin

Nazlı Erdoğan, viola

Özgür Kaya, cello

Tickets: £40 VIP / £30 Standard / £15 Student (providing student ID)

Date: Friday, 1st December 2023

Time: 19:00 (please arrive by 18:30 for the registration)

Address: St JAMES`S CHURCH

SUSSEX GARDENS PADDINGTON W2 3UD

Drink Reception between 17:00-18:30 at the same church (only for VIP Ticket Holders )

There will be casual (pay as you go) drink gathering after concert at one of nearby hotel. If you would like to be on guest list please send your name to info@sectoralevents.com by 30th November.  

About Musicians:

Gülsin Onay began playing the piano at the age of three, and gave her first public recital on Turkish Radio when she was six. With the aid of a special state scholarship she studied with Ahmed Adnan Saygun and Mithat Fenmen, and then in Paris, where her teachers includes Pierre Sancan, Monique Haas and Nadia Boulanger.. She graduated from the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 16, winning the prestigious “Premier Prix du Piano”, and prizes in top international competitions, including the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud (in Paris) and the Ferruccio Busoni (in Bolzano), quickly followed. Gülsin Onay's subsequent, truly international career has spanned 80 countries across all continents, from Venezuela to Japan. She has given concerts in the major musical centres of the world such as Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, the Berlin Philharmonic Hall, the Vienna Konzerthaus, London's Queen Elizabeth Hall and Wigmore Hall, the Salle Gaveau in Paris, the Washington DC National Gallery of Art and the New York Miller Theater. She has performed as a soloist with such leading orchestras as Dresden Staatskapelle, Philharmonia Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, Japan Philharmonic, Munich Radio Symphony, St Petersburg Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony, Warsaw Philharmonic and Vienna Symphony Orchestras. Conductors with which she has performed include Vladimir Ashkenazy, Erich Bergel, Michael Boder, Andrey Boreyko, Jorg Faerber, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Edward Gardner, Neeme Jarvi, Emmanuel Krivine, Ingo Metzmacher, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jose Serebrier, Vassily Sinaisky, Stanislaw Wislocki and Lothar Zagrosek. Gülsin Onay's many festival appearances include Berlin, Warsaw, Granada, Mozartfest Würzburg, Newport, Schleswig-Holstein, Singapore, Ohrid, Azores and Istanbul.

Gülsin Onay is acknowledged worldwide as the definitive interpreter of the music of Ahmed Adnan Saygun, the leading Turkish composer of the 20th century, whose works feature prominently in her concerts and recordings, and whose 2nd Piano Concerto (which she 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-Demiriz, Marc-André Hamelin and Bujor Hoinic.

Gülsin Onay's over 20 recorded albums to date illustrate the breadth of her repertoire as well as her interpretive power, with solo works and concertos from Haydn and Mozart to the contemporary era. 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, to widespread critical acclaim. For the 250 anniversary of Beethoven's birth, Gülsin Onay has recorded 2 CDs of the composer's works. Her latest release, of the piano concertos by Ulvi Cemal Erkin and Khachaturian, received wide critical praise. Many of her concerts have been broadcast on European radio and television, and in the USA on National Public Radio. During the 2020–2021 coronavirus pandemic, Gülsin Onay has become a regular performer on social media, where her livestreamed concerts have received several million views.

Gülsin Onay holds the title of State Artist in her native Turkey, where for many years she has been official soloist for the Presidential Symphony Orchestra in Ankara. She is “Artist in Residence” at Bilkent University in Ankara and holds honorary doctoral degrees from Bosphorus University in Istanbul, and from Hacettepe University in Ankara. In 2007 she was honoured with the award of a State Medal by the Polish nation for her interpretation of the music of Chopin. The same year, the “Sevda-Cenap And” Music Foundation awarded her its prestigious 2007 Honorary Award Gold Medal. Gülsin Onay was named “Pianist of the Year” in the 2011 Donizetti Classical Music Awards. In 2014 she was awarded the Honorary Medal of the 42nd Istanbul Music Festival, and later Honorary Medal from the Bodrum Music Festival in 2018. Starting in 2015, the Turkish city of Tekirdağ, one of whose streets has been named after Gülsin Onay, has organised a annual concert series “Gülsin Onay Piano Days” in her honour.

Outside of her professional performing career, Gülsin Onay has been a tireless promoter of classical music, through her charitable activities, event organisation, teaching and broadcasting. Since 2003 she has been a “Goodwill Ambassador” for UNICEF, and regularly gives charity concerts to support and publicise their activities. She has been the Artistic Advisor of the International Gümüşlük Classical Music Festival and Academy since its foundation in 2004. Gülsin Onay takes a particularly interest in nurturing the development of young musicians, and has taught over 400 pupils. Gülsin Onay is a regular contributor to radio and television arts programmes, and since 2017 she has hosted her own weekly programme “In the Studio with Gülsin Onay” on Turkish national radio.

Erdem Mısırlıoğlu British-Turkish pianist Erdem Misirlioglu is in demand as a solo recitalist, chamber musician and concerto soloist. He frequently appears in UK venues such as Barbican Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Snape Maltings and Wigmore Hall and has had numerous invitations to play across Europe, North and South America and Asia.

In 2006, Erdem was a prize-winner in the International Rachmaninov Competition for Young Pianists and in 2008 went on to win the piano section of BBC Young Musician of the Year, subsequently performing Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. In 2011, Erdem was awarded 1st prize in the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe's intercollegiate piano competition.

A passionate chamber musician, Erdem is also a member of “Trio Isimsiz”, a piano trio formed with friends at GSMD. In 2013, they were selected by Young Classical Artists Trust for representation and in 2015, they won first prize and the audience prize in the Trondheim International Chamber Competition. They have released two CDs, which have gained wide critical acclaim.

Erdem completed his undergraduate and postgraduate courses in performance at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he studied with pianists Martin Roscoe and Ronan O’Hora. He was awarded the Lord Mayor’s Prize for the highest scoring final recital. During this time, he also enjoyed lessons with distinguished pianists including Richard Goode, Stephen Kovacevich, Lang Lang, Menahem Pressler and Andras Schiff.

Emre Engin, A graduate of Maestro Pinchas Zukerman’s prestigious violin class, Emre has won a number of awards including the 2012 International Istanbul Music Festival ‘Young Soloist of the Year’, ‘Best Emerging Artist’ by Donizetti Classical Music Awards and 1st prize at the Ilhan Ozsoy Presidential Violin Competition, among others.

Since completing his bachelor’s degree at the Royal College of Music with the generous support of the Yehudi Menuhin Award Scholarship and his master’s degree at the Manhattan School of Music on a full scholarship, he recently earned his doctoral degree from the State University of New York, Stony Brook University Music Department. Emre was appointed concertmaster of the New York City based orchestra New Manhattan Sinfonietta by conductor Gurer Aykal in 2018 and has performed solo and chamber performances around the world, including Mozart’s Violin Concerto no.5 “Turkish” with Tekfen Philharmonic at the opening concert of 2020 International Istanbul Music Festival.

Emre has been regularly performing with orchestras such as Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC NOW, Royal Scottish National Orchestra as well as being a fellow member of the 1st violin section at the English National Opera since 2021.

www.emre-engin.com

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