Gülsin Onay's piano masterclass
Dates & venue:
Wednesday 27 November 2024, 10:00-17:00
Thursday 28 November 2024, 10:00-17:00
Venue: Old Academy, Chamber Hall
(1064 Budapest, Vörösmarty utca 35.)
PARTICIPATION AND APPLICATION:
Active participants:
Only Liszt Academy students (BA, MA, non-degree, TMA 60 piano, exceptional Young talents, Doctoral School) may apply.
You can apply by filling out the online form below (in the case of TMA 60 students, please enter "TMA" after their name, and select the MA I. Year program in the program tab)
Application deadline: Wednesday 20 November 2024
The schedule of the active participants will be posted on the Liszt Academy website a few days prior to the course.
Passive participants:
Only students and teachers of the Liszt Academy of Music and the Bartók Conservatory, as well as students of the Trainer of Extraordinary Talents are eligible to participate in the course. Pre-registration is not required.
Gülsin Onay gave her first public recital on Turkish Radio when she was only six. She then studied with Ahmed Adnan Saygun and Mithat Fenmen, and subsequently at the Paris Conservatoire with Pierre Sancan, Monique Haas and Nadia Boulanger, from where she graduated at the age of 16, winning the prestigious “Premier Prix du Piano”. Gülsin Onay's subsequent, truly international, career has spanned 80 countries across all continents, from Venezuela to Japan, performing as soloist with leading orchestras including Dresden Staatskapelle, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, Japan Philharmonic, Munich Radio Symphony, St Petersburg Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic and Vienna Symphony Orchestras, and under such legenderay conductors as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Neeme Jarvi, Emmanuel Krivine, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jose Serebrier and Vassily Sinaisky.
Gülsin Onay was in 2007 honoured with the award of a State Medal by the Polish nation as recognition of her Chopin playing. She is also acknowledged worldwide as the finest interpreter of the music of A.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.
Gülsin Onay holds the titles of State Artist in her native Turkey, and of soloist for the Presidential Symphony Orchestra in Ankara. She is “Artist in Residence” at Bilkent University in Ankara and holds an honorary doctorate degrees from Bosphorus University in Istanbul, and from Hacettepe University in Ankara. Since its inception in 2004, Gülsin Onay has been the artistic advisor of the Gümüşlük Classical Music Festival. She was named “Pianist of the Year” in the 2011 Donizetti Classical Music Awards.