En la nova generació de pianistes, el gran talent turc Fazil Say presenta una amplitud de mires que l’ha fet destacar en la composició i en la interpretació més enllà del repertori clàssic de piano.

Fazil alla Turca: Pianist Fazil Say plays his own improvisation on the "alla Turca" theme from Mozart's Eleventh Piano Sonata." (WUAL Recordings).

One of Performance Today's mandates has always been to keep an eye on artists who are doing interesting, innovative things. One is pianist Fazil Say. In concert in Brussels last summer, we hear him ...

The machine-tooled precision and finely honed polish so often heard in today’s young musicians sometimes seems to sacrifice individuality and interpretive idiosyncrasy with the striving toward a ...

He performed at Fabrik auditorium within the scope of his concerts series as "Fazil Say-Turkish Nights". Fazil Say, born in 1970, is just as much a composer as he is a pianist. At the age of seventeen ...

Once convicted of insulting Islam, the Turkish pianist and composer remains controversial in his homeland. In Bonn, he has now been recognized for his art of inclusion. In its second year, the ...

Music between Orient and Occident: the Turkish pianist, composer and Beethoven Prize winner tells DW how his work crosses frontiers and about the responsibility of artists like himself. Celebrated and ...

Fazil Say is a pianist who hums while he plays and does other things, too, that risk alienating his audience. Sometimes he turns round and stares straight into the auditorium. Sometimes he peers into ...

As to Say the composer, I was much drawn to his melancholy and atmospheric Black Earth with its ingenious keyboard imitations of the baglama and saz (Turkish string instruments), and to his haunting, ...