Mehmet Okonsar Newsletter Issue:2 Oct.2010

Gabriel Fauré'nin 6 numaralı Nocturne'ü ve Serge Prokofieff'den "Sarcasmes"ları beğeninize sunmaktayım. Bestecilik alanında ise Kıbrıs'da bir konserimde kaydedilen "Kaleidoscopes" N.1 bulunmaktadır.

Bu ayki okuma önerim ise Conlon Nancarrow, çok beğendiğim bir besteci üzerinedir. Bu besteci hakkında bağlantılar bulacaksınız.

SHADOWY ARCADE
Solo Piano Improvisations
by
Mehmet Okonsar

Musical improvisation
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Biography and Influences

Aşağıdaki biyografi Tom Rodwell (Aug. 1999)'dendir:
http://www.furious.com/PERFECT/conlonnancarrow. html

Accessed on: January 3, 2008

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Conlon Nancarrow, (1912-1997) was born in Texarkana, studied composition from an early age, with Slonimsky, Sessions, Piston privately in Boston and played jazz trumpet in local bar bands.

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Mehmet Okonşar piyanist-besteci-orkestra şefi-müzikolog Duyurular Numara:2 - Ekim 2010
Önceki Sayı				English
Sonraki Sayı				Français
	Değerli dostlar, Sanatsal etkinliklerim hakkındaki duyurularımın bu yeni şeklini sizlere sunmaktan son derece memnunum. Geçtiğimiz yıllarda bazılarınız etkinliklerim hakkında sade elektronik postalar almaktaydınız. Çalışmalarıma verdiğiniz destek ve dikkatiniz için teşekkür ederim. Özellikle eğer bu duyuruların içeriğini ilgi çekici bulursanız bunu arkadaşlarınzla paylaşmanız bana gerçekten destek olacaktır. Bu Ekim ayında gene sizlerle ilgi çekici müzikler paylaşmak istiyorum. Her zamanki gibi bu duyuru da: Listen, Watch, Read bölümlerini ve daha fazlasını içermektedir.
Bu sayı daha az bilinen bir etkinlik yönümü tanıtmaktadır: müzik doğaçlama. Nadiren yaptığım bir etkinlik olmasına rağmen bu alanda bir CD yayınladım: "Shadowy Arcade". Bunu dinleme ve bu alanda okuma fırsatınız olacaktır. Bunun yanı sıra Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition'daki performanslarımı sunuyorum. Maurice Abravanel Hall'un muhteşem akustiğinde kaydedilmişleridir. Bu salon Symphony Hall, Salt Lake City,Utah eyaletindedir. Kayıtlar 1991'dendir.
	Gabriel Fauré'nin 6 numaralı Nocturne'ü ve Serge Prokofieff'den "Sarcasmes"ları beğeninize sunmaktayım. Bestecilik alanında ise Kıbrıs'da bir konserimde kaydedilen "Kaleidoscopes" N.1 bulunmaktadır. Bu ayki okuma önerim ise Conlon Nancarrow, çok beğendiğim bir besteci üzerinedir. Bu besteci hakkında bağlantılar bulacaksınız.		Portrait in oils of Gabriel Fauré by John Singer Sargent, about 1889 (Paris Museum of Music)
Dikkatiniz için teşekkür ederim. Umarım bu duyurular beğeninizi kazanacaktır ve bunları tanıdıklarınızla paylaşacaksınız. Müzikle ve sağlıcakla kalın! Mehmet Okonşar
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		SHADOWY ARCADE Solo Piano Improvisations by Mehmet Okonsar Bu doğaçlamaları tamamen planlamasız olarak başladım. Hiçbir müzikal form tema ya da melodi hazırlamadan. Birçok kez kayıtlar alarak sadece beğendiklerimi CD için sakladım. Parçalar bittikten sonra ise uygun başlıklar aramaya koyuldum. Genellikle uzun ve edebi başlıklar seçtim.
1-He has snatched away the thunderbolt from heaven and the scepter from the sovereign 2-Briefly thyself remember (Lear) 3-Every hero becomes a bore at last (Emerson) 4-What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted (Henry VI) 5-A change came o'er the spirit of my dream (Byron) 6-Such stuff as dreams are made of (Tempest) 7-A merry heart goes all the day (A winter's Tale) 8-Angel visits few and far between (Campbell) 9-The gods too are fond of a joke (Aristotle) 10-Flowers preach to us if we will hear (Rossetti) 11-Illusion is the first of all pleasures (Wilde) 12-I give him joy that's awkward at a lie (Young) 13-Beauty born of murmuring sound (Wordsworth) 14-As Morning Light Breaks (Bob Dylan)
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Bu parçalar olağan beste stilimden oldukça farklı görünmektedir. Aslında bu doğaldır. Bunlar beste değil doğaçlamalardır ve bu iki olguyu tamamen farklı olarak düşünmekteyim. Alıntı: Wikipedia: Musical improvisation From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Musical improvisation (also known as Musical Extemporization) is the creative activity of immediate ("in the moment") musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians. Thus, musical ideas in improvisation are spontaneous, but may be based on chord changes in classical music. Because improvisation is a performative act and depends on instrumental technique, improvisation is a skill. There are musicians who have never improvised and other musicians who have devoted their entire lives to improvisation. [...] Contemporary classical music While the first half of the twentieth century is marked by an almost total absence of actual improvisation in art music, since the 1950s, some contemporary composers have placed fewer restrictions on the improvising performer, using techniques such as vague notation (for example, indicating only that a certain number of notes must sound within a defined period of time). New Music ensembles formed around improvisation were founded, such as the Scratch Orchestra in England; Musica Elettronica Viva in Italy; Lukas Foss's Improvisation Chamber Ensemble at the University of California, Los Angeles; Larry Austin's New Music Ensemble at the University of California, Davis; the ONCE Group at Ann Arbor; the Sonic Arts Group; and Sonics, the latter three funding themselves through concerts, tours, and grants. Significant pieces include Foss's Time Cycles (1960) and Echoi (1963). Other composers working with improvisation include Richard Barrett, Pierre Boulez, Cornelius Cardew, Alvin Curran, Stuart Dempster, Hugh Davies, Karlheinz Essl, Vinko Globokar, Richard Grayson, Stephen Nachmanovitch, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, Frederic Rzewski, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Richard Teitelbaum, Christian Wolff, Vangelis, La Monte Young, John Zorn and Yitzhak Yedid. Several pianists also teach classical improvisation and perform, such as David Dolan, William Goldstein, Yitzhak Yedid and Eric Barnhill.
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LiTüm parçaları dinlemek için "Shadowy Arcade" tıklayınız
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click the image or here to play video on Youtube		Nocture N.6 op.63 in D fl. Maj. Gabriel Fauré Mehmet Okonsar, piano Recorded Live Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, Maurice Abravanel Hall of the Symphony Hall Salt Lake City, UT. 1991
Alıntı Wikipedia: Gabriel Fauré is regarded as the master of the French art song, or mélodie. His works ranged from an early romantic style, when in his early years he emulated the style of Mendelssohn and others, to late 19th century Romantic, and finally to a 20th century aesthetic. His work was based on a strong understanding of harmonic structures which he received at the École Niedermeyer from his harmony teacher Gustave Lefèvre, who wrote the book Traité d'harmonie (Paris, 1889), in which Lefèvre sets forth a harmonic theory which differs significantly from the classical theory of Jean-Philippe Rameau in that seventh and ninth chords are no longer considered dissonant, and the mediant can be altered without changing the mode. In addition, Fauré's understanding of the church modes can be seen in various modal passages in his works, especially in his melodies. In contrast with his harmonic and melodic style, which pushed the bounds for his time, Fauré's rhythmic motives tended to be subtle and repetitive, with little to break the flow of the line, although he did utilize subtle large scale syncopations, similar to those found in Brahms's works. Aaron Copland referred to him as the 'French Brahms'.^[5] It has also been posited by Jerry Dubins in Fanfare Magazine that Gabriel Fauré is the "missing link" between Brahms and Debussy. Fauré's piano works often use arpeggiated figures with the melody interspersed between the two hands, and include finger substitutions natural for organists. These aspects make them daunting for some pianists, but they are nonetheless central works.
click the image or here to play video on Youtube		Sarcasms op.17 Sergei Prokofiev Mehmet Okonsar, piano Recorded Live Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, Maurice Abravanel Hall of the Symphony Hall Salt Lake City, UT. 1991
	[alıntı Wikipedia] Prokofiev may well be the most popular composer of 20th century music. His orchestral music alone is played more frequently in the United States than that of any other composer of the last hundred years, save Richard Strauss,[73] while his operas, ballets, chamber works, and piano music appear regularly throughout the major concert halls world-wide. [...] But Prokofiev's music and his reputation stand well-positioned to benefit from the demise of cultural politics. His fusion of melody and modernism and his "gift, virtually unparalleled among 20th-century composers, for writing distinctively original diatonic melodies", may stand him in good stead as we begin to appreciate the unique genius of this most prolific and enigmatic of composers.
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Live Salt Lake City CD'si küresel dağıtımdadır. Tüm parçaları dinlemek için tıklayınız...			Dinlemek için
Bu CD Gina Bachauer International Competition 1991 deki kayıtlarımı canlı olarakiçermektedir.
CD Parçaları:	A. Scriabin: Sonata N.9 "Black Mass" G. Fauré: Nocturne N.6 in D flat Maj. op. J. Ph. Rameau: Three pieces for the Harpsichord: "Cyclopes", "L'Entretien des Muses","La Poule" W. A. Mozart: Fantasy in D min. KV397 F. Liszt: "Funérailles" and Sonata Quasi Una Fantasia "Aprés Une Lecture du Dante" (Dante Sonata)
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		Conlon Nancarrow Biography and Influences Aşağıdaki biyografi Tom Rodwell (Aug. 1999)'dendir: http://www.furious.com/PERFECT/conlonnancarrow. html Accessed on: January 3, 2008 Eklerim ve görüşlerim alıntı şeklinde belirtilmiştir
Conlon Nancarrow, (1912-1997) was born in Texarkana, studied composition from an early age, with Slonimsky, Sessions, Piston privately in Boston and played jazz trumpet in local bar bands.
	Among his composition teachers Nicholas Slonimsky is the author of one interesting book Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns. The book is an extensive catalog of scales created by symmetrical divisions of one or more octaves. Slonismki’s unique and interesting approach to harmony will probably have a strong influence on Nancarrow’s musical language.
He joined the Lincoln Brigade and fought Franco’s fascists in 1930’s Spain, also becoming a member of the Communist Party. Upon his return to the USA, he resumed composition, and associated with other new radicals in the New York scene, including John Cage and life-long friend Elliot Carter.
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DISCOVER
click the image or here to play video on Youtube		Kaleidoscopes N1 Solo Piyano için Ertuğrul Oğuz Firat için Besteci tarafından Kıbrıs'da ilk seslendiriliş Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi, Kuzey Kıbrıs
Kaleidoscopes dizisi, alban Berg'in "Bir Meleğin Anısına" Keman Konçertosunun özgün ses dizisi üzerine bestelenmiş üç parçadan oluşmaktadır. Numara bir solo piyano için, numara üç ise viyola ve piyano için bestelenmiştir. Berg'in yukarıda adı geçen eserinde kullandığı özgün ses dizisi pekçok bakımdan eşsizdir. Bu dizide, tonal dönemde sınıflandırılmış tüm akor çeşitleri (minör, majör, artık, dominant vs.) ile birlikte bir tam-ton dizisinin başlangıç notaları yer almaktadır. Bu özellik, yapıtlarda tonal akorların tonalite dışı kullanımları olarak işlenmiştir ve dizisel yöntemler özgürce uygulanmıştır.
ACQUAINT
	1961'de Istanbul'da doğmuştur 1969'den 1972'ye kadar Paris'de yaşamıştır 1974'de piyano ve kompozisyon eğitimini Ankara Devlet Konservatuvarında sürdürmeye başlar 1977'de Brüksel'e yerleşir ve Brüksel Kraliyet Konservatuvarında J. Cl. Vanden Eynden ile çalışmaya başlar Çalışmalarını Alexis Weissenbergile sürdürür 1982'de "Young Virtuoses" yarışmasında, Antwers'de, birinci olur ve ilk orkestralı konserini gerçekleştirir: Antwerp Philharmonic (bugün: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders, Het Koninklijk Filharmonische Orkest van Vlaanderen). 1986'da "Diplome Supérieur de Piano, Avec la plus Grande Distinction, Premier Nommé" olarak Brüksel Konservatuvarından piyano bölünümden mezun olur ve Mme. Jacqueline Fontyn ile kompozisyon çalışmalarına başlar 1989 kompozisyon ve orkestrasyon bölümlerinden mezun olur. Roma'da Premio Etruria'yı kazanır (Roma Chopin Akademisi) 1991 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, Salt Lake City, Utah'da finalist olur ve 6.lık kazanır Çaldığı orkestralardan bazıları: Utah Symphony, Poznan and Lublin Philharmonic Orchestras, Brussels Opera Orchestra (La Monnaie), Antwerp Philharmonic, Presidential Symphony (Ankara), Istanbul State Symphony, Izmir State Symphony... Çaldığı şeflerden bazıları: Joseph Silverstein, Charles Dutoit, Sylvain Cambreling, Ingo Metzmacher, Christof Escher, Alexander Schwink, Lucas Pfaff... 1992 "Devlet Solisti" ünvanıyla Türkiye'ye yerleşir 2000 Cambridge Biographical Center tarafından yayınlanan "2000 Outstanding Musicians of the XXth. Century" biyografi derlemesine girer 2010 Londra, Royal Opera House'da ilk konserini gerçekleştirir



Biyografi .pdf	Mehmet Okonsar Wikipedia (TR)		Biyografi
WITNESS
	Kayıtlarım, Bestelerim ve Yazılarım
Kayıtlarım:	J.S.BACH The Goldberg Variations (piano) [LMO-Records] J.S.BACH The Well-Tempered Keyboard (piano) (complete in 3 CD set) [LMO-Records] J.S.BACH The Art of Fugue (Organ and Harpsichord) [LMO-Records] J.S.BACH The Musical Offering (electronic instruments) [LMO-Records] Mehmet Okonsar Live at Salt Lake City. [LMO-Records]. Original and unedited recordings of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition (1991). TANGO Best tangos by A. Piazzolla transcribed for the piano by Mehmet Okonsar. [Rec-by Saatchi] Shadowy Arcade Free style improvisations by Mehmet Okonsar (piano). [LMO-Records] Mehmet Okonsar Plays Gershwin Complete piano music and original transcriptions (piano). [Rec-by Saatchi] TRT Youth Choir 20th. anniversary CD. Specially commissioned work "Two Seascapes" for a capella choir. TRT Chamber Orchestra Fall Concert CD. Bach keyboard Concerti Fm. BWV1056 and Gm.BWV1058
			Diskografi

Bestelerim:	"Shir Ha Shirim" שיר השירים For soprano and large orchestra (2010). "Tehillim-Zebur" תהלים For solo voice and small orchestra (2010). "Kaleidoscopes" (2006-2009) N1. for Piano Premiered by the composer in Ankara. Watch on Youtube™ N2. for Chamber Strings Orchestra, Marimba and PianoPremiere conducted by Hakan Şensoy in Istanbul. Watch on Yahoo™ videos N3. for Viola and Piano. Premiered by Çetin Aydar (viola) and the composer in Ankara. Watch on Youtube™ "Percussion X" (2005) For three percussionists. Premiered in Ankara by Trio SaNeNa. Watch on Youtube™ "Temples of Kyoto" (2004-2010) Three pieces for Piano N1. Kinkaku-ji 金閣寺, Temple of the Golden Pavilion. Premiered in Tokyo by the composer (dedicated to the memory of Mrs. Yasuko Fukuda) N2. Tetsugaku no Michi 哲学の道 , Philosopher's Walk (dedicated to Reiko and Masatsugu Sasaki) N3. Ginkaku-ji 銀閣寺, Temple of the Silver Pavilion "Two Seascapes" (2000) for a-capella mixed choir, commissioned by the Turkish National Broadcast (TRT). Premiere conducted by Prof. Mustafa Apaydın, Ankara. "Rhythm Studies for Piano Solo" series 1 (1999) and 2 (2000). Inspired from the "Schillinger System of Musical Composition" "Oannés" & "Mr. Dunne" (1990) Two improvisational charts of appreciatively 7 minutes each, for one or several pianos. Premiered in Brussels by the composer. "Unknown" (1989) for Bass Clarinet and Percussion. Premiered in Brussels. "Mandel Fractal Studies" (1997) Five pieces for Piano based on fractal iterations and Strange Attractors. "Emulation" (1989) Five Pieces for Piano. Premiered by the composer in Istanbul. "Chameleon" (1987) Three Pieces for Piano. Premiered by the composer in Brussels.
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	Ligeti and Micropolyphony. Debussy "Etude Pour les Quartes". Stockhausen Klavierstück N.9. Structure and Spectra. Jewish Music, A Concise Study. Conlon Nancarrow. Masonic Signs in Music.
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Mehmet Okonsar Wikipedia: http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_Okonsar Musical Improvisation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_improvisation Gabriel Fauré: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piazzolla Conlon Nancarrow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_music Kaleidoscopes, the complete series on Youtube™ N. 1 for Piano Solo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrC6sCnTzq4 N.3a for Viola and Piano (Part 1 of 2): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIVOXM7Ep4s N.3b for Viola and Piano (Part 2 of 2): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIOM4DNLm_4
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