İdil Biret

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İdil Biret, Küçükçekmece, 2012

İdil Biret (born November 21, 1941 in Ankara ) is a Turkish pianist .

Life

Biret's first music teacher was Mithat Fenmen . In 1948 İsmet İnönü issued the so-called Wunderkindgesetz (Turkish: Harika Çocuk Yasası ) especially for Biret , which enabled her to receive appropriate support abroad. Biret received her further musical education at the Conservatoire de Paris , where she was a student of Nadia Boulanger . She completed her studies with three prizes at the age of 15 and completed her training with Alfred Cortot and had Wilhelm Kempff as a consultant until his death.

Since the age of 17 İdil Biret played in the most important international concert halls and u. a. with the London Symphony Orchestra , the Boston Symphony Orchestra , the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra , the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra , the Dresden Staatskapelle , the Orchester de la Suisse Romande , the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra , the Orchester National de France and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra .

She played u. a. under the direction of Hermann Scherchen , Pierre Monteux , Erich Leinsdorf , Rudolf Kempe , Gennadi Roschdestwenski , Aaron Copland , Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos , Charles Mackerras , Jean Fournet, Moshe Atzmon and Hiroyuki Iwaki. İdil Biret has also given concerts at the Berlin, Montréal, Istanbul, Dubrovnik, Montpellier, Nohant, Royan and Athens festivals. She played with Yehudi Menuhin Beethoven -Sonatas in concert and performed with Wilhelm Kempff with Mozart in concert for two pianos.

In 1960 the composer Jean Françaix dedicated his Sonata pour piano to her .

Awards

  • Lily Boulanger Memorial Award (Boston)
  • Harriet Cohen / Dinu Lipatti Gold Medal (London)
  • Artistic Merit Award (Warsaw)
  • the French National Knight Merit Order
  • Adelaide Ristori Prize (Rome)

She was a member of juries for several piano competitions, so u. a. with that of Van Cliburn (USA), Queen Elisabeth (Belgium), Montreal (Canada), Liszt (Weimar) and of Busoni (Italy).

Discography

  • the entire Beethoven symphonies in Liszt's arrangement by EMI (6LP / 1986)
  • Camille Saint-Saëns : Piano Concertos No. 2 in G minor, op.22, and No. 4 in C minor, op.44, with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor: James Loughran (1CD 1989)
  • all of Chopin's piano works (15CD / 1992)
  • Piano works by Brahms (12CD / 1997)
  • Piano works by Rachmaninov (10CD / 2000)
  • the three piano sonatas by Boulez near Naxos (1995)
  • the piano works and arrangements of Wilhelm Kempff with Marco Polo (1991)

In 1995, İdil Biret's recordings of Chopin's entire works were awarded the “Grand Prix du Disque Frédéric Chopin”, the special jury prize in Poland. In the same year she won the Diapason d'Or Prize in France for recording the Boulez sonatas ; these were selected as the best pictures of the year by Le Monde newspaper.

In 1997 İdil Biret played all of Brahms' solo piano works in five concerts in Germany.

İdil Biret has recorded the studies (books 1 and 2) by György Ligeti and the piano arrangement of the Stravinsky Ballet Firebird for Naxos. Both recordings were released in early 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief portrait. Sabah newspaper
  2. ↑ Milliyet daily newspaper July 26, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Biret, İdil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish pianist
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Ankara