Fazil Say, pianist and composer
Music & Conversation
Sun, Feb 2, 2025 3:00 PM
Peale Museum
Performance Information
Join us at The Peale Museum for "A Turkish Delight" featuring Fazil Say, a renowned pianist and composer who has been crafting music since he was 14. This internationally celebrated artist passionately champions music as a vehicle for social change, both in his native Türkiye and globally. During his program at CMM at The Peale, he will perform original compositions and offer insights before each piece, enhancing your understanding and appreciation. Immerse yourself in a fusion of Eastern and Western influences and meet the artist afterwards over wine and sweets.
The Program
Fazil Say: Piano Sonata, New Life Fazil Say: SES Fazil Say: Nazım Fazil Say: Black Earth Hommage Aşık Veysel
About The Artist
With his extraordinary pianistic talents, Fazıl Say has been touching audiences and critics alike for more than twenty-five years, in a way that has become rare in the increasingly materialistic and elaborately organised classical music world. Concerts with this artist are something different. They are more direct, more open, more exciting; in short, they go straight to the heart. Which is exactly what the composer Aribert Reimann thought in 1986 when, during a visit to Ankara, he had the…
