Klavierabend mit Ece Demirci

am 12.08.2019, 19:30 bis 22:00
Preis: 28 € (pre-sales 22) / Students 5 €

Rachmaninoff’s cycle with a cascade of 20 variations of virtuoso melody is also marked by melancholy, the final farewell to the idea of ​​returning to beloved Russia. He wrote his “Corelli Variations” in 1931 in American exile; The equally mature and complex work is seldom played – one of at least three good reasons not to miss the concert of the Istanbul pianist Ece Demirci.

She is also Head of the Piano Department at the Istanbul State Conservatory and represents the great current generation of Turkish pianists who are extremely active and internationally successful. However, less well known is the fact that there is also a broad culture of Turkish [piano] composers – Demirci combines ten outstanding representatives of Turkish classical music on their last double CD: traditional compositions of classical modernism from the first half of the 20th century, the from the reform of Turkish music under Kemal Atatürk from 1923 are characterized. At that time, the Turkish music elite studied mainly in Paris, but also in Vienna or Prague; today’s contemporaries are often under the influence of current music in the US. So it is only logical that a contemporary from the USA is also on the program: Lowell Liebermann!

Very exciting comparisons are offered by this piano recital! Ece Demirci introduces into surprising contrasts of a not traditional Turkish classical music and presents discoveries with an independent sound language from the musically rich 20th century.

Ece Demirci is a student of Gülsin Onay and studied after the exam in Istanbul at the Musikhochschule Hannover and then at the Folkwang Musikhochschule in Essen, where she also passed the 1998 “Concert Exam”. The concert is made with the kind support of the Turkish Consulate Nuremberg and Turkish Airlines.