Okonsar With Electronic Instruments Performing "The Musical Offering" By Bach

May 15, 2012 - PRLog -- The Turkish born Belgian pianist, composer, conductor and musicologist Mehmet Okonsar revealed his very own full collection of the particular Canons as well as the large "Sonata in Trio" of J. S. Bach's "Musical Offering" on Compact disk.

The particular work is accomplished on various electronic and digital musical instruments and also, in some features, may point out typically the related renderings by Wendy Carlos and Isao Tomita.

Nonetheless, on one hand it is much less "clinical" as opposed to Wendy Carlos and makes an extensive usage of "bigger" sound-spaces, and on the other side, it is significantly less "exotic" in comparison with Isao Tomita.

The big "Sonata in Trio" (on the Royal Theme) is carried out with sampled versions of historical instruments; usually "viols da gamba" along with a block-flute.

Selecting the instrumentation, which is left towards the wisdom of the performers by the composer, together with the performance articulation of various parts within the hugely polyphonic and dense areas, in no way hide but show the actual linear textures extremely easily.

The actual record is internationally available through amazon.com(r) and its partners.

All pieces can also be auditioned at Okonsar's homepage: http://www.okonsar.com/Recordings.html .

Mehmet Okonsar, a Belgian pianist, composer, conductor and musicologist was born in Istanbul, Turkey. He studied piano, composition as well as orchestration at the Brussels Royal Conservatory along with musicology in the Istanbul Technical University. His key professors were J. Cl. Vanden Eynden in addition to Alexis Weissenberg for the piano and Madame Jacqueline Fontyn for composition. He is laureate of a lot of international piano competitions including the Gina Bachauer.

Mehmet Okonsar performed, among others, with the following orchestras: Utah Symphony, Antwerp Philharmonic, Poznan Philharmonic and Lublin Philharmonic. Examples of the conductors he played with conductors: Joseph Silverstein, Charles Dutoit, Sylvain Cambreling, Ingo Metzmacher, Christof Escher. In recital Okonsar appeared at London's Royal Opera House, the Salle Gaveau in Paris, in New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, Kyoto, Bruxelles, Antwerp, Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Rotterdam, Rome, Athens, Calgary, Salt Lake City, Ljubljana.

His researches on music and also technology ended up displayed in a lecture at the Yamaha head office in Hamamatsu, Japan. Okonsar had written and also offered a documentary series about music technologies on the National Television Broadcast of Turkey, the T.R.T.

For additional information or a sample copy please contact:
Mehmet Okonsar, mehmet@okonsar.com