Free Improvisations On CD Through The Turkish-Born Belgian Pianist

July 30, 2012 - PRLog -- The pieces, in line with the composer, had been taped with no prior work. Like the "Solo" (named) album by Lyle Mays, by the way significantly appreciated by Okonsar, these are genuine free improvisations.

The extended and also overwhelming headings of the pieces were added way after they are taped. Here are some examples: "He has snatched away the thunderbolt from heaven and the scepter from the sovereign", "Briefly thyself remember (Lear)", "Every hero becomes a bore at last (Emerson)","The gods too are fond of a joke (Aristotle)" etc.

The music style is a special mixture of, with no arrangement, Alban Berg, Lyle Mays, Keith Jarrett, Alexander Scriabin, Erik Satie and a great many others.

"You can readily notice traces associated with music I've run into since I'm making music!" suggests Mehmet Okonsar, "Which is normal if you ask me. Every music I really like basically leaves remnants in me and also I needless to say fail to remember any others I can't stand."


A number of the CD tracks are available as video-clips on the artists Youtube(r) channel: mokonsar.

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

Mehmet Okonsar, born in Istanbul, Turkey studied music at the Brussels Royal Conservatory together with Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden for the piano and also Madame Jacqueline Fontyn for composition along with orchestration. He additionally studied along with a previous pupil of Olivier Messiaen: Claude Ballif from the Paris National Conservatory and also the mythical pianist Alexis Weissenberg in Switzerland.

His noted concerts incorporated the premiere in Turkey of the Concerto for Piano, op.42 by Schoenberg with the exceptional performances of the Concerto for piano by Lutoslawski in Poland.

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

Aside from his international concert carrier he is a prolific writer. Okonsar is an independent musician and performer, founder of the classical music and also musicology committed blog-site:"inventor-musicae" along with the first classical-music video portal: classicalvideos.net. His whole biography with details may be read here: http://www.okonsar.com/pianist-biography.html#long-bio

His repertoire encompasses a assortment from the early seventeenth. century ("The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book") such as amongst others Orlando Gibbons and Giles Farnaby and also reaches up to late 20th century with the works by Karlheinz Stockhausen and Witold Lutoslawski. Noteworthy works in this particular repertoire are: J.S. Bach "The Art of Fugue" performed on organ (or piano) and harpsichord; the Goldberg Variations, the integrale of Well-tempered Keyboard. Okonsar has executed recitals featuring the whole piano works by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg and Anton Webern. Irrespective of he denies all sort of "musical specialization", his repertoire is to a great extent on the "modern" side with Igor Stravinsky "Three Movements of Petrouchka" the "Sequenza" for the piano by Luciano Berio and also the Klavierstucke by Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Mehmet Okonsar possesses an noteworthy discography, almost all titles worldwide distributed. By J.S.Bach, Goldberg Variations; The Well-Tempered Klavier (complete in 3 CD set); The Art of Fugue (performed on organ and harpsichord) and The Musical Offering (performed on electronic instruments). An appealing collection of solo piano, free style improvisations is "Shadowy Arcade", a CD composed with pieces having stirring titles, in Okonsar's very own, personal musical style which is possibly not unlike some very modern jazz improvisation styles.

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