Leyla Pınar

Infobox musical artist 2
Name = Leyla Pınar


Background = Artistic, music direction and harpsichord
Birth_name = Leyla Pınar
Instrument = organ, piano, harpsichord
Origin = İstanbul, Turkey
Genre = Baroque Opera
URL = [http://www.istanbulbarok.com Leyla Pınar]

About

Leyla Pınar is a Turkish harpsichordist, a graduate of the Istanbul Conservatory.

Biography

Leyla Pınar is a graduate of the Istanbul Conservatory. She privately studied with Cemal Reşit Rey, one of the pioneers of Turkish contemporary music. Upon his recommendations, she went to Europe to continue her studies. After a year at the Cesare Pollini Conservatory in Padua, she joined the class of Antoine-Geoffrey Dechaume, harpsichordist, eminent musicologist and one of the foremost experts of authentic interpretation in baroque music at Poitiers University in France. During her time there, she became an active member of the “Collegium Musicae Antiquae”. As a pupil of Nadia Boulanger and Solange Corbin, she obtained “first prizes” for harpsichord at Poitiers and the Mons Conservatory as well as “licenses” in chamber music, harmony, counterpoint and the “diplôme supérieure de concertiste” at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris. Also a musicology license in Sorbonne (Ecole des Hautes Etudes.) She received “JMF Rencontres Musicales”, “François Henri Clicquot” and “Melvin-Jones Fellow” prices.

After returning to Turkey, Leyla Pınar held a teaching post at the Marmara University and Mimar Sinan Conservatory of Istanbul and formed meanwhile an instrumental trio specializing in baroque music. After being awarded a doctorate in music, she continued to perfect her art under such distinguished harpsichordists as Rafael Puyana (Santiago De Compostela), Jean-Patrice Brosse and Michel Chapuis-organ (Comminges), Christopher Kite-piano forte, Kenneth Gilbert (Guildhall Music School) and studied for three years with Robert Kohnen. She has been invited by the British Ministry of Culture in order to research on English baroque music. Then she moved to Brussels.

Because of her training as a musicologist, Leyla Pınar feels comfortable performing in Baroque, traditional Turkish music and contemporary repertories. She believes that public indifference to contemporary music stems mainly from the lack of familiarity with it. Thus, her last three CD’s (Pavane and MMD Records) includes a considerable number of works for harpsichord and organ by 20th century composers.

Leyla Pınar has given numerous recitals and concerts of baroque and contemporary music in Europe and the United States. She has recorded and gave live broadcast concerts for French, Swiss, Dutch, Belgian and Turkish Radio-TVs.

She appeared as soloist with “Ensemble Mondial of Cologne”, “Amsterdam Calefax Group”, the Istanbul and Ankara State Symphony Orchestras and the Turkish Radio Chamber Orchestra in well-known concertos such as Bach’s Brandenburg concertos, De Falla concerto and Poulenc’s Concert Champêtre. She participated in various music festivals such as the International Istanbul Music Festival (twice), the International Al Bustan Festival in Lebanon, I Fiamminghi, the Festival of Contemporary music in Campo-Antwerp and “Le Printemps Baroque du Sablon” in Brussels. She gave duo concerts with Paul Dombrecht and Robert Kohnen. Also, she gave a recital at the United Nations in New York in memoriam of the 75th anniversary of Turkish Republic. She also gave a special recital in Brussels’ Music Instruments Museum on 3 different periodic harpsichords.

She did the first world performance with the Ankara Presidential Symphony Orchestra of Ertuğrul Oğuz Fırat’s harpsichord concerto which has been dedicate to her In January 2001, she performed this concerto with Brussels Royal Conservatory Symphony Orchestra lead by Jean Baily. She gave master classes on harpsichord and baroque interpretation at the Brussels Royal Conservatory.

Leyla Pınar is also the author of several articles on contemporary Turkish music in various publications and the founder of the “Istanbul Barok” ensemble which performed the first stage productions and concerts of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, John Blow'’s opera Venus and Adonis, G.F.Händel’s Giulio Caesar and Deidamia, Pepusch’s Beggar's Opera and Telemann’s Pimpinone in Istanbul. In 1997, on the occasion of its 300th anniversary, Leyla Pınar was also responsible for the first production of Campra’s opera-ballet L’Europe Galante with the “Istanbul Barok” ensemble (which she took to the International Sablon Baroque Festival in the same year in Brussels.) In 2004 she did a co-production between Istanbul Baroque and Ankara State Opera for Händel's Deidamia, conducting the orchestra.

Leyla Pınar is artistic director of the International Istanbul Baroque Music Festival, which she founded in 1994. She teaches at The Drama and Music Department in Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul.

İstanbul Baroque

Initially a trio of clavecin, violin and flute, Istanbul Barok was founded by Leyla Pınar.

External links

* [http://www.istanbulbarok.com İstanbul Baroque/Leyla Pınar: The Official Web Site]

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