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DOÇ. Leyla PINAR - Harpsichord
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 Raphael 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 Brandenbourg concertos, M. 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, J.Blow’s Venus-Adonis, G.F.Haendel’s
Giulio Caesar and Deidamia, Pepusch’s The Three Penny
Opera and Teleman’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 G.F.Händel's Deidamia. And also conducted the
orchestra.
Leyla Pınar is the founder and Artistic Director of the
International Istanbul Baroque Music Festival since
1994.
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