Fazil Say is one of the most colourful personalities on today’s music scene. This extraordinary virtuoso pianist, multi-faceted composer and passionate jazz musician was born in Ankara, Turkey, in 1970. In 1987, he won a scholarship to study at the Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf, and was then a student at the Berlin Conservatory between 1992 and 1995. His international career took off with an audition for the Young Concert Artists, since when he has played with world-renowned orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic, the BBC Philharmonic and the Orchestre National de France. He has appeared at numerous festivals, such as the Salzburg Festival, the Montreux Jazz Festival and the Harrod’s Piano Series in London, and played chamber music in the world’s leading concert halls in collaboration with the likes of Yuri Bashmet, Shlomo Mintz and Maxim Vengerov. Say has also made numerous recordings as an internationally recognised composer and pianist, and played at almost all the significant festivals and concert halls in the 2010/2011 season on a tour taking in Vienna, Salzburg, Milan, Rome, Athens, Istanbul, Lisbon, Tokyo, Nagoya, Berlin, Munich, Geneva and Barcelona. In 2008, Fazil Say was chosen as one of the ambassadors for Europe as part of an EU initiative designated the “European Year of Intercultural Dialogue.” Presented by: Jakobi Koncert Kft.

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