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Fazıl Say is a Turkish pianist and composer born on 14 January 1970 in Ankara. He studied under Mithat Fenmen and was educated at the Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory and the Robert Schumann Hochschule. He plays piano and works in classical music and traditional folk music, based in Ankara, with a career beginning in 1984.
His recordings have been released on Naïve Records and Warner Classics. His relative is Emel Say, and he speaks Turkish.
Synthesized by Vinony from 25 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Firecrawl. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Wagner, Arr. Say
- Say
- Troy Sonata, Op. 78
- Flute World - 7 Solo Pieces and Duets for Flute (Flute, Alto Flute, Bass Flute) Score and Parts
- Paganini Jazz
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- Türkiye
- Active from
- 1970
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 89,225
- Total plays
- 1,134,049
Tags
Born in 1970 in Ankara, Turkey, Fazıl Say studied piano and composition at the Ankara State Conservatory. At the age of seventeen he was awarded a scholarship that enabled him to study for five years with David Levine at the Robert Schumann Institute in Düsseldorf. From 1992 to 1995 he continued his studies at the Berlin Conservatory. In 1994 he was the winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, which gave a rapid start to his international career. <a href="https://www.last.fm/
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global causes of maternal death: a WHO systematic analysis
· 2014 · cited 4,915x
- National, regional, and worldwide estimates of preterm birth rates in the year 2010 with time trends since 1990 for selected countries: a systematic analysis and implications
· 2012 · cited 3,668x
- WHO analysis of causes of maternal death: a systematic review
· 2006 · cited 2,774x
- Imparting functionality to a metal–organic framework material by controlled nanoparticle encapsulation
· 2012 · cited 2,105x
- Born Too Soon: The global epidemiology of 15 million preterm births
· 2013 · cited 1,652x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1970-01-14 ) 14 January 1970 (age 56) , Ankara, Turkey
- Occupations
- Composer Pianist
- Years active
- 1984–present
- Website
- fazilsay .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Fazıl Say Official Website // Pianist – Komponist – Weltbürger – 'He is not merely a pianist of genius; undoubtedly he will be one of the greatest artists of the twenty-first century.' ('Le Figaro', Paris)
fazilsay.com →Link to the official site · 5,111 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Turkey
- Place of birth
- Ankara
- Occupation
- composer
- Educated at
- Robert Schumann Hochschule
- Languages spoken
- Turkish
- Native language
- Turkish
- Student of
- Mithat Fenmen
- Instrument
- piano
- Record label
- Warner Classics
- Official website
- fazilsay.com
- Image
- Fazıl Say recording at Mozarteum Salzburg in 2019.jpg
- Work location
- Ankara
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- Commons category
- Fazıl Say
- date of birth
- 1970-01-14
- start of work period
- 1984-00-00
- social media followers
- 7750
- name in native language
- Fazıl Say
- relative
- Emel Say
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Encyclopedic overview
Fazıl Say ( Turkish: [faːˈzɯɫ saj]; born 14 January 1970) is a Turkish classical concert pianist and composer. He is known to often play his own compositions in his concerts, on top of a repertoire that includes Beethoven, Chopin, Bach and Mozart (with Say's own cadenzas).
Life and career
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fazıl Say” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.