"I initiated playing them with no pre-conceived representation in mind" states Mehmet Okonsar, the Turkish born Belgian pianist, composer, conductor and musicologist when referring to the "Shadowy Arcade". He let the music come in effortlessly and captured all. Then, Okonsar disposed off a lot of the takes and without any extra modifying, saved the ones he liked to get published.

The lengthy as well as complicated headings of the pieces were being incorporated way after they are generally captured. 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 really a specific blend of, devoid of order, Alban Berg, Lyle Mays, Keith Jarrett, Alexander Scriabin, Erik Satie and a good many others.

"You may easily locate strains associated with music I've encountered since I'm making music!" claims Mehmet Okonsar, "That is usual if you ask me. Each music I appreciate simply leaves traces within me and I normally fail to remember any others I dislike."

A lot of those pieces are available as video-clips on the artists Youtube(r) channel: mokonsar.

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

Mehmet Okonsar's out-of-the-ordinary programs brought the premiere in Turkey of the Concerto for piano by Schoenberg and he can also be a great admirer and performer of Lutoslawski.

At times he endorses the position of a judge in particular piano competitions for example the National Piano Competition of Japan within the auspices of the P.T.N.A. (“Piano Teachers National Association”).

Aside from his worldwide concert carrier he is a prolific author. Okonsar is an independent musician, owner of the classical music and musicology specialized blog-site:"inventor-musicae" as well as the very first classical-music video portal: classicalvideos.net. His whole biography together with facts might be read here: www.okonsar.com/pianist-biography.html#long-bio

His repertoire encompasses a assortment from the early seventeenth. century ("The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book") together with amongst others Orlando Gibbons and Giles Farnaby and also extends to late 20.th century with all the works by Karlheinz Stockhausen as well as Witold Lutoslawski. Significant 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 displaying the total piano works by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg and Anton Webern. Irrespective of he declines most form of "musical specialization", his repertoire is actually seriously on the "modern" side with Igor Stravinsky "Three Movements of Petrouchka" the "Sequenza" for the piano by Luciano Berio and the Klavierstucke by Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Mehmet Okonsar, a Belgian pianist, composer, conductor and musicologist was born in Istanbul, Turkey. He studied piano, composition and orchestration at the Brussels Royal Conservatory and musicology at the Istanbul Technical University. His primary teachers were J. Cl. Vanden Eynden and Alexis Weissenberg for the piano and Madame Jacqueline Fontyn for composition. He is laureate of numerous international piano competitions including the Gina Bachauer. Besides his international concertist carreer he is also prolific writer. Okonsar is an independent artist, he runs his own management bureau, his CD label: LMO-Records and his publishing house: "Inventor-Musicae". Actively involved in the World Wide Web, Mehmet Okonsar is the founder of the classical music and musicology dedicated blog-site:"inventor-musicae.com" as well as the first classical-music video portal: "classicalvideos.net".

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