One Complex Work: "The Art Of Fugue" By Bach Cd By Mehmet Okonsar

"The Art of Fugue" by Johann Sebastian Bach. An internal look at the CD launched by Mehmet Okonsar, pianist, composer, conductor and musicologist of Turkish sources.

The work is performed over a stunning organ created on Baroque organ designs.

Mehmet Okonsar set the tracks order of the CD in a way that the Fugues are grouped by genres i.e. "simple fugues", "rhythmical variations", "inverted fugues" and so forth; all performed on organ and he interjected in between them the varied canons that he performed on harpsichord.

The sound connected with that particular organ remains transparent and does definitely not hide the contrapuntal lines which are performed with maximum perfection along with clarity.

The CD features the totality of the pieces of the BWV 1080. A lot of those recordings are available as video clips on the artists Youtube(r) channel: mokonsar.

All pieces can be auditioned at Okonsar's homepage: http://www.okonsar.com/Recordings.html .

The Belgian pianist (but additionally composer, conductor and musicologist) Mehmet Okonsar was born in the "bridge-city" of Istanbul. Actually this concept of a "bridge" between East and West is actually the main factor in asserting the distinctive position of this artist within the international classical music stage. Although having began his education at Ankara, at the National Conservatory of this city created by Paul Hindemith, he typically stated that all his "real" musical education ended up being supplied in Belgium.

Amongst others Mehmet Okonsar played with Joseph Silverstein, Charles Dutoit, Sylvain Cambreling, Ingo Metzmacher, Christof Escher and with the orchestras Utah Symphony, Antwerp Philharmonic, Poznan Philharmonic and Lublin Philharmonic. Okonsar furthermore appeared in solo at some key concert halls which includes: London's Royal Opera House, the Salle Gaveau in Paris, in New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, Kyoto, Bruxelles, Antwerp, Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Rotterdam, Rome, Athens, Calgary, Salt Lake City, Ljubljana (Festival).

Once in a while he endorses the position of a judge in certain piano competitions for example the National Piano Competition of Japan under the auspices of the P.T.N.A. (“Piano Teachers National Association”).

Mehmet Okonsar has an spectacular discography, all titles worldwide published. By J.S.Bach, Goldberg Variations; The Well-Tempered Klavier (complete in 3 CD set); The Art of Fugue (performed on organ and harpsichord) and The Musical Offering (performed on electronic instruments). An stimulating assortment of solo piano, free style improvisations is "Shadowy Arcade", a CD composed with pieces having stirring titles, in Okonsar's one of a kind, personal musical style which is not really unlike contemporary modern-jazz styles.

For additional information or a sample copy please contact:
Mehmet Okonsar, mehmet@okonsar.com

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 carrier 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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