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Idil Biret
Idil Biret, born in Ankara in 1941, studied at the Paris Conservatory with Alfred Cortot (piano) and Nadia Boulanger (composition). She was later a master student of Wilhelm Kempff. Her extremely active concert activity has already taken her to the most important international music centres and to the greatest orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and Orchestre National de France, as well as to famous conductors (Leinsdorf, Keilberth, Kempe) and chamber music partners (Menuhin). Idil Biret was a jury member at numerous competitions, including the Van Cliburn Competition and Concours de Reine Elisabeth. She was also a jury member at the First Carl Bechstein Piano Competition Ruhr 2006 and often performed on Bechstein, including at the Philharmonie Essen. Furthermore, Idil Biret can look back on an extremely large discography: She has recorded all the solo piano works of Brahms, Chopin and Rachmaninov, among others, and has received numerous prizes for her recordings, such as the Grand Prix du Disque Frédéric Chopin in 1995 fo
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Idil Biret, a piano prodigy, was born in Ankara, Turkey, and at seven was sent to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger. She has received the Lili Boulanger Memorial Award in Boston, the Harriet Cohen / Dinu Lipatti
Gold Medal in London, the Polish Cavalry Cross of the Order of Merit,
the Adelaide Ristori Prize in Italy, the French Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite and the State Artist distinction in Turkey. She has an uncanny ability to play the same musical passage imitating the compositional styles of, say, Beethoven, Mozart, and Debussy. On occasion this highly trained classical pianist plays keyboard in her brother-in-law’s rock and roll band in Istanbul.
IDIL BIRET
Life & Music: A Memoir
Idil Biret
Idil Biret’s memoir is an important historical record of this extraordinary Turkish pianist prodigy who began playing at the age of three. At eight she commenced study at the Paris Conservatoire under the guidance of Nadia Boulanger. At sixteen she appeared with major orchestras in the principal music centers of the world―the Boston Symphony, Leningrad P
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