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Gulsin Onay

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Gülsin Onay (born 12 September 1954) is a leading Turkish concert pianist of German descent, based in Cambridge, England. Born into a musical family, Gülsin Onay began to play the piano at the age of three. Her first teacher was her mother. When she was 6 years old, Gülsin Onay gave her first concert on TRT Radio Istanbul. At the age of 10, she received a special government scholarship under the Üstün Yetenekli Çocuklar Kanunu (Law for Exceptionally Talented Children), which enabled her to study first in Ankara with Mithat Fenmen and Ahmed Adnan Saygun, and two years later at the Paris Conservatory, where her teachers were Pierre Sancan, Monique Haas, Pierre Fiquet and Nadia Boulanger. At the age of 16 she graduated with the Premier Prix de Piano.She continued her studies with Bernhard Ebert at the Musikhochschule Hannover. At the outset of her career Onay took prizes in leading competitions, including the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Piano Competition (Paris) and the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition (Bolzano). Onay's international career has spanned 80 countries across all continents, from Venezuela to Japan. She has played with orchestras including Dresden Staatskapelle, English Chamber Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic, Munich Radio Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, St Petersburg Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony, Warsaw Philharmonic and Vienna Symphony Orchestras, under such conductors as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Erich Bergel, Michael Boder, An

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Frederic Chopin: Nocturne in F sharp minor, op.48

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Ballade in A-flat Major Op.47

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata in C sharp minor "Moo - Beethoveen, Chopin, Elgar, Debussy, Rave

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Frederic Chopin: Nocturne in E flat major, op.9 no

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Polonaise in A-flat Major Op.53

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata in C sharp minor "Mo

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata in C sharp minor "Moo

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Edward Elgar: Smyrna

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Claude Debussy:Images, Livre II, Cloches à travers

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Claude Debussy:Images, Livre II, Et la lune descen

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albums

Beethoveen, Chopin, Elgar, Debussy, Rave:Night Music

Beethoveen, Chopin, Elgar, Debussy, Rave:Night Music

Chopin

Chopin

Liszt, Haydn, Schubert

Liszt, Haydn, Schubert

Erkin & Khachaturian: Piano Concertos

Erkin & Khachaturian: Piano Concertos

Bartok - Saygun: Piano Works

Bartok - Saygun: Piano Works

Ay Işığı/Moonlight

Ay Işığı/Moonlight

Rachmaninoff & Grieg

Rachmaninoff & Grieg

Liszt - Haydn - Schubert

Liszt - Haydn - Schubert

Bartok -  Saygun: Piano Works

Bartok - Saygun: Piano Works

Tchaikovsky no. 1 - Rachmaninov no. 3

Tchaikovsky no. 1 - Rachmaninov no. 3

Gulsin Onay - Ludwig van Beethoven

Gulsin Onay - Ludwig van Beethoven

Saygun, A.a.: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 And 2

Saygun, A.a.: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 And 2

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