May 12, 2019, Sunday - Gülsin Onay in Concert at MacPhail
Time: 2:00pm
Location: MacPhail Center for Music, Antonello Hall, 501 S 2nd Street
“An exceptional pianist, endowed with virtuosic brilliance and boundless energy, and an interpretive power both intelligent and emotionally sensitive.”
Pianist Gülsin Onay has recorded 20 albums that illustrate the breadth of her repertoire as well as her interpretive power. Ms. Onay’s truly international career has spanned 72 countries across all continents, from Venezuela to Japan. Gülsin Onay has given concerts in the major musical centres of the world such as Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, the Berlin Philharmonic Hall, London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall and Wigmore Hall, the Salle Gaveau in Paris, and the Washington DC National Gallery of Art. She has performed as a soloist with such leading orchestras as Dresden Staatskapelle, Philharmonia Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, having performed with conductors Vladimir Ashkenazy, Neeme Jarvi, Esa-Pekka Salonen, amongst many, many others.
Gülsin Onay holds the titles of State Artist in her native Turkey, and holds an honorary doctorate degrees from Bosphorus University in Istanbul, and from Hacettepe University in Ankara. She was named “Pianist of the Year” in the 2011 Donizetti Classical Music Awards.
Ms. Onay will be giving several concerts as a part of a diplomatic tour of the United States and Canada in May 2019, including the Turkish Embassy in Washington, D.C., as well as the Turkish Consulates in Chicago and Toronto.
Ms. Onay’s performance is possible with assistance by the Turkish American Association of Minnesota.
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