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David Ezra Okonşar (pronounced Okonschar) (born 20 October 1961, Istanbul) is a Turkish-Belgian (double nationality) pianist, composer, conductor, writer and educator. He was previously known as "Mehmet Okonşar". == Biography == David Ezra Okonşar was born in Istanbul (Turkey) with the first name "Mehmet" and lived in Paris during his first schooling. He started studying piano at the Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory, with and Necil Kazim Akses. Thanks to the rich resources the Ankara Conservatory then possessed and the ''Médiatheque'' of the ''Centre Culturel Français d'Ankara'', he grew up studying the music of Pierre Boulez, Edgard Varėse, Olivier Messiaen and Pierre Schaeffer, composers who would have a strong influence on him. After about a year and half studying at the Ankara Conservatory, the family moved to Belgium where he entered the class of Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden at the Brussels Royal Conservatory of Music. Vanden Eynden, who was to entirely re-shape the keyboard technique of Okonşar, is a dedicated follower of the style of Eduardo del Pueyo. The keyboard technique of del Pueyo and Vanden Eynden is based on the work of Marie Jaëll, a pupil of Franz Liszt. A change of Government in Turkey and the political turbulence of 1977 forced the Okonşar family to return to Ankara. Back at the Ankara Conservatory he was put in the class of for piano and of Nevit Kodallı for musical composition. Okonşar did not attend either class with much assiduity. During this period he was connected on both a friendly and a professional basis with the pianist and conductor Selman Ada. From this friendship he learned the basics of the keyboard principles of Pierre Sancan of whom Selman Ada has been a student. His first important recital took place in 1979. The program included ''Préludes'' by Messiaen and the ''Pictures of an Exhibition'' by Mussorgsky. Just before the military coup of 1980 the Okonşar family returned to Belgium. He resumed studying with Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden. In 1980 Okonşar was awarded the ''Premier Prix avec Distinction''.〔The first level of the "High Education in Music" diploma the Brussels Royal Conservatory awarded at the time〕 His program included the ''Dante Sonata'' by Liszt. His studies continued after the sudden death of his father with a special scholarship and he was awarded the ''〔 The second level diploma of the Brussels Conservatory, equivalent to the Masters in Art degree, given as a result of a competition-like public performance.〕 Diplôme Supérieur de Piano Avec la plus Grande Distinction, Premier Nommé'' in 1986 by performing the Piano Concerto Op. 42 by Arnold Schoenberg. At the end of his piano studies, Okonşar had the privilege of working with one of the greatest composers of Belgium: Madame Jacqueline Fontyn. He also studied with a pupil of Messiaen, Claude Ballif. In 1989 he obtained his degrees in Composition-Orchestration from the Royal Conservatory of Music of Brussels. Alexis Weissenberg, after listening to a recording〔http://okonsar.fcpages.com/LiveSaltLakeCity.html〕 by Okonşar invited him (on a scholarship) to study in Switzerland. He endorsed the Belgian citizenship in 1992 but at the same time the president of Turkey Suleyman Demirel awarded him the title "State Artist of the Turkish Republic". Therefore Okonsar settled in Turkey with his wife, the painter Lale Okonşar. Okonşar works now from Turkey on a busy schedule concertizing, composing, writing and teaching. He owns and manages a CD label exclusive to his own recordings, LMO-Records, and a publishing company "inventor-musicæ".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=redirection )〕 In August 2014, he took the first name(s): David Ezra. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Ezra Okonşar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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