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in ankara
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he studied piano and composition here.
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he wrote the work Black Hymns at the age of sixteen.
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it enabled him to study for five years with David Levine at the Robert Schumann Institute in Dusseldorf.
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he premiered his Concerto for Piano and Violin with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra
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from 1992 to 1995, he continued to study at the Berlin Conservatory.
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he was the winner of the Young Concert Artist International Auditions which gave a rapid start to his international carrier.
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his second piano concerto Silk Road was given its first performance in Boston.
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Fazl Say%u2019s first recording, a Mozart disc released in 1998, garnered rave reviews from the press. His discography includes Gershwin%u2019s Rhapsody in Blue and I Got Rhythm Variations with the New York Philharmonic and Kurt Masur, a Bach recital, and Stravinsky%u2019s own arrangement of Le Sacre du Printemps for four hands.
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His oratorio Nazim, based on poems by the famous Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet and commissioned by the Turkish Ministry of Culture, was premiered in Ankara in 2001 in the presence of Turkey%u2019s President.
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he made debuts at the Salzburg Festival, Lincoln Center Festival in New York, Harrod%u2019s Piano Series in London and the World Piano Series in Tokyo . His chamber music partners include Yuri Bashmet and Shlomo Mintz.
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he made a major tour of Europe and the USA with Maxim Vengerov, appearing at such venues as Carnegie Hall, the Vienna Musikverein, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Barbican Centre in London and the Salzburg Festival
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he composed his first soundtrack, for the film Ultima Thule by the Swiss director Hans-Ulrich Schlumpf (who made Congress of Penguins).
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In the summer of 2005 the Franco-German television channel Arte shot a full-length portrait of Fazil Say in Istanbul, Aspendos, Munich, and other places, which was broadcasted in early 2006
