Maybe her name doesn't ring a bell for you and you're wondering in despair since when Turks are also allowed to play our music, and how? In a beautiful way, as evidenced by her rich concert career and discography, which has now sold more than 2 million CDs. Is a light coming on for you? Maybe this will help: as a fifteen-year-old she graduated from the Paris Conservatory with Nadia Boulanger, she studied piano with Alfred Cortot and was a student of Wilhelm Kempf for many years, who considered her his best student ever. At the age of sixteen she started conquering the world and performed with almost all the top orchestras worldwide. At the invitation of Emil Gilels, she made her first concert tour through the Soviet Union in 1960, the start of a particularly successful career behind the Iron Curtain. In 1986 she made a splash with the CD recordings of Liszt's transcriptions of Beethoven's symphonies; In 1995 she won the Diapason d'Or for her recordings of Boulez's Piano Sonatas. Each and every one of them is a marker of an exceptional talent. Tonight she performs Ligeti as it should be, fitting seamlessly with Chopin and Bach, and not as a finger breaker. For dessert she presents us with fragments of Stravinsky's Firebird.
