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A Standing Ovation For The Young Talent Deniz Tahberer Bahar Çinarli Gifted Turkish violinist, 18 year old Deniz Tahberer was given a standing ovation after his recital on April 5th, at the Vancouver Academy of Music.
In this concert, Deniz chose to play challenging solo pieces, namely J.S.Bach's Solo Violin Sonata NO-2 A minor, a piece that represents Bach's genius and needs the musician's utmost concentration; Béla Bartók's Solo Violin Sonata (chaconne); W.A. Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola and orchestra-K364; Fritz Kreisler's Liebesleid and Liebesfreud, very well known pieces therefore difficult to interpret; and Karol Szymanowski 's Nocturne and Tarantella. Deniz's performance
was especially breathtaking when he played Bartok's and Symanowski's
solo sonatas which need utmost virtuosity. While there are no other musicians in Deniz's family, Deniz's parents are both classical music lovers. His father is a historian and his mother a financial consultant who has recently returned to school and became a sculpturer. Deniz's father Bekircan Tahberer told me that, when he was a 7-month-old fetus in his mother's womb, he would kick perfectly to the rhythm of the Russian Army Band's concert in Adana. As a baby, they used classical music to put him to sleep, and at two years of age he was able to hum an entire Beethoven violin concerto. Deniz started his violin lessons at age four, and by age seven was the youngest soloist ever to play with a symphony orchestra (Mersin Symphony), in Turkey. He played six more orchestra concertos before finishing high school.
More recently, Deniz won a scholarship from the Vancouver Academy of Music and has been studying towards a Bachelor of Music degree since 2005. During his first year in Vancouver he won a competition, and played as soloist for the Vancouver Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra at the Orpheum theatre the following year. This young violinist once again won the hearts of the audience on April 5th at the Vancouver Academy of Music with his talented bow. After long-standing ovations he played three encores. The first one was a Variation on The Last Rose of Summer, by Ernst, which is one of the most difficult compositions for the violin. Yet, Deniz again proved his virtuosity with an excellent interpretation. Deniz then played Meditation from Thais by Massenet. After a very long ovation Deniz was once again on stage to play a final encore, and very pleasantly surprised the audience by playing one of his own variations on a well know Turkish theme, Canakkale Turkusu. The entire concert, in a word, was spectacular. April 2008
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