Music Foundation presents a Recital “Writer meets Pianist”

Rüya Taner (Piano) and Kürşat Başar (Saxophone) in Bellapais….
By Heidi Trautmann….

The most interesting aspect for an artist is to experiment, to create one’s own signature, one’s style and interpretation of known musical pieces. On the 16th of October we had the pleasure to experience it live in the concert hall of Bellapais.

The programme for the evening was very challenging, touching different eras and fields of music.

Rüya Taner, the treasure of our island, has again surprised us with her very special performance on the piano, from very feminine and sensitive to powerful, and I call her a story teller, she tells us a tale leading us along a river, through a deep forest as she played two pieces by Franz Liszt in the first part of the concert. She replaces with her performance a whole orchestra. Then she started to play GATES by Kamran Ince…. And we were all stunned and I could feel the tension in the hall…. I turned to the internet to find more information about this composition and I learnt that it was commissioned by Rüya Taner, I attach the link under which you can learn all about it, it is most interesting.

http://kamranince.com/TR/html/compositions.php?id=125&page=1

In the second part, we met the writer and musician Kürşat Başar who came on stage with his saxophone in his arms, introduced himself, and very charmingly entertained the audience with small stories and introductions to the musical pieces. Rüya Taner and he have toured together with the same constellation to Lisbon, and three days before, they were in Famagusta.

Classical, folk music, jazz and Bassa Nova, a wonderful combination of piano and saxophone and both musicians obviously had great fun in playing together, and we, the audience had great fun listening to their performance and we stood and asked for more which was granted.

Thank you.

PS: From Rüya Taner’s biography, we learn that she will next travel to Pretoria in South Africa and cities across Europe. May her road be safe.