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Piano+ presents electrifying 24-year-old Turkish pianist Korkmaz Can Sağlam performing music by Bach, Shostakovich, Chopin, and Liszt on Tuesday 30 January at Wesley Music Centre Canberra, and Wednesday 31 January at Melbourne Recital Centre.
It is not every day that talent of this magnitude emerges. The 2023 Sydney International Piano Competition Rex Hobcroft People’s Choice Award-winner, Korkmaz Can Sağlam dazzled audiences with his dynamism, intensity, and brilliant expressiveness.
Appearing on concert stages from New York to Salzburg, Brussels and Nice, Korkmaz Can will release his debut studio album in 2024.
As a Piano+ Laureate, Korkmaz Can epitomises the highest aspirations of the Sydney International Piano Competition.
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Korkmaz Can Sağlam began his musical education with Gamze Kirtil at the Bilkent University, Music and Ballet Primary School at the age of seven. After studying with Antonio Pompa-Baldi and Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music, he received his Bachelor’s degree from The Juilliard School.
Korkmaz Can has played in masterclasses of artists including Jacques Rouvier, Pavel Gililov, Boris Berman, Ilya Itin, Michel Béroff, JeanFrançois Heisser and Emanuel Ax. He has performed in Paris, Nice, Brussels, Cleveland, Verona and Istanbul, in concert halls including the Gilder Lehrman Hall of New York’s Morgan Library & Museum and the Wiener Saal in Salzburg. He has appeared in festivals such as the Gümüşlük International Classical Music Festival, Antalya Piano Festival, Bellapais Music Festival and Cayman Arts Festival.
Korkmaz Can is currently pursuing graduate studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music under the direction of Sergei Babayan. His first studio album, featuring works by Scriabin, Handel, Schubert and Rachmaninoff will be released by the Sono Luminus label in 2023.
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Canberra and Melbourne Program
Johann Sebastian Bach/Franz Liszt:
Fantasia and Fugue in G minor BWV 542
Dmitri Shostakovich:
from Prelude and Fugue Op.87
No.7 in A major
No.6 in B minor
Johann Sebastian Bach:
Partita in B♭ major BWV 825
I. Prelude
II. Allemande
III. Courante
IV. Sarabande
V. Menuett I
VI. Menuett II
VII. Gigue
– Interval –
Franz Liszt:
from Müllerlieder von Franz Schubert S.565
No.2 Der Müller und der Bach
from Lieder aud Franz Schubert’s Schwanengesang S.560
No.3 Aufenthalt
from Lieder von Franz Schubert S.558
No.2 Auf dem Wasser zu singen
No.8 Gretchen am Spinnrade
Frédéric Chopin:
from Preludes Op.28
No.13 in F# major
No.14 in E♭ minor
No.15 in D♭ minor
No.16 in B♭ minor
No.17 in A♭ minor
No.18 in F minor
No.19 in E♭ minor
No.20 in C minor
No.21 in B♭ minor
No.22 in G minor
No.23 in F major
No.24 in D minor
