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David Ezra Okonşar
David Ezra Okonşar (; born 20 October 1961) is a Turkish–Belgian pianist, composer, conductor, writer and educator. He was previously known as "Mehmet Okonşar". Biography David Ezra Okonşar was born in Istanbul (Turkey) with the first name "Mehmet" and lived in Paris during his first schooling. He started studying piano at the Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory, with and Necil Kazım Akses. Thanks to the rich resources the Ankara Conservatory then possessed and the '' Médiatheque'' of the ''Centre Culturel Français d'Ankara'', he grew up studying the music of Pierre Boulez, Edgard Varèse, Olivier Messiaen and Pierre Schaeffer, composers who would have a strong influence on him. After about a year and half studying at the Ankara Conservatory, the family moved to Belgium where he entered the class of at the Brussels Royal Conservatory of Music. Vanden Eynden, who was to entirely re-shape the keyboard technique of Okonşar, is a dedicated follower of the st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehmet Okonsar Portrait With Piano
Mehmed (modern Turkish language, Turkish: Mehmet) is the most common Bosnian and Turkish form of the Arabic name Muhammad (name), Muhammad ( ar, محمد) (''Muhammed'' and ''Muhammet'' are also used, though considerably less) and gains its significance from being the name of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. Originally the intermediary vowels in the Arabic ''Muhammad'' were completed with an ''e'' in adaptation to Turkish phonology, Turkish phonotactics, which spelled Mehemed and the name lost the central ''e'' over time Final obstruent devoicing, Final devoicing of ''d'' to ''t'' is a regular process in Turkish. The prophet himself is referred to in Turkish using the archaic version, ''Muhammed''. The name Mehmet also often appears in Mehmed#Derived names, derived compound names. The name is also prevalent in former Ottoman territories, particularly among Balkan Muslims in Albania, Bosnia and Kosovo. The name is also commonly used in Turkish culture in the form of Mehmetçik, mean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
