Leyla Pınar is a Turkish

harpsichord A harpsichord ( it, clavicembalo; french: clavecin; german: Cembalo; es, clavecín; pt, cravo; nl, klavecimbel; pl, klawesyn) is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. This activates a row of levers that turn a trigger mechanism ...

ist and

musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...

. She is the founder and artistic director of the Istanbul Barok ensemble and the International Istanbul Baroque Music Festival, which she founded in 1994. Pınar also teaches in the Drama and Music Department of

Yıldız Technical University Yıldız Technical University ( Tr. ''Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi'', often simply referred to as YTU or Yıldız) is a prominent technical university dedicated to engineering and natural sciences as well as social sciences recently, and is one ...

Istanbul Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, ...

"Istanbul Barok"

Istanbul Barok was founded by Leyla Pınar in 1975, initially as

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

and

flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

trio. In 1995, she expanded the group to an international touring ensemble performing concerts, opera, and ballet featuring

baroque music Baroque music ( or ) refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750. The Baroque style followed the Renaissance period, and was followed in turn by the Classical period after a short transiti ...

Recordings

*''Leyla Pinar: Clavecin''. Label: Pavane ADW 7225 *''Leyla Pinar: Yeni Bir Deyiş''. Label: Night And Day *''Leyla Pinar & İstanbul Barok: Osmanlı Barok Müziği (Ottoman Baroque Music)''. Label: Kalan

References

*Çobankent, Yeşim
İstanbul’un baroklukları
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Hürriyet ''Hürriyet'' (, ''Liberty'') is one of the major Turkish newspapers, founded in 1948. , it had the highest circulation of any newspaper in Turkey at around 319,000. ''Hürriyet'' has a mainstream, liberal and conservative outlook. ''Hürriyet ...

'', 14 May 1999. Accessed 11 January 2008. (In Turkish) *Kargül, Erem, Interview with Leyla Pınar
''Turkishtime''
May–June 2003

on artenite.com. Accessed 11 January 2008. *Martin, Serge

(review of Istanbul Barok's performance of Campra's ''

L'Europe galante ''L'Europe galante'' (''Galant Europe'') is an opéra-ballet in a prologue and four entrées by André Campra to a French libretto by Antoine Houdar de la Motte. The opera is regarded as the first opéra-ballet, with the entrées sharing a comm ...

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Le Soir ''Le Soir'' (, "The Evening") is a French-language Belgian daily newspaper. Founded in 1887 by Emile Rossel, it was intended as a politically independent source of news. It is one of the most popular Francophone newspapers in Belgium, competing ...

'', 26 April 1997. (Excerpts also reprinted o

. Accessed 11 January 2008. (In French) *Woolf, Jonathan
Recording Review: ''Leyla Pinar: Clavecin'', Pavane ADW 7225
MusicWeb International, May 2002. *Yüksel, Gülsen

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Milliyet ''Milliyet'' ( Turkish for "''nationality''") is a Turkish daily newspaper published in Istanbul, Turkey. History and profile ''Milliyet'' came to publishing life at the Nuri Akça press in Babıali, Istanbul as a daily private newspaper on 3 ...

'', 8 June 2000. Accessed 11 January 2008. (In Turkish) Musicians from Istanbul Harpsichordists Baroque musicians Living people Turkish women pianists 21st-century organists Year of birth missing (living people) Women organists Women harpsichordists 21st-century women pianists {{Organist-stub