Istanbul based piano duo.

From the 20th century music to the present...

SeSshin

SeSshinduo gets ist name and musical inspiration from Zen school. Just like the individual, by realizing the depths of his inner world gets rid of his dependences and find his way to freedom, the music of the 20th century started to question the sense and the deeds of listening by turning to itself, time and unmusical sounds and a new approach to music became possible through independence from stereotypical elements of Western Music.

SeSshinduo was found in 2019 to study and interpret 20th-century compositions for piano four-hands, which shed light on contemporary production and whose musical questioning are still valid.

The duo prepares to share their first album “Gate” in Spring 2021. SeSshin Duo is focused on twentieth century music and conducts its works independently.

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Başak İdil Özen

Primo

Başak İdil Özen, who started her first piano training at 11 years old, took piano and violin lessons at Pera Fine Arts High School. She enrolled at Nazım Hikmet Academy, Department of Piano in 2009 and studies piano with Ayşe Tütüncü and theory with Murat Opus. Between 2011 and 2015, she took part in Nazım Hikmet Academy Choir and participated in festivals at home and abroad. Özen, who graduated from Istanbul University, Department of Environmental Engineering, completed her second BA at Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Piano with professor Ayşe Diriker Sipahi in 2013. She participated in masterclass events with Michael Leslie in Vranje Piano Festival in Serbia and with Satoko Mimura in 2017, with Wook He Jong in April 2018, with Kyung Sik Yu in October 2018 and 2019. In the Bilkent Piano Festival organized in June 2018, Özen had the opportunity to study with Eduardus Halim, Boaz Sharon and Kamerhan Turan in masterclasses and took stage in the concerts in both solo and duo.

Başak İdil Özen, who completed her pedagogical formation at Marmara University, Faculty of Education, is still working as a piano teacher and takes stage in home concerts organized by Tatavla’dan Ada’ya, which was formed during Hyun Sook Tekin’s course on chamber music in 2018 and of which she is a founder. She has continued her MA studies at Marmara University, Institute of Fine Arts since 2017 with Assoc. Prof. Hyun Sook Tekin.

“Music… can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”

Leonard Bernstein

Edmon Şar

Secondo

Edmon Şar started to take piano lessons from Edward Aris at 7 years old. In 2009 he enrolled in the state conservatory at Mustafa Kemal University, where he worked with Ergun Telci and Valentyna Keremet and graduated in 2013. Şar started to work as a music teacher after having completed his pedagogical formation at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 2014. In 2016 he participated actively in the masterclass directed by pianist and composer Ali Darmar.In the Bilkent Piano Festival organized in June 2018, Şar had the opportunity to study with Eduardus Halim, Boaz Sharon and Kamerhan Turan in masterclasses and took stage in the concerts in solo. He takes stage in home concerts organized by Tatavla’dan Ada’ya, which was formed during Hyun Sook Tekin’s course on chamber music in 2018. In 2019, he successfully completed the MA program in Music at Marmara University, Institute of Fine Arts, with the courses he took from Assoc. Prof. Hyun Sook Tekin and his thesis under the advisory of Dr. İlke Karcılıoğlu.

Notes on Repertoire

SeSshinduo interprets the compositions of three friends, who are the prominent musical figures of the 20th century, inspire and are inspired from each other, and, if need be, harshly criticize each other: Debussy, Satie and Ravel.

While Debussy and Ravel were converging to impressionism, Satie turned to surrealism and deconstruction. Of the chosen compositions for piano four-hands, those of Debussy and Ravel make descriptions of nature through a childish and fabulous imagination, whereas those of Satie makes a satirical critique of the romantic style of impressionism and it’s from obsession.

tatavla'dan ada'ya

SeSshinduo, Art Nouveau döneminde 20. yüzyıl müziğinin öncüleri olmuş, üretimlerinde birbirlerinden beslenip esinlenen ve yeri geldiğinde birbirlerini en ağır şekilde eleştiren üç arkadaşın eserlerini yorumluyor: Debussy, Satie ve Ravel.

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“We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.”

Maurice Ravel

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