Turkish Delights - Hakan Sensoy (Violin)

In collaboration with Ente Villa Carlotta
The ticket includes the visit of Villa Carlotta. You can enter the garden and the museum from 16:00. Concert will take place at 18:30. Festival box office at Villa Carlotta opens at 16:00.

PROGRAM

Yalçın TURA: Monologue

Darius MILHAUD: Sonatina

Alfred SCHNITTKE: Fuga

Johann Sebastian BACH: Fuga
dalla Sonata per violino solo BWV 1001 n. 1 in sol minore

Eugène YSAYE: Prelude Les Furies
dalla Sonata per violino solo n. 2 “Obsession”

Hakan SENSOY: Haydar

THE ARTIST

Hakan Sensoy, violin

A world-renowned violinist and conductor, Maestro Hakan Sensoy’s musical career first started at the State Conservatory of Istanbul’s Accelerated Special Violin Education Program for young prodigies,

taught by the eminent pedagogue Professor Ayhan Turan.

As a violinist, Maestro Sensoy furthered his education with Trevor Williams at the London Royal College of Music, and later with the Russian violinist and pedagogue Victor Pikaisen, as well as the celebrated  Ayla Erduran.  

At age 16, he was named “Most Successful Artist of the Year” by the Istanbul Philharmonic Association.  That year he received the most significant award of the Istanbul Technical University, “Superior Success in an Artistic Branch,” given only four times in its entire history.

Since his first solo recital at the age of 13, he has appeared as a soloist in some of the most significant Concert halls in Europe and the United States, including the Louvre Auditorium in Paris and Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, Smetana Hall ad Dvorak Hall in Prag.

On numerous occasions he has performed in such international festivals as the Bari Christoph Colombus Festival, the Istanbul Music Festival, the Izmir Music Festival, the Ankara Music Festival, the Istanbul CRR Young Soloists Festival, the Brasov Chamber Music Festival, the Malmö “Falsterbonasets” Summer Festival, International Como Music Festival and the Swedish Karlskrona Music Festival.

In addition, he has performed in other venues in Italy, France, Holland, Greece, Switzerland, Bulgaria, USA, Romania, Lithuania, Azerbaijan, China, Marocco, Estonia, Sweden, England, Australia, Kosova, Venezuela, Austuralia, Mexico, Czech  Republic, Singapore, Albania, Bosnia Herzagovina, Macedonia, Poland, Cyprus and Turkey.

Hakan Sensoy’s study of conducting started when he was 16 under the legendary Turkish conductor Demirhan Altug.  He furthered his education with Maestro Emin Güven Yaslicama.

Since then he has conducted some of the most significant soloists of our time, including Sholomo Mintz, Raphael Walfisch, Fazil Say, Steven Iserlis, Cihat Askin, Tedi Papavrami, Peter Jablonsky, Gülsin Onay, Emre Elivar, and Kenneth Hamilton.

As a conductor, he also worked with Terence Blanced,Tthe Bee Gees, Dreamtone, George Dalaras, and Iris Mavraki’s Neverland.

Hakan Sensoy has appeared in numerous radio and television programs all over the world.  Kalan Music and AFM Records have recorded his performances as violinist and conductor.

Maestro Sensoy holds a doctoral degree in music from the Istanbul Technical University.  Currently he is a professor of violin at the State Conservatory of Istanbul Technical University.