Turk pianist plays Liszt

ISTANBUL - Hürriyet Daily News

Zeynep Uçbaşaran

Turkish pianist Zeynep Üçbaşaran will play Liszt’s compositions in Budapest, daily Hürriyet reported.

Üçbaşaran will present the same program that Liszt played in in Istanbul in 1847 at her concert in Hungary.

The concert “Liszt in Istanbul” will be staged June 11 at Liszt Academy. After the first concert a second one will take place at Bela Bartok Music Institute in Miskolc, Hungary. Üçbaşaran is living in the United States and has recorded three albums of Liszt compositions within the last ten years. Üçbaşaran’s new album, which is composed of Liszt’s compositions in Istanbul, will be recorded this summer under the title “Liszt in Istanbul.” Üçbaşaran has recorded the compositions of Franz Liszt, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Domenico Scarlatti, Leonard Bernstein, Ahmet Adnan Saygun and Robert Muczynski for Eroica Classical Recordings.