Ayvalik International Music Academy (AIMA): Piano Masterclass

General Information:
The piano masterclass Under the Direction of Idil Biret will accept 10 active and 5 passive participants. The candidates willing to participate to the masterclass should mention in the application form whether they wish to be active or passive.
The masterclass will begin on the 30th of August 2012 in the morning. The participants are kindly asked to arrive in Ayvalik one day before, i.e. 29th of August. The night of the 29th of August is included to the fee. The masterclass will end on the 6th of September in the afternoon, the participants should leave the academy on the 6th of September in the evening. the night of the 6th of September is not included to the fee.

Active Participants should send the complete documents required until 30th July 2012. The documents will be examined and the definitive participants will be declared via email. Definitive participants should pay the 100Euros registration fee to the bank account mentioned until 6th August 2012.
The remaining 300Euros application fee should be paid to the bank account mentioned until 17th August 2012. This fee includes accommodation and breakfast. The active participants will be accommodated in Ayvalık International Music Academy Haluk Barutçuoğlu House. The classes will be held in Ayvalık International Music Academy Haluk Barutçuoğlu House.

Passive Participants should pay the 100Euros registration fee to the bank account mentioned, and send the complete documents required until 6th August 2012. This fee does not include accommodation and breakfast. The place and expenses of accommodation for Passive participants will be at their own responsibility.

Idil Biret
Idil Biret has made more than seventy records which include the world premiere recording of the nine Beethoven Symphonies' transcriptions by Liszt for EMI (6LP/1986). She also recorded the complete solo piano works and all the concertos of Chopin (15CD/1992), Brahms (12CD/1997), Rachmaninov (10CD/2000) and the three piano sonatas of Pierre Boulez (1995) for Naxos. In 1995 her recording of the complete works of Chopin was awarded a "Grand Prix du Disque Chopin" prize in Poland. The same year, her recording of the Boulez sonatas won the annual Golden Diapason award and was selected among the best recordings of the year by Le Monde newspaper in France. Idil Biret has also recorded for Naxos the Etudes of Ligeti and the Firebird ballet music’s piano transcription by Stravinsky which were released in 2003. The sale of her recordings for Naxos is nearing two million copies worldwide. Biret is presently recording the complete cycle of Beethoven’s 32 Sonatas.

The Idil Biret Archives contains all her professional recordings and aims to bring together as many of the radio/tv recordings as possible. As the copyrights are obtained, those recordings not commercially available will be released under the IBA label. The Beethoven/Liszt Symphonies originally recorded for EMI in 1985/1986 are the first of these (released in January 2004). The 9 LPs recorded for Atlantic/Finnadar in New York will follow. Idil Biret is also recording new works for release under the IBA label including the 32 Sonatas of Beethoven.

Idil Biret has played in cycles the complete piano works of Beethoven and Brahms. In the 1980s she performed in two series of concerts Beethoven’s 32 sonatas and the piano transcription (Liszt) of all the 9 Symphonies, the latter broadcast live by Radio France. In the 1990s she played Beethoven’s five Piano Concertos, the Choral Fantasia, and the Triple Concerto in five concerts. In 1997 she played all the solo piano works of Brahms in a series of five recitals in Germany during the composer’s centennial anniversary and also performed Brahms’ two piano concertos at a single concert the same year.