Guher & Suher Pekinel

Güher & Süher Pekinel are fiercely individual identical twins who often discover a way to work through any distinctions of opinion before each goes on stage as duo pianists. They need to, being a group that happens to try out essentially back again to back instead of facing one another, because so many piano duos perform. The sisters acknowledge there is certainly some quantity of innate level of sensitivity to one another, but insist that devoid of eye contact provides them a deeper link with the music. It causes them to totally understand the music — not only its records and dynamics, but its roots and the actual composer intended aswell — also to listen to one another. If one sister is usually more emotional in regards to a function, the other could be more intellectual about any of it, making for any well-balanced strategy that earns them glowing evaluations wherever each goes. The sisters received their 1st lessons by their mom, also a specialist pianist. They debuted at 6 and performed Mozart’s Two times Concerto using the Ankara Philharmonic if they had been 9, and they halted playing duets collectively. For another 10 years, both had been informed as soloists, actually sharing first reward in the German Country wide Piano Competition if they had been 18. Aswell as the Paris Conservatory and Frankfurter Musikhochschule, the Pekinels analyzed in the Curtis Institute with Rudolf Serkin, at Juilliard, and with Claudio Arrau, Adele Marcus, Yvonne Loriod, and Mieczyslaw Horszowski. Like a duo group, Herbert von Karajan asked these to play in the 1984 Salzburg Event, which marked the start of their worldwide careers. Their 1st documenting, of Stravinsky’s Rite of Planting season as well as the Rachmaninov suites for just two pianos, was perfectly received. Commitment to the original works, a good technique, and the capability to match their creative expression properly to functions of any period are what established them apart, particularly when in comparison to their contemporaries, Katia & Marielle Laboratoryèque. Nevertheless, in 1999, the Pekinels essayed jazz, documenting an record of arrangements predicated on Bach, with Jacques Loussier and his trio. With the brand new hundred years dawning, the Pekinels had been actively documenting and executing, and advocating the building blocks of the music library on the Istanbul Lifestyle and Congress Center to house not just a assortment of traditional Western european Classical music, but Turkish and Middle Eastern music aswell. By 2006, the sisters had been awaiting the discharge of a disk of Bach concertos and a reissue of their Stravinsky/Rachmaninov documenting.