Zorlu Performing Arts Center (PSM), 10. he announced the program of his new season, in which he celebrated his age, with a press conference yesterday. In addition to Zorlu PSM General Manager Filiz Ova, Fazıl Say, who will open the new season of Zorlu PSM this evening, and cellist Jamal Aliyev, who will accompany him, and media artist Refik Anadol also attended the meeting. The “Tree of Life” suite, which Say composed for cello and piano on the order of Zorlu PSM, will also have its premiere with this concert.

Turkish pianist and composer Fazil Say presents a programme of his works, performed by the artist himself!

“The piano pieces you are about to listen to in this CD and which I have been performing throughout my professional career, truly represent a pianists piano music. There are also some vivid allusions to Turkey and Anatolia. In my younger days, I was also extremely fond of composing jazz variations of famous classical works, and we have included a few examples here. Throughout the years, I have always made a point of playing these pieces in my concerts, sometimes as an encore piece, sometimes as part of a themed performance or even as an adaptation. Music connoisseurs who know me also know many of these works. Film-maker and writer Andrei Tarkovsky made an observation which I greatly admire: Art is born out of an ill-designed world. So here are some humble examples as my attempt to explain a life though music.”
– Fazil Say

Fazıl Say (Turkish: [faːˈzɯɫ saj]; born 14 January 1970 in Ankara) is a Turkish pianist and composer.

Fazıl Say was born in 1970. He was a child prodigy, who was able to do basic arithmetic with 4-digit numbers at the age of two. His father, having found out that he was playing the melody of “Daha Dün Annemizin” (Turkish version of Ah! vous dirai-je, maman) on a makeshift flute with no prior training, enlisted the help of Ali Kemal Kaya, an oboist and family friend. At the age of three, Say started his piano lessons under the tutelage of pianist Mithat Fenmen.