Bekircan Tahberer

VANCOUVER - This has been a very busy year for the young Turkish violinist Deniz Tahberer who is doing his bachelor of music degree at the Vancouver Academy of Music. He needed to prepare for many concerts, substitute some of the Academy teachers in classes for minor violin students and conduct master classes for his own teacher as well as study his own lessons.

Only a week after the third year recital the 25th Annual Elsje de Ridder Armstrong Chamber Music Competition was held in Vancouver on April 11, 2008. Deniz participated in the competition in two chamber ensembles. The two ensembles in which Deniz played the first violin were awarded with the first and the second prizes.

On May 16, 2008 he was one of the leading players at the Senior Academy Strings concert at the Koerner Recital Hall of the Vancouver Academy of Music. The program of the concert included pieces by Fritz Kreisler, Joseph Hellmesberger and W. A. Mozart. The Violin Technique and Master Class Concert on May 27, 2008 was another occasion Deniz had to play.

In the last performance of the season Deniz gave a special recital on June 25, 2008. The recital program included music by Bach, Paganini, Mozart, Saint-Saens, Bartok and Brahms. Deniz chose to play some of the most difficult unaccompanied works in this recital such as Sonata No.2 for solo violin by J. S. Bach, Caprice no. 11 by N. Paganini and Ciaccona from Sonata for solo violin by B. Bartok. All the pieces required the utmost concentration and the skill of a virtuoso. The violin concerto no. 4 by Mozart and the Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso for violin and piano by Saint-Saens were two other highlights of the night. Deniz completed his program by playing the Sonata for violin and piano in D minor, Op.108 by Johannes Brahms. The pianist Wenwen Du accompanied Deniz in this recital. The whole recital was a sheer representation of meticulous and hard work embedded in artistic talent greatly presented by Deniz Tahberer.

July 2008