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Japanese Melodies at BAU
Bahçeşehir University hosted Georgian pianist Prof. Mikhail Chumburidze. The Georgian-born pianist, who lives in Istanbul, gave his audience a magnificent evening on the Fazıl Say Stage.
The concert themed "Contemporary Japanese Composers" was attended by many Bahçeşehir students and academics as well as guests from the Japanese consulate.
Prof. Mikhail Chumburidze, who became interested in Japanese music while teaching music to Japanese citizens and developed himself in this field, received a standing ovation at the end of the concert.
Chumburidze was born in 1952 in Tbilisi into a family of musicians. During his 10 years of study at the Tbilisi Conservatory, he gave solo concerts and concerts accompanied by symphony orchestras. Chumburidze worked as a soloist with the Tbilisi Philharmonic Orchestra between 1975 and 2000, and served as a professor at Tbilisi University between 1991 and 2001.
Having given concerts in Moscow, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Hungary, China, Germany and Türkiye, Chumburidze most recently took part in the Akbank Jazz Festival last year.
His repertoire includes works by famous composers such as Bach, Scarlatti, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms and Rachmaninoff.
