Maestro Isin Metin
On May 22, piano students Lee Dionne ’13MM, Henry Kramer ’13AD, and Esther Park ’12AD, ’13MMA performed with the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra in Ankara, Turkey.
The concert was conducted by the orchestra’s music director, Maestro Isin Metin (pictured at left).
Boris Berman, a faculty member and the chair of the piano program at the School of Music, noted that the concert received “great public acclaim.”
The performance was a conclusion of a week-long piano course given by Berman in Ankara. The program included movements of piano concerti by Beethoven, Saint-Saens, Schumann, Liszt, Ravel, Rachmaninov, and Tchaikovsky.
Along with the pianists from the Yale School of Music, four students from Bilkent Univerisity also participated.