Ayşedeniz Gökçin

Ayşedeniz Gökçin (born January 4, 1988;[1] anglicised as "AyseDeniz Gokcin") is a Turkish classical pianist and composer.[2]

AyseDeniz Gokcin
Ayşedeniz Gökçin
Also known as@ADpianist, アイシェデニーズ, 艾斯丹尼滋
Born (1988-01-04) January 4, 1988
GenresClassical crossover
Occupation(s)Pianist, composer
Instrument(s)Piano
Websitewww.adpianist.com

After graduating in 2009 with a bachelor's degree from Eastman School of Music,[3] Gökçin completed a master's degree at the Royal Academy of Music in 2011.[2][4]

She is known for recording an EP of her arrangements for solo piano of the music of the rock band Pink Floyd in the style of Franz Liszt, Pink Floyd Lisztified.[2] The EP comprises three tracks, which, she says, form a fantasia. These are:

  1. "Hey You"
  2. "Wish You Were Here"
  3. "Another Brick in the Wall"

The first and third being from the 1979 album The Wall, the middle one the eponymous 1975 Wish You Were Here.[5]

Gökçin describes her arrangement of Another Brick... as being inspired by Liszt's 'Dante Sonata'.[6]

She has also recorded an album of reworkings of the music of Ástor Piazzolla.[7]

Her album The Nirvana Project, launched in November 2015, is a virtuoso piano re-working of famous Nirvana songs, in collaboration with Bulgarian music producer and DJ Ivan Shopov.[8]


Her latest original album, Patterns for piano and string orchestra, was released in June 2023.


On August 5, she made her Los Angeles debut at Walt Disney Concert Hall performing her compositions Kelton and Chaos with the LAKMA Orchestra.


On August 17, 2023, she won the Hollywood Independent Music Awards with her composition Kelton in the Contemporary Classical Category.

Discography

Albums
Date Album
2013 Classical Concept Tribute to Pink Floyd
2015 Nirvana Project
2016 Nirvana Classical
Piano Playlist, Vol. 1
2017 A Chopin Affair: Sonatas
2019 Earth Prelude
Beethoven Senses
2020 Hey World
Dreamscape
Motus
2023 Patterns

Singles and EPs
Date Single or EP
2012 The Crying Harmonica & the Speechless Piano
Classical EP
2013 Mozart: Alla Turca Jazz
At Road's End
Another Brick in the Wall
Piazzolla Piano Pop
2016 Dream on
2018 In the End
Milonga Del Angel
Grenfell Tower Elegy
Watches
Comptine d`un autre ete - l`apres-midi (From "Amelie")
Romantic Coldplay
Imagine
2019 Nothing Else Matters
Valse
Fly
Twice
Su
Novus
Prelude Reimagined
Pure Piano Suite
2020 Hey Jude
Epilogue
Dusk
Cycle
2021 Winter Song
Beethoven Remix
No Time To Die
Vivaldi Storm(Piano Solo)

References
  1. "Ayşedeniz Gökçin Kimdir?". cosmopolitanturkiye (in Turkish). Retrieved September 19, 2019.
  2. "Pianist's classical Pink Floyd is unlikely hit". Classic FM. Retrieved January 23, 2013.
  3. "Bio". Archived from the original on January 22, 2013. Retrieved January 23, 2013.
  4. Some sources, published in January 2012 but presumably drafted in late 2012 say "last year"; see https://twitter.com/ADpianist/status/294138849813225472/photo/1
  5. Mabbett, Andy (2010). Pink Floyd - The Music and the Mystery. London: Omnibus. ISBN 9781849383707.
  6. Rivadavia, Eduardo (January 21, 2012). "Turkish Pianist Weds Pink Floyd and Liszt". Retrieved January 23, 2013.
  7. "Ayse Deniz at Strongroom Shoreditch". Made in Shoreditch. September 26, 2012. Retrieved January 23, 2013.
  8. "Nirvana Project by Aysedeniz Gokcin on iTunes". iTunes. Archived from the original on November 17, 2015. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
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