Önder Sisters
Turkish twin-sister pianists
The twin sisters Ferhan & Ferzan Önder (born 2 October 1965, in Tokat Province, Turkey) are Turkish-Austrian identical twin pianists who perform mostly as a piano duo.
Biography
At the age of seven, they moved to Ankara to study in the State Conservatory. Already at the age of 14, they won a Jury Special Award at the Concorso Pianistico Internazionale Alessandro Casagrande in Terni, Italy.
Next, they won the "First Prize" at the International Piano Duo Competition in Hamburg, Germany. In 1985, after winning a competition, which led to a concert in Vienna, the twins decided to move to Austria, where they studied at the Academy of Music in Vienna with Noel Flores and Paul Badura-Skoda. In the academy, they also met Alfons Kontarsky, who became their mentor and a close friend until his death.
The duo is known through concert tours all over the world and regular performances with renowned international orchestras. They also perform at music festivals such as the Salzburg Festival, Beethovenfest Bonn, Vienna Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival and Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival.
The duo's repertoire includes works by Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Poulenc, Bartók, Stravinsky, Lutosławski and Fazıl Say.
The twin sisters produced a number of CDs.
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