Photo by Javid Amiraslan
Seven Sisters:
Great Fictional Female Characters
A Piano Recital by Fidan Aghayeva-Edler
Sunday 15th September at 2:30pm
Peppers, West Street, Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, SA65 9AE
Fidan Aghayeva-Edler is a pianist based in Berlin, Germany, currently focused on performance of contemporary music and improvisation. As a soloist and with an ensemble, she has performed in various venues across Europe, and given workshops on extended piano techniques. Her innovative work has been supported by multiple grants and fellowships. 2022 she released her second solo album “Fenster” with seven works by contemporary female composers. She is constantly discovering new musical spheres, such as improvised performances with extended piano techniques, inside piano, toy piano, electronics, and realises interdisciplinary projects and performs in theatre and film. Her current project is #365daysofperformance which includes a daily live-streamed performance of solo piano pieces, mainly by female and forgotten composers.
Featuring music composed by Jobina Tinnemans “Seven Sisters” (2020-2021)
Seven Sisters: Great Fictional Female Characters
*based on the ongoing project #365daysofperformance
1. Maia (49)
2. Electra (43)
3. Taygete (42)
4. Alcyone (41)
5. Celeano (37)
6. Sterope (35)
7. Merope (29)
Mel Bonis Cinq Pieces Pour Piano Op. 109 (1925)
1. Phoebé
2. Salomé
3. Omphale
4. Mélisande
Marti Epstein “The Piano At The Palace Beautiful” (2019) (four sisters from Louise May Alcott’s “Little Women”)
Naomi Pinnock “Lines and Spaces” (2015)
Fidan is appearing thanks to the kind support of Berlin's Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
About the Artist
Fidan Aghayeva-Edler, piano
Website: https://www.aghayeva-edler.de/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1K7pX3Tyaeihv5hOkmKkn2
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist? list=PLwepV75AaZdLd9bUYc1ei0TETizYqhcYl
Fidan Aghayeva-Edler is a pianist based in Berlin, Germany, currently focused on performance of music by women composers. She is active in Berlin’s contemporary music scene and works closely with composers. Her innovative work is supported by various grants and scholarships from Musikfonds Berlin, Deutsche Orchester-Stiftung, Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, Fonds Darstellende Künste, GVL-Stipendium, the Norwegian Quota Scholarship, the Dwight and Ursula Mamlok Foundation, Cesko-Nemecky fond budoucnosti, inm.
During the corona pandemic, she carried out various projects and developed new concert formats, such as livestream concerts with numerous world premieres, shop window concerts and virtual duo improvisations. Her actual project for 2024 is #365daysofperformance which includes a daily livestreamed performance of solo piano pieces, mainly by female and forgotten composers.
Her recordings were broadcasted by the Bayerischen Rundfunk, RBB Kultur, Klassikcast of the Goethe Institut, MDR Figaro, KAN Israel, Radio France, Český rozhlas etc. Here solo albums include “Verbotene Klänge: Sechs Suiten” (2019), released by Kreuzberg Records, with the music of persecuted composers, and “Fenster” (2022), released by GENUIN, with the works of seven contemporary female composers, which got nominated for the Preis der Deutschen Schalplattenkritik and ECHO Klassik. Her further collaborative projects include CDs and albums “Klavierwerke” (2016), “Twenty for piano” (2020), “The Black Garden” (2020).
As a soloist and with an ensemble, she has performed in various venues across Europe, such as Philharmonie Berlin, Grieghallen Bergen, and became part of the “musica reanimata” concert series at Konzerthaus Berlin, Impuls Festival, Borealis Festival, NUNC! 5, I Baku Contemporary Days Festival, Bergen Festspillene, akademie kontemporär at HfMT Hamburg, Junge Akademie Exhibition AdK Berlin, Klangteppich among others. She works closely with the Ensemble Berlin PianoPercussion and with soprano/composer Margarete Huber, with whom she performs regularly.
Her focus lies on the rediscovery of music by persecuted composers. She strives for gender equality in all her concert programs. She is constantly discovering new musical spheres, such as improvised performances (solo or in an ensemble) with extended piano techniques, realizing interdisciplinary projects (including poetry and dance), exploring instruments and genres. She gives contemporary piano techniques workshops at music high schools and festivals across Germany and Europe. As a pianist and performer she appears in theatre and film; her recent works include roles in “Fabian” by Dominik Graf, „Berlin.Babylon“ IV season; chamber opera “Wir” in Deutsches Theater Berlin, “vis-á-vis” at Ackerstadtpalast, “Amazon Rising” by Heinrich Horwitz and “Ich heb’ dir die Welt aus den Angeln” in Neuköllner Oper.
Work Samples: #365daysofperformance https://www.facebook.com/divine.shark/
CD “Fenster” Genuin https://genuin.de/de/04_d.php?k=655 https://open.spotify.com/album/0vXCDqUpPjitd7NZxxKJVS?si=qEuo-bLMQZ-4jmSQgBCk6A
CD “Verbotene Klänge: Sechs Suiten” Kreuzberg Records https://www.verlag-neue-musik.de/verlag/product_info.php?info=p3710_Verbotene-Klaenge–Sechs-Suiten.html https://open.spotify.com/album/5KnyEvkhaK0cHebSkvqNmd?si=m4hsYVrlQ1uEUMhSPXB87Q
Ursula Mamlok “2000 Notes” https://youtu.be/vi3HsS4mIac?si=RY0Adan7pbEC4rbV
Marti Epstein “The Piano At The Palace Beautiful” https://youtu.be/uhVe2XrqR9c?si=h3F9y1hDQBNurSSD
Chaya Czernowin “fardanceCLOSE” https://youtu.be/3nzhRzP1kuM?si=FRVzP5Y-yyQQiy8D
Helen Grime 10 Miniatures https://youtu.be/nZKqofgJHMA?si=j6FQlf_f9uTBofb2
Caroline Shaw “Gustave Le Grey” htttps://youtu.be/OOGZ27RTGEg?si=7_F9A7aDCtM1MSyB