By Heidi Trautmann
Young talents,….many people
think these talented young people have been given a cornucopia at their birth
and they only have to shake it and their talent develops beautifully. It is not
so. The prerequisite of an extraordinary talent is first of all to start at a very
young age and that requires parents that are willing to go along with it, it
requires good teachers and it requires the preparedness of the child to endure
many hours a day of work, forget about playing with friends, forget about so
many things other children enjoy, especially where music is concerned. Music is
a universe by itself and if you don’t follow its hard rules you will never succeed
to understand its riches and its implications.
Within the framework of the
19th International Bellapais Music Festival in North Cyprus we went
to listen to four such young talents Suna Alsancak (7 years, piano), Khashayar
Khosravian ( 18 years - piano), Halide Kizilyürek (17 years - violin), Korkmaz
Can Saglam( 16 years - piano). They all started at young age as I can read in
their biography. I have heard Suna, the youngest, play at the age of five, that was the age when
Rauf Kasimov took over her music education. Through his powerful tuition many
of other young Cypriot talents have done their entrance into the world of music
and he will certainly try to accompany them as long as possible on the hard
road to perfection. Suna and Rauf Kasimov have just returned from a competition
in Izmir, where Suna received a first prize in her age group. I had heard her
play when she was just five years old but already full of confidence.
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It was a pleasure to listen
to the young people and they were all received with love and respect by the
audience. They all have a different background music education and were of
different age groups so it is only fair of me not to judge them one by one,
they will certainly find out themselves how far their obvious talent will take
them in life. Some may decide that to survive in life they will have to choose
another profession and some may continue to heights we cannot yet see clearly. I
wish them the courage to make the right decision and the strength to live the
life of a musician if they decide to go ahead. It certainly will have
influenced and marked them for life and will have enriched their personality
and perception of humanity.