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Deniz Inan – Biography For Deniz Inan, music is not a form of self-expression; music is who he is. His journey started during his education at University of Paderborn in 2008, as well as with the Korean pianist and music teacher Nam-Sig Gross in 2010. His diverse taste and talents did not fail to help him in his journey as he explores Baroque, Viennese Classicism, High Romanticism, Impressionism, Jazz, Soundtracks, Chamber Music, and much more. In December 2009, he was recognized among the top 20 students in an international composer contest hosted by the National Academy of Music in Athens. Ever since, he has composed and produced 4 albums: About Opus One (2010), Kayo’s Journey (2012), Aquarelles Acoustiques (2013), and Maybe You (2015). He has also established a private recording studio called Moonlight Panda Piano Studio. In November 2012, Deniz organized and performed his own compositions in the City Hall of Ruethen, Germany. He helped design the programme, as well as reinterpreting his own composition, “Kayo’s Journey”. In March 2013, he traveled to Ho Chi Minh city, Viet Nam, to perform at a charity concert with the Vietnamese conductor Do Kien Cuong in the Concert Hall of the Music Conservatory of Ho Chi Minh City. In September 2015, he participated as a pianist at a charity concert for “SOS: Save Our Souls” to support refugees from Iraq and Syria. Shortly after that, Deniz branched out his talents and cooperated with the California Institute of the Arts to focus on film music for animated short films. His most recent project is collaboration with Samer Hatoum and the American-European Orchestral Collaboration for film music compositions. There is no single word that can describe Deniz Inan’s works. His songs are skillfully crafted with a high degree of precision, without lacking eloquent or a rhythmic flow. There seems to be an air of melancholy and longing waltzing around his fingers as he produces music to the listener’s ears. Not only that, but he is able to compose and embed other instruments in his pieces as well. The melodic sound of piano is often further enhanced by soothing violins, cellos, and other instruments as well. He proves himself to be modern classic. In this day and age, music often serves as a side job, or a creative outlet for people. Deniz has used it to carve a melodic statue to contribute to the musical

Deniz Inan – Biography world. Majoring in computer science and English linguistics in university, Deniz has proven that he can apply his technical mind to crafting artful music that tells stories, plays with emotions, and leaves an imprint in the listener’s heart.

Deniz Inan – Curriculum Vitae

2005 – 2010 Piano lessons, music education and various studies of piano techniques by the Korean pianist and music teacher Nam-Sig Gross at the Conrad-Hansen Music School Lippstadt (Germany) 2007 – 2008 Lectures and seminars in music theory and music history at the University of Paderborn (Germany) 2008 – 2011 Self-studies in music history, music theory, art of improvisation and various styles of composing: • Baroque • Viennese Classicism • High Romanticism • Impressionism • Jazz • Easy Listening / Popular Classic • Film Music / Soundtracks • Chamber Music December 2009 Participation in an international composer contest of the national academy of music of Athens (Greece) Recognized among the 20th best December 2010 Publishing the first album "Opus 1 – About Opus One"(CD and Scorebook) September 2011 Organizing and performing a concert with own compositions in the City Hall of Ruethen (Germany) • Program, own interpretations of own composition for piano solo:

"Opus 1 – About Opus One"

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August 2012 Publishing the second album "Opus 2 – Kayo's Journey" (CD and Scorebook) September 2012 Organizing and performing a concert with own compositions at the Conrad-Hansen Music School (Germany) • Program, own interpretations of own composition for piano solo:

"Opus 2 – Kayo’s Journey"

November 2012 Organizing and Performing a Concert with own compositions in the City Hall of Ruethen (Germany) • Program, own interpretations of own composition:

"Opus 2 – Kayo’s Journey" March 2013 Performing a Charity Concert with the Philharmonic Orchestra Saigon and the Vietnamese conductor Do Kien Cuong in the Concert Hall of the Music Conservatory of Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) • Program, own interpretations of own composition for piano

solo and orchestra: "Opus 2 – Kayo’s Journey"

September 2013 Publishing the third album "Opus 3 – Aquarelles Acoustiques” (CD and Scorebook) August 2014 Establishment of a private recording studio “Moonlight Panda Piano Studio” October 2014 Pianist at the Event „Noche Cultural” at the University Paderborn

Deniz Inan – Curriculum Vitae September 2015 Pianist at the charity concert of the organisation S.O.S. “Save Our Souls“ to support refugees from Iraq and Syria. November 2015 Publishing the second album "Opus 5 – Maybe You" (CD and Scorebook) December 2015 Cooperation with a student film project group at the University "California Institute of the Arts" with focus on film music for animated short films January 2016 Radio performance at RPS - Radio Prado Sur • www.radiopradosur.com (Montevideo, Uruguay) • http://www.deniz-inan.com/index.php?id=187&L=14 January 2016 Collaboration with the composer and conductor Samer Hatoum and the "American-European Orchestral Collaboration" with the focus on film music and orchestral compositions for upcoming concerts and studio recordings. • www.samerhatoum.com • http://orchestral-collaboration.tumblr.com May 2016 Radio performance at RPS - L‘UniCo Paderborn • http://www.deniz-inan.com/index.php?id=186&L=14

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Rüthen Concert 1 – Der Patriot

“Music Forms the Character”

Deniz Inan has organized a concert in the old town hall, he will play the piano.

Deniz Inan (24) gives his first concert in the old town hall.

RUETHEN “For me music is just a hobby”, says Deniz Inan. He prefers not to be

considered a pianist, but this Ruethen citizen has organized a piano concert. He

will be on stage in the old town hall on September 3 at 6 o’clock in the evening.

Two ladies will join him - Keiko Nishizu from Japan, pianist, and Tatyana

Ryzhkova from Belarus, who plays the classical guitar. The musicians met on the

Internet.

Both ladies accepted with pleasure the invitation to visit Ruethen from Deniz

Inan. YouTube and Facebook are the platforms for many young musicians to

exchange views and experience. “It isn’t so easy… to get an engagement”,

explains the 24-year-old Deniz. So, without hesitation, he organized the concert

in Ruethen. “Despite the small town, the hall in the old town hall is wonderful.”

Music connects, influences and forms the character and the world view, that is

what the 24-year-old musician thinks. Inan would like to arouse enthusiasm by

his contemporaries for classical music at the concert. “Rolf Gockel from

Kulturring (trans. a cultural organization in Berlin) gave me a free hand” explains

Deniz Inan. Together with his father he prepared the decorations, he printed

tickets and designed a poster. Also, Inan has distributed posters in Warstein and

Belecke to advertise the concert under the auspices of the Kulturring. It

shouldn’t be the last thing. In the future Deniz Inan “would like to lure as many

artists as possible to Ruethen”. Playing the piano has taken up a great part of his

spare time since he was nine. After the final exam which he took in 2007 in the

Friedrich's Spee High School, the Ruethen citizen actually wanted to study music

at the college in Detmold. “But later one piano teacher knocked some sense into

me,” he remembers.

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Today 24-year-old Deniz is happy to have made his way professionally. At the

University of Paderborn, he studies computer science and English. He also takes

courses in music theory. “Voluntarily”, he also emphasizes being happy that he

doesn’t have to earn his living with music. “I let myself be creative. If it's

nothing, then it's nothing.”

The resident of Ruethen has been writing his own compositions for eight years.

“Being able to bring some music over here, that’s the beauty,” he says

recollecting his first concert in the hometown. Last year he released the first

album of his own compositions. The second one is in production. Deniz Inan

records the CDs himself. The first work is called “About Opus One”.

By the end of his schooling, Deniz Inan met his current piano teacher Nam-Sig

Gross from Lippstadt. “She didn’t want to start teaching me, but then she did it

anyway.” Meanwhile, the student-teacher relationship has become a friendship.

“She taught me everything I can,” says Inan. He also exercises against anxiety.

Rüthen Concert 2 – Der Patriot

The YouTube Mozart By Mike Fiebig

A long-time citizen of Ruethen, Deniz Inan was a passionate home-piano player,

until his father advised him to play on YouTube for the world.

He opens his eyes only once. One look at the keyboard. The rest is musical

fusion. The piano and him. He and the piano. A dream trip in a living room of

the Ruethen citizen. Visiting Deniz Inan.

When pressing on the doorbell, str. Schmunzler 1, Mozart Sonata echoes

through the big house. When Deniz Inan opens the door and shakes his hand in

greeting, one’s carpal bones should be strong. It’s not a handshake of a

computer scientist, but of the pianist. The amazing thing is that Inan is both.

We take places in the living room of the Inans. A live space. Here is a place to

relax, eat, watch TV and make music. Inan's massive concert grand is just in

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front of the terrace door. "My music will always be in the middle of our lives,"

says the 24-year-old.

Inan studies computer science in Paderborn. “Having graduated from high

school I had the intention to study music at the conservatory in Detmold, but ...”

interrupts Inan. He has to swallow. “I was hesitating just before the entrance

exam.”

The most impressive indeed were the impressions from the young musicians. A

12-year-old boy was playing the first ballad of Frédéric Chopin. “That was the

world class, overwhelming”, recollects Inan. Still other candidates had mastered

already so much classical music literature that Inan felt like a toddler trying to

take his first steps.

He was pinched.

He took up studying computer science. He does not regret this.

"That was in retrospect the best decision. Today music is my hobby. I do it with

passion, joy and without the pressure of progress."

He was nine when his parents gave him an electric piano. He went to some

music schools, was taught by many private piano teachers and finally came to

the Korean teacher, Nam-Sig Gross, who elevated his playing to a brand-new

level. “She taught me so much”, says Inan.

He practices approximately two hours every day. Sometimes more, sometimes

less. He plays classical compositions and composes his own pieces as well.

Then the story takes its turn.

About a year ago, his father gave him an idea. “Show your talent on YouTube,”

he advised his son. The Internet platform on which people show training guinea

pigs, playing backing tracks, strange marriage proposals or adoration to

celebrities via video. Where the private is the public world, where people all

around the globe can see who you are. “The idea was great. I have set my own

channel there and named it Chopin1986,” says Inan.

He put a camera in front of the piano, and he put his laptop under the

soundboard of the piano. Then he played, only Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven at

first. Eventually he included his own pieces.

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His own compositions, that he composed himself earlier. “I then composed my

first album. Its title is ‘About Opus One’”, says Inan. Seven partly imaginative,

melancholy and thought-provoking compositions were included. He burned

them to a CD, designed a cover and printed it himself. He also did his sheet

music. He created 20 copies.

He was writing his works with the help of his computer science knowledge. “I

have a notation program that can do everything relatively quickly,” he says. Art

and science are interwoven. The world of codes and formulas with the world of

chords and symphonies are interwoven.

His album sold out within several days. Many classical music fans from around

the world let him know about them on YouTube. "I even received inquiries from

Australia and China. People wanted to buy my album and to play together with

me," says the 24-year-old. Overnight the avid student of computer science

became a self-made producer. He is like Dieter Bohlen, but from Ruethen.

He is working on the second album right now, that is about to be released soon.

During our visit, Inan played one of the compositions from it – “Kajo’s Journey.”

“It's about a woman with whom I was almost together. But it didn’t work out,”

says Inan. The Ruethen citizen expresses his feelings and thoughts in this

composition.

Kajo is an abbreviation of her first and last name. “She would certainly

appreciate it when she read the abbreviation,” he says. He has convinced

thousands of YouTube users already. They demanded the notes from him.

Now Deniz Inan, a son of a Turk father and a German mother, will go on making

his way. He has a musical mission. “The classical music has such a fruitful

outdated image. I would be pleased if more young people enjoyed it.”

On YouTube, Inan came in contact with the Japanese pianist Keiko Nishizu. He

then began exchanging emails with Tatyana Ryzhkova, a guitarist from Bremen.

They came up with an idea.

“We wanted to organize a concert at the stage and that’s what we did,” the

computer scientist says happily. One request to the Ruethen’s town hall was

enough to set the venue. On Sunday, September 4, Ryzhkova, Nishizu and Inan

will give a music concert together at the old town hall. Having gotten

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acquainted on YouTube they met in the Sauerland.

The worldwide passion.

This will be a bright evening of classical music with compositions by Bach,

Rubinstein, Beethoven and Schumann. There will also be self-composed music

pieces. “I am very anxious about the response. There has never been such an

event in Ruethen before”, says Inan.

A ticket will cost 5 euros. Basically, it is a gift. “We wanted to set a higher price.

That would have been well worth it, but we wanted to perform not only for

families", he says. Around 100 visitors are expected to come to the concert hall.

Until then, the young man, with over 450,000 views on YouTube, will not

practice playing less. Music is just a hard work. And so there is always a place on

his stool in the practice room. And there is always the piano for him. This time

he will not be pinched. This should be his night.

Vietnam Concert1 - Der Patriot

A Concert Journey to Vietnam

The first foreign performance led the composer Deniz Inan to the Ho Chi Minh

City.

RUETHEN/ HO CHI MINH CITY. Concert journeys are not actually the most

important for a musician like Deniz Inan from Ruethen. But right now to

Vietnam? In the Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) the young composer

presented his second and latest work “Kayo’s Journey”.

“It was really a trip”, summed up Deniz Inan the way from an idea to the

performance, looking at the album’s title at the same time. The idea about a

concert in Vietnam occurred to him last year, when he with Uyên Truc Doan, a

friend of his, was to her hometown. “Uyên asked me if I would be glad to give a

concert in her hometown” the Ruethen citizen explains. “Then we went to the

music conservatorium of the Ho Chi Minh City, where Uyên sent me to a

manager. We were discussing this on and on. And finally, we set a date”. The

concert had to be on March 30.

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Having returned to Ruethen, Deniz was organizing many things from there. He

was in the constant contact via e-mails with a conductor Dô Kiên Cuòng, who

was to lead the staff in the two orchestral pieces from “Kayo's Journey”. Uyên

family organized many local issues and took care of searching, for instance, the

sponsors. After all, it should have been a charity concert. “My thought was

immediate to donate to a children's hospital when I give a concert.”

On March 21, the journey to Vietnam started. “The Ho Chi Minh City looks like

cities of Southern Europe. Especially the South of Vietnam is well developed. It

has an uncanny charm: tradition and modernity live at ease with one another.

People are very open and take photos of you immediately.” Though the traffic is

bad, “It takes 45 minutes to cover 15 kilometers from the Binh Duong Province

to the Ho Chi Minh City.”

Harmony prevailed in the orchestra of the music conservatory, which consists of

professors and graduate students. “At first, I was afraid that the conductor is

not serious about me. After all Dô Kien Cuong is very well known in Vietnam for

the numerous Beethoven projects. But everything was all the other way about.

The conductor has considered what notes suit the orchestra better. On this

concert we have, for example, the bamboo flute, a traditional instrument played

in Vietnamese way. It was also great that there were a lot of positive feedbacks

about the idea of the concert and I got many compliments and much support

from the conservatory, despite the fact that I am not an educated musician.” In

Germany, on the contrary it is more difficult to organize a concert when one has

no musical education.

By open-mindedness of musicians and conductors ran well the “intensive and

power consuming sample”. “I've never rehearsed that much so far”, confesses

Inan. He was nervous about the situation. In the performance hall of the music

conservatory, Uyên Truc Doan led the program. According to the title about 400

listeners should have experienced a journey. “I wanted to make it as authentic

as possible,” said Deniz Inan, “there was an image projected on the wall to each

piece. In addition, we heard a poem for each music piece that was added in

advance, in English and Vietnamese languages.”

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The Vietnamese audience accepted ten solo compositions for piano with

pleasure as well as orchestra ones. Even television showed interest: the concert

was broadcasted by the local Ho Chi Minh TV station. “People are very

interested. In Vietnam classical music is still very widespread. It can be said,

what happened with Lang Lang in China ten years ago, now it starts in Vietnam.”

The performance was the great success for the man from Ruethen. “I would like

to say that it was one of best concerts. Working with the professional orchestra

gives one great motivation. This was an exciting experience.”

Deniz Inan’s Unlonely Desert Island PNO - Seven months of wandering, the young German musician still leisurely

enjoys being far inland. When missing home or his sweetheart, Deniz turns to

find solace in the wind, the sand, the sea, and the stars.

Kayo - name of a fictional character, which can also be seen as the embodiment

of Deniz Inan, was washed ashore on a desert island to explore his own

understanding of the notion through a hypothetical situation. All of 11 music

pieces in the Opus 2 - Kayo's journey taken place in the evening of March 30 at

Conservatory of Ho Chi Minh City belong to the 2nd eponymous opus by this

1986 born pianist.

Deniz Inan’s music can be likened to raindrops of March falling on the piano,

gently turns up each gracious and deliberate note. Rain is also what Deniz likes

to look at. It draws him into a journey to find new things and mysteries awaiting

him after the rain.

Deniz interpreted the first two of his works - Con anima and Par temps de pluie:

"Clouds gathered, the sky darkened, thunder and lightning stroke, the wind

blew constantly... Suddenly, everything faded away, the rained eventually

merged into the ocean, and the sun shone again. It was a wonderful

experience!"

When being far from home and his lover, Deniz - Kayo has the sun, the wind, the

sand, the sea, the sky, and the stars as his companions. A set of compositions

including Kayo's journey, Summer's momories, A seven month long story, Kyonu

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& Chingnyo... with feelings of joy, triumph, peace and reflection, describes

different emotions of the composer every time he thinks of the mainland.

Inan began his piano lessons with the age of 9. At the age of 16 he started to

challenge himself in the field of composing and interpreting music for piano

solo. Perhaps, as having been deeply influenced by his Korean teacher Nam Sig

Gross, Deniz’s compositions subtly have Asian-oriented impression (the Kyonu &

Chingnyo and As long as you say you need me).

Inan’s music is not exactly classical; it is harmonized between classical music and

Jazz to create a classical interference pattern (classical-crossover) which is easy

listening. Thus, the listeners must not necessarily be present in the same

journey with Kayo, but can still “schedule” an adventure by their own emotions.

At the concert, there was also the participation of Saigon Philharmonic

Orchestra (formerly known as Conservatory of Ho Chi Minh City Philharmonic

Orchestra) under the baton of maestro Do Kien Cuong for two compositions

transcribed for symphony orchestra: Kyonu & Chingnyo and As long as you say

you need me.

Deniz Inan as well as his music left a beautiful impression when Deniz decided to

donate all the proceeds from ticket sales on the spot to help patients with

difficult situations at Binh Duong General Hospital and Ho Chi Minh City

Oncology Hospital.

In the upsurge of emotion, Deniz Inan said his creations were inspired from a

saying by world renowned composer Robert Schumann, “To send light into the

darkness of men's hearts -- such is the duty of the artist.” “Happiness, joy and

blessings are hard to find. Therefore, I want to use my music to help those less

fortunate than I am”.

Deniz Inan – YouTube Links "About a Friend" by FLUTIANO Lynsey Blair & Deniz Inan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeOnKIla8aI "Romance" by FLUTIANO Lynsey Blair & Deniz Inan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEbeoP15Kjo Neo Classical Piano Music - Erinnerungen - by Deniz Inan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlKxyZxO5yY Modern Piano Music - Summer Memories - by Deniz Inan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wN5CEQZDWM Interview September 2015: Madlin Cengiz Be Shea and Deniz Inan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5njRfrAThL4 Neo Classical Piano Music - Sehnsucht - by Deniz Inan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjN1O6zZhzM Neo Classical Piano Music - Impromptu No.1 - by Deniz Inan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTdDEyzHq48 Modern Piano Music - Kayo's Journey - by Deniz Inan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QYJ00xJJVc Neo Classical Piano Music - Nocturne No.3 - by Deniz Inan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE7F0apGBr8 Modern Piano Music - Con Anima - by Deniz Inan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0-mjBPc3_8 Neo Classical Piano Music - Nocturne No.2 - by Deniz Inan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1NjudO4i6I

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Modern Piano Music - A seven months long Story - by Deniz Inan (LIVE) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLTvfNDFftc Romantic Guitar & Orchestra Music - Borboleta by Deniz Inan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntzhlIv7Txc Artist Website: http://www.deniz-inan.com

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