Four years after her musical debut, cellist Dilay Ra Oygür awarded at Carnegie Hall

A long-lived

route to the top.

By taking her first cello lessons in 2018, Dilay Ra Oygür was far from imagining herself rewarded, four years later, with an international distinction and then with a recital organized on the stage of Carnegie Hall in New York.

The first prize at the Golden Classical Music Awards in the middle age category (13-15 years old), to be precise.

A meteorite trajectory for the young girl trained at the conservatory of Adnan Menderes University, in Aydın (Turkey).

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Dilay Ra Oygür is not however his first reward.

Already awarded in the United Kingdom, Hungary and Turkey, on the occasion of various musical competitions, the cellist convinced the New York jury thanks to her interpretation of a work by Joseph Haydn, then of a piece by the composer. Turkish Ahmet Adnan Saygun (1907-1991).

A performance that opened the doors to his recital on stage at the prestigious Carnegie Hall, located in downtown Manhattan.

In addition to a concert organized within the walls of the Turkevi Center in New York by the Turkish Consulate General.

Virtual recital in New York

For lack of funds, the teenager could very well never have made the trip to the United States. Dilay Ra Oygür had indeed entered the competition at a time of the Covid-19 pandemic when the hearings were being done online; a constraint for some, but a boon for others.

," said the cellist, at the end of December, to the Turkish press agency Anadolu. Unexpected winner of the competition, the musician was finally able to count, with a hard fight, on a sponsor to finance her crossing of the Mediterranean and then of the Atlantic in order to perform in the United States.

"I started playing the cello at 10 years old, and since then I can't do without it"

, told the Anadolu agency the young musician whose somewhat short fingers would have almost cost her her entrance to the conservatory.

Admirer of Rostropovich, Jacqueline du Pré and Mischa Maisky, Dilay Ra Oygür now intends to continue her musical career so well started: "

An aspiration shared by her teacher, Özgür Elgün:

And more than a string to his bow.

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