Gülsin Onay
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Gülsin Onay is a Turkish pianist born in Istanbul.
The daughter to a musician family, Gülsin Onay started her piano education while she was three and a half years old. Her first teacher was her mother, Gülen Erim-Reusch. Gülen Erim-Reush, which is the daughter of famous Turkish scientist Kerim Erim, had taken piano lessons but coldt been able to perform as a concert pianist, so she had taken the way to teach private lessons. Her father Joachim Reusch was also a good violinist. Joachim Reusch had dropped his musical carier and became a Turkish citizen to marry his wife who he had met while he was learning music at conservatory, and started to work in commerce.
Gülsin Onay, performed her first concert at TRT İstanbul Radyosu while she was 6. After she was 10, she attended to Ankara Devlet Konservatuvarı (Ankara State Conservatory) under the supervision of Mithat Fenmen and Adnan Saygun for two years, and with Ulvi Cemal Erkin's suggestion she was sent to France as a result of Üstün Yetenekli Çocuklar Kanunu (Highly Skilled Children Law) with her family. They all settled in Paris.
She graduated from Paris Conservatory at age 16 with a first degree atpiano and room music; she performed her first concert in Europe while she was 18. While she was in paris, she also got interested in theatre as an amateur. After completing conservatory education, she worked with Bernard Ebert in Hannover High Music School and enriched her repertoiré and style.
