Idil Biret (born 1941 in Ankara) is a Turkish pianist. She manifested an outstanding gift for music at the age of three and was trained at the Paris Conservatory under the tutelage of Nadia Boulanger. She graduated at the age of fifteen with three first prizes. She studied piano with Alfred Cortot and was a lifelong disciple of Wilhelm Kempff who considered her as his best student. Since the age of sixteen Idil Biret has given concerts throughout the world with major orchestras including the London Symphony...

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