Beyhan Demirdağ Alkan [SEP] voice type
Beyhan Demirdağ Alkan
Beyhan Demirdağ Alkan is a Turkish Cypriot mezzo-soprano.
She was born in Limassol, Cyprus. Graduated from Gazi University and London Trinity College. She is the first female Turkish Cypriot classical singer to give recitals in Northern Cyprus, mostly at the Bellapais Monastery, Kyrenia. She represented Northern Cyprus at the international classical music festivals.
External links.
- Hurriyet page, accessed 13 April 2010
) as "having a pretty little voice". The profession of Alkan Morhange is given as "music-paper ruler". At Charles-Valentin's piano audition on 6 October 1820, when he was nearly seven (and where he is named as "Alkan (Morhange) Valentin"), the examiners comment "This child has amazing abilities."
Alkan became a favourite of his teacher at the Conservatoire, Joseph Zimmerman, who also taught Georges Bizet, César Franck, Charles Gounod, and Ambroise Thomas.