{"id":5177,"date":"2023-10-02T23:15:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T20:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=5177"},"modified":"2023-10-03T11:28:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T08:28:39","slug":"memorial-ceremony-and-concert-for-ersin-onay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=5177","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Ceremony and Concert for Ersin Onay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A memorial ceremony and concert dedicated to honor Prof. Ersin Onay, founding dean of the Faculty of Music and Performing Arts, who passed away on May 22, 2023, was held on Saturday, September 30, at the Bilkent Concert Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The program began with the Bilkent Youth Choir\u2019s performance of the Bilkent Mar\u015f\u0131, composed by Prof. Ersin Onay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the speakers were Rector Prof. K\u00fcr\u015fat Aydo\u011fan, Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory Department of Piano Chair Hande Dalk\u0131l\u0131\u00e7, Ba\u015fkent University State Conservatory, Department of Performing Arts Chair Prof. Ay\u015fe G\u00fcl\u00fcm \u00d6tenel, retired Dean of Students and General Secretary Zeynep K\u00f6ksal, Department of Music and BSO member Bahar Kutay and retired BSO Media and Public Relations Specialist Yelda Cavga. Also, conductor and Turkish state artist, G\u00fcrer Aykal\u2019s message was read out. The speakers shared memories and their heartfelt remembrance and offered condolences during the memorial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the speeches, the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra gave a concert dedicated to the memory of Prof. Onay. The orchestra, conducted by Murat G\u00f6kta\u015f, performed selected movements by Erkin\u2019s Sinfonietta, Brahms\u2019 Symphony No.3 and Schubert\u2019s Symphony No.8 with konzertmeister \u0130rina Nikotina.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/MUT8981.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5178\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/MUT8981.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/MUT8981-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/MUT8981-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A memorial ceremony and concert dedicated to honor Prof. Ersin Onay, founding dean of the Faculty of Music and Performing Arts, who passed away on May 22, 2023, was held on Saturday, September 30, at the Bilkent Concert Hall. The program began with the Bilkent Youth Choir\u2019s performance of the<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=5177\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,80,137,133],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5239,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177\/revisions\/5239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}