Ateş Orga, producer and writer

Producing recordings and writing about music: two passions that have always driven the life of Ateş Orga.

Included amongst his most recent projects are the beautiful Scriabin sontatas by Dmitri Lexeev for Brilliant Classics; John Field's complete piano concertos with Paolo Restani and the Nice Philharmonic conducted by Marco Guidarini; and also, educational CDs for various publications for Schott.

He was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for his recordings made during the Piano Masterworks concert series by Nikolai Demidenko at the Wigmore Hall in London. Much like with his Liszt/Wagner album (“Sonatas & Metamorphoses”) by Thomas Hitzberger for Ambronay, which won, in 2007, the Grand Prix at the Liszt International Piano Competition.

Involved with the prestigious New Groove, he has contributed to numerous books on subjects as diverse as the social history of the London Proms and the lives of Beethoven and Chopin.

He was also behind an pocket anthology of poems about Istanbul. Ateş Orga's prose not only finds its way into the sleeve notes of many records: the Brahms complete piano works (Idil Biret on Naxos) and Chopin (Ian Hobson on Zephyr), but also into critical essays within the Historical Russian Archives and Legendary Russian Pianists published by Brilliant Classics.

Ateş Orga has also taught at the University of Surrey and the Istanbul Technical University.