This year’s İKSV Istanbul Music Festival, the 53rd in the series, is scheduled to run from June 11 to 26. Organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İstanbul Kültür Sanat Vakfı or ...

The Bulgarian National Philharmonic Choir will first sing Toprak Sever İnsanları Birer Birer (‘Earth Loves People One By One’), a newly-commissioned work by the contemporary Turkish composer Hasan ...

A hip-hop dance workshop in Yıldız Park, organised for children aged 7-9, that aims to ‘enhance children’s sense of rhythm and music while fostering their creativity’. The workshop, for which ...

Cornucopia: Turkey for ConnoisseursI cannot conclude without a word about her daughter Ayşe Gencer, whose death was a sad loss to Turkish jazz. May she, too, rest in peace! In the following recording, ...

Reinhold Glière’s Horn Concerto was premiered by the Russian horn-player Valery Polekh and the Leningrad Radio Symphony Orchestra in May, 1951. My network of musical informants tells me that the brass ...

Cornucopia: Turkey for ConnoisseursIstanbul Music Festival June 22, 2025 21.00 Tickets from Passo Prices: 1500TL, 2000TL, 3000TL Eczacıbaşı Genç Bilet (‘Young People’s Ticket’): 30TL ...

This event is part of a project – a cooperation between the İKSV and the Industrial Development Bank of Turkey (TSKB) – that is designed to support young woman musicians by financing their ...

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In this concert of the shared traditional music of the Turkish and Greek peoples at the Kınalıada Christos Greek Orthodox Monastery, Çağlar Fidan (vocals, kanun and tambourine) and Ezgi Köker (vocals ...

Selections from Heitor Villa-Lobos’s nine Bachianas Brasileiras suites; David Popper’s Hungarian Rhapsody, Opus 68; Michel Portal’s Cuba si, Cuba no; an arrangement by Vincent Peirani of Kryštof ...

Cornucopia: Turkey for ConnoisseursThe first work on the programme will be Battle Zone by the Swiss composer and trombone-player Alexandre Mastrangelo (1989-), a native of Geneva. (Quite how the ...

Cornucopia: Turkey for ConnoisseursMichael Vatikiotis is Senior Advisor at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, a Swiss-based Private Foundation. He works on promoting dialogue and conflict ...