First, the Bozok Quartet, consisting of Tayfun Bozok (1st violin), Derya Bozok (2nd violin), Evren Bilgenoğlu (viola) and Hayreddin Hoxha (cello), will accompany clarinettist Ayşegül Kirmanoğlu in ...

The press release for ‘This is a Pair of Scissors’ describes it as ‘an introspective journey into the traces of the past – both lost and rediscovered – unfolding through the continuous flow of time ...

Cornucopia: Turkey for ConnoisseursAn exceptional, luminous work by Osman Hamdi Bey steals the show in the Sotheby’s sale of Orientalist Art this spring. The estimate for Preparing Coffee (60.5 by ...

Atatürk Cultural Centre / Atatürk Kültür Merkezi (AKM), Gümüşsuyu Mah., Mete Cad. No 2 (i.e., Taksim Square), Beyoğlu, 34437 Istanbul ...

From my point of view, what left the most lasting impression from this concert was the other-wordly atmosphere that Sioned Williams’s playing generated. It is not easy to imagine oneself looking down ...

Cornucopia: Turkey for ConnoisseursThe 2nd Ceren Necipoğlu Istanbul International Harp Festival concludes at the Atatürk Cultural Centre. The Festival’s Closing Gala sees the winners of the ...

Cornucopia: Turkey for ConnoisseursJanuary 15, 2025 21.00 (doors open 19.30) Tickets from Passo Prices: 850TL, 950TL (front row), 2400TL (box, inc. dinner) ...

‘making paste from rain/you may ask - how?/to dream long enough/for fermentation’ These lines, part of a poem by the multidisciplinary artist Sine İçli, are positioned in the lower-left corner of the ...

Cornucopia: Turkey for ConnoisseursThis recital, one of the Coffee Concerts series, is to take place in the foyer of the Türk Telekom Opera Hall. Burcu Karadağ, who plays the ney – an end-blown flute, ...

Her programme on December 11 is to begin with Schubert’s Impromptu in B flat major (Opus 142 No 3), a theme and variations on the tune that is popularly known as ‘Rosamunde’. It will then continue ...

The Romanian organ virtuoso Eduard Antal is to play J.S. Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV 541, the Fantasia à gusto Italiano by Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713-80), an arrangement of the first ...

This recital is to be given by pianist Ferhat Can Büyük, trained in Istanbul and Poland, who in 2020 won first prize in the solo piano category of the ‘Musica Classica’ Festival in Moscow, an event ...