Loreto Aramendi
The Opus Amadeus Organ Festival, the brainchild of Mr Mehmet Mestçi of Artisan Organizasyon, is now presenting its seventh edition. This year’s festival features recitals by organists from Italy, Spain and Hungary. All three take place in the Italian Catholic Church of St Anthony of Padua (Saint-Antoine, San Antonio or Sent Antuan) in Galatasaray, built in the Italian neo-Gothic style between 1906 and 1912 and designed by the Levantine architect Giulio Mongeri, a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts. Pope John XXIII preached here for 10 years while serving as the Vatican’s ambassador to Turkey before being chosen as pope; there is a statue of him in the courtyard.
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Address:
Tomtom Mah.
İstiklal Cad. No. 171
Beyoğlu 34433
Istanbul
Tel: +90 212 244 09 35
The church is accessible from either the Şişhane station on the M2 metro line or the Taksim station on this same line (the Şişhane station is slightly nearer). If coming from Şişhane, take the İstiklal Caddesi exit and walk along İstiklal Caddesi towards Galatasaray. You will see the church on your right, just before you get to Galatasaray. If coming from Taksim, take the Taksim Square (Taksim Meydanı) exit and walk along İstiklal Caddesi. Soon after passing Galatasaray, you will see the church on your left.
Important note:
The gates of the church courtyard will be closed at 20:30. No audience members will be admitted after that time.
TUESDAY, 06 OCTOBER
Recital by Alessandro Bianchi (Italy)
Alessandro Bianchi’s programme consists of works by G.F. Handel, Antonio Vivaldi, Domenico Zipoli (an Italian composer of the baroque period who worked in Spain, Peru and Paraguay), Arcangelo Corelli, Tomaso Albinoni (his much-celebrated Adagio), J.S. Bach, a piece entitled Prelude in classic style by the American organist and composer Gordon Young (1919-1998), and the Toccata by the Dutch organist Klaas Jan Mulder (1930-2008).
20.30
Tickets from Biletix
Price: 1200TL
MONDAY, 19 OCTOBER
Recital by Loreto Aramendi (Spain)
On this Spanish lady organist’s programme are pieces by the Spanish baroque organist and composer Juan Cabanilles, J.S. Bach, Henry Purcell, the 18th-century French organist and composer Michel Corrette, the 20-century German organist and composer Hugo Distler, Joseph Haydn, the 18th-century Spanish composer Maria Josefa Marco, the contemporary French organist Louis Robilliard, Gabriel Fauré, Camille Saint-Saëns, and the Spanish baroque organist and composer Antonio Martin y Coll.
20.30
Tickets from Biletix
Price: 1200TL
SATURDAY, 07 NOVEMBER
Recital by Agoston Tóka (Hungary)
The Hungarian organist plays Handel’s Organ Concerto in F major, an arrangement by the Hungarian composer István Koloss (1932-2010) of the Choreae Hungaricae, J.S. Bach’s Fantasia in G major, BWV 572, Mendelssohn’s Prelude and Fugue in C minor, Opus 37 No. 1, Two Jazz Pieces by the Hungarian composer Zoltán Gárdonyi (1906-1986), and Voices of the World, a piece written for the coronation of King Charles III by the British pianist, organist and composer Iain Farrington (1977-).
Tickets from Biletix
Price: 1200TL
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