Wednesday, March 4
Piano duets: Hande Dalkılıç & Serla Balkarlı
In a concert entitled İki Piyanoda Kıtaların Sesi (‘The Sound of the Continents on Two Pianos’), pianists Hande Dalkılıç and Serla Balkarlı are to perform Las Niñas de Santa Fe from Tres Romances Argentinos by Carlos Guastavino; Shostakovich’s Concertino in A minor for 2 Pianos, Opus 94; the Porgy and Bess Fantasy for Two Pianos by George Gershwin (arranged by Percy Grainger); and Fuga y Misterio by Astor Piazzolla (arranged by Pablo Ziegler).
20:00
Tickets from Mobilet
Prices: 500.50TL, 572TL (students 314.60TL)
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Thursday, March 5
Gedik Philharmonic Orchestra
The Gedik Philharmonic Orchestra, founded by Cemi’i Can Deliorman and conducted on this occasion by Cem Mansur, will first play a new work for clarinet, double bass and orchestra by the Turkish composer and pianist Evrim Demirel, who teaches at the Istanbul University State Conservatoire. They will then play the Gran Duo Concertante by the Italian double-bass virtuoso Giovanni Bottesini (1821-1889). In both these works, the soloists will be clarinettist Kıvanç Fındıklı and double-bass player Deniz Yurdakul. The third work on the programme, meanwhile, will be Parafraz, a new work by Mehmet Nemutlu, a Turkish composer who teaches at the Mimar Sinan University State Conservatoire. Finally, the orchestra will play Mozart’s Symphony No 35 in D major, K 385, the so-called ‘Haffner Symphony’, composed in 1782.
At 20:00, Cem Mansur will give a talk about the works to be performed; the concert itself will begin at 20:30.
Cencert: 20:00
Tickets from Mobilet
Price: 520TL
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Sunday, March 8
Piano recital (works by woman composers)
Dengin Ceyhan (piano)
This recital, held in honour of International Women’s Day (March 08), will be given by pianist Dengin Ceyhan, who will also present the 14 works he plays, giving information about their composers – all of whom are women. This event is entitled *Piyanonun Kadınları* (‘The Women of the Piano’).
18:00
This concert is free of charge, but places are limited.
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Monday, March 9
ADK Istanbul Youth Orchestra, Mehmet Yasemin
The ADK Istanbul Youth Orchestra, sponsored by Ayşegül and Doğan Karadeniz and conducted by Ramis Sulu, will first accompany violinist Mehmet Yasemin in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D major, Opus 35. This highly emotional work, composed in 1878, presents formidable technical difficulties for the soloist. In the second half, the orchestra will play Haydn’s Symphony No 104 in D major, the so-called ‘London Symphony’. First performed in 1795, this is the last symphony the composer wrote. A [description of the work](https://www.laphil.com/musicdb/pieces/3916/symphony-no-104-london) is provided by Herbert Glass on the ‘LA Phil’ website.
This event is hosted by the Zehra Yıldız Culture and Arts Foundation.
20:00
Tickets from Biletix
Prices: 550TL, 715TL
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Thursday, March 12
Orchestral music, violin & viola concerto
Aromsa Chamber Orchestra, Linda Hedlund, Eunbin Lee
Held in honour of International Women’s Day (March 08), this concert – entitled Kadınların Sesi, Sanatın Gücü (‘Women’s Voices, the Power of Art’) – includes three pieces by woman composers. The works to be performed by the Aromsa Chamber Orchestra with violinist Linda Hedlund and viola-player Eunbin Lee are the String Trio No 3 in D major by the Italian lady composer, voilinist and singer Maddalena Laura Sirmen (1745–1818); Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major for Violin, Viola and Orchestra, K 364; the String Quartet in E flat major by Fanny Hensel (Felix Mendelssohn’s elder sister, 1805-47) in an arrangement for orchestra; and the Kanlıca Suite by the contemporary Turkish lady composer Melisa Uzunarslan.
Tickets from Mobilet
Prices: 500.50TL, 572TL (students 314.60TL)
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Wednesday March 18
Arya Su Gülenç (piano)
This solo piano recital, entitled Formdan Renge (‘From Form to Colour’), is given by Arya Su Gülenç, currently a student at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover. The pieces she is to perform are Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No 26, known as ‘Les Adieux’; Prokofiev’s Piano Sonata No 3; Alban Berg’s Piano Sonata, Opus 1; two pieces by Debussy – Reflets dans l’eau and Poissons d’or; No 3 of Rachmaninov’s Études-Tableaux, Opus 39; Chopin’s Scherzo No 3, Opus 39; Eilenriede, Opus 37, a work by the contemporary Turkish composer Cem Esen (another student of the Hochschule für Musik in Hanover); Kara Toprak by the Turkish pianist and composer Fazıl Say; No 1 of Aksak Tartılar üzerine 10 Etüd by Ahmed Adnan Saygun; and a piece entitled İz, dedicated to the memory of Meriç Soylu, by Arya Su Gülenç herself.
Tickets from Mobilet
Prices: 500.50TL, 572TL (students 314.60TL)
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Wednesday, March 25
Cello and double bass recital
Özkaya & Simonovich Duo feat. Maja Bogdanovich
The pieces to be performed by the Turkish double-bass player Onur Özkaya, the Serbian cellist Maja Bogdanovich and the Serbian pianist Senka Simonovich are the Gran Duetto for Cello and Double Bass by the Polish double-bass player and composer Bogusław Furtok; the Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor, Opus 40, by Dmitri Shostakovich; Three pieces for double bass and piano by the Russian composer Reinhold Glière; the Story for Double Bass and Piano by the Montenegrin composer Senad Gačević (a work dedicated to Onur Özkaya and Senka Simonovich); and the contemporary Turkish pianist and composer Fazıl Say’s Immigrants trio for cello, double bass and piano (first performance).
Tickets from Mobilet
Prices: 500.50TL, 572TL (students 314.60TL)
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Friday, March 27
Monday ,March 30
Tuesday, March 31
Opera: Britten’s The Turn of the Screw
The British composer Benjamin Britten’s chamber opera The Turn of the Screw, written to a libretto by Myfanwy Piper and premiered in 1954, is based on Henry James’s 1898 Gothic horror novella of the same name. It concerns a young, inexperienced governess at a country house who comes to believe that the place is haunted. The performers are members of the Istanbul State Opera and Ballet company, conducted by Can Okan. The director, meanwhile, is Aytaç Manizade.
20:00
Tickets from Biletinial
Prices: 170TL, 240TL, 315TL, 380TL
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Saturday March 28
Violin, piano & soprano recital
This concert, entitled Süreyya’da Bahar Klasikleri (‘Spring Classics at the Süreyya’), is in two parts. In Part 1, which begins at 16:00 and is entitled *Romantik Ufuklar (‘Romantic Horizons’), virtuoso violinist, composer and pedagogue Cihat Aşkın and pianist Cem Babacan will play Brahms’s Sonata for Violin and Piano No 3 in D minor*, Opus 108. Cem Babacan will then play Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No 3; this will be followed by Ernő von Dohnányi’s Ruralia Hungarica. There will then be a series of piano pieces (including works by Chopin and Debussy) performed by Giuseppe Lo Cicero.
Following a break at 18:00, the music will restart at 19:00. The first item in Part 2, entitled Ateş ve Lirik (‘Fire and Lyricism’) will be a selection of works by the Spanish composers Enrique Granados and Manuel de Falla played by the Carles & Sofia piano duo, both of whom hail from Catalonia. Finally, violinist Cihat Aşkın and pianist Cem Babacan will accompany soprano Magdalena Cornelius-Kulig in operatic arias by Mahler, Strauss, Gluck, Handel and Saint-Saëns.
16:00 and 19:00
Tickets for Part 1 only (Romantik Ufuklar) from Biletix
Prices: 770TL, 880TL, 990TL, 1300TL
Tickets for Parts 1 and 2 from Biletix
Prices: 1300TL, 1600TL, 1800TL, 2400TL
Tickets for Part 2 only (*Ateş ve Lirik*) from Biletix
Prices: 770TL, 880TL, 990TL, 1300TL
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Borusan String Quartet & Reto Bieri (clarinet) at ENKA Sanat
