The Gedik Philharmonic Orchestra, founded by Cem’i Can Deliorman and conducted on this occasion by Cem Mansur, perform a specially-commissioned new work for string orchestra by the contemporary Turkish composer Sadık Uğraş Durmuş (who received his training at Bilkent University, Ankara, and at the Rotterdam and Amsterdam Conservatoires); the French Romantic composer Ernest Chausson’s four-movement Concert for Violin, Piano and String Quartet, written between 1888 and 1891; and Igor Stravinsky’s neo-classical Concerto in D for String Orchestra, composed in 1946 and sometimes described as his ‘Basle Concerto’. Solo violin: Esen Kıvrak. Piano: Gökhan Aybulus. The proceedings will begin with a talk by Cem Mansur.
Issue 66, December 2023
Turkey’s Centenary Issue
