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Past events

Performance

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin)
June 19, 2025 20.00
Atatürk Cultural Centre / Atatürk Kültür Merkezi (AKM), Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Geneva Camerata ‘Revolta’

Istanbul Music Festival
June 17, 2025 20.00
Zorlu Performing Arts Centre (PSM), Levent, Istanbul
Performance

Cellist François Salque and accordion-player Vincent Peirani
June 17, 2025 21.00
Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Performance

Veriko Tchumburidze (violin), Anastasia Kobekina (cello) and Alexey Botvinov (piano)

Istanbul Music Festival
June 16, 2025 20.00
Süreyya Opera House, Kadıköy, Istanbul
Orchestral, piano concerto

Camerata Salzburg, Hélène Grimaud (piano)

Istanbul Music Festival
June 14, 2025 20.00
Atatürk Cultural Centre / Atatürk Kültür Merkezi (AKM), Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Children's event

A Musical Weekend I: hip-hop dance workshop

Istanbul Music Festival
June 14, 2025 15.00–16.00
Beşiktaş, Beşiktaş, Istanbul
Performance

‘Pictures in Motion’
June 13, 2025 20.00
Zorlu Performing Arts Centre (PSM), Levent, Istanbul
Performance

Gautier Capuçon (cello), Alexandre Kantorow (piano)

Istanbul Music Festival
June 12, 2025 20.00
Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall (CRR), Maçka, Istanbul
Performance

Gautier Capuçon (cello), Alexandre Kantorow (piano)

Istanbul Music Festival
June 12, 2025 20.00
Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall (CRR), Maçka, Istanbul
Opening Concert

Tekfen Philharmonic Orchestra, Bulgarian National Choir

Istanbul Music Festival
June 11, 2025 20.00
Atatürk Cultural Centre / Atatürk Kültür Merkezi (AKM), Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Strings in Love

Traditional music
June 9, 2025 21.00
Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Emirgan, Istanbul
LECTURE

Reina Lewis: Fashion and Social Relations in Late Ottoman Society

BIAA London Lecture
June 4, 2025 18.30 (UK time)
British Academy, London
Orchestral, violin concerto

CRR Symphony Orchestra, Francesca Dego (violin)
May 31, 2025 20.00
Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall (CRR), Maçka, Istanbul
Performance

Brenda Berin Quintet
May 30, 2025 21.30
Asa-Khai Jazz Club, Karaköy, Istanbul
Hyrbid talk (online and in person)

Andrew Finkel: Constantinople in Olympia

How the nineteenth century Eastern Question was transformed by spectacle, song and dance
May 27, 2025 18.00 (UK) 20.00 (Turkey)
Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), London
Recital by violin duo

Ksenia Milas and Oleksandr Semchuk

Coffee Concerts Series
May 25, 2025 11.00
Süreyya Opera House, Moda, Istanbul
Piano Recital

Mehveş Emeç

Romanticism on the Piano
May 25, 2025 20.00
Atatürk Cultural Centre / Atatürk Kültür Merkezi (AKM), Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Chamber music

Berk Dalkılıç and Gizem Dalkılıç

Tenor & piano recital
May 24, 2025 – May 25, 2025 18.30
Minoa Pera Bookshop & Café, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Coffee Concert series

Bosphorus D’Light

The Bosphorus Trio
May 24, 2025 11.00
Atatürk Cultural Centre / Atatürk Kültür Merkezi (AKM), Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Jazz

Ferit Odman Quintet
May 23, 2025
Zorlu Performing Arts Centre (PSM), Levent, Istanbul
Orchestral, cello concerto

Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra, Oksana Lyniv
May 23, 2025 20.00
Atatürk Cultural Centre / Atatürk Kültür Merkezi (AKM), Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Art, Contemporary art

Mustafa Hulusi: Breathing in the World
May 23, 2025 – May 22, 2025
Dirimart Pera, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Art, Auction

Bonhams Islamic and Indian Art
May 23, 2025
Bonhams New Bond Street, London
Panel

Anatolian Plant Legacy: a presentation and conversation

Martyn Rix, Christabel Frances King, Gülnur Ekşi Bona, Hülya Korkmaz, Işık Güner
May 18, 2025 13.30–14.30 Turkish time
SALT Beyoğlu, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Orchestral Concert

Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra, various young soloists
May 16, 2025 20.00
Göksu, Demirer, Deniz

Jazz Wind
May 16, 2025 20.00
Yeldeğirmeni Sanat Merkezi, Kadıköy, Istanbul
Performance

Emir Ersoy

Cuban Classics
May 15, 2025
Zorlu Performing Arts Centre (PSM), Levent, Istanbul
Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, Ziyu He (violin)

Yüzyılın Yankıları (‘The Century’s Echoes’)
May 15, 2025 20.00
Zorlu Performing Arts Centre (PSM), Levent, Istanbul
Online, Talks and tours

Alev Berberoğlu: Camera and Female Empowerment

Italian Photographer Elisa Zonaro in Ottoman Istanbul
May 14, 2025 18.00 (UK) 20.00 (Turkey)
London
Jazz

Bova Jazz Club highlights May 2025
May 14, 2025 – May 31, 2025 21.30 (doors open 21.00)
Bova Jazz Club, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Chamber music

Bozok Quartet, Ayşegül Kirmanoğlu (clarinet), İris Şentürker (piano)

Brahms Romanticism
May 14, 2025 20.00
Süreyya Opera House, Moda, Istanbul
Chamber music

Istanbul Baroque Ensemble

Barok Tutkular (‘Baroque Passions’)
May 14, 2025 20.00
Yeldeğirmeni Sanat Merkezi, Kadıköy, Istanbul
Online, Talks and tours

Dr Robert Schild: ‘Burgazada: A living ethnographic museum’
May 13, 2025 20.00 (Turkey) 18.00 (UK)
London
Chamber music

Piano and ney recital

The World and Us: The Mystical Keys of Jazz
May 11, 2025 20.00
Atatürk Cultural Centre / Atatürk Kültür Merkezi (AKM), Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Hyrbid talk (online and in person)

Andrew Finkel: Constantinople in Olympia

How the nineteenth century Eastern Question was transformed by spectacle, song and dance
May 10, 2025 18.00
Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), London
Hyrbid talk (online and in person)

Andrew Finkel: Constantinople in Olympia

How the nineteenth century Eastern Question was transformed by spectacle, song and dance
May 10, 2025 18.00
Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), London
Jazz

Sibel Köse
May 10, 2025 21.30
Asa-Khai Jazz Club, Karaköy, Istanbul
Chamber music

Can Özhan and Pınar Çelik Warsi

Violin & piano recital
May 10, 2025 20.00
Yeldeğirmeni Sanat Merkezi, Kadıköy, Istanbul
Recital

Çağatay Akyol and Bilgin Canaz

Harp and ney recital
May 10, 2025 11.00
Atatürk Cultural Centre / Atatürk Kültür Merkezi (AKM), Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Orchestral, horn concerto

Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra, Can Kiracı (horn)

Denizbank Concerts Series
May 9, 2025 20.00
Atatürk Cultural Centre / Atatürk Kültür Merkezi (AKM), Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Art

Sevinç Altan: This is a Pair of Scissors
May 9, 2025 – June 9, 2025
Galeri Nev Istanbul, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Art

Samuel Laurence Cunnane Photographs

Öktem Aykut Gallery
May 8, 2025 – June 4, 2025
Öktem & Aykut
Chamber Music

Frühlingsklänge (‘Sounds of Spring’): Berk Dalkılıç and Gizem Dalkılıç
May 7, 2025 20.00
Yeldeğirmeni Sanat Merkezi, Kadıköy, Istanbul
Chamber music

Borusan String Quartet with Reto Bieri (clarinet) at the Süreyya Opera House in Moda
May 7, 2025 20.00
Süreyya Opera House, Moda, Istanbul
Chamber music

Bruno Borralhinho: Solo cello recital
May 6, 2025 20.30
Naval Museum, Beşiktaş, Istanbul
Chamber music

Borusan String Quartet & Reto Bieri (clarinet) at ENKA Sanat

Masters of Chamber Music
May 6, 2025 20.30
ENKA Sanat, Maslak, Istanbul
Baroque Chamber music

Camerata Trajectina
May 5, 2025 20.30
Church of Saint-Antoine (St Anthony of Padua), Beyoğlu, Istanbul
TALK (IN PERSON AND ONLINE)

The Elusive Fashion Stories of Enslaved Women in late Ottoman Istanbul
May 5, 2025 18.00 (Turkish time)
ANAMED Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Jazz

Ece Göksu Trio at the Asa Khai Jazz Club
May 3, 2025 21.30
Asa-Khai Jazz Club, Karaköy, Istanbul
Classical Music

Orchestra Istanbul’, Can Özhan (violin)

Orchestral music, violin concerto
May 3, 2025 20.00
Süreyya Opera House, Moda, Istanbul
Chamber music

Semplice Quartet
May 3, 2025 20.30
Atatürk Cultural Centre / Atatürk Kültür Merkezi (AKM)
Chamber music

Hezarfen Ensemble
May 3, 2025 17.30
Atatürk Cultural Centre / Atatürk Kültür Merkezi (AKM), Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Opera

La Traviata
May 3, 2025 – May 7, 2025
Atatürk Cultural Centre / Atatürk Kültür Merkezi (AKM), Beyoğlu, Istanbul

Saturday May 3: 15:00
Wednesday May 7: 20:00
Orchestral, cello concerto

CRR Symphony Orchestra, Bruno Philippe (cello)
May 3, 2025 20.00
Cemal Emden, Maçka, Istanbul
Orchestral, guitar concerto

Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra, Pablo Sáinz Villegas (guitar)
May 2, 2025 20.00
Atatürk Cultural Centre / Atatürk Kültür Merkezi (AKM), Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Islamic Sales Week Spring 2025: Christie’s
May 1, 2025
Christie’s King Street, London
Auction

Islamic Sales Week, London: Sotheby’s Arts of the Islamic World and India
April 30, 2025
Sotheby’s New Bond Street, London
Islamic Sales Week 2025: David Roberts at Sotheby’s
April 29, 2025 16.15
Sotheby’s New Bond Street, London
Art, Auction

Islamic Sales Week Spring 2025 - The Orientalist Sale at Sotheby’s
April 29, 2025 15.00
Sotheby’s New Bond Street, London
Performance

András Szalai (cimbalom), Péter Szűcs (clarinet)

Cimbalom & clarinet recital
April 24, 2025 20.30
All Saints Moda, Moda, Istanbul
Solo exhibition

Kevin Francis Gray
April 24, 2025 – May 31, 2025
Pilevneli, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Performance

Cenk Erdoğan Trio
April 23, 2025 21.30 (doors open 20.30)
Asa-Khai Jazz Club, Karaköy, Istanbul
Online presentation

Ekaterina Aygun: Emigré Artists from the Former Russian Empire
April 22, 2025
Anglo-Turkish Society
Jazz

Ayten Alpman: A Timeless Jazz Journey
April 18, 2025 20.00
Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall (CRR), Maçka, Istanbul
Orchestra & cello

Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra with Kian Soltani
April 18, 2025 20.00
Atatürk Cultural Centre / Atatürk Kültür Merkezi (AKM), Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Seminar Announcement

Travellers in Ottoman Lands III

Call for Papers
April 9, 2025 – April 12, 2025
ISTANBUL
Performance

Piano trios from members of the Istanbul Youth Orchestra

Violin, cello & piano recital
April 9, 2025 20.00
Yeldeğirmeni Sanat Merkezi, Kadıköy, Istanbul
Piano Recital

‘Ravel 150’
April 9, 2025 20.00
Süreyya Opera House, Moda, Istanbul
String quartets, piano quintet

Quatuor Danel, Emre Elivar
April 9, 2025 20.00
Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall (CRR), Maçka, Istanbul
Operatic arias

Suat Arıkan, Ceren Aydın and Lena Şenol (piano)
April 6, 2025 20.30
All Saints Moda, Moda, Istanbul
Art

Atlas of Silence

Kairos Gallery
April 4, 2025 – April 19, 2025 12pm - 9pm
Performance

Ferit Odman Quintet
March 21, 2025
Touché, Levent, Istanbul
Jazz

Bora Çeliker Quartet
March 19, 2025 21.30
Asa-Khai Jazz Club, Karaköy, Istanbul
Violin, cello & piano recital

Phaeton Piano Trio
March 17, 2025 20.30
Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall (CRR), Maçka, Istanbul
Operatic arias

Viva Verdi
March 16, 2025 15.00
Atatürk Cultural Centre / Atatürk Kültür Merkezi (AKM), Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Suat Arıkan (bass-baritone), Ceren Aydın (soprano), Lena Şenol (piano)

Operatic arias
March 16, 2025 19.30
All Saints Moda, Moda, Istanbul
Jazz

Özge Pınar & Bora Çeliker Duo
March 15, 2025 22.00
Minoa Pera Bookshop & Café, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Mezzo-soprano & piano recital

Seda Kırankaya (mezzo-soprano), Fatma Şafak Pınarbaşı (piano)
March 15, 2025 20.00
Yeldeğirmeni Sanat Merkezi, Kadıköy, Istanbul
Coffee Concert: Flute & piano recital

Halit Turgay (flute), Rüzgar Turgay (violin), Özgür Deniz Akalın (piano)
March 15, 2025 11.00
Atatürk Cultural Centre / Atatürk Kültür Merkezi (AKM), Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Jazz

Dilek Sert Erdoğan
March 14, 2025 21.00
Pera 77, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Orchestral, piano concerto

Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra with Emre Şen
March 14, 2025 20.00
Atatürk Cultural Centre / Atatürk Kültür Merkezi (AKM), Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Piano & violin recital

Fazıl Say and Patricia Kopatchinskaya
March 14, 2025 21.00 (doors open 20.00)
Zorlu Performing Arts Centre (PSM), Levent, Istanbul
exhibition

The Volcano Lover

Galerist
March 13, 2025 – April 26, 2025
Galerist
Jazz

Sinan Altıparmak Quartet
March 13, 2025 21.00
Pera 77, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Performance

Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra
March 13, 2025
Chamber music

The Istanbul Youth Orchestra
March 12, 2025 20.00
Yeldeğirmeni Sanat Merkezi, Kadıköy, Istanbul
Recital

Sevil Ulucan Weinstein (violin), Gülru Ensari (piano)
March 12, 2025 20.00
Süreyya Opera House, Moda, Istanbul
Online, Talks and tours

Revisiting George Bethune English in the Ottoman World

Zoom Lecture with Eric Covey
March 11, 2025 6 pm U.K. time
Performance

Cem Babacan plays piano variations
March 11, 2025 20.30
Fulya Sanat (Süleyman Seba Sanat Merkezi), Beşiktaş, Istanbul
Performance

Emin Fındıkoğlu + 12
March 10, 2025 20.30
Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall (CRR), Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Retrospective

Belkıs Balpınar: Through Woven Times
March 6, 2025 – May 18, 2025
Anna Laudel, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Solo exhibition

Belkıs Balpınar: Through Woven Times

A retrospective
March 6, 2025 – May 18, 2025
Anna Laudel, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Art

Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye

Galeri Nev
February 25, 2025 – March 28, 2025
Galeri Nev Istanbul
New and Newest Music Festival

Arter
February 20, 2025 – February 23, 2025
Arter
Performance

Borusan String Quartet & Özgür Aydın
February 18, 2025 20.30
ENKA Sanat, Maslak, Istanbul
Performance

Coffee concert: ‘Coffee and Harmony’
February 16, 2025 11.00
Süreyya Opera House, Moda, Istanbul
Chamber music

Trio Emerant: Hommage à Bach
February 15, 2025 20:00
Yeldeğirmeni Sanat Merkezi, Kadıköy, Istanbul
Performance

Trio Ran plays Brahms & Mendelssohn
February 15, 2025 20.00
Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall (CRR), Maçka, Istanbul
talk

The ‘Second Phanar’: Constantinople Greeks and Ottoman Sultans, 1821 to 1914

Dr.Philip Mansel talks at Kings College
February 12, 2025 6 pm U.K. time
London
Chamber Music

Yağmur Tuna and Özgür Deniz Akalın

Violin & piano recital
February 12, 2025 20.00
Yeldeğirmeni Sanat Merkezi, Kadıköy, Istanbul

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Past events

Performance

Atatürk Cultural Centre / Atatürk Kültür Merkezi (AKM), Beyoğlu, Istanbul

Istanbul Music Festival

Zorlu Performing Arts Centre (PSM), Levent, Istanbul

Performance

Beyoğlu, Istanbul

Performance

Istanbul Music Festival

Süreyya Opera House, Kadıköy, Istanbul

Orchestral, piano concerto

Istanbul Music Festival

Atatürk Cultural Centre / Atatürk Kültür Merkezi (AKM), Beyoğlu, Istanbul

Children's event

Istanbul Music Festival

Beşiktaş, Beşiktaş, Istanbul

Performance

Zorlu Performing Arts Centre (PSM), Levent, Istanbul

Performance

Istanbul Music Festival

Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall (CRR), Maçka, Istanbul

Performance

Istanbul Music Festival

Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall (CRR), Maçka, Istanbul

Opening Concert

Istanbul Music Festival

Atatürk Cultural Centre / Atatürk Kültür Merkezi (AKM), Beyoğlu, Istanbul

Traditional music

Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Emirgan, Istanbul

LECTURE

BIAA London Lecture

British Academy, London

Orchestral, violin concerto

Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall (CRR), Maçka, Istanbul

Performance

Asa-Khai Jazz Club, Karaköy, Istanbul

Hyrbid talk (online and in person)

How the nineteenth century Eastern Question was transformed by spectacle, song and dance

Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), London

Recital by violin duo

Coffee Concerts Series

Süreyya Opera House, Moda, Istanbul

Piano Recital

Romanticism on the Piano

Atatürk Cultural Centre / Atatürk Kültür Merkezi (AKM), Beyoğlu, Istanbul

Chamber music

Tenor & piano recital

Minoa Pera Bookshop & Café, Beyoğlu, Istanbul

Coffee Concert series

The Bosphorus Trio

Atatürk Cultural Centre / Atatürk Kültür Merkezi (AKM), Beyoğlu, Istanbul

Jazz

Zorlu Performing Arts Centre (PSM), Levent, Istanbul

Orchestral, cello concerto

Atatürk Cultural Centre / Atatürk Kültür Merkezi (AKM), Beyoğlu, Istanbul

Art, Contemporary art

Dirimart Pera, Beyoğlu, Istanbul

Art, Auction

Bonhams New Bond Street, London

Panel

Martyn Rix, Christabel Frances King, Gülnur Ekşi Bona, Hülya Korkmaz, Işık Güner

SALT Beyoğlu, Beyoğlu, Istanbul

Orchestral Concert

Jazz Wind

Yeldeğirmeni Sanat Merkezi, Kadıköy, Istanbul

Performance

Cuban Classics

Zorlu Performing Arts Centre (PSM), Levent, Istanbul

Yüzyılın Yankıları (‘The Century’s Echoes’)

Zorlu Performing Arts Centre (PSM), Levent, Istanbul

Online, Talks and tours

Italian Photographer Elisa Zonaro in Ottoman Istanbul

London

Jazz

Bova Jazz Club, Beyoğlu, Istanbul

Chamber music

Brahms Romanticism

Süreyya Opera House, Moda, Istanbul