What a privilege it was to be listening to a concert on the Fıstıklı Terrace of the Sakıp Sabancı Museum in Emirgan.Tellerin Aşkı* (‘Strings in Love’) is a performance by an ensemble of traditional ...

It was a great privilege to be on the Fıstıklı Terrace of the Sakıp Sabancı Museum in Emirgan once again, this time to listen to a concert of pieces performed on traditional Turkish and Azeri ...

Next, one of Mr Sárik’s own compositions – Do You Remember. To my mind, the accompaniment in the left hand shows how strongly he has been influenced by Bartók’s characteristic leaning towards ...

This recital, one of the Türk Telekom Prime Coffee Concerts, features soprano Mine Kurtoğlu, bass Tuncay Kurtoğlu and pianist Melahat Ismayilova. They will perform arias by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, ...

Volkan Öztem is one of Turkey’s foremost jazz and pop percussionists. His playing has both technical excellence and subtlety – he varies the timing of the cymbal hits each time the main theme of the ...

In this recital, subtitled ‘Beethoven ve Prokofyev’in Duygusal Yolculuğu’ (Beethoven and Prokofiev’s Emotional Journey), pianist Burçin Büke is to play Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No 23 in F minor, Opus ...

This concert commemorates the violin virtuoso Suna Kan, who passed away in June 2023. Born in Adana in 1936, she received her initial training at the Ankara State Conservatoire. At the age of nine she ...

Tamerlano ran for two nights on the 2nd and 3rd October, to coincide with the Fourth World Conference on Creative Economy, hosted in Tashkent. Zenia Duell is a communications consultant, history ...

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 ...

The Bilkent Ensemble, consisting of Svetlana Rebresh (violin), Anna Chebukova (violin), Tijana Šilinger (viola), Doğuş Ergin (cello) and Cihan Yücel (piano), are to perform César Franck’s Piano ...

In this ‘Coffee Concert’, violinist Hakan Şensoy and cellist Bernhard Lörcher (a soloist with the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra) play works by Mozart – his String Duo No 1 in G major, K 423, a ...

This concert is part of the ‘Istanbul Culture Route Festival’ (İstanbul Kültür Yolu Festivali). Programme: not yet available. The Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin or ‘Berlin Philharmonic’ was ...