This year’s İKSV Istanbul Music Festival, the 53rd in the series, is scheduled to run from June 11 to 26. Organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İstanbul Kültür Sanat Vakfı or ...

The Bulgarian National Philharmonic Choir will first sing Toprak Sever İnsanları Birer Birer (‘Earth Loves People One By One’), a newly-commissioned work by the contemporary Turkish composer Hasan ...

A hip-hop dance workshop in Yıldız Park, organised for children aged 7-9, that aims to ‘enhance children’s sense of rhythm and music while fostering their creativity’. The workshop, for which ...

I cannot conclude without a word about her daughter Ayşe Gencer, whose death was a sad loss to Turkish jazz. May she, too, rest in peace! In the following recording, she is singing 'How Do You Keep ...

Cornucopia: Turkey for Connoisseurs. June 21, 2025 20.00 Tickets from Passo Prices: 1000TL, 1200TL, 1500TL (Altın Destek – ‘Golden Support’), 2000 (Platinum Destek – ‘Platinum Support’) Eczacıbaşı ...

In this, the closing concert of the Festival, the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Carlo Tenan, accompanies the Slovak Philharmonic Choir and soloists Claudia Pavone (soprano), ...

In this concert of the shared traditional music of the Turkish and Greek peoples at the Kınalıada Christos Greek Orthodox Monastery, Çağlar Fidan (vocals, kanun and tambourine) and Ezgi Köker (vocals ...

Selections from Heitor Villa-Lobos’s nine Bachianas Brasileiras suites; David Popper’s Hungarian Rhapsody, Opus 68; Michel Portal’s Cuba si, Cuba no; an arrangement by Vincent Peirani of Kryštof ...

The website of Geneva Camerata (GECA), an ensemble that gives ‘multidisciplinary performances that merge music, dance, theatre and circus’, tells us that they are ‘proud to collaborate with ...

The ‘La Venexiana’ ensemble – Emanuela Galli and Agnese Allegra (sopranos), Giacomo Schiavo (tenor), Gabriele Palomba (theorbo and conductor) and Dario Carpanese (harpsichord) – perform music by the ...

Register here Booking is essential and the presentations are free for members. Lives Between the Lines: Reflections on Levantine culture and it’s meaning today, a talk by Michael Vatikiotis will be on ...

Istanbul Music Festival June 22, 2025 ...