The
Istanbul Music Festival sponsored by Borusan Holding since 2006
will be held between 4 and 29 June around the theme “Time and
Transformation”. Programme of the 41st Istanbul Music
Festival was announced with a press meeting with the participation of
İKSV Chairman Bülent Eczacıbaşı, Borusan Holding Member of
the Board
of Directors and Borusan Culture and
Arts Chair of the Board of Directors Zeynep Hamedi
and Istanbul Music Festival Director Yeşim Gürer Oymak.
The
41st Istanbul Music Festival will host approximately 500
local and foreign artists including Vadim Repin, Maxim Vengerov,
Shlomo Mintz, Mario João Pires, Khatia Buniatishvili, Magdelena
Kožená, Kim Kashkashian, Sol Gabetta, and two of world’s leading
orchestras, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Munich Chamber
Orchestra inIstanbul.
22
concerts in total including orchestral concerts, chamber music,
recitals, and original programmes will take place within the
41st Istanbul Music Festival. The festival, aiming to
embrace the city and meet the audience in different venues, will use
the Surp Vortvots Vorodman Church for the first time this year. Hagia
Eirene Museum, Süreyya Opera House, Lütfi Kırdar
International Convention and
Exhibition Center, Galata Mevlevi House Museum, Galata Rum Elementary
School, Istanbul Modern, and İş Sanat Cultural Center
will be among the venues of the festival.
The
41st Istanbul Music Festival, aiming to contribute to the
contemporary music repertory with its commissions, will host various
Turkey and world premieres. The world premiere of “Nasreddin Hodja”
commissioned to the esteemed composer Kamran İnce by the festival
will be performed by Berlin Counterpoint Ensemble. The Turkey
premiere of Cello Concerto, co-commissioned with the Amsterdam
Sinfonietta, Amsterdam Cello Biennale and Toronto Symphony Orchestra,
will be performed by Sol Gabetta.
