Hagia Irene Museum
Wednesday, June 18th, 20:00

Emre Elivar, piano

F. Mendelssohn
Variations Sérieuses, Re minor, Op. 54

J. Brahms
Variations on Paganini Theme,
I. and II. Book, Op. 35

L. Van Beethoven
Diabelli Variations, Op. 120

Crowning his career with many awards he has won in international competitions, pianist Emre Elivar attended the festival with a concert program of a virtual “tour de force’’. From Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations accepted to be the masterpiece of variation art to works by 19th century German Romanticism masters Mendelssohn and Brahms, this concert was where the excellent musician Elivar mesmerized the audience with a perfect technique…

Esma Sultan
Tuesday, June 26th, 21:00

Roby Lakatos – Conductor and violin
Laszlo Boni – 2nd violin
Robert Feher - Contrabass
Frantisek Janoska - Piano
Attila Ronto - Guitar
Jeno Istvan Lisztes - Vibraphone

French chansons, Russian songs and Gypsy melodies…

Roby Lakatos, the famous Violin Wizard of Hungary, is an artist challenging classic definitions with his strong virtuosity and versatile repertoire merging different styles. Lakatos, who’s admired by genius violinists like Yehudi Menuhin and Vadim Repin with a style compared to that of Stéphane Grapelli, became Deutsche Gramophone’s first “non-classical” “devil’s violinist’’ with deserved epithets such as the “gypsy genius, a classic virtuoso, a jazz musician and a talented composer’’. Developing a style where gypsy music and jazz elements intermingle, Lakatos has a unique technique that amazes even the best violinists when they see him for the first time, including a pizzicato he does with his left hand that spins around in a diabolic way.

Hagia Irene Museum
Saturday, June 10th, 20:00

Acadimia Chamber Orchestra
Alpaslan Ertüngealp - Conductor
Julian Rachlin - Violin

Mozart
Overture of "Die Entführung aus dem Serail" (The Abduction from the Saraglio)

Mozart, Violin Concerto No: 5 in A Major, “Turkish Concerto’’, KV 219
Haydn
Symphony No. 100 in G Minor, “Military”

Enjoying a worldwide fame with his awards in spite of his young age, conductor Alpaslan Ertüngealp was a guest of the festival with his orchestra. Julian Rachlin of Hungary who is one of the best violinists of his generation with his superior talent and the young and dynamic Acadimia Chamber Orchestra, one of whose founders was Julian Rachlin himself, performed the works of Mozart and Haydn in this concert.

Vladimir Spivakov – Violin & Conductor
Vladimir Krainev - Piano

Antonio Vivaldi – Violin concerto in E minor
Luigi Boccherini – Symphony No. 6 in D Minor, Op. 12
Alfred Schnittke – Concerto for Piano and Strings

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Serenade for Strings, Op, 48

The Moscow Virtuosos founded by one of the famous violinists of our day Vladimir Spivakov, following his first concert as a conductor with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival in 1979, is considered to be one of the most significant chamber orchestras all around the world.  Receiving invitations from all around the world since its foundation, Moscow Virtuosos have been on tours in many countries such as England, France, Germany and the USA in many continents such as Europe, America and Asia.

Lee Ragin - Countertenor
Florilegium – Chamber Orchestra
Ashley Solomon – Art Director

Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto in D Major, RV94
Georg Friedrich Handel - Cantata Mi palpitar il cor
Antonio Vivaldi – Variations on La Follia

Georg Friedrich Handel - Cantata: “Lungi da me pernsier tiranno’’
Antonio Vivaldi – Concerto in A Minor
Georg Philip Telemann – Aria from Flovio
Georg Friedrich Handel – Aria from Tamerlano

Derek Lee Ragin, who was one of the artists who sang the arias in the movie “Farinelli’’ that gained great appreciation when it was shown in our country in 90’s, brought the voice of the famous countertenor to Istanbul. He was accompanied by Florilegium, the famous English chamber orchestra that achieved a successful career for more than ten years. Florilegium received great praise from the audience and critics abroad especially with the refined interpretation they added to the works of art of Baroque Era…