36. INTERNATIONAL IZMIR FESTIVAL

36. INTERNATIONAL IZMIR FESTIVAL
2 June – 11 July 2023

Opening Concert
Friday, June 2, 2023 ● AASSM Great Hall ● 21.00
DR. NEJAT F. ECZACIBAŞI NATIONAL COMPOSITION CONTEST CONCERT
IZMIR STATE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Oguzhan Balci, coundoctor
Program
Hasan Niyazi Tura
Violin Concerto - Soloist: Can Özhan
Arda İşkol
Violin Concerto - Soloist: Özgecan Günöz

Sunday, June 4, 2023 ● Ephesus Grand Theater ● 21.00
MEETING IN ANCIENT THEATER
TEKFEN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Aziz Shokhakimov, chief
Veriko Tchumburidze, violin
Program
Hasan Ucarsu
Portraits (Orchestral Suite)
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op.35
Zoltan Kodaly
Galanta Dance's

Wednesday, June 7, 2023 ● Izmir Historical Agora ● 21.00
HATAY ACADEMY ORCHESTRA
Ali Ugur, founder, conductor

Tuesday, June 13, 2023 ● Izmir Historical Agora ● 21.00
LA CANTIGA DE LE SERENA – Zero Nove Nove
Fabrizio Piepoli, vocals, santur, shruti box, guitar, tar
Giorgia Santoro, flute, bass flute, bansuri, xiao (Chinese flute), Irish flute, cymbal
Adolfo La Volpe, lute, Corsican cittern, bouzouki, guitar

Thursday, June 15, 2023 ● AASSM Great Hall ● 21.00
L’ACHÉRON
“LACHRIMAE LYRAE - TEARS OF EXILE”
François Joubert-Caillet, viola and bandleader
Andreas Linos, tenor viola
Marie-Suzanne de Loye, bass viola
Nolwenn Le Guern, bass viola
Sokratis Sinopoulos, Istanbul kemençe

Tuesday, June 20, 2023 ● Çeşme Castle ● 21.00
SINGER PUR
“FIELDS OF GOLD”
“Through vocal music with Sting”
Claire Elizabeth Craig, soprano
Christian Meister, tenor
Marcel Hubner, tenor
Manuel Warwitz, tenor
Jakob Steiner, baritone
Felix Meybier, bass

Thursday, June 22, 2023 ● Celcus Library ● 21.00
WIENER KAMERSYMPHONIE
Luis Morais, violin
Estelle Demetria Weber, violin
Giorgia Veneziano, viola
Sergio Mastro, cello
Damian Saul Posse Robles, double bass

Program
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Impromptu in c minor op. 90/1 (D 899)
-Allegro molto moderato

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony Nr. 82 in c major “the bear” (String Quintet version by Marco Ozbic)
Vivace assai/ Allegretto/ Menuet/ Vivace

Intermission

Stefan Pelzl (1955- )
Portrait in three colours (dedicated to the Wiener Kammersymphonie)

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957)
Fairy Tales (Märchenbilder)
-Holzapfel und Schlehwein.Grotesker Trauermarsch
-Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse.Andantino
-Wichtelmännchen.Molto vivace
-Im Garten.Andante
-Mummenschanz.Vivace

Thursday, July 6, 2023 ● Celcus Library ● 21.00
PENDERECKI TRIO
“Special Project to Commemorate the 90th Anniversary of Krzysztof Penderecki”
Leticia Moreno, violin
Claudio Bohorquez, cello
Łukasz Krupiński, piano

Program
Krzysztof Penderecki
Chaconne – arrangement for piano trio
Frédéric Chopin
G minor for Piano and Cello, Op. 65, CT. 204
Jozef Wieniawski
Piano Trio

Saturday, July 8, 2023 ● Çeşme Castle ● 21.00
PEDRO JÓIA, guitar

Tuesday, July 11, 2023 ● AASSM Great Hall ● 21.00
DUO ALLATURCA IMPRO PIANO
“VARIATIONS IN MUSIC MUSIC” – WORLD PREMIERE
Cemile Cabbar & Nihat Demirkol, piano
Program
"From Fasıl to concerto... Peşrev, medhal, saz semaîsi, longa, sirto and Azerbaijani mahns"