Izmir Europen Jazz Festival -- Izmir Foundation for Culture Arts and Education

The Izmir Foundation for Culture Arts and Education was founded to pursue all appropriate activities for arts and culture to be researched, studied, thought, learned, protected and extended to the general public. The foundation organizes two festivals each year; The International Izmir Festival and The Izmir European Jazz Festival. The Festival organized every year since 1994, aims to bring together masters and lovers of Jazz in attempt of generating feelings of love, friendship and peace. In the days Turkey’s EU membership started to be worded more often, what started as The “Izmir European Jazz Days” expanded both in content and duration to become The “Izmir European Jazz Festival”. Performers and bands coming from Turkey, France, Austria, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Slovakia and Switzerland with their experimental and electronic works constitute the finest examples of European Jazz. The festival which is organized in cooperation with the Austrian Culture Office, Izmir French Culture Institute, Italian Consulate in Izmir, Luxembourg Embassy, Luxembourg Honorary Consulate in Izmir and Luxembourg Export Office, Adam Mickiewicz Institute and Consulate General of Poland in Istanbul, Slovakian Honorary Consulate in Izmir and Consulate of Switzerland in Izmir is a showcase of European cultural collaboration.

26^th IZMIR EUROPEAN JAZZ FESTIVAL

2 – 20^th March 2019

Opening Concert

02^nd March 2019 Saturday • 20.00 • AASSM Concert Hall

FERİT ODMAN QUARTET

Engin Recepoğulları - saxophone

Ercüment Orkut - piano

Kağan Yıldız – double bass

Ferit Odman - drums

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04^th March 2019 Monday • 20.00 • AASSM Small Hall

JAZZ VIRTUOSO DUO

Gianni Oddi, saxophone soprano-alto

Alessandro Bonanno, piano

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07^th March 2019 Thursday • 20.00 • AASSM Small Hall

IRINA SARBU BAND

Irina Sârbu, vocal

Puiu Pascu, piano

Ciprian Parghel, double bass

Tudor Parghel, drums

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12^th March 2019 Tuesday • 20.00 • AASSM Small Hall

MARION RAMPAL TRIO

Marion Rampal, vocal

Pierre-François Blanchard, keyboard and vocal

Anne Paceo, drums and vocal

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14^th March 2019 Thursday • 20.00 • AASSM Small Hall

NU BASS

François Lindemann, piano & el. piano & composition

Amine Mraihi, lute

Olivier Clerc, drums

Patrick Perrier, bass & double bass

Ivor Malherbe, bass & double bass

16^th March 2019 Saturday • 20.00 • AASSM Small Hall

Christoph Irniger PILGRIM

“Crosswinds”

Christoph Irniger, tenor saxophone

Stefan Aeby, piano

Dave Gisler, guitar

Raffaele Bossard, bass

Michi Stulz, drums

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18^th March 2019 Monday • 20.00 • AASSM Small Hall

PURPLE IS THE COLOR

Simon Raab, piano Štěpán Flagar, saxophone Martin Kocián, bass Michał Wierzgoń, drums

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19^th March 2019 Tuesday • 20.00 • AASSM Small Hall

Timo Vollbrecht FLY MAGIC

Faces in Places - Painting Portraits of Humanity

Timo Vollbrecht, saxophone

Elias Stemeseder, piano & synth

Bernhard Meyer, bass

Sebastian Merk, drums

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ACTIVITIES

Exhibiton

02 – 20^th March 2019 * AASSM

17^th Jazz Poster Contest Exhibition

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10 – 20^th March 2019 * İKSEV

Write Stuff - A Jazz Writer is Rising

Ümit Tunçağ and Sirel Ekşi

(Open for journalism students)

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05 -06^th March 2019 Tuesday, Wednesday • 10.30 • İKSEV

JAZZ VIRTUOSO DUO WORKSHOP

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06^th March 2019 Wednesday • 19.30 • AASSM Small Hall

JAM SESSION WITH JAZZ VIRTUOSO DUO

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09^th March 2019 Saturday •10.30 – 15.00 • İKSEV

LINDYHOP WORKSHOP

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09^th March 2019 Saturday •13.00 – 19.30 • Edit & Chill

PUBLIK MARKET JAZZ EDITION

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09^th March 2019 Saturday • 19.30 • AASSM Small Hall

Conducted by Timuçin Şahin

YASAR UNIVERSITY JAZZ ENSEMBLE

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11^th March 2019 Monday • 19.30 • İKSEV

SEMINAR

“ON LIBERATION OF SOUND AND ITS TWO LİBERATORS”

About John Cage, Morton Feldman, John Coltrane

Speaker: Timuçin Şahin

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13^th March 2019 Wednesday • 16.00 • İKSEV

NU BASS Jazz Workshop

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13^th March 2019 Wednesday • 19.30 • Institut Francais Turquie

10th Anniversary of His Death

MICHEL PETRUCCIANI

Director: Michael Radford

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16^th March 2019 Saturday • İKSEV

PILGRIM Jazz Workshop

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20^th March 2019 Wednesday • 10.00 • İKSEV

TIMO VOLLBRECHT - FLY MAGIC Jazz Workshop