Istanbul to host Grammy-winning performer Enrique Iglesias
Spanish-American performer Enrique Iglesias will take to the stage at Istanbul’s Kucukciftlik Park on August 19.
The 40-year-old singer performed duets with world-famous performers such Jennifer Lopez and Kylie Minogue on his latest album.
He recently tweeted on his official account: “Turkey! So excited to go back and see all of you!”
http://www.enriqueiglesias.com/
Istanbul Modern opens new exhibition
Istanbul Modern’s new collection invites art-lovers to examine “how artists position their work and themselves within the concept of time”.
The exhibition, which has run from August 7 and is called ‘Artists in Their Time’, consists of paintings, photographs and installations.
“It unites artists from very different periods, geographies and disciplines around common themes,” the museum.
The exhibition takes inspiration from the words by Turkey’s renowned 20th century writer Ahmet Hamid Tanpinar (1901-1962) who said: “I am neither within time nor completely outside of it.”
“Tanpinar’s views about time illuminate the process by which artists come to terms with the relationship of their work with the past, the present and the future,” added the statement.
The exhibition is curated by Levent Calikoglu and will gather 186 artworks from 115 artists.
http://www.istanbulmodern.org/tr
Rebetiko night in Istanbul
Athens-born Istanbul-based singer Vassiliki Papageorgiou will be performing at Nazim Hikmet Culture Center on the Anatolian side of Turkey’s largest city on August 15.
Papageorgiou will be performing songs by Roza Eskenazi who was one of the pioneers of the Greek ‘rebetiko’ style of music which was popular in Istanbul between 1920s and 1970s.
The Greek singer also writes and translates poets.
http://www.vassilikipapageorgiou.net/
Young Turkish musicians to perform in Istanbul
The Turkish National Youth Philharmonic Orchestra – consisting of 95 musicians aged between 16 and 22 – will take to the stage at Istanbul’s Zorlu Performing Arts Center on August 18.
All the participants of the orchestra are from conservatories across Turkey.
The orchestra began performing after a three-week preparation period, according to Zorlu.
Led by Turkey’s well-known conductor Cem Mansur, the orchestra has already performed in Vienna, Berlin, Amsterdam, Brussels, Florence, Essen and Dortmund.
http://www.zorlucenterpsm.com/en
