Istanbul Music Festival announces program

The Istanbul Music Festival, organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), announced its program at a press meeting on Feb. 5. The festival, to be held from June 11 to 30, will present a program built around this year's theme "Darkness of Being, Lightness of Being," which focuses on the dualities in life such as good-bad, happiness-sadness, birth-death, and their impact on music and its creation process. The festival aims to emphasize the importance of music as a means to enlightenment in times of darkness.