Symphony orchestras

The 38th International Ankara Music Festival, organized by the Sevda-Cenap And Music Foundation, will be held between April 4 and 30.

Under the baton of conductor Gürer Aykal, the Presidential Symphony Orchestra (CSO) performed a special concert in memory of İsmet İnönü, the second president of Türkiye, on the night of Dec. 22 at CSO Ada Ankara in the Turkish capital.

Renowned pianist Yefim Bronfman and Norwegian conductor Terje Mikkelsen join the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra at the northern port city's concert hall (tch.gr) on April 20. The Soviet-born Israeli-American soloist will be performing Schumann's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.

The second concert of the Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra (IDSO) Denizbank Concert will take place tonight at Atatürk Cultural Center. South Korean violinist Soyoung Yoon will perform works by Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss, as well as the violin concerto of Jean Sibelius, the founder of Finnish symphonic music at the concert, to be conducted by Rengim Gökmen.

Masters and young stars of classical music will meet with art lovers at the Opus Music Festival to be held in Bodrum Castle on Sept 9 and10. Young artists İlyun Bürkev, Ayşe Cemre Ağırgöl and Naz İrem Türkmen will take the stage at the festival on Sept 9. The event will host the 120-year-old German State Opera Chamber Orchestra on Sept 10. Under the baton of conductor Gürer Aykal.

Veteran musician and conductor Professor Rengim Gökmen says that music is an art that soothes harsh and violent feelings of human beings and penetrates into their souls. 

A woman has been appointed for the very first time as the manager of the Turkish Presidential Symphony Orchestra (CSO) since the institution's establishment in 1826.

Flute artist Sibel Ayhan Bayer will serve in the CSO's top post for a year.

"We have many female artists in the orchestra, and I think women can also succeed in management," Bayer told Demirören News Agency.

Instruments that have been used by the Presidential Symphony Orchestra (CSO) throughout its nearly 200-year history, various documents and belongings of the orchestra are presented to the visitors at the CSO1826 Exhibition Area in Turkish capital Ankara.

The CSO Ada Ankara, where the Presidential Symphony Orchestra (CSO) started hosting music lovers last year, has become the capital's cultural island and is preferred by world-renowned artists.

CSO Ada Ankara, which is the new building of the Presidential Symphony Orchestra and is expected to be one of the few music centers in the world, will host many different music genres in September, bringing world-famous names to the stage.

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