Orchestra

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

When the New York Youth Symphony recorded its debut album during the pandemic's dark early days, violinist Jessica Jeon was just 12 years old.

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. 

Ahead of their first concert since the start of Russia's invasion, members of the Kiev Symphony Orchestra voice hope that their music will heal troubled souls and help boost Ukrainian culture.

A music teacher has formed a band with her young disciples, who are new to the world of music, in the eastern province of Şırnak's Uludere district, teaching them to play an instrument of their choice and taking them on a musical ride.

The Underground Youth Orchestra will be celebrating its 10-year anniversary with a concert at the Pireos Street annex of the Benaki Museum on Saturday, February 15. The band was originally formed by a group of children who would get together for rehearsals in a basement. To date, they have performed more than 60 concerts all over Greece.

At the concert in Sofia, Michael Bolton will be on the stage of Hall 1 of the National Palace of Culture with a team of ten musicians and four vocalists, the National Palace of Culture organizers announced.

Sitting in her sleek office with an immaculately polished grand piano, Milasinovic remembers when things were very different only a few years ago. "The 1990s were a very difficult time for Serbia," she says.

The Campion School Music Department presents its annual staff concert on Friday, January 25, with proceeds going toward the victims of last summer's deadly fires in eastern Attica.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra comes to the Athens Concert Hall on Thursday, December 13, with Sir Roger Norrington conducting a rare live performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, as well as his Leonore Overture. Turkish pianist Fazil Say will also be on stage on the night, performing Saint-Saens's Piano Concerto No 2. The concert starts at 8.30 p.m. and tickets cost 22-80 euros.