DATE AND VENUE

21 June 2010, Hagia Eirene Museum

CONCERT INFO

MEMBERS OF BORUSAN ISTANBUL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
GÜRER AYKAL conductor
SPYROS SAKKAS baritone

MİMAR SİNAN UNİVERSİTY MİXED CHOİR AND CHİLDREN’S CHOİR
ERHAN TORLULAR conductor

MİXED CHOİR OF THE CİTY OF ATHENS
STAVROS BERİS conductor

TRT İSTANBUL CHİLDREN’S CHOİR
SÜHEYDA ŞANVER conductor
NAZAN AKIN pianist, lecturer
TUĞBA ERTAN trainer
NATASSA ZOUKA light design
AGHİS GİFTOPOULOS sound design

CONCERT PRORGAMME

• Iannis Xenakis
  Oresteia

Lasts 100’ inc. interval.

Previously staged in Greece with its theatrical interpretation, Iannis Xenakis’ Oresteia will be in İstanbul Music Festival with its new arrangement as a concertante. Based on Aiskhlos’ well-known tragedy, Xenakis combines vocal arts with instrumental music in this oratorio, which revolves around themes of democracy and peace. Under the stage direction of Athens Centre of Vocal Arts’ director and baritone Spyros Sakkas, the concert will be realised with the participation of Borusan İstanbul Philharmonic Orchestra members, under the baton of Gürer Aykal, Mimar Sinan University Mixed Choir, Children’s Choir from Turkey, and Mixed Choir of the City of Athens from Greece. A poetic narrative of hegemony, treachery, war, justice, democracy, and hope awaits its audience at the historical atmosphere of Hagia Eirene Museum.