DATE AND VENUE

4 June 2011, Hagia Eirene Museum

CONCERT INFO

BORUSAN ISTANBUL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
SASCHA GOETZEL conductor
LARA MELDA piano

CONCERT PRORGAMME

19.00 Cocktail
20.30 Ceremony
21.00 Concert

• Muammer Sun
  Izmir Rhapsody
• Edvard Grieg
  Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.16
• Sergei Prokofiev
  Scythian Suite, Op.20

Lasts 95’ inc. the ceremony.

Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra is the resident orchestra of the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts.

The 39th Istanbul Music Festival greets music lovers with BIPO’s performances, under the baton of Sascha Goetzel, of “Izmir Rhapsody” composed by Muammer Sun, recipient of the festival’s 2011 “Honorary Award”, and Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor, with a powerful interpretation by the young piano virtuoso Lara Melda, winner of 2010 BBC Young Musician Contest.