DATE AND VENUE

11 June 2013, Hagia Eirene Museum

CONCERT INFO

MONTSERRAT FIGUERAS concept

HESPÈRİON XXI
MARC MAUİLLON voice
LİOR ELMALEH voice
GÜRSOY DİNÇER voice
IRİNİ DEREBEİ voice
NEDYALKO NEDYALKOV kaval
HAKAN GÜNGÖR qanun
YURDAL TOKCAN oud
HAÏG SARİKOUYOUMDJİAN duduk
DİMİTRİ PSONİS santur & morisca
FAHRETTİN YARKİN percussion
VALERİ DİMCHEV tambura
PEDRO ESTEVAN percussion
ZACHARİAS SPYRİDAKİS lira

JORDİ SAVALL vielle, rebec & direction

CONCERT PRORGAMME

“The Cycles of Life in the Mosaic of the Balkan Peoples”

Introduction: The Creation of the Universe
1 Birth, Infancy, and Spring
2 Youth, Learning, and Adolescence
3 Love, the Meeting
4 Marriage, the Family
5 Work, Maturing, and Exile
6 Experience, Wisdom
7 Spirituality, Death
Postlude

Focusing on “Time and Transformation” in its 41st edition, the Istanbul Music Festival presents the music lovers a specially tailored programme illustrating the cycles of life - conceived by the late Montserrat Figueras and performed by the Istanbul Music Festival 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Jordi Savall’s Hespèrion XXI, which explores and fashions a universe of emotions and beauty.