CONCERT INFO

KAAN BULAK & ENSEMBLE
Kaan Bulak piano and electronics
Moritz Ter-Nedden violin
Arianna Smith viola
Umut Sağlam cello
Benedek Devich double bass
SARAH ARISTIDOU soprano
THERESA MARIA FORTHAUS visual director
AMANDA DONATO dance

CONCERT PROGRAMME

• Kaan Bulak
  Piano Quintet No. 3 'Pendulum'
• Kaan Bulak
  Maison Lâle*

* World premiere

* Commissioned by Istanbul Music Festival

Duration: 75’ (w/o interval)

Maison Lâle brings together Kaan Bulak and his ensemble with soprano Sarah Aristidou in an immersive concert. Drawing on references that span from Anatolia’s ancient seasonal rites of death and rebirth to the tulip mania that swept 17th-century Europe, this new commission of the Istanbul Music Festival searches for a fleeting new home for a beauty once bound to impermanence, perhaps in the city’s most unsettling nocturnal corners.