 It is time for our spring concerts. İstanbul European Choir is performing "Messa di Requiem" of Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti at the traditional spring concerts. This work has been performed very few times in the whole world ever, and we are presenting to Istabul music lovers on May 29th and 30th 2009. Conductor: Gökçen Koray Pianist: Sergei Gavrilov Soloists: Soprano Otilia İpek, Alto Aylin Ateş, Tenor Turgut İpek, 1st Bass Fatih Çakmak, 2nd Bass Erhan Kibaroğlu Time: 9.00 pm.
Tickets: Free entrance Date: Saturday 30th, May 2009 Time: 9.00 pm.
Tickets: Free entrance |
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 Unfinished requiem in D minor, chorus & orchestra (for his friend and composer Bellini) contains: "Judex ergo", "Domine Jesu Christe" and "Ingemisco". The requiem is dedicated to Donizetti's friend Vincenzo Bellini (1801 - 1835). |
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 Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797, Bergamo – 8 April 1848, Bergamo) was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. Donizetti's most famous work is Lucia di Lammermoor (1835). Along with Vincenzo Bellini and Gioacchino Rossini, he was a leading composer of bel canto opera. |
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 Carmina Burana also known as the Burana Codex is a manuscript collection, now in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, of more than 1000 poems and songs written in the early 13th century. The Latin title Carmina Burana or Songs of Beuern was assigned by Johann Andreas Schmeller in 1847.
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 Carl Orff (July 10, 1895 – March 29, 1982) is a 20th-century German composer, most famous for Carmina Burana (1937). He was also successful and influential in the field of music education. Orff was born in Munich, Germany and came from a Bavarian family that was very active in the German military.
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 The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 is the last complete symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Completed in 1824, it includes part of the Ode An die Freude ("Ode To Joy") by Friedrich Schiller, with text sung by soloists and a chorus in the last movement. It is the first example of a major composer using the human voice on the same level with instruments in a symphony.
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 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), the second-oldest child of the court musician and tenor singer Johann van Beethoven, was born in Bonn. Ludwig's father drilled him thoroughly with the ambition of showcasing him as a child prodigy. Ludwig gave his first public performance as a pianist when he was eight years old.
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 Though Giacomo Puccini is famous for his contribution to the world of opera through such works as La Boheme, Tosca, Madame Butterfly and Turandot, he actually began his musical career playing and composing church music.
The son of a well known composer and organist, he followed the family tradition, becoming organist of San Martino in Lucca, Italy, at the age of 14.
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 (born Lucca, 22 December 1858; died Brussels, 29 November 1924).
After studying music with his uncle, Fortunato Magi, and with the director of the Instituto Musicale Pacini, Carlo Angeloni, he started his career at the age of 14 as an organist at St. Martino and St. Michele, Lucca, and at other local churches. However, a performance of Verdi's Aida at Pisa in 1876 made such an impact on him that he decided to follow his instinct for operatic composition.
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 Have you ever visited www.mymerhaba.com? It is a website that offers detailed information for foreigners living in Turkey about life in general, in three languages. It also includes updated events calendars for Istanbul and Ankara. |
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