Turkish Bosphorus Quartet performs in Yerevan

As part of EPF's Armenia-Turkey Dialogue and Cooperation Initiative, funded by USAID, the esteemed Bosphorus Quartet from Istanbul, Turkey performed at Komitas Chamber Music Hall in Yerevan on June 18, 2008. This was preceded by the Yerevan Komitas State Quartet's exchange performance in Istanbul on June 13.

The pair of concerts continued a musical exchange between the Komitas State Quartet and their counterparts in Turkey that began in 2002. "This project intends to forge a musical bridge between Armenia and Turkey, celebrating the artists of each country while establishing a practice of cultural cooperation," says Gevorg Ter-Gabrielyan, Country Director of Eurasia Partnership Foundation in Armenia. "EPF believes that supporting cross-border grass-roots initiatives between Armenian and Turkish civil society activists, businessmen, journalists, and artists will accelerate the normalization of relations between the two countries."

In Yerevan the Bosphorus Quartet performed pieces by European, Turkish, and Armenian composers: Debussy's "Quartet", Shostakovich's "String Quartet No. 8", Selman Ada's "Kleine Jazz Suite", Serdar Yalçýn's "Together and Stringed Songs" and, as an encore, Komitas/Aslamazyan's "Habrban." The Quartet, managed by Murat Gurol, brings together Seda Subaşi, 1st violin; Ceren Gűrkan, 2nd violin; Deniz Yűcel, viola; and Rahşan Apay, cello.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• armenia-turkey
• Komitas
• EPF
• Eurasia
• Partnership
• Foundation

[MrCaddeli]

rahşan apay..

[antronig]

Beautifully done!

[laguys818]

NICE!