World stars to come to Turgutreis for festival

The 10th D-Marin Turgutreis International Classical Music Festival will begin July 31 with the world premiere of Fazıl Say’s ‘The Boy on the Dolphin’s Back’ The D-Marin Turgutreis International Classical Music Festival will once again bring international stars to the southwestern resort town of Bodrum’s Turgutreis between July 31 and Aug. 3 for its 10th edition.

Admitted to the European Festivals Association (EFA) as a member in 2009 and with Yücel Canyaran undertaking its artistic direction, the D-Marin Turgutreis International Classical Music Festival will host prominent names of classical music this year as well. The event, which has attracted prominence in its own field both nationally and internationally, has so far reached more than 140,000 people with the participation of over 3,000 artists.

This year the festival will host internationally acclaimed pianist Fazıl Say. The world premiere of “The Boy on the Dolphin’s Back” that Say composed with inspiration from the “Myth of the Dolphin and Hermias” will be on stage on July 31.

The mythological story tells the friendship between a boy, who becomes lost after going swimming with his friends in the Güllük Gulf, and a dolphin, which presumably saved him by taking him on his back. At the end of the story the lifeless bodies of these two friends are encountered but one can see how happy they were from their faces.

The Presidential Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Naci Özgüç, will accompany Say at the festival’s gala concert.  Selçuk Yöntem will narrate the work, scripted by playwright Özen Yula. Serenad Bağcan and a child soloist from the...