Yo-Yo Ma

The Athens Epidaurus Festival (aefestival.gr) presents a spectacular show featuring three legends of classical music: The superstar classical trio of Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos and Yo-Yo Ma will perform on the stage of the Herodes Atticus Odeon (Dionysiou Aeropagitou) next to the Acropolis this summer. Each of these remarkable musicians is renowned for their virtuosity.

Conductor Ion Marin was presented today with the French Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters "for his immense career, for his tireless friendship for France, for the constant connection he has established" between France and Romania, as French ambassador in Bucharest Laurence Auer said at the award ceremony.

A Grammy-winner and a favourite of legendary conductor Zubin Mehta, the world-renowned violinist Midori is set to give a concert with the Sofia Philharmonic on 13 June. Under the baton of Maestro Nayden Todorov, she will perform Sergei Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1.

Turkey will feature renowned actor, director, and producer John Malkovich as part of the fourth Turkcell Platinum Istanbul Night Flight concerts. 

The event will kick off March 13 in Istanbul and will continue through Oct. 29 at Aya Irini and Lütfi Kırdar Convention and Exhibition Centre.

Hailed as one of the greatest living choreographers, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker has created a performance for Bach's Six Cello Suites, which she is bringing to Athens just days after Yo-Yo Ma presented his take on the series in the Greek capital.

Hailed as the world's greatest cellist, with more than 18 Grammy Awards and a multitude of other distinctions including the Polar Music Prize (2012) and the United States National Medal of the Arts (2001), Yo-Yo Ma is coming to Greece for what is one of the Athens Festival's fastest-selling shows.

Tickets for Greece's biggest annual cultural event, the Athens & Epidaurus Festival, go on sale on the organizer's Greek-English website (www.greekfestival.gr) on Monday.

World leaders gathered in the driving rain in Paris on Sunday to mark 100 years since the end of World War I, with host Emmanuel Macron warning against nationalism at a time of growing strain between Europe and Donald Trump's America, reports AFP. 

The In-Edit International Music Documentary Film Festival is running at Thessaloniki's Olympion cinema through Wednesday, April 5, with screenings of 18 films on iconic figures on the global music scene.

World renowned Israeli-American violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman will once again be in Istanbul for a concert on May 28 at Zorlu Center PSM. Perlman previously performed two sold-out concerts in the city in 2013 and 2014.