Classical music

The 43rd Istanbul Music Festival will host some 600 local and international artists in Istanbul between May 31 and June 29 The 43rd Istanbul Music Festival, organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (?KSV), will once again present music lovers with a jam-packed program this year between May 31 and June 29. The program was announced at a press meeting on Feb. 3.

BELGRADE - One of the best contemporary violinists Vadim Repin will appear on stage in the Ilija Kolarac Endowment and deliver a concert with the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra for the first time on Friday, February 6.

German prosecutors charged an 18-year-old man on Tuesday over the death of a young German-Turkish woman who has become a symbol of civic courage for giving her life trying to protect two teenage girls.
      

?zmir has launched a bid to boost its cultural life with a new music festival organized under the name of a famous pianist, the late Ahmet Adnan Saygun. Organized by the ?zmir Metropolitan Municipality, the Saygun Music Festival, which kicked off Feb. 2, will continue until Feb. 9 at the Ahmet Adnan Saygun Arts Center. 

BELGRADE- The New Symphonic Orchestra will hld its inaugural concert at the Kolarac Foundation in Belgrade, conducted by its founder, world renowned specialist in Baroque music, conductor and cellist Predrag Gosta.

BELGRADE - The Serbian music scene will get a new symphony orchestra that will stage its inaugural concert in the Ilija Kolarac Endowment on Saturday, January 31, with Predrag Goste as conductor.

Indian maestro Zubin Mehta will seek to inject what he says is some much-needed harmony into the world when he conducts the illustrious Vienna New Year’s Concert on Jan. 1.

BELGRADE - The Studio For Early Music, headed by world-renowned musician Predrag Gosta, will late Tuesday perform a concert featuring works created by baroque composers in celebration of the Christmas holidays.

BELGRADE - The Musical Confederation of France has chosen a sonata for bassoon and piano by Serbian composer Ivan Jevtic as a exam piece for students of third degree.

Jevtic has told Tanjug said that the final year students will be performing his sonata for bassoon and piano as an exam piece in 2015.

Jevtic's sonata has been published by Le chant du monde.

BELGRADE - Spanish tenor Placido Domingo, one of the most recognizable opera singers in the world, thrilled the audience at Belgrade's Kombank Arena.