Musical instruments

The International Olympic Committee said Thomas Bach will have no opponents for his reelection as president in a vote scheduled in March.

More than 100 IOC members were told Bach is the only candidate for the presidential poll at their meeting due to be staged in Athens.

Masters of a musical instrument family popular in many Western Asian and Eastern Mediterranean countries will come together at an online festival organized by a music school based in Istanbul.

"We are organizing an online kamancha festival. It is going to be the first international effort in this field," Arslan Hazreti, kamancha artist and crafter, told Hürriyet Daily News.

Two musicians gave concerts on their terraces for their neighbors who cannot leave their homes due to stay-at-home orders, with a belly dancer accompanying them in Istanbul's Kadıköy district.

Alper Kalaycıklıoğlu and Hakan Kaya played upbeat music on their instruments to boost their neighbors' morale, as dancer Su Selda Uzun belly danced to their songs.

As April 15, World Art Day, which was celebrated at home as part of global epidemic measures this year, Borusan Contemporary opened its annual "Bill Viola: Impermanent" exhibition on Google Arts & Culture platform.

The Camerata - Friends of Music Orchestra Musicians revisits the baroque repertory on February 22, performing Bach's masterly concerti for two, three and four harpsichords on period instruments, under the baton of Markellos Chryssicos. The harpsichords will be played by Chryssicos, Panos Iliopoulos, Gerasimos Choidas, Jason Marmaras, Alexandros Mastichiadis and Elke Robersscheuten.

Thracian band Thrax Punks, known for their unique blend of psycho-punk and traditional Thracian music, will be at the Kyttaro Club in downtown Athens on Thursday, February 13.

Clarinetist Petroloukas Chalkias and laouto player Vasilis Kostas get together at the Emilios Riadis Hall of the Thessaloniki Concert Hall on Saturday, February 8, to perform "The Soul of Epirus," a concert constituting a dialogue between the two instruments.

A 27-year-old Turkish man has strummed his saz, a traditional stringed musical instrument also known as "bağlama," at one of the base camps of Mount Everest.

Greece's BYS Trio - Chrysostomos Boukalis on double bass, Kostas Yazoglou on piano and Nikos Sidirokastritis on drums - takes the stage at the Half Note jazz club with a tribute to Charlie Haden (1937-2014), an American jazz double bass player, bandleader, composer and educator whose career spanned more than 50 years. Their program will also include other composers whose work inspired Haden.

The festival will feature nine concerts, three courses run by acclaimed cello professors and a three-day workshop for young cellists from Slovenia, said the organisers.

The event is an occasion to celebrate cello and cellists, bringing together musicians from Slovenia and abroad, according to the festival's programme manager Karmen Pečar Koritnik.