Bilkent University started its academic year in a lively manner with many artistic and cultural activites. Two different kinds of musical performance were staged at the ODEON, with concerts from BASSO and the Kerem Görsev Trio Jazz concerts.
The ODEON, looking brilliant and exalted in the dark, cool evenings, hosted BASSO with soloist Cana Gürmen and the Kerem Görsev Jazz Trio. BASSO played excerpts from such ever-popular pieces as West Side Story by Bernstein, and a Polka by Strauss. Kerem Görsev, the famous Turkish jazz planist, performed pieces with his trio (mostly Kerem's own interpretations). Towards the end of the jazz concert, Kerem Görsev announced that one of the people whom he admired a great deal was in the audience and invited Prof. Erol Erdinç, Dean of FMPA, to the stage to play. Prof. Erdinç, surprised, 
stepped onto the stage and said, "Only Kerem would make such a cool night so warm!" and dedicated the piece he was about to play to Erkut Şahinbaş - the arthitect of the ODEON - who was also in the audience.
After Erdinç's performance. Görsev did not let him leave the stage and invited him to play a piano duet. Four hands performing "Autumn Leaves" was the highlight of the night, and received much applause. The musicians, playing in such harmony even switched seats to the audience's amazement, in the middle-without a pause!
Even though the nights were a bit chilly, the audience and the performers made it a heart-warming and memorable occasion.
