Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, February 6, 7 and 8, 10:30 a.m.
Bilkent Concert Hall
Youth Concerts
Burak Noyan, narrator
Thursday, February 14, 8 p.m.
Bilkent Concert Hall
Valentine’s Day Concert
Ayyub Guliyev, conductor
Feryal Türkoğlu, soprano
Ferda Yetişer, mezzo-soprano
Arda Doğan, tenor
Umut Kosman, baritone
W.A. Mozart, Overture and “Madamina il catologo è questo” from “Don Giovanni”
C. Saint Saens, “Mon coeur s’ouvre a ta voix” from “Samson et Dalila”
G. Verdi, “Ella mi fu rapita … possente amor mi chiama” from “Rigoletto”
F. Lehar, “Meine Lippen sie küssen so heiss” from “Giuditta”
G. Bizet, Overture, Habanera and “Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre” from “Carmen”
L. Delibes, “Viens, Mallika” from Lakmé
A. Lara, “Granada”
E. Kálmán, “Heia, in den Bergen” from “Die Csárdásfürstin”
F. Lehar, “Dein ist mein ganzes Herz” from “Das Land des Lächelns”
G. Rossini, Overture from “The Barber of Seville”
J. Bock, “If I were a rich man” from “Fiddler on the Roof”
F. Lehar, “Lippen schweigen” from “The Merry Widow”
G. Verdi, Quartet from “Rigoletto”
Wednesday, February 20, 8 p.m.
Bilkent Concert Hall
Bilkent Music Days IV
“A Journey From the 19th to the 20th Century”
Bosphorus Trio
Özgür Ünaldı, piano
Özgecan Günöz, violin
Çağlayan Çetin, violoncello
A. Dvorak, Piano Trio No. 3 in F minor, Op. 65
Agora Piano Quartet
Arkın Akçagül, piano
Korcan Köstük, violin
Semih Tercan, viola
Yaşar Köroğlu, violoncello
J. Turina, Piano Quartet in A minor, Op. 67
G. Mahler, Piano Quartet in A minor
A. Schnittke, Piano Quartet
Monday, February 25, 8 p.m.
Bilkent Concert Hall
In Memory of İhsan Doğramacı
Gürer Aykal, conductor
Elvin Hoxha Ganiyev, violin
Emre Yavuz, piano
E. Chausson, “Poème,” Op. 25
S. Rachmaninov, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43
J. Brahms, Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73
Wednesday, February 27, 8 p.m.
Bilkent Concert Hall
Bilkent Music Days IV
Tribute to Hoca Bey
Bilkent Youth Symphony Orchestra
Rustam Rahmedov, conductor
Bilkent FMPA Soloists
F. Schubert, Symphony No. 8 “Unfinished,” D. 759
Wednesday, February 6
“Cancer Immunotheraphy and the 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine,” by Prof. Emin Kansu (Hacettepe University; President of the International Society of Hematology), at UNAM, SU-01, 3:40 p.m. Organized by the Faculty of Science.
Friday, February 15
“Robotics Goes Soft: Challenges and Achievements, for New Robotics Scenarios,” by Prof. Cecilia Laschi (The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy), at Mithat Çoruh Auditorium, 10:40 a.m.
Youth Orchestra Auditions This Week
All who are interested in joining the Bilkent Youth Symphony Orchestra are invited to audition for the ensemble this week.
Applicants may perform a sonata, concerto, or equivalent work for orchestral instruments. The audition is open to all high school and university students at Bilkent.
The auditions will take place on Thursday, February 7 from 4 to 7 p.m. in room 215 of the Music Building.
For more information, please contact mssf@bilkent.edu.tr.