BOSPHORUS QUARTET TO PERFORM IN YEREVAN ON JUNE 18
Support A1+!The esteemed Bosphorus Quartet from Istanbul, Turkey, will perform at Komitas Chamber Music Hall in Yerevan at 19:00 on June 18, 2008. The concert is part of a cultural exchange between Armenia and Turkey made possible by Eurasia Partnership Foundation (EPF), in cooperation with the United States Agency for International Development and the Komitas State Quartet NCSO. As part of the exchange, the Yerevan Komitas State Quartet performed in Istanbul on June 13, 2008.
The Bosphorus Quartet will perform pieces by European, Turkish, and Armenian composers: Debussy’s “Quartet”, Shostakovich’s “String Quartet No. 8”, Selman Ada’s “Kleine Jazz Suite”, Serdar Yalçýn’s “Together and Stringed Songs” and, as an encore, Komitas/Aslamazyan’s “Habrban.” The Quartet, managed by Murat Gurol, brings together Seda Subaşi, 1st violin; Ceren Gűrkan, 2nd violin; Deniz Yűcel, viola; and Rahşan Apay, cello.
The two concerts will continue the 2002 musical exchange between the Komitas State Quartet and their Turkish counterparts. “This project intends to forge a musical bridge between Armenia and Turkey, celebrating the artists of each country while establishing a practice of cultural cooperation,” says Gevorg Ter-Gabrielyan, Country Director of Eurasia Partnership Foundation in Armenia. “EPF believes that supporting cross-border grass-roots initiatives between Armenian and Turkish civil society activists, businessmen, journalists, and artists will accelerate the normalization of relations between the two countries.”
The concert is part of Eurasia Partnership Foundation’s Armenia-Turkey Initiative, which promotes improved dialogue and cooperation between representatives of the non-government, government and private sectors in Armenia and their Turkish counterparts.
