Events

The day before the international TROMP competition, the Croatian-Turkish winner of the last edition kicked off the ten-day top-level percussion event. Emil Kuyumcuyan also won the Stockholm International Music Competition and was a celebrated guest performer at the Lucerne Festival Academy and the Venice Biennial.

Programme:

I S T A N B U L | the roots

in collaboration with GRAME (Centre National de Création Musicale) Lyon
video: Vitali Chiose, Klara Kuyumcuyan, Şabuh Mıgırdiç Kuyumcuyan

Brad Mehldau - Waltz for J.B.

Emil Kuyumcuyan - Youth

Thierry de Mey - Silence Must Be!

Adrien Trybucki - Mutatis Mutandis European première

Emil Kuyumcuyan - De Tuin

"Istanbul, end or beginning of a new world? The end of one world, the start of another ... The Istanbul inhabitants feel a sense of loss of a way of life, a story, a city. Is it a simple evolution or a brutal and irreversible destruction?"

During his show, Emil Kuyumcuyan transports us into his complex and contrasting feelings. It immerses us in the evolution of Istanbul through current clichés, but also in the past with precious family videos of the 60s accompanied by his compositions and music of today.

Is a new vivacity and a second energy seizing the city of the three empires?

Download programme notes (in Dutch) as .pdf.