In this year's İstanbul Music Festival, there will be 21 events including, symphony and chamber orchestras, vocal concerts, chamber music, recitals and jazz improvisations. As an addition to the classic venues of the festival such as the Hagia Eirene Museum, Archeology Museum, Tiled Kiosk, and Süreyya Opera House, Haliç Convention Centre also participates in the festival this year.
The programme of the 38th International İstanbul Music Festival is announced in a press conference at Four Seasons Hotel İstanbul at the Bosphorus. IKSV Chairman of Board of Directors Bülent Eczacıbaşı, Borusan Culture and Arts Chair of the Board of Directors Zeynep Hamedi and İstanbul Music Festival Director Yeşim Gürer Oymak spoke at the press conference.
At the press conference, İKSV Chairman Bülent Eczacıbaşı said that "in 1973, the International Istanbul Music Festival became a major player in Istanbul's culture and artistic life, and has been presenting the very best in classical music since then. This established festival will rejoin music lovers for the 38th time between June 3 and June 30. This year's festival programme is rich with the maturity, innovative approach and ever-present enthusiasm of its experience of almost 40 years. As the festival benefits tradition, it makes way for up-and-coming talents and young musicians, artists from Turkey and abroad rub shoulders in inventive projects, presents preeminent classical music artists to the Istanbulite audience."
Chairperson for Borusan Center for Culture and Arts, Zeynep Hamedi stated that "it is our fifth year that we have been sponsoring the International Istanbul Music Festival, and we are more than happy to be supporting the festival and İKSV which are perhaps most influential and essential in promoting classical music to great masses, because we believe that the power of art is the foremost factor that would establish the appropriate environment of sustainable communication and understanding in making people come together. 2010 is significant in it that İstanbul is designated as the European Capital of Culture. At this special time, when all eyes turned to İstanbul thanks to the numerous activities of the European Capital of Culture, of which Borusan is one of the corporate sponsors, the Festival will be opening with the concert of the Borusan İstanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, the first of a very rich programme, worthy of 2010."
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