Hezarfen Ensemble
Michael Ellison conductor
Nazlı Deniz Boran soprano
Kaija Saariaho
Grammaire des Rêves (1988-89)*
Karen Tanaka
Invisible Curve (1996~1999)*
Turgut Pöğün
New Composition**
Salvatore Sciarrino
Caprices for Violin, I, II, III (1976)*
Michael Ellison
Kubla Khan***
Lasts 60’without interval.
* Turkish Premiere
** Commissioned by the Istanbul Music Festival, World Premiere
*** World Premiere
Pre-concert lecture with Michael Ellison and Turgut Pöğün
20.00–20.45, santralistanbul-Energy Museum Control Room
To be held in Turkish.
Grammar of Dreams invites its listeners through a world of sounds that is emotional, full of life, and adorned with mysteries. The Hezarfen Ensemble together with Nazlı Deniz Boran, winner of 2008 Leyla Gencer Voice Competition will take music enthusiasts to a land where only the language of dreams is spoken. Don’t miss this avantgarde journey to the depths of your dreams with two world premieres and three Turkish premieres.