BAUART February Events Calendar

The February events calendar of the Bahçeşehir University Arts Events Unit (BAUART) has been announced.

BAUART's February events begin with the Michael Chekhov Acting Workshop. Next, the BAU Chamber Orchestra will present Karl Jenkins' masterpiece "Stabat Mater" to audiences. February's concerts will then conclude with the Chamber Orchestra's "Symphonic Fasıl" concert. In addition, auditions will be held in February to find new choristers for the BAU Voice of Civilizations Choir.

INTERNATIONAL MICHAEL CHEKHOV WORKSHOP 2016

As part of BAUART's February events, the Michael Chekhov Acting Training, held in Istanbul every year since 2012 in collaboration with the International Michael Chekhov Hamburg Workshop and Kumbaracı50, is organizing parallel workshops at Kumbaracı50 and BAU Galata this year in collaboration with BAUART. The program is also supported by the Goethe-Institut. The content of the module titled "Making Contact: Poetic Images" consists of Concentration, Imagination, Psychophysical Exercises, Signs in Poetry, Movement, Quality of Movement, Qualities, Sensations, Feelings and Ensemble Movement.

The workshops will be led by Ulrich Meyer-Horsch from Hamburg and Jobst Langhans from Berlin over five days, from 30 January to 3 February. Participants will work on a Nazım Hikmet poem of their choice; the workshop will be conducted in English with consecutive interpretation.

A MAGNIFICENT MASTERPIECE AT BAU: KARL JENKINS' "STABAT MATER"

"Stabat Mater," one of the masterpieces of Welsh composer Karl Jenkins, who has won great acclaim in world music circles with renowned works such as Adiemus and Requiem, will meet Istanbul music lovers on the evening of Wednesday, 10 February at the Bahçeşehir University Beşiktaş Campus.

For its first concert of the new year, the Bahçeşehir Chamber Orchestra hosts the Istanbul European Choir, which recently gave the Turkish premiere of the work, together with outstanding soloists. Conducted by Cemi'i Can Deliorman, the concert's soloists are soprano Nurdan Küçükekmekçi Aydın, a beloved name of the opera stage, ethnic soloist Canan Özgür and ney player Ahmet Cemal Öksüz.

"SYMPHONIC FASIL" AT BAU

In February, the BAU Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Cemi'i Can Deliorman, will present a recital with pianist Hakan Ali Toker. The concert, to be held on Thursday, 25 February 2016 at 20:00 in Conference Hall B, can truly be described as a "symphonic fasıl."

The concert program includes the songs Senede Bir Gün, Ayrılık Valsi, Huysuz ve Tatlı Kadın, Yıldızların Altında, Kimseye Etmem Şikâyet, Yine Bir Gülnihal and Bekledim de Gelmedin.

BAU VOICE OF CIVILIZATIONS CHOIR SEEKS NEW CHORISTERS

Auditions will be held in February to find new choristers for the BAU Voice of Civilizations Choir.

Since its founding in January 2012, the BAU Voice of Civilizations Choir has aimed to perform folk songs in many languages from Anatolia, the Balkans, the Middle East and the Caucasus. Starting from the fact that folk music is the first link in the chain of the world's musical culture, the choir primarily performs folk music from this vast geography, while interpreting these folk songs with a universal polyphonic approach. In addition to Turkish, its repertoire includes folk songs in Kurdish, Armenian, Laz, Georgian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Greek, Albanian, Slovak, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar, Arabic and Romani, and the repertoire is expanding rapidly.

Auditions for this original and distinctive choir will be held on 22 February 2016 at 18:00 in Conference Hall B.