Music

Opening(Music)

SAT 01.11. 19h Theater Basel

Doğuş Kindersinfonieorchester & Trio Nota Bene

Burhan Öçal & Istanbul Oriental Ensemble

DJ İpek

In their first collaboration the Doğuş Children’s Orchestra and the Swiss Trio Nota Bene will give a rare performance of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, which combines collective precision and individual brilliance. The percussionist Burhan Öçal and his Istanbul Oriental Ensemble conjure up the manifold sounds of Istanbul’s grand bazaar Kapalı Çarşı. DJ İpek İpekçioğlu mixes an eclectic blend of musical traditions and modern influences. Doğuş Çocuk Senfoni Orkestrası ile İsviçreli Nota BeneTrio’su ilk kez gerçekleştirecekleri ortak çalışmalarında Beethoven’in üçlü konçertosunu seslendirecekler. Perküsyon ustası Burhan Öçal bizi, Istanbul Oriental Ensemble’le birlikte İstanbul Kapalı çarşısı’nın tını dünyasının renkli yelpazeleri arasında bir yolculuğa çıkartacakdır. Berlinli DJ İpek İpekçioğlu müzikal geleneklerle İstanbul metropolünün modern akımlarını harmanlamaktadır.

JAZZ VOM ORIENT BIS ZUM OKZIDENT – Integration von türkisch-kurdischen Einflüssen in der Jazzmusik (Music/Workshop)

04./05./11./12.11. 20:30h LEVİN - MEDITERRANEAN SEXTET the bird’s eye jazz club

25./26.11. 20:30h ULAŞ NESİL – MELODIYA RUHEN ME the bird’s eye jazz club

Ulaş Nesil and Levin Deger look for ways of integrating their own traditional music in Western improvisational music.

Workshops and concerts:
Levin Değer 04./05./11./12. Nov, Ulaş Nesil 24./25. Nov 

More information: www.birdseye.ch, the bird's
eye jazz club, Tel 061 263 33 41.

Fazıl Say & Zurich Chamber Orchestra (Music)

WED 05.11. 20h Martinskirche, Basel

Fazıl Say and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, directed by conductor Muhai Tang, join forces to present a concert ‘alla Turca’. Fazıl Say entwines different styles and cultures in his compositions.

Further Dates:

TUE 04.11. 19:30h Tonhalle, Zürich

Sema – Derwische aus Konya (Music/Dance)

THU 6.11. 20h & FR 7.11. 21h Offene Kirche Elisabethen, Basel

The National Ensemble for Classical Turkish Music cultivates the rich heritage of classical Sufi music. Songs of the Dscherrahi Order are accompanied by the traditional ceremonies of the Mevlevi Order’s whirling dervishes.

Further Dates:

SO 9.11. 18h Stadthofsaal, Uster

Sufi & Bach (Music)

SAT 8.11. 20h Goetheanum Dornach

The ‘Sufi & Bach’ concert is a unique encounter between Orient and Occident on a musical level. Sufi chants meet whirling dervishes meet Bach cantatas, underlined by texts from Christian and Sufi mysticism.

Taksim Trio (Musik)

SUN 9.11. 20h Burghof Lörrach

Taksim Trio are among the most prominent figures in the Turkish music scene. They create tantalising sounds between oriental traditions, jazz, ambient and avant-garde – tingling arabesques!

Further Dates:

TUE 11.11. 20.30h Moods, Zürich

SUN 16.11. 20.30h bee-flat Bern

Arif Erdebil (Music/Workshop)

TUE 11.11. 17h EBRU vernissage Elisabethenkirche

WED 12.11. 20h concert Kleiner Saal, Musik-Akademie

THU 13.11. 20h workshop Zi. 5-021, Musik-Akademie

The Ney is a traditional reed flute with a long history. Arif Erdebil plays selected pieces from the Ney’s rich repertoire.

Aylin Aykan: Klavierrezital: „Türkische Komponisten im Spiegel der Zeiten“ (Music)

THU 13.11. 20h Gare du Nord

With her family hailing from Istanbul, but born and raised in Munich, Aylin Aykan places emphasis on creating musical connections that transgress cultural and temporal borders. Her search leads us through Turkey’s diverse landscape of composers, presenting and narrating works by Cemal Reşit Rey and others.

Ensemble Phoenix Basel with Neva Özgen (Kemençe) & Didem Dermen (Kanun) (Music)

Dirigent: Jürg Henneberger

SAT 15.11. 20h Gare du Nord (IGNM-Concert)

The Ensemble Phoenix Basel, specifically advocates contemporary music. In the Gare du Nord they will play with Didem Dermen ‘On the Back Streets of Old Istanbul’ by Hasan Uçarsu. With Neva Özgen they will premiere Evrim Demirel’s commissioned piece ‘Darb-i dugah’ for Kemençe, Kanun and Ensemble.

PREISTRÄGERKONZERT (KOMPOSITION) (Music)

FRI 14.11. 21h Gare du Nord

Culturescapes has arranged a competition for composers under the age of 35 in Turkey and Switzerland. The prize-winning pieces will be performed by the students of the concert classes of the Musical Academy.

Camerata Variabile: Ruf der Ferne (Music)

SUN 16.11. 20h Gare du Nord

Highlights of the programme, in addition to the recitals of works by Turkish composers, will certainly be the premiere of a work by the young Turkish composer Emre Sihan as well as the first Swiss performance of a Rumi setting for a string quartet and flute by Helena Winkelman.

Ha za vu zu, Istanbul (Music/Art)

THU 18.11. – FR 28.11. „artists in residence“ Kaserne Basel
SAT 22.11. Stadtintervention
FRI 28.11. 20h Performance-Abend mit Konzert

Ha za vu zu will develop a variety of artistic activities, in the venues and throughout the cities. These will include, among other things, photo-karaoke performances, intervention in the city, actions and a

Further Dates:

MON 10.11. – SAT 15.11. „artists in residence“ Rote Fabrik, Zürich
SAT 15.11. 20h Performance-Abend mit Konzert
SAT 29.11. 22:00h Performance-Abend mit Konzert Dampfzentrale, Bern

Erkan Oğur - Telvin (Music)

FRI 21.11. & SAT 22.11. at the time 20:30h & 21:45h the bird’s eye jazz club

World-class jazz with subtle interpretations and cheerful experimental excursions into freer climes. The renowned guitarist Erkan Oğur and his band know how to integrate various styles of music and cultural influences with great virtuosity.

Further Dates:

TUE 18.11. 20:30h Moods, Zürich

SUN 23.11. 20h Theater Chur

Mercan Dede & Stimmhorn (Music)

THU 27.11. 20h Kaserne

The Swiss duo Stimmhorn is known as border-crossers within the Helvetian topography of sound. Christian Zehnder is the voice, Balthasar Streiff the alphorn. Voice and alphorn now meet turntable and Ney flute: Mercan Dede is a traveller. As a musician, producer and DJ he commutes between his adopted home Montreal and his roots in the Bosporus, between modern electronic sound vaults and mystical Sufi spirituality.

Further Dates:

FRI 28.11. 20h Theater Chur

SAT 29.11. 20:30h Theater Chiasso

SUN 30.11. 20:30h Dampfzentrale, Bern

TUE 02.12. 20h Rote Fabrik, Zürich

WED 03.12. 20:30h BFM Genf

THU 04.12. 20h Südpol Luzern

Önder Focan - Swing a la turc (Music)

FRI 28.11. 16h Museum Tinguely

FRI 28. & SA 29.11. jew. 20:30h & 21:45h the bird’s eye jazz club

A band which delivers what its name promises, sophisticated swing and mainstream music with Turkish influences.

HIP HOP – WORKSHOP WITH MAKALE „MUNDART VERSUS TÜRKISCH“ (Music/Workshop)

MON 01.12. – MI 4.12. 18-20h Kaserne

The objective of the workshop is to create a hip-hop song. Turkish and the local Swiss dialect will be used to show how young people in Basel with Turkish backgrounds use the languages of their cultural roots and that of their place of residence (Basel dialect), to describe and deal with their

CONCERT: MAKALE & FRIENDS (Music)

SAT 05.12.  21:00h Kaserne