Pera ensemble
Pera is a music ensemble that mainly interprets early music , Ottoman music, Sufi music , music from the Orient and Occident in the Baroque style .
history
The Pera Ensemble was founded by Mehmet Cemal Yeşilçay and Ihsan Özer and named after Pera , an old part of Istanbul. Yeşilçay and Özer were founding members of Sarband , among others, and performed with ensembles such as Hesperion XXI , Concerto Köln , Emre Ensemble and Ferahfeza Ensemble.
The group performed at the Handel Festival in Halle , the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music , the Rheingau Music Festival and the Schwetzingen Festival . She played in the Berlin Philharmonic, the Cologne Philharmonic, the Munich Philharmonic, the Dortmund Concert Hall, the Handel Festival Halle with One God 2017, the IKSV Istanbul Festival, the CRR Istanbul, the 2016 concert tour in Brazil and many other halls.
Repertoire and Research
- Ottoman music, Sufi music. Music from the Orient and Occident in the Baroque. The continuation of the Alla Turca idea.
- Research into the manuscripts of Wojcieck Boboski alias Ali Ufki (ﺒﻚ علي اُفقي) Haza Mecmua i Saz ü Söz . Transcriptions in collaboration with MIAM Istanbul.
- Music by the composer Buhûrizâde Mustafa Itrî (1640–1712, بهورزاده مسطفى عِطرى)
Projects
- Music for the One God . Was funded by the European Union and the Turkish State Ministry of Culture as part of The Civil Society Facility - EU-Turkey Intercultural Dialogue: Culture & Arts program.
- Jerusalem (premiere at the Heidelberg Spring 2017)
- Levante (music from the Mediterranean region)
- Ballo Turco- from Venice to Istanbul
- Carneval Oriental
- Armida : Opera pasticcio with arias from Handel operas and Ottoman music.
- Harem : Opera pasticcio with arias by Antonio Vivaldi , Nicola Antonio Porpora , Bononcini and Ottoman music.
- Baroque Oriental : Works by Claudio Monteverdi , Maurizio Cazzati , Luigi Rossi , Giulio Caccini , Gazi Giray Han, Wojciech Bobowski alias Ali Ufki u. a.
- Café : With works by Jean-Baptiste Lully , Porpora, Vivaldi, Handel, Ebu Bekir Aga, Kantemir and others. "Set off musically to places where coffee was once served: in the seraglio , pavilions and salons of fine society."
- Divan: On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Goethe's west-east Divan . In collaboration with the Munich Symphony Orchestra
- Tamerlano & Bajezet: A pasticcio with arias by Handel and Gasparini
- Jerusalem: Music from the Middle Ages to the Baroque about Jerusalem
Members
- Mehmet C. Yesilcay: Ud , Colascione , musical direction
- Ihsan Özer: Kanun
- Serkan Mesut Halili: Kanun
- Hasan Esen: Kemençe , Viola d'amore
- Derya Türkan : Kemençe
- Volkan Yilmaz: Ney
- Ozan Pars: percussion
- James Hewitt: violin
- Dmitry Lepekhov: violin
- Johanna Brückner: Viola
- Franziska Grunze: Cello
- Sarah Perl: Viola da gamba
- Christoph Sommer: theorbo , baroque guitar
- Daniel Zapico: theorbo , baroque guitar
- Massimiliano Toni: harpsichord
- Valer Barna-Sabadus : Countertenor
- Philipp Mineccia: Countertenor
- Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli: Soprano
- Ahmet Özhan : vocals (as guest)
- Cooperation with L'arte del Mondo and Werner Ehrhardt as well as Michael Hofstetter .
Discography (selection)
- 2009: La Fete du Serail. Ludi Musici.
- 2010: One God. Ludi Musici.
- 2011: Pera Ensemble & L'arte del Mondo: Amor Oriental. German Harmonia Mundi.
- 2011: Baroque Oriental. Berlin Classics / Noble Culture.
- 2012: Café. Berlin Classics / Noble Culture.
- 2012: Coffee for the King.
- 2013: Trialog, Music for the One God. Berlin Classics / Noble Culture.
- 2014: Momenti d'Amore. Berlin Classics / Noble Culture.
- 2016: Ballo Turco Oehms Classics
- 2018: Jerusalem. Glossa
Awards
- In 2012 the ensemble was awarded the Klassik Echo in the category Classical Without Borders for the album Baroque oriental .
- Integration Award of the City of Munich 2015
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ alem.de. Retrieved January 14, 2013 .
- ↑ echoklassik.de. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 3, 2012 ; accessed on January 14, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
