A special opening presentation was made for the 50th Istanbul Music Festival at Borusan Perili Köşk.
At the same time, the same project can be used.
The late Asım Kocabıyık, Founder and Honorary President of Borusan, is one of the founders of İKSV. Today, Borusan Holding Chairman of the Board of Directors Ahmet Kocabıyık continues on the board of directors of the foundation as the vice chairman. Acting with the vision of disseminating art, Borusan Holding continues this friendship that goes back half a century as the Festival Sponsor of the 50th Istanbul Music.
Participating in the competition for the Istanbul Music Festival, which has been hosting screenings for 50 years, Borusan hosted many important artists at Perili Köşk, the Holding and Borusan Contemporary buildings.
Zeynep Hamdi
At the opening party, Borusan Holding Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and Borusan Kocabık Foundation President Zeynep Hamedi said, “As Borusan, the success of the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts and the first notes of the Istanbul Music Festival, side by side, are obtained from supporting. Today, the Istanbul Music Festival is 50 years old… It is the festival that embraces not only a city, but also the whole of Turkey, giving the same aim. We commemorate Mr. Asım Kocabıyık and Mr. Nejat Eczacıbaşı with love and respect for the Istanbul Festival, which they dreamed and realized 50 years ago.”
Bulent Eczacibasi
Bülent Eczacıbaşı, Chairman of the Board of İKSV, said, “We are in the 50th year of an ultimate adventure with the idea of organizing an international festival, an election that did not yet have a large concert hall or even a concert piano. Nejat will set out to train Eczacıbaşı for the preparations for Istanbul, with the names of Borusan’s founder Asım Kocabıyık, the business and art Holding, owned by Asım Kocabıyık. The festival, which we can apply in a work from this miraculous life, can combine in a healthy way. In a sense, this year is the 50th anniversary of our friendship. Sponsorship of the festival to be held again due to this being Borusan Holding. I wish you a joyful, satisfying and festive music festival.”
Borusan has prepared a commercial about their collaboration that spanned half a century. At the opening party, while the commercial was pre-screened, there was a Mercan Dede performance after the music concert that followed.
Borusan Orchestras will also give concerts
Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra (BIPO) and Borusan Quartet will also meet with art lovers as part of the İKSV Istanbul Music Festival, which will take place on June 6-24.
Borusan Quartet and one of the leading harpists of the future, Xavier de Maistre, will come together at Süreyya Opera House on Wednesday, 8 June at 20:00. The works of Debussy and his passionate producer, Tchaikovsky, will sound.
Tan Dun & Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra will come together at Atatürk Cultural Center Türk Telekom Opera Hall on Wednesday, June 22 at 20.00.
One of the leading names in contemporary classical music, with a creative repertoire of the boundaries of Eastern and Western traditions, will be the guest of many prestigious festivals such as Grammy and Oscar (Tiger and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon). The Double Concerto, which will see the world premiere of the composer’s violinist Daniel Hope, pianist Alexey Botvinov and the New Century Orchestra in May 2021, is among the co-orders of the Istanbul Music Festival andsan Sanat, is being performed for the first time in Turkey. This time, the Yersan concerts of Daniel Hope and Alex Botvinov with the Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Tan Dun will be held with the support of Borusan Holding.