Yamandu Costa & Orchestra Academic Capital
Thu, Apr 24
|CSO Ada İşletmeleri
550 TL - 450 TL - 350 TL - 250 TL Date: Thursday, April 24, 2025 - Time: 20:00 CSO Ada Ankara Ziraat Bankası Main Hall
Time & Location
Apr 24, 2025, 8:00 PM
CSO Ada İşletmeleri , Talatpasa Boulevard, No: 38 Opera, Haci Bayram, 06330 Altindag/Ankara, Türkiye
About the event
Yamandu Costa & Orchestra Academic Capital
Can Okan, Chief
Yamandu Costa, guitar
Program
J. Sibelius - Romance op.42
Orchestra Academic Başkent & Başkent Quartet
E. Elgar - Introduction & Allegro
Orchestra Academic Başkent & Başkent Quartet
Yamandu Costa - Concerto Fronteira
Orchestra Academic Capital
Yamandu Costa, guitar
Capital Quartet
Dirimcan Koçak, violin
Buse Atasayar, violin
Tugce Baydar, viola
Aslı Gültekin, cello
Orkestra Academic Başkent was founded on October 29, 2003 under the auspices of Başkent University Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors Prof. Dr. Mehmet Haberal. Its founding and until 2018, its first conductor was Ertuğ Korkmaz and its artistic management was undertaken by İsmail Lütfü Erol. Orkestra Academic Başkent; In addition to the periodic concerts it has given in Ankara, primarily at Başkent University Bağlıca Campus and various concert halls in Ankara, has also made concert tours to various cities in Türkiye and abroad, given festival concerts and made recordings. The orchestra, which has a wide range of works from the baroque period to contemporary music, has performed many works for the first time in the world and has received positive reviews.
The orchestra has performed concerts with well-known soloists and conductors such as Aneleen Lenaerts, Benyamin Sönmez, Cihat Aşkın, Davide Alogna, Emre Elivar, Emre Şen, Enrique Batiz, Gökhan Aybulus, Gustav Rivinius, Gülsin Onay, Gürer Aykal, İdil Biret, Igor Pikayzen, Lucienne Renaudin-Vary, Martin Berkofsky, Rocco Filippini, Salvatore Accardo, Soyoung Yoon, Tunç Ünver; with esteemed artists from Başkent University State Conservatory such as Kamerhan Turan, Rauf Paşaoğlu, Gülüm Sürmen Ötenel, Sibel Sarıcan Gündüz, Sevinç Keser Varol, Kaan Yüksel, Cem Çeliksırt and Berkcan Akıncı, and with soloists from its own staff.
Orchestra Academic Başkent has been invited to the St. Petersburg Piano Festival in previous years and performed the opening concert as the first orchestra from Türkiye invited to this festival organized within the scope of the 60th anniversary of the foundation of UNESCO. The ensemble was invited to Baku in 2017 within the scope of the Uzeyir Hajibeyov International Festival. In 2018, it took part in the Turkish Guitar Concertos album published by Çağsav. In 2022, it collaborated with the METU Computer Engineering Department and realized Türkiye's first VR concert recording with the support of Panaromic Web. Since 2018, Orhun Orhon has been the general artistic director and first conductor of the orchestra.
Yamandu Costa , guitar
Yamandu Costa, who is considered one of the most extraordinary guitarists of our time, is one of the rare classical guitarists who introduced Brazilian Music to the world with his 7-string guitar.
Despite his young age, Yamandu Costa has had a long career. Born in the south of Brazil to a family of musicians, the artist first sang on stage at the age of 5 and was introduced to the guitar at the age of 6 when his father gave him a guitar as a gift.
At the age of 21, he won the Visa Instrumental Award, one of the highest awards in Brazilian music, and this success allowed him to record his first solo album. From that moment on, he climbed the steps of his career one by one. Yamandu, who recorded many albums solo and with other artists and orchestras, gives many concerts in Brazil and all over the world.
He is considered by some to be one of the greatest minds of Brazilian music. Yamandu is a guitarist, composer and arranger who does not fit into one style of music, but creates music that combines all of these when playing his 7-string guitar. Yamandu Costa's different styles include chorinho, bossa nova, milonga, tango, samba and chamamé.
With his live-recorded concert at the Rio Montreux Jazz Festival, he was deemed worthy of the "Best Instrumental Album" award at the Grammy Awards in 2022 and the "Latin Grammy" award in 2024.
Can Okan , Chief
After his conducting education, which he started with Gürer Aykal and completed with a master's degree in Stockholm, Can Okan has been giving concerts with orchestras in Türkiye since 2013. Okan, who regularly gives symphonic concerts with the Presidential Symphony Orchestra, Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra and Izmir State Symphony Orchestra, has a wide range of repertoire from Bach to contemporary music.
He has conducted the first performances of various orchestra works in Türkiye. He performed the Turkish premiere of Stravinsky's opera "The Rake's Progress" with the Istanbul State Opera and Ballet in 2017. Since that year, he has conducted many opera performances at the Ankara State Opera and Ballet and Istanbul State Opera and Ballet.
He gives concerts together with world-famous composer and pianist Fazıl Say in Turkey and abroad. He conducted the world premieres of Say's 6th Symphony and 100th Year March. In 2023, he performed the world premiere of Michael Ellison's opera The Legend of the Thousand Boğalar, based on Yaşar Kemal's work, within the scope of the İKSV Istanbul Music Festival. Can Okan continues to give concerts as a conductor, taking on a wide repertoire from the baroque period to the contemporary period.
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