Monday, September 25
Sermage Palace, 7.00 p.m.
Concert on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Republic of Turkey
Tutu Aydinoglu, clavichord
The Devil in monasticclothes
Antonio Soler
Sonata in C minor, R 48
Gigue-Allegro
Sonata in D major, R 74
Molto andante
Sonata /in G minor, R 32
Allegro
Sonata in C minor, R18
Cantabile
Sonata in E minor, R 27
Allegro
Sonata in D minor, R 117
Molto moderato
Sonata in G minor, M 38
Allegro
Sonata in C minor, R 100
Adagio largo
Sonata in B minor, R 10
Allegro
Sonata in D minor, M29
Allegretto
Sonata in C minor, M 24/R 60b
Allegro
Fandango, Art Ray Izumi, after Rubio
Tutu Aydınoğlu is a concert pianist and professor at the State Conservatory of Istanbul University. At the core of her pianistic repertoire and academic interests is forgotten and neglected music. In this sense, she is dedicated to performing works that have not yet been performed in her homeland, as well as exploring the influence of her own musical tradition on Western music, and researching and presenting forgotten works of Turkish music to a broader musical audience. So she premiered Respighi’s Concerto in modo misolidio with the Bosphorus Philharmonic Orchestra in the Istanbul Congress Center. She has also conceived and carried out the projects Ottoman Traces in Western Music and One Nation, Two States, which garnered significant public interest. As part of the One Nation, Two States project, she also performed the Piano Concerto on Arabian Themes by Fikret Amirov/Elmira Nazirova at the Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall. The interest in Turkish artistic music led to her latest major project – in 2021, she performed Ekrem Zeki Un’s Piano Concerto with the Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra. The composer dedicated this piece to his wife, and it hadn’t been performed since its premiere 50 years ago.
As an educator, she often holds master workshops both in her home country and abroad. As a soloist, she has also performed with the Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra and the Eskisehir Symphony Orchestra.