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Ankara's Presidential Symphony Orchestra (CSO) is preparing to hit the road next week for a five-city tour of the western Black Sea region, which will see Turkey's oldest classical music ensemble perform at universities in Sakarya, Zonguldak, Bartın, Sinop and Samsun.
The Nov. 24-29 program is the fifth of the CSO's annual free-admission concert tours, held each year in different Anatolian cities since 2009. “Kampüste Senfonik Akşamlar” (Symphonic Evenings on Campus), a joint effort between the orchestra and the Doğuş Group business conglomerate, aims to expand appreciation of classical music to cities in Turkey that don't have their own classical orchestras with concerts in universities.
Opera singers Şenol Talınlı, Ayhan Uştuk and Aykut Çınar, who are billed in Turkish classical music circles as the “Turkish version of the Three Tenors,” and pianist İdil Biret will be the soloists in next week's concerts, when the CSO will be conducted by maestro Rengim Gökmen.
The 2014 event is expected to draw more than 5,000 concertgoers, the orchestra management said in a recent press release announcing the tour. More than 21,500 classical music lovers attended the concerts in the first four years of the series, which has traveled to 19 cities around Turkey to date, including Konya, Niğde, Gaziantep, Kars, Erzurum, Rize, Trabzon, Afyon, Yozgat, Nevşehir, Kayseri, Sivas and Malatya.
(Cihan/Today's Zaman)
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