Hesperion XXI - Jordi Savall on stage
Focusing on “Time and Transformation” in its 41st edition, the Istanbul Music Festival is offering music lovers a specially tailored program illustrating the cycles of life – conceived by the late Montserrat Figueras and performed by Istanbul Music Festival 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Jordi Savall’s Hespèrion XXI, which explores and fashions a universe of emotions and beauty. This year the festival will host approximately 500 local and foreign artists, including Vadim Repin, Maxim Vengerov, Shlomo Mintz, Mario Joao Pires, Khatia Buniatishvili, Magdelena Kozena, Kim Kashkashian, Sol Gabetta and two of world’s leading orchestras, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Munich Chamber Orchestra.