Izmir Europen Jazz Festival -- Izmir Foundation for Culture Arts and Education
The Izmir Foundation for Culture Arts and Education was founded to pursue all appropriate activities for arts and culture to be researched, studied, thought, learned, protected and extended to the general public. The foundation organizes two festivals each year; The International Izmir Festival and The Izmir European Jazz Festival. The Festival organized every year since 1994, aims to bring together masters and lovers of Jazz in attempt of generating feelings of love, friendship and peace. In the days Turkey’s EU membership started to be worded more often, what started as The “Izmir European Jazz Days” expanded both in content and duration to become The “Izmir European Jazz Festival”. Performers and bands coming from Turkey, France, Austria, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Slovakia and Switzerland with their experimental and electronic works constitute the finest examples of European Jazz. The festival which is organized in cooperation with the Austrian Culture Office, Izmir French Culture Institute, Italian Consulate in Izmir, Luxembourg Embassy, Luxembourg Honorary Consulate in Izmir and Luxembourg Export Office, Adam Mickiewicz Institute and Consulate General of Poland in Istanbul, Slovakian Honorary Consulate in Izmir and Consulate of Switzerland in Izmir is a showcase of European cultural collaboration.
26th IZMIR EUROPEAN JAZZ FESTIVAL
2 – 20th March 2019
Opening Concert
02nd March 2019 Saturday • 20.00 • AASSM Concert Hall
FERİT ODMAN QUARTET
Engin Recepoğulları - saxophone
Ercüment Orkut - piano
Kağan Yıldız – double bass
Ferit Odman - drums
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04th March 2019 Monday • 20.00 • AASSM Small Hall
JAZZ VIRTUOSO DUO
Gianni Oddi, saxophone soprano-alto
Alessandro Bonanno, piano
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07th March 2019 Thursday • 20.00 • AASSM Small Hall
IRINA SARBU BAND
Irina Sârbu, vocal
Puiu Pascu, piano
Ciprian Parghel, double bass
Tudor Parghel, drums
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12th March 2019 Tuesday • 20.00 • AASSM Small Hall
MARION RAMPAL TRIO
Marion Rampal, vocal
Pierre-François Blanchard, keyboard and vocal
Anne Paceo, drums and vocal
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14th March 2019 Thursday • 20.00 • AASSM Small Hall
NU BASS
François Lindemann, piano & el. piano & composition
Amine Mraihi, lute
Olivier Clerc, drums
Patrick Perrier, bass & double bass
Ivor Malherbe, bass & double bass
16th March 2019 Saturday • 20.00 • AASSM Small Hall
Christoph Irniger PILGRIM
“Crosswinds”
Christoph Irniger, tenor saxophone
Stefan Aeby, piano
Dave Gisler, guitar
Raffaele Bossard, bass
Michi Stulz, drums
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18th March 2019 Monday • 20.00 • AASSM Small Hall
PURPLE IS THE COLOR
Simon Raab, piano Štěpán Flagar, saxophone Martin Kocián, bass Michał Wierzgoń, drums
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19th March 2019 Tuesday • 20.00 • AASSM Small Hall
Timo Vollbrecht FLY MAGIC
Faces in Places - Painting Portraits of Humanity
Timo Vollbrecht, saxophone
Elias Stemeseder, piano & synth
Bernhard Meyer, bass
Sebastian Merk, drums
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ACTIVITIES
Exhibiton
02 – 20th March 2019 * AASSM
17th Jazz Poster Contest Exhibition
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10 – 20th March 2019 * İKSEV
Write Stuff - A Jazz Writer is Rising
Ümit Tunçağ and Sirel Ekşi
(Open for journalism students)
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05 -06th March 2019 Tuesday, Wednesday • 10.30 • İKSEV
JAZZ VIRTUOSO DUO WORKSHOP
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06th March 2019 Wednesday • 19.30 • AASSM Small Hall
JAM SESSION WITH JAZZ VIRTUOSO DUO
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09th March 2019 Saturday •10.30 – 15.00 • İKSEV
LINDYHOP WORKSHOP
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09th March 2019 Saturday •13.00 – 19.30 • Edit & Chill
PUBLIK MARKET JAZZ EDITION
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09th March 2019 Saturday • 19.30 • AASSM Small Hall
Conducted by Timuçin Şahin
YASAR UNIVERSITY JAZZ ENSEMBLE
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11th March 2019 Monday • 19.30 • İKSEV
SEMINAR
“ON LIBERATION OF SOUND AND ITS TWO LİBERATORS”
About John Cage, Morton Feldman, John Coltrane
Speaker: Timuçin Şahin
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13th March 2019 Wednesday • 16.00 • İKSEV
NU BASS Jazz Workshop
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13th March 2019 Wednesday • 19.30 • Institut Francais Turquie
10th Anniversary of His Death
MICHEL PETRUCCIANI
Director: Michael Radford
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16th March 2019 Saturday • İKSEV
PILGRIM Jazz Workshop
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20th March 2019 Wednesday • 10.00 • İKSEV
TIMO VOLLBRECHT - FLY MAGIC Jazz Workshop