1 March 2025, 20.00 | Bilkent Concert Hall<\/p>\n
Portraits and Absences<\/p>\n
Andrew Infanti, piano
\nJuliana Snapper, soprano
\nJennifer Tipton, soprano
\nBelinda Chen Yoku\u015f, piano
\nBilkent University Chorale
\nMehve\u015f Top\u00e7uo\u011flu, animations<\/p>\n
Music by C. Koechlin, P. Ablinger, Stravinsky, L. Dallapiccola, H. Eisler, A. Schoenberg and P. A. Grainger<\/p>\n
Free admission
\n*GE 250-251<\/p>\n
Flex your curiosities with a collaborative concert of rare and scintillating music from Faculty and students of the Bilkent University departments of Music and Fine Arts, with guest artist, Andrew Infanti. Pianist Belinda Chen Yoku\u015f opens the concert with newly discovered film treatments for piano by Charles Koechlin, developed and presented in collaboration with the original animations of Bilkent Graphic Design alumnus Mehve\u015f Top\u00e7uo\u011flu. Andrew Infanti and Chen Yoku\u015f follow with set from the fascinating Peter Ablinger cycle Voices and Piano, summoning the speaking voices of figures such as Billie Holliday and Valentina Tereshkova through the piano. Soprano Juliana Snapper joins Infanti for the Modernist middle of the program singing tender and playful Modernist art songs by Igor Stravinsky, Luigi Dallapiccola and Hanns Eisler, alongside Infanti\u2019s exuberant interpretation of the Schoenberg Suite for Piano, Op. 25. The concert closes with a set by Percy Aldridge Grainger including a pair of lush two-piano settings from Chen Yoku\u015f and Infanti, and a performance by the Bilkent University Chorale, featuring Soprano Jennifer Tipton.<\/p>\n