Music for Peace at the Museum!
From Baroque to Romanticism

Pera Museum is organizing a new concert series in collaboration with the Music for Peace Foundation between January and May 2017 entitled Music for Peace at the Museum! The Foundation provides universal music training for children and the youth using a variety of themes, and the starting point of this concert series is making art accessible to every child. The program focuses on the musicians of the future, especially those playing string instruments, among the 6000 children who have received training at the Foundation. Young musicians use music to make the voice of peace be heard through this series, which is held on the last “Young Wednesday” of every month.

From Baroque to Romanticism
Johann Pachelbel - Canon in D Major (5')
Edvard Grieg - Holberg Suite, Op. 40 (21')
Alexander Glazunov - Theme & Variations for String Orchestra in G minor, Op. 97 (9')

String Orchestra
Conductor: Elvis Pérez

1st Violins: Şevval Kartal, Ela Esma Arsal, Zeynep Gümüş, BerkTuttup
2nd Violins: Şule Taşova, Behin Özer, Aygül Atalay, Melike Çelebi
Viola: Sinem Sonat, Zeynep Simay Al
Cello: Semih Kılıç, Ece Atlık
Contrabass: Onur Yıldız

About the Music for Peace Foundation
The Music for Peace Foundation offers free music lessons to underprivileged children and the youth in Edirnekapı, one of the disadvantaged districts of Istanbul. The pet project of architect Mehmet Selim Baki, Music for Peace was created in 2005, renamed the Music for Peace Foundation in 2011. Children and the youth aged 7-20 attend the program designed by the foundation and receive training in polyphonic universal music with the help of instructors, using instruments provided by the foundation. Mehmet Selim Baki and his wife Dr. Yeliz Baki believe every child has the right to participate in art and that obstacles to accessing that right must be removed; as a result of their selfless work, nearly 6000 children and the youth have joined the program to date. Children who were introduced to the miraculously healing power of music have witnessed the change in their own lives. The Music for Peace Foundation began its journey twelve years ago, with the aim of bringing music to more children and to make the voice of peace be heard through music; besides the activities at its headquarters in Edirnekapı, the foundation leads the creation of similar projects outside Istanbul so that this model will spread throughout the country.

Music for Peace at the Museum! concerts are held on the “Intersecting Worlds: Ambassadors and Painters” exhibition floor, which houses select works from the Orientalist Painting Collection of Suna and Inan Kıraç Foundation.

Admission 20 TL. Tickets can only be purchased on Biletix. Friends of Pera Museum can buy tickets from the museum with a 50% discount. Places are limited. There will be no entry once the performance has started.