Pera Classics: Musical Moments
Nox Ensemble

Concert

December 14, 2024 / 19:30

Pera Classics welcomes Nox Ensemble, known for its contemporary interpretations of classical music, in the year’s final concert, with the theme “Musical Moments,” the concert offers a farewell to 2024, honoring enduring memories. The concert invites listeners to reflect on the year’s cherished memories through works by timeless composers such as Boccherini, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Shostakovich.

The concert will take place on the same floor where the Orientalist Painting Collection Intersecting Worlds: Ambassadors and Painters is exhibited, offering listeners a spellbinding musical journey into history.

Priced at 350 TL, the tickets are available at Biletix.com or may be purchased from the reception desk of the Pera Museum on the day of the event. Friends of Pera Museum may enjoy a 20% discount. Seats are limited and unnumbered. The concert is without intermission and lasts approximately 1 hour. 

The event is suitable for ages 7 and above. Children aged 7 to 12 are welcome to attend the concert when accompanied by an adult.

Nox Ensemble
Leyla Önder (Violin)
Umut Şengün (Flute),
Yelda Cansun Korsu (Viola)
Ayşem Ersoy (Cello)
Aycan Bilginer Beşikçi (Double Bass)

It’s better to burn out than to fade away

It’s better to burn out than to fade away

In 1962 Philip Corner, one of the most prominent members of the Fluxus movement, caused a great commotion in serious music circles when during a performance entitled Piano Activities he climbed up onto a grand piano and began to kick it while other members of the group attacked it with saws, hammers and all kinds of other implements.

Fluid Identities  Creating an Identity / Hybrid Identities

Fluid Identities Creating an Identity / Hybrid Identities

A firm believer in the idea that a collection needs to be upheld at least by four generations and comparing this continuity to a relay race, Nahit Kabakcı began creating the Huma Kabakcı Collection from the 1980s onwards. Today, the collection can be considered one of the most important and outstanding examples among the rare, consciously created, and long-lasting ones of its kind in Turkey.

Introducing… Turkish coffee!

Introducing… Turkish coffee!

Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, Pera Museum invites artist Benoît Hamet to reinterpret key pieces from its collections, casting a humourous eye over ‘historical’ events, both imagined and factual.