Pera Classics will host the popular and successful Lepidus Ensemble in its April program!
Lepidus Ensemble will perform featuring the string quartets of Mozart and Beethoven in the Music for Spring concert. The concert will take place on the same floor that the Orientalist Paintings Collection “Intersecting Worlds: Ambassadors and Artists” is exhibited, offering listeners a spellbinding musical journey into history.
Priced at TRY 125, the tickets are available on Biletix.com or may be purchased from the Pera Museum reception desk on the event day. Friends of Pera Museum may enjoy a 50% discount. The seats are limited and not numbered. The event is suitable for our guests aged 7 and above. Guests between the ages of 7 and 12 can attend the event accompanied by an adult.
Lepidus Ensemble
Yonca Sülün (Violin)
Aslı Erdal (Violin)
Öykü Koçoğlu (Viola)
Çağlayan Çetin (Cello)
About Lepidus Ensemble
Lepidus Ensemble was formed as a string quartet in 2011 by founding members Öykü Koçoğlu and Hande Küden. Performing both in Turkey and abroad, Lepidus first appeared as the “Lepidus Quartet,” together with Hande Küden and Öykü Koçoğlu, deciding to continue their concerts and projects as an “ensemble” when Hande Küden’s career took her to Germany to join the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
Following its first concert at Ankara University, Lepidus won First Prize in the chamber music competition held in 2012 at Izmir Yaşar University, judged by a jury composed of Prof. Lucas David, Dr. Kürşad Terci, Christos Grimpas, Yorgos Kanalidis, Vittorio Bresciani, Nicos Zafranas, and Francesco Diodovich. The group was invited to perform in concerts in the UK and Italy.
The group has performed at Borusan Music House, Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall, Ahmed Adnan Saygun Cultural Center, Notre Dame de Sion Concert Hall, İş Sanat, Akbank Sanat, Akbank Jazz Festival, Çukurova University Yalçın Yüreğir Hall, Sabancı University, Türkan Saylan Cultural Center, Tekfur Palace, Boğaziçi University Albert Long Hall, Koç University Sevgi Gönül Cultural Center, Kadıköy Municipality Kalamış Festival, and at Hillside and Yeldeğirmeni Art Center under the auspices of the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts. In 2012, Lepidus represented our country with two concerts in South Korea. The group was invited to Serbia to perform with Gülsin Onay.
In 2017, they performed their version of the contemporary work by Jeremy Woodruff, “Occupation for String Quartet,” which was a part of the “From Istanbul” album appearing under the Lila Music label. In 2021, the group represented Turkey in Spain’s “Eurocities Early Music Day.”
You try to remember the future. A bird painted on the ceramic panel in a historical palace has found its place on the wall. The tiles of a church and a mosque have been painted on canvas. The pattern of a centuries-old ceramic plate appears before you on a velvet curtain.
Over the years of 1864 through 1876, Stanisław Chlebowski served Sultan Abdülaziz in Istanbul as his court painter. As it was, Abdülaziz disposed of considerable artistic talents of his own, and he actively involved himself in Chlebowski’s creative process, suggesting ideas for compositions –such as ballistic pieces praising the victories of Turkish arms.
Is Istanbul a single city? Will Istanbul too, be one day one day divided into different sections, and numbered like the arrondisements of Paris? These are tough questions indeed!
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 19:00
Friday 10:00 - 22:00
Sunday 12:00 - 18:00
The museum is closed on Mondays.
On Wednesdays, the students can
visit the museum free of admission.
Full ticket: 300 TL
Discounted: 150 TL
Groups: 200 TL (minimum 10 people)
