Malta International Music Festival

2021

4 Seasons in Valletta

15 June - 11 July 2022

2
July
8pm
4 Seasons in Valletta

Çukurova State Symphony Orchestra

Eray İnal(Turkey)

ChloëHanslipviolin(UK)

Valletta
Mediterranean Conference Centre


Eray İnal

He was born in 1983 in Ankara. In 1995, he won Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory Bassoon Department. Due to his outstanding achievements during the school year, he skipped two classes in 1999 and 2001. He graduated as the second in school in 2003. Between 2002-2007, he was the music director of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Turkish Promotion Foundation (TUTAV). He represented our country in nearly 25 countries ranging from USA, People's Republic of China, Singapore and Qatar. In 2005, he won the Master's Degree from Bilkent University Music and Performing Arts Faculty. He took part in all concerts of Bilkent Symphony Orchestra for 2 years. He graduated from the Master's program in June 2007 with a High Honor degree.

In November of the same year, he won the exam held by the Çukurova State Symphony Orchestra (ÇDSO) and started his duty. Between 2011-2018, he worked as a lecturer at Çukurova University State Conservatory. In 2012, he became the Director of ÇDSO Polyphonic Children's Choir. With the exam held in June 2016, he became the assistant chief of the bassoon group.

In February 2013 and January 2018, she gave concerts with ÇDSO. In February 2013, he was 3rd in the National Composition Contest organized by “Sevda Cenap And Music Foundation”, where the 1st was not selected, with his work "Anatolian Rhapsody". In 2015, he composed the "Mesnevi Qanooun Concerto", which is the second law concerto written since 1951. In May 2016, he won the 1st place in the 6th Composition Contest of the 15th Mersin International Music Festival with his work called “Hadrianapolis”.

He prepared symphonic projects of many famous artists. He prepared projects with the names of "Folk Songs with Symphony" and "Our Music with Symphony" for polyphonic songs and works of art music that are our heritage.

He attended workshops and masterclasses of many conductors. In September 2019, he won the Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory Composition and Orchestra Conducting Master's Exam. He continues his education as an orchestra conductor with Prof.Rengim Gökmen.

Eray İnal, who was appointed as the assistant conductor of the ÇDSO Orchestra in October 2020, continues to work as a composer and orchestra conductor.

ChloëHanslip

Violin

Chloë Hanslip (b. 1987) has already established herself as an artist of  distinction on the international stage. Prodigiously talented, she made her  BBC Proms debut at fourteen and her US concerto debut at fifteen and has  performed at major venues in the UK (Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall),  Europe (Vienna Musikverein, Hamburg Laeiszhalle, Paris Louvre and Salle  Gaveau, St Petersburg Hermitage) as well as Carnegie Hall, Metropolitan Arts  Space in Tokyo and the Seoul Arts Centre.   Her performances have included the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen  Rundfunks, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London  Philharmonic, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Bern Symphony Orchestra,  Bremen Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony, Royal Liverpool  Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Lahti Symphony, Moscow  State Symphony, Norwegian Radio, Real Filharmonia Galicia, Vienna  Tonkünstler Orchester, Hamburg Symfoniker, Czech National Symphony,  Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Orchestra Regionale Toscana,  Helsingborg Symphony, Royal Flemish Philharmonic and the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra. Further afield  her engagements include the Cincinnati Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Houston Symphony, Tokyo  Metropolitan Symphony, Malaysia Philharmonic, Adelaide Symphony, Auckland Philharmonina and the  Singapore Symphony Orchestra. She has collaborated with conductors such as Sir Andrew Davis, Mariss  Jansons, Paavo Järvi, Charles Dutoit, Giordano Bellincampi, Jakub Hrusa, Pietari Inkinen, Susanna Mälkki,  Gianandrea Noseda, Tadaaki Otaka, Vasily Petrenko, Vassily Sinaisky, Dmitri Slobodeniouk, Alexander  Vedernikov, Juraj Valcuha and Xian Zhang.  

Chloë has an extensive discography and her latest releases include the complete Beethoven Violin Sonatas in  three volumes on Rubicon Classics with regular duo partner, Danny Driver: “instantly engaging, thanks to the  warmth and clarity of Hanslip’s playing and the obvious rapport between the musicians.” (Strad). Her other  

recordings include concertos by John Adams with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Slatkin and Bruch  Concertos with the London Symphony Orchestra on Warner Classics for which she won a Classical BRIT 'Young  British Classical Performer' (2003). Recital discs followed on Hyperion (York Bowen, Medtner) and concertos by  Vieuxtemps, Schoeck and Glazunov. 

Hanslip’s wide-ranging repertoire spans concertos by Britten, Prokofiev, Beethoven, Brahms, Korngold,  Shostakovich, Barber, Bernstein, Delius, Mendelssohn, Bruch, Elgar, Tchaikovsky, Walton and Sibelius. With a  particular passion for contemporary repertoire, she has championed works by Adams, Glass, Corigliano,  Nyman, Huw Watkins, Michael Berkeley, Peter Maxwell Davies and Brett Dean. A committed chamber  musician, she is a regular participant at festivals across Europe including Båstad, West Cork, Prussia Cove and  Kutna Hora with recital partners including Angela Hewitt, Danny Driver, Igor Tchetuev and Charles Owen.  Alongside her performing career, Chloë is a Visiting Professor at The Royal Academy of Music, in London and an  Ambassador for the charity Future Talent.  

Highlights of the 2021-22 season include concerto performances with the Philhamonia and Hallé Orchestras,  the Russian Philharmonic of Novosibirsk and the Baltimore, Singapore and Aalborg Symphony Orchestras. She  will be Artist in Residence at the Lammermuir Festival and perform at the Wigmore Hall alongside regular duo  partner Danny Driver. 

Chloë studied for ten years with the Russian pedagogue Zakhar Bron and has also worked with Christian  Tetzlaff, Robert Masters, Ida Haendel, Salvatore Accardo, and Gerhard Schulz. She plays a Nicolo Amati violin  kindly loaned to her through the Beare’s International Violin Society by a generous sponsor. 

Çukurova State Symphony Orchestra

Çukurova State Symphony Orchestra which was established under Directorate General of Fine Arts of Culture and Tourism Ministry of Republic of Turkey is the fourth Symphony Orchestra which was established following Presidential Symphony Orchestra (CSO), İstanbul State Symphony Orchestra (İDSO) and İzmir State Symphony Orchestra (izDSO). Our Orchestra was officially established in 1988 and firstly started its working at the end of 1991 with a very small staff consisting 17 people under the direction of Emin Güven YAŞLIÇAM who was the General Director of Music and Conductor of the orchestra. It gave its first concert in 1992, on the 5th January which was the day celebrated as the celebration day of Adana for liberation from the enemy occupation.

After that, orchestra expanded its musician staff through examinations which were conducted in the following years. Moreover, it still sustains its concerts with the assistance of the guest musicians from other Symphony Orchestras, Opera and Ballet Orchestras and State Orchestras also with the contribution of Cukurova Philharmonic Association. In addition to this kind of works, Willy Claes who is Secretary General of NATO and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium conducted the Orchestra in the first part of a special concert. With the assistance of Adana 6th Corps Command, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture was vocalized in Open Air Theater of Cukurova University accompanied by real cannon shots.

Cukurova State Symphony Orchestra has had lots of domestic and foreign tours since its foundation. Some of these destinations are Tarsus, İskenderun, Diyarbakır, Malatya, Trabzon, Mersin, Gaziantep, Antalya, Ancient Theatre of Aspendos, Ankara, istanbul, Cyprus, Syria, Germany and Japan. During Japan tour, Tchaikovsky's 1st Piano Concerto and 5th Symphony was recorded in CD.

It carefully organizes its concert schedule every season and carries out its works in order to promote polyphonic universal music to Adana public. Moreover; many music pieces are vocalized for the first time in Turkey and in the world.

Between 2000 and 2006, it organized concerts regularly to the domestic and foreign tourists in May and September in Antalya Aspendos Open Air Theater. It also still organizes such special concerts as "Memorial of Hacı Sabancı" concert for Adana audience.

Cukurova State Symphony Orchestra carries out its concerts under the light of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's idea of "CULTURE IS THE BASIS OF REPUBLIC OF TURKEY" in order to be in His running.

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