Cihat Aşkın (Violin) & Roberto Issoglio (Piano)

Hosted by ENKA Arts at the ENKA Auditorium in Sarıyer, the special program titled Memory aims to commemorate Atatürk in line with the importance he gave to art and his cultural heritage. Sharing the stage, violinist Cihat Aşkın and pianist Roberto Issoglio focus on the historic meeting and musical conversation between Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and German pianist Wilhelm Kempff in Istanbul.

The two-part concert program, lasting about seventy-five minutes, features Ludwig van Beethoven’s Spring Sonata and Sixth Piano Sonata, Franz Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata, and Giacomo Puccini’s E lucevan le stelle aria from the opera Tosca. The pieces in the program are shaped around the memory of Wilhelm Kempff and the melodies loved by Atatürk, building a musical bridge between the past and the present.