1 March 2025, 20.00 | Bilkent Concert Hall

Portraits and Absences

Andrew Infanti, piano
Juliana Snapper, soprano
Jennifer Tipton, soprano

Belinda Chen Yokuş, piano
Bilkent University Chorale
Mehveş Topçuoğlu, animations

Music by C. Koechlin, P. Ablinger, Stravinsky, L. Dallapiccola, H. Eisler, A. Schoenberg and P. A. Grainger

Free admission

*GE 250-251

Flex your curiosities with a collaborative concert of rare and scintillating music from Faculty and students of the Bilkent University departments of Music and Fine Arts, with guest artist, Andrew Infanti. Pianist Belinda Chen Yokuş opens the concert with newly discovered film treatments for piano by Charles Koechlin, developed and presented in collaboration with the original animations of Bilkent Graphic Design alumnus Mehveş Topçuoğlu. Andrew Infanti and Chen Yokuş follow with set from the fascinating Peter Ablinger cycle Voices and Piano,  summoning the speaking voices of figures such as Billie Holliday and Valentina Tereshkova through the piano. Soprano Juliana Snapper joins Infanti for the Modernist middle of the program singing tender and playful Modernist art songs by Igor Stravinsky, Luigi Dallapiccola and Hanns Eisler, alongside Infanti’s exuberant interpretation of the Schoenberg Suite for Piano, Op. 25. The concert closes with a set by Percy Aldridge Grainger including a pair of lush two-piano settings from Chen Yokuş and Infanti, and a performance by the Bilkent University Chorale, featuring Soprano Jennifer Tipton.