Residency: 14th - 26th of October 2021

Tour:

27th of October 2021 - 7:30pm - Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock/Scotland

28th of October 2021 - 6:00pm - Platform, Glasgow/Scotland

1st of November 2021 - 7:30pm - The National Centre for Early Music, York/England

2st of November 2021 - 8:00pm - Settle Victoria Hall, Settle/England

3rd of November 2021 - 7:30pm - Firth Hall, Sheffield/England

4th of November 2021 - 7:30pm - Lakeside Arts, Nottingham/England

5th of November 2021 - 7:30pm - The North Wall, Oxford/England

6th of November 2021 - 7:00pm - Mount Pleasant Eco Park, Porthtowan/England

10th of November 2021 - 8:00pm - St George’s, Bristol/England

11th of November 2021 - 7:30pm - The Sanctuary, London/England

Ozan Baysal Quintet - “Beyond Dreams”

Voice: Enrica La Penna (Italy)

Bağlama: Ahmet Ozan Baysal (Turkey/UK)

Nyckelharpa: Colin Heller (France)

Drum: Pierre Hurty (Belgium

Double Bass: Leila Soldevila (France)

Bağlama Solo: “Havada Turna Sesi Gelir

Bağlama Solo: “Kaytağı”

As a result of the restrictions in place to protect against the spread of Covid-19, the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra adapted and developed new online training programs in order to continue to carry out its mission of training and accompanying young musicians in their professional development. Country borders currently pose a challenge to an artist’s mobility and so it becomes important to create new workspaces and meeting places which allow for the preservation of the vital links and intercultural dialogue at the heart of these programs. The training programs were created through a process of reflection and ongoing exchange with the artists and pedagogical experts who were initially involved in training sessions that were scheduled to take place in Aix during the 2020 edition of the Festival d’Aix. Through these newly adapted programs, the MYO continue to defend its values which include artistic excellence, innovation, the expression of cultural diversity, and activities which promote social inclusion.

This year’s July session took place in a completely revisited format. As always, the session gathered eleven young artists specialised in improvisation led in their intercultural composition by Fabrizio Cassol. Five of these artists took part in the training session from the Camargo Foundation in Cassis. They were joined by six musicians online from Bulgaria, Italy, Greece, Lebanon and Turkey. Together they took on the challenge of composing collectively in an intercultural ensemble while taking into consideration the online element of the session that was at the heart of the creative process.

Tour:

29th of August 2019 - 8:00pm - Nuoro, Sardinia - Italy

30th of August 2019 - 8:00pm - Posada, Sardinia - Italy

Artistic Team of the Mini-Opera: “Accent”

Composer: Ahmet Ozan Baysal

Stage Director: Finn Beames

Bağlama (Saz): Ahmet Ozan Baysal

Soprano: Marine Costa

Flute: Adrian Saint-Pol

Author: Sabryna Pierre

Director: Anthony Heidweiller

TOUR:

14th of June 2019 - 4:30pm/5:30pm - Bar-Tabac Le Gaulis/Aix-en-Provence

15th of June 2019 - 10:30am/11:30am/2:30pm/3:30pm - Bar-Tabac Le Gaulis/Aix-en-Provence

Mübadele – Ανταλλαγή (The Exchange): collecting stories and memories of migration

EVENTS OF THE PROJECT:

• 18th of October 2018 - 1:00pm - Panel: “Open Music Lab - A Singer’s Approach to Modern Music” by Alexandros Charkiolakis, Recep Gül, Canan Özgür, Lito Messini at ITU MIAM Cevad Memduh Altar Hall.

• 18th of October 2018 - 4:30pm - Panel: “Artist’s Approach to Participatory Music” by Ahmet Ozan Baysal, Alexandros Charkiolakis, Recep Gül at ITU MIAM Cevad Memduh Altar Hall.

• 20th of October 2018 - 7:00pm - Concert: “Mübadele - The Exchange” at ITU Maçka Kampüsü Mustafa Kemal Amfisi.

Designed and directed by Ozan Baysal as part of 2018 Medinea Outreach Programme, the project Mübadele is based on collected personal stories and collective memories of migrated Greek – Turkish communities and their next generations who live in Istanbul.

The 1923 Lausanne Treaty, which ended the 1919-1922 Greco-Turkish War, decreed the compulsory exchange of religious minority populations in Greece and Turkey. As a result, almost a million and a half-Orthodox Christians residing in Turkey and half a million Muslims residing in Greece were uprooted from the lands on which they lived for generations and were forcefully sent to another country. The agreement not only caused a radical homogenization of the distribution of populations of the Near East but also, marked a milestone in the nationalization and modernization processes of the two countries, thus reshaping the nationalist discourses, as well as the cultural and national identities of Greeks and Turks.
Stories from The Exchange of 1923 were narrated by participants as sections of a composition – titled “Mübadele” which was composed by Turkish composer Recep Gül. The composition consists of sections that are open for improvisatory narrations as well as pre-composed areas. This project has also been led by Recep Gül whose composition is performed and, Alexandros Charkiolakis, who gave an effective effort on organizational works. A concert has been performed on October 20th, 2018 in one of Medinea members concert hall, the Center for Advanced Studies in Music.

This 2018 Medinea Outreach Project intended not only to remember the Greco-Turkish Forced Religious Exchange, a human tragedy from the past by narrated stories. But also to reconsider and address some questions of contemporary importance, such as forced migration, homogenization, othering, displacement, the contingency of identity and cultural mobility.

Foundations/Social Associations/Institutions
– The delegation of the European Union to Turkey – Ankara/Turkey
– Center for Advanced Studies in Music – Istanbul/Turkey
– Foundation for the Lausanne Treaty Emigrants – Istanbul/Turkey
– The Friends of Music Society – Athens/Greece

8th of August 2018, 8:00pm - Solo Concert

Tour:

15th of July 2016 - 7:00pm - La Cite de la Savine - Marseille - France

18th of July 2016 - 9:30pm - l’Hotel Maynier d’Oppede - Aix-en-Provence - France

19th of July 2016 - 8:30pm - Villa Mediterranee - Marseille - France

21st of July 2016 - 9:00pm - Unicredit Pavillon - Milan - Italy