Events & Activities
Joe Satriani World Tour
May 18, 2013 20:00
Kucukciftlik Park, Istanbul
Joe Satriani has been a worldwide guitar hero since his 1987 breakthrough album, "Surfing with the Alien". Over 10-million albums and CD’s later, in addition to 14 Grammy nominations and numerous accolades Satriani continues to push the envelope of modern rock guitar playing.
Although he originally started his career by teaching some of the top rock guitar players of the '80s and '90s like Metallica’s Kirk Hammet and virtuoso Steve Vai, Joe Satriani is universally hailed as one of the most technically accomplished and respected guitar players in rock. Satriani, who cites Jimi Hendrix as a major influence, quickly established himself as one of rock’s most influential guitarists.
Since the release of "Surfing with the Alien" in 1987, Satriani has continually been voted the best guitarist in leading guitar magazine readers’ polls. Chosen by Mick Jagger to perform worldwide on Mick’s first solo tour, and by Deep Purple to tour Japan and Europe, Satriani cemented his reputation as a true guitar hero.
After releasing several critically acclaimed solo albums, in 1996, Satriani embarked on the first G3 showcase tour, which became an instant success. G3 have performed sold out tours in North America, Europe, South America, Japan and Australia, and have released three live G3 DVDs.
In 2009 Joe teamed up with Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony of Van Halen plus Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers to form Chickenfoot. The band’s debut album was an international success, receiving gold awards in the US, Canada and Europe, plus recognition from Classic Rock Magazine as The Best New Band of 2009. Joe released his 11th studio album "Black Swans" and "Wormhole Wizards" in October 2010 and followed this with extensive North American and European tours. The following year, Chickenfoot’s second album, "III", was released to critical acclaim on 27th September.
In January 2012, Satriani embarked on a European tour with Chickenfoot. By April 2012, he released the DVD/Blu-Ray of his much talked about 3D concert film "Satchurated: Live In Montreal". During the same year, he embarked on G3 tours of Europe and Australia with Steve Vai and Steve Lukather.
On 22nd September 2012 Satriani performed at the "50 Years of Marshall" tribute concert in honour of the late Jim Marshall, at London’s Wembley Arena which also included Paul Gilbert, Zakk Wylde, Glenn Hughes, Yngwie Malmsteen, Doug Aldrich, Billy Duffy, Nicko McBrain, Corey Taylor, Brian Tichy, Tim ‘Ripper’ Owens, Mike Portnoy, Andy Fraser and Kerry King.
The upcoming European tour coincides with the news that Satriani will record a new solo album later this year for a worldwide release via Sony in May 2013. The enterprising guitarist is also in the planning stages of releasing a career retrospective box set for spring 2013.
"Istanbul Recitals" is an exceptional occasion for classical music lovers and 2012-2013 season will begin on October 4, 2012.
Worldwide famous piano virtuosi perform on the recitals that take place at The Seed, in the garden of Sakip Sabanci Museum, Emirgan. The program is given below and the tickets can be purchased through Biletix. All performances begin at 20:00.
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Paolo Restani (piano)
Program: Brahms, Debussy, Wagner/Liszt
Friday, November 16, 2012
Ophelie Gaillard (cello)
Program: J.S. Bach
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Llyr Williams (piano)
Program: Bach/Busoni, Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt, Wagner/Liszt
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Xuefei Yang (guitar)
Program: Schubert, Debussy, Falla, Koshkin, Dyens, Britten
Friday, February 15, 2013
Alexei Volodin (piano)
Program: Schubert, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky/Pletnev, Wagner/Liszt, Kapustin
Friday, March 15, 2013
Angela Hewitt (piano)
Program: Bach, Beethoven
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Vanessa Wagner (piano)
Program: Couperin, Rameau, Ravel, Debussy, Messiaen, Dutilleux, Duaspin
Friday, May 10, 2013
John O’Conor (piano)
Program: Haydn, Wagner, Beethoven, Schubert
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
Program: Haydn, Liszt, Wagner/Liszt/Kocsis
Rihanna Diamonds World Tour
May 30, 2013 17:00
Istanbul
- Category 1 - 315.00 TL - tribune
- Category 2 - 250.00 TL - tribune
- Category 3 - 200.00 TL - tribune
- Category 4 - 150.00 TL
Vodafone Istanbul Calling Presents: Rihanna Diamonds World Tour Following Immediate Sell-Outs Additional European Tour Dates Just Announced!
7th Studio Album Unapologetic Shines At #1 On Billboard’s Hot 100
Istanbul, January 31 - Worldwide superstar Rihanna - the “#1 Person On Facebook” with over 62.5 million fans – is bringing her DIAMONDS WORLD TOUR to Europe in 2013. The RIHANNA DIAMONDS WORLD TOUR which begins March 8th in the United States is scheduled to stop in more than 28 cities across North America prior to its European takeover. The European tour starts in Bilbao, Spain on May 26th and runs through July with stops already announced in Austria, Belgium,Turkey, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
Vodafone Istanbul Calling is preparing to become the longest city festival that will be held for 3 months. Many local and world stars will be welcomed during this festival. Concerts, festivals and parties will be held non-stop throughout different venues all around the city.
And now as confirmed by Pozitif Live and Live Nation Global Touring, Turkish fans will also have the chance to catch Rihanna as she visits Istanbul - BJK Inönü Stadyumu on May 30, 2013. Tickets go on sale February 5th via Biletix sales channels biletix.com and all Garanti Bank ATM’s. Complete tour itinerary below. Rihanna Diamonds World tour Istanbul concert is presented by Vodafone Istanbul Calling, Garanti Bank, Star TV and Virgin Radio.
Rihanna is currently dominating global charts with “Diamonds” the fastest-rising single of her career to date, and the first single from UNAPOLOGETIC her 7th studio album first #1 album (Billboard Top 200) for Island Def Jam in just seven years. “Diamonds” also just marked Rihanna’s 12th time at number one on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart and with only a six-year, one-month, two-week stretch between her first #1 chart topper with “SOS” on May 13, 2006 and the release of Diamonds last week, she is officially the fastest female artist ever to receive 12 number one titles at the top of the Hot 100. It is also Rihanna’s 23rd Top 10 hit on the chart. When it debuted four weeks ago, “Diamonds” garnered #1 postings at iTunes in 27 countries, and Top 5 iTunes in 55 countries.
The recipient of six Grammy Awards® and seven Billboard Music Awards, Rihanna has sold over 37 million albums and 146 million digital tracks worldwide, and currently holds the record as the top-selling digital artist of all time. Forbes named Rihanna the world’s #1 social media star with over 2.9 billion views on YouTube/VEVO, the most ever for any female artist, over 62.5 million Facebook fans, and over 26.5 million Twitter followers. In addition to her 11 Hot 100 #1 singles and overall 22 Top 10 singles, she also has 18 #1 singles on the Billboard Dance Club Song Charts.
Rihanna Diamonds World Tour is promoted world-wide by Live Nation Global Touring.
Alicia Keys
July 02, 2013 21:00
Kucukciftlik Park, Istanbul
Ticket Prices:
Special Platform - 425.00 TL
Front of Stage 1 - 275.00 TL
Front of Stage 2 - 165.00 TL
Public Area - 90.00 TL
Student - 67.50 TL
The 20th Istanbul Jazz Festival welcomes the world-renowned voice of R&B and soul music, Alicia Keys.
The 14-time Grammy-winner, singer, composer and song writer will be performing for the first time in Turkey on Tuesday, 2 July, at 21:00 at Kucukçiftlik Park.
With her wide repertoire of classical piano Alicia Keys released her debut album "Songs in A Minor" in 2001. She sold over 12 million albums worldwide, and won 5 Grammy awards, including Best New Artist and Best R&B album. In 2003 she released her second studio album "The Diary of Alicia Keys". She won 4 Grammy awards, including Best R&B Album. During the same year Keys released her live "Unplugged" album. It was the first bestselling unplugged album since Nirvana’s unplugged release and it went to number 1 in the charts.
Keys in 2007 released her third studio album "As I am". With this album she won 3 Grammy awards. In 2009 with her fourth studio album "The Element of Freedom" rose to number one on the charts in the United Kingdom. Alicia Keys, with Jay-Z in 2009, released the song "Empire State of Mind" which was highly successful. It was selected the second best song of the year by Rolling Stone magazine. Keys and Jay-Z won a Grammy for Best Rap Song and a Grammy for Best Rap / Sung Collaboration for "Empire State of Mind".
Keys has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. She is considered one of the best-selling female musicians of her generation. Her songs “Falling”, “No One”, “If I Ain’t Got You”, was at the top of the charts for a number of weeks in dozens of countries all over the world. Powerful vocalist and songwriter Alicia Keys released her 5th album "Girl on Fire" in May 2012 skyrocketing to its place at the top of the charts. Her album will be followed by a tour entitled "Set the World on Fire" featuring Alicia Keys. She will perform at concerts in cities such as London, Paris, Vienna, Monaco, and Munich.
On 2 July she will perform at Kucukçiftlik Park within the scope of the Istanbul Jazz Festival.
Iron Maiden
July 26, 2013 16:00
BJK Inonu Stadium, Istanbul
Vodafone Istanbul Calling is preparing to become one of Istanbul’s biggest festival held for 3 months throughout the summer of 2013. Sponsored by Vodafone and Garanti Bank, the festival will host numerous foreign and local stars in different venues throughout Istanbul. This festival will become the music hotspot for all genres. For further information keep following the updates by logging on to www.istanbulcalling.com!
Founded by bassist Steve Harris in the mid ‘70s, Iron Maiden were already firmly established as heavy metal’s brightest hopes when they stormed the world with their third album (and first with vocalist Bruce Dickinson) The Number Of The Beast in 1982. Throughout the decade that followed, Maiden recorded and toured relentlessly with seven new studio albums, one live album: the seminal Live after Death, and seven World Tours in the ‘80s alone. Cementing their reputation as the hardest-touring band on the planet and with the unmistakable figure of band mascot Eddie adorning every album cover and T-shirt , Iron Maiden created a world of their own; one that welcomed fans from every culture, creed and social sphere with a guarantee of heartfelt conviction and unprecedented professionalism.
With milestones like the marathon World Slavery Tour of 1984/5, headlining Rock in Rio in both 1985 and 2001 and Castle Donington’s Monsters Of Rock festival in 1988, (still the biggest ever event there with 107,000 attending), Maiden set new standards, while continually reinventing themselves both musically and visually.
Despite radio play around the world being limited to occasional heavy metal speciality shows and the band’s refusal to deal with celebrity and lifestyle-based mainstream media and magazines, of which there are now so many, the band took metal to many new frontiers; to Poland and behind the Iron Curtain in 1985 at the height of the Cold War, around South America initially in 1992 and many times since, to the Middle East in 2007, India in the same year, Indonesia in 2011 and many other new places all around the planet that rarely get visited by major bands.
The ‘90s proved to be a difficult time for heavy metal bands in general, but Iron Maiden ploughed doggedly forward, notching up yet more success with albums like 1992’s acclaimed Fear Of The Dark and even weathering the departure of Bruce Dickinson in 1993. The band made two strong albums with new singer Blaze Bayley and continued to honour their commitment to intensive touring, delivering the goods at every show. However, it was the return of Dickinson and guitarist Adrian Smith (who originally left the band in 1990) in 1999 when Iron Maiden became a six-piece, that established the ultimate Iron Maiden line-up of Bruce Dickinson on vocals, Steve Harris on bass, Nicko McBrain on drums and “the three amigos” – Adrian Smith, Dave Murray and Janick Gers - on guitar. This line-up has scaled new heights and become increasingly fearless and boldly creative since the release of the Brave New World album in 2000.
This brave new Maiden era reached an astonishing zenith during the band’s Somewhere Back In Time Tour that began in February 2008 and initially took the band 50,000 miles around the world in 45 days, flying in their own specially chartered Boeing 757, Ed Force One, piloted by Bruce Dickinson, a qualified airline captain, traversing the planet, from India to Costa Rica, Australia to Argentina, Sao Paulo to Tokyo. Ed Force One made TV news headlines around the world and the coverage of that tour was subsequently turned into an award-winning film and DVD Flight 666. Released in 2009 Flight 666 hit the No.1 slot in the music DVD charts in 25 countries, the same year the band picked up their first ever Brit Award for Best British Live Act. Maiden guitarist Dave Murray summed it up nicely when he remarked “Ed Force One certainly beats the battered old van that we, our one crew member and all our equipment used to travel round to gigs in when we first started out!”
2011 proved another landmark year in the career of IRON MAIDEN following on from the huge success of their 15th studio album The Final Frontier released in 2010. The album became their biggest chart success to date, hitting the number one spot in more than 28 countries round the world, and debuting at an all time high of #4 on Billboard in the U.S. In February the band resumed The Final Frontier World Tour which had begun in June 2010, once more aboard Ed Force One, and pushing their own boundaries even further on that particular Round The World odyssey which covered 5 continents in 66 days and saw the band fly for the first time ever into such places as Singapore, Indonesia and South Korea for shows there. By the end of The Final Frontier Tour the band had played 98 live shows to over two million fans in 36 countries finishing up with two triumphant concerts at London’s 02 Arena. This same year Maiden released the widely lauded From Fear To Eternity compilation album and the band were also awarded their first ever U.S. Grammy: Best Metal Performance, for the song El Dorado taken from The Final Frontier album.
The band continued on this high note into 2012 with the release of a live DVD taken from The Final Frontier World Tour. En Vivo! was filmed in front of 50,000 fans in Chile’s National Stadium and hit the #1 spot in the UK and Internationally, becoming Maiden’s fifth consecutive chart-topping live concert DVD. October 2012 saw the start of a series of limited edition releases comprising the first eight albums of Maiden’s career, all originally released in the 1980’s and reissued now as heavyweight gatefold vinyl picture discs. Among these reissues was the ground-breaking 1982 album The Number Of The Beast which earlier in 2012 was voted Best British Album of the past 60 years in a national public survey conducted by UK retailer HMV to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.
33 years on, and with close to 90 million album sales, more than 2000 live performances in 58* countries, tens of millions of satisfied customers and 15 studio albums of unerring quality and power to their name, Iron Maiden have more than earned their proudly-held status as one of the most influential and revered bands ever.
Roger Waters: The Wall
August 04 , 2013 Istanbul
Co-Founder Of Pink Floyd Legend Roger Waters, After 7 Years Will Be in Istanbul Once Again!
Tickets For The Wall Tour Go On Sale at December 10!
Co-founder of Pink Floyd legend of rock music Roger Waters is coming to Istanbul with “The Wall” tour after 7 years promoted by GNL-BKM. 17 thousand fans met with Roger Waters in Istanbul for “The Dark SideOf the Moon” tour in 2006. On August 4, 2012 Roger Waters will be meeting his fans one more time at ITU Stadium.
About "The Wall" Tour and the Album:
The social, political and personal effects of the “The Wall” album made it one of the most important albums of the century, and “The Wall” tour will be staged with a magnificent production.
Pink Floyd was break records with "The Wall" album and the group has won 23 platinum certificates.
The songs in the album “The Wall” remained to be in the world top music charts during the years which the album came out.
In the “The Wall” tour, all of the songs in the album are played entirely and accompanied with a magnificent show.
In the year 2012, according to international music conference which is held by European organizers, “The Wall” was chosen to be the best tour in that year. Until today, “The Wall” has performed 15 stadium concerts in South America and has reached 750.000 people in Chile, Brazil and Argentina.
All of the nine concerts of Roger Waters which are held in Buenos Aires River Plate Stadium, has been sold out days before the concerts.
The concerts are continued to be a success; 825.00 tickets has been sold for the 42 concerts took place in America, Canada and Mexico.
Until today, The Wall tour has carried out 192 concerts and sold 380 million dollar tickets and has reached 3.3 million people in 28 countries.
The Europe concerts of the tour will start in Belgium in July. Roger Waters will perform 25 concerts, and after Greece, he will come to Istanbul in 4rd of August. The tour will end in September in France.
The Wall Unlimited package:
Getting into the concert area before the concert day (probably at 1st of August), watching the setting of the stage, taking a photo by organisation company
Backstage Vip tour at the early hours before the concert, taking photos at the backstage
+ The Wall Merchandise package:
Special Design Concert T-shirt
Official Tour Program
Tour Poster
Tour Pass Card for the name
Special Tour Accessories for this special package
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