Philosophy
ATC is more than just a group of internationally established and widely awarded musicians. Besides high artistic quality, exact musicology and historical research and astonishing creativity are the basis for the projects. We respect the tradition and create at the same time a new space for the arts in an unusual and surprising context. ATC dedicates itself to period performance practice. This means we are playing instruments of the period the music was written as we think it should be the way music should be performed. Our speciality is to focus on the wide Ottoman impact on the European Art music, starting from the 16. century. Western music history usually tends to ignore or just to consider this impact as an exotic spice. According to the latin saying "Ex oriente lux" ("The light is coming from the East") are we abducting the audience to musical experiences and connections that they might have never expected before.
Concerts 2013: Ankara/ODTÜ, "The Istanbul Bach', Saarbrücken/Germany, 1. Alla Turca Festival, "The Istanbul Bach"
Concerts 2014: Istanbul, "Baba Haydn" in cooperation with ITÜ Conservatory & Austrian Culture Office, Bad Krozingen/Germany, Schlosskonzerte, "Alla Turca", Kreuzlingen/Switzerland, International Bodenseefestival, "The Istanbul Bach", Romanshorn/Switzerland, International Bodensee Festival, "The Istanbul Bach", Ankara, ODTÜ, "The Istanbul Bach"