2019 New Year Classical Music Concerts in Ankara

The biggest New Year and Christmas Eve celebration of Ankara audience is to go to CSO, Bilkent Symphony and Opera concerts.

This year, Bilkent Symphony tickets have been sold on the internet months ago, they are all sold.

See the beautiful program, scheduled on 26-27 December, Wednesday and Thursday nights.

Conductor Ferenc Gabor, Soprano Burcu Uyar, Waltzes, Polkas, Songs

J. Strauss II, A. Dvorak, B. Smetana, J. Brahms, J. Offenbach, F. Lehar

Ankara Opera tickets are also finished, concerts are on 28-29 December, Friday - Saturday nights, we have,

Conductor Antonio Pirolli

Soloists Murat Karahan, Feryal Türkoğlu, Eralp Kıyıcı, Ezgi Karakaya

CSO (Presidential Philharmonic Orchestra) tickets went on sale 10 days ago, tickets all sold on the same day.

Concert days are on 27-28 December, Thursday - Friday

Conductor Tulio Gagliardo Vargas. Soprano Mehlika Karadeniz, Tenor Aydın Uştuk. Program details are not yet clear.

There is a Somel Trio Jazz music program on the night of December 25 in the Ankara Erimtan Museum. Do also follow the Mozart House Christmas program. Capella concert will be given in MEB Shura Concert Hall. There is a Alegria concert at the Ankara University Morphology Hall on the 25th of December.

There may be concert programs at Hacettepe Conservatory, Başkent and other Ankara universities. No announcements have been received by your author. If they report it, we would be very pleased.

Izmir Elhamra, Istanbul Sureyya - Samsun-Antalya-Mersin operas have new year classical music programs. Eskişehir-Bursa concert programs can be found in social media, also in Borusan, İş Sanat, Zorlu PSM, CRR concert programs. There is a new year concert at Sabancı University.

If you can't find a concert ticket, you can wait at the main gate of the concert hall and grab the return ticket, for not much money. In fact, they don't turn down the ones that come to the door at cold night , they let you in at the last minute, you can watch them on the side corridor.

Another option is sitting in front of the TV at home, watching the BBC British Royal Albert Hall, USA Chicago, Germany Berlin-Munich, Austria Vienna. It is an easy alternative for you to watch the Viennese operas or other new year concert programs. The new year concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra will be broadcast on BBC TV on 1 January 2019 at 1300.

The Berlin Philharmonic will perform in the days of 29-30-31 December under the direction of world famous conductor Daniel Barenboim.

Prague and Paris classical music concerts will be on TV broadcasts on New Year's concerts. You will be able to watch them all over the internet.

We wish happy new year, health happiness for you and for your family and have your all business success in your work.

Ankara, 20- December 2018

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Haluk Direskeneli is a 1973 graduate from Middle East Technical University, Department of Mechanical Engineering. Since his graduation, he has been mainly involved in thermal / thermal design, manufacturing, marketing, bidding, sales and He has worked as a consultant for domestic market, engineering companies, investors and universities on thermal power plant design software. He is a member of MMO and METU Alumni Association Energy Commissions.

This article was written for the magazine "Odtü Alumni Bulletin".

Ankara, 20 December, 2018