[aghet] [ağıt]

To commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, the Dresdner Sinfoniker and the guitarist Marc Sinan teamed up to initiate the aghet – ağıt concert project in November 2015. aghet – ağıt is dedicated to Marc Sinan’s grandmother, Vahide, a survivor of the genocide.

The Dresdner Sinfoniker, who want to concert to be viewed as an act of reconciliation, features musicians from Turkey, Armenia and Germany, along with members of the No Borders Orchestras, consisting of musicians from the former Yugoslavian states, and which is also a reconciliation project in its own right. At the very heart of this extraordinary project of remembrance lie two specially commissioned works by Zeynep Gedizlioğlu (Turkey) and Helmut Oehring (Germany), along with the Surgite Gloriae double concerto for viola and duduk by the Armenian composer Vache Sharafyan.