[aghet] [ağıt]
A German-Turkish-Armenian concert project by the Dresdner Sinfoniker, initiated by Marc Sinan, and in which he also performs as a soloist in Helmut Oehring’s “Massacre, do you hear MASSACRE!” (addressed to: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan).
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.

Marc Sinan
Initiator & Guitar (solo)
Zeynep Gedizlioglu, Helmut Oehring und Vache Sharafyan
Composition
Andrea Molino, Premil Petrovic
Conductor
Olaf Katzer
Choir conduction
Stefanie Wördemann
Libretto
Matthias Worm
Viola
Araik Bartikian
Duduk
Carl Thiemt
Bariton
Friedrich Ilgner
Boy soprano
Dresdner Sinfoniker, No Borders Orchestra with international guests
Orchestra
Members of Dresdner Kammerchor and AuditivVokal
Choir
In cooperation with
HELLERAU – European Center of the Arts Dresden, Radialsystem V Berlin, Dresdner Kammerchor and AuditivVokal, No Borders Orchestra, National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia and YMUSIC
A production of Dresdner Sinfoniker e.V., initiated by Marc Sinan
Funded by EU Cultural program Creative Europe, the Capital Culture Fund in Berlin, the Cultural Foundation of Saxony, the City of Dresden, the Dresden Cultural Foundation of Dresdner Bank and Fonds Soziokultur
Marc Sinan
Initiator & Guitar (solo)
Zeynep Gedizlioglu, Helmut Oehring und Vache Sharafyan
Composition
Andrea Molino, Premil Petrovic
Conductor
Olaf Katzer
Choir conduction
Stefanie Wördemann
Libretto
Matthias Worm
Viola
Araik Bartikian
Duduk
Carl Thiemt
Bariton
Friedrich Ilgner
Boy soprano
Dresdner Sinfoniker, No Borders Orchestra with international guests
Orchestra
Members of Dresdner Kammerchor and AuditivVokal
Choir
In cooperation with
HELLERAU – European Center of the Arts Dresden, Radialsystem V Berlin, Dresdner Kammerchor and AuditivVokal, No Borders Orchestra, National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia and YMUSIC
A production of Dresdner Sinfoniker e.V., initiated by Marc Sinan