20.00 | NİLÜFER VERDİ TRIO: NİLÜFER VERDİ piano | BURAK CİHANGİRLİ drums | KAĞAN YILDIZ double bass

21.05 | BAPTISTE TROTIGNON TRIO: BAPTISTE TROTIGNON piano | GREGORY HUTCHINSON drums | JOE SANDERS double bass

Musical genius Baptiste Trotignon and Turkey’s first female jazz pianist Nilüfer Verdi share the stage on the same night with their boundary-breaking music and astonishing performances.

Baptiste Trotignon entered the ranks of the most influential pianists of his generation with his debut album Fluide in 2001, winning the Django d’Or Best Debut Album Award. His second album was declared “the shock of the year,” and he was subsequently named the Jazz Musician of the Year by the Jazz Academy. In the following years, he released consecutive solo, trio, and quartet albums while accumulating numerous awards. Baptiste Trotignon has been recognized as a musical genius for his free performances where he surrenders his immensely talented fingers to improvisation, transforming the piano keys into lyrics in his reinterpretations of compositions while always staying true to the original melody. The artist has refused to be confined to the piano and transcended the music of both the present and the region where he was born. He has blended European and American music, shifted between jazz and classical and become a staple in French jazz. With his latest album Brexit Music, he paid a semi-satirical tribute to British music. The master of improvisation at the piano, Baptiste Trotignon celebrates his 50th birthday with the praised and renowned drummer Greg Hutchinson at the 31st Istanbul Jazz Festival.

Nilüfer Verdi is a respected figure in Turkey’s jazz scene. After receiving her first piano lessons in Turkey, Verdi continued her music education abroad, studying with names like Jack Reilly, Ray Santisi, Bob Winter, Billy Pierce, and Alex Ulanowsky at Berklee College of Music and NY New School. After returning home, she has performed at many venues in the vibrant jazz scene of the 1980s, played at festivals, and trained her own students. Seeing jazz as the music of rebellion, Verdi dedicated her first two albums, Mânâ and İzhar, to women. In her third album, Knidost, released in 2016, she performed familiar folk songs in unconventional forms. Nilüfer Verdi will take the stage before Baptiste Trotignon and will be presented the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Doors open: 19.00

This event has an age limit of 7 years. Attendees under 18 can participate with the accompaniment of a legal guardian.

ID check at the door. Attendees are required to bring official proof of identity.

There is no cloakroom service. We kindly ask you not to bring a bag larger than a handbag. Suitcases and large backpacks will not be permitted in the venue.

There is no parking available.

The event is seated.

Access to the venue will be from Tomtom Kaptan Street.

The venue is not suitable for disabled access. Please send an email to bilet@iksv.org with your name, surname, and the concert(s) you will be attending for us to assist disabled audience members to access the concert venue.

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