This year’s edition of Beethovenfest Bonn, which takes place in the city where world-renowned composer Ludwig van Beethoven was born, will host the Turkish Youth Philharmonic Orchestra. The festival will be held between Sept. 7 and Oct. 7.
The orchestra, conducted by Cem Mansur, will be the guest of the festival’s Orchestra Campus, organized jointly by Deutsche Welle and Beethovenfest Bonn. As always at the Orchestra Campus, the program will include one work by Beethoven and a composition from the guest orchestra’s homeland, Turkey. Deutsche Welle has commissioned a work from the Turkish composer Mehmet Erhan Tanman. In “The Traffic,” Tanman portrays the pulsating life of Istanbul.
