May 4, 2025
3pm
Inspired by the ancient city illuminating the East and West, Constantinople was founded in 2001 in Montreal by its artistic director, Kiya Tabassian. The ensemble promotes the creation of new works that incorporate musical elements of diverse musical traditions, drawing from ancient sources to a contemporary aesthetic. Underpinned by a spirit of research and creation, Constantinople projects honor and share the rich musical traditions of the world by creating new music in the form of unique encounters, making connections, and bridges between cultures, periods, styles and people, and by disseminating it around the globe.
Constantinople is acclaimed by the public, music professionals and critics alike and is regularly invited to perform in international festivals and prestigious concert halls, such as the Salle Pleyel in Paris, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music in Morocco, the Rencontres musicales de Conques in France, the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, the Cervantino Festival in Mexico, the Festival de Carthage in Tunisia, the Onassis Cultural Centre- Athens and the BOZAR in Brussels. Over the course of two decades, Constantinople has created 60 new works with diverse artists and has presented nearly 1,000 concerts in more than 290 cities across 57 countries.
