Kalamis Summer Festival 2022
Emin Fındıkoğlu + 12 Big Band
Gulgun Gunal | July 28, 2022
Kalamis Summer Festival 2022 – July 28, 2022
Emin Fındıkoğlu + 12 Big Band
Emin Fındıkoğlu (piano)
Barış Yazıcı, Şenova Ülker, Tolga Bilgin (trumpets)
Işık Üstündağ, Güneş Karaduman, Hüseyin Çakır (trombones)
Duru Tuna, Çağdaş Oruç, Serhan Erkol, Barış Ertürk (saxophones)
Volkan Topakoğlu (double bass)
Monika Bulanda(drum)
Melisa Kral, Zeynep Kuyumcu (vocals)
Emin Fındıkoğlu
In the early 1970s he played in dance music groups throughout Europe. His interest in theater led to posts as musical director of the Istanbul production of Hair (1971) and the much-acclaimed Brecht-Cabaret (1979), a collage of texts and songs with music by Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler. His passion for writing for wind ensembles led to the formation of groups such as Euphony (1986) and Détente (1999), featuring the leading horn players of the Turkish jazz scene. In 1985 he founded the BİLSAK International Jazz Festival (the first of its kind in Istanbul).
In July 2015 the İstanbul Jazz Festival honored him with a Lifetime Achievment Award, an occasion which also marked the debut of his new big band, EF+12.
Kalamış Summer Festival, organized for the second time this year by Kadıköy Municipality, was held in Kadıköy Kalamış Atatürk Park (Türkiye) between 01/07/2022 – 30/08/2022. The festival closed with a special concert organized for August 30th Victory Day.
In Kadıköy, the favorite address of urban mobility and culture-art meetings, the public showed great interest in open-air meetings and events held at different points of Kadıköy, which were suspended due to the pandemic.
I am very delighted to have had the opportunity to photograph the festival on July 28.
