Founded in Paris, 1996
France | Turkey | No Borders
management & booking & artistic creation
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Feel like a tree, alone and free, rustle together like the trees of a forest. Through music and art.
That is the reason of being of Caféturc Music & Arts.
Founded in Paris in 1996, established in France and Turkey, Caféturc Music & Arts specializes in project design, management and booking in music and performing arts.
Since the 1990s, we have been advising and developing innovative programs with cultural institutions (Cité de la Musique de Paris, Théâtre de la Ville de Paris, Scènes Nationales, etc.).
We are member of ZONE FRANCHE, the French network of world music.
In 2005, we opened on the Aegean Sea coast the Karagöz Art Center to invest field of artistic creation, and to organize events in performing and visual arts.
Caféturc Music & Arts is founding member of EVRE, a platform created in 2021 and dedicated to the enhancement and transformation, in a multidisciplinary approach, of the artistic ecosystem and creative industries in Bursa, Turkey.
Countries where we do projects and our artists perform these months.
MANAGEMENT & BOOKING
World and contemporary music, theatre and dance
• Detection and development of talent, with special attention to French and Turkish scene
• Distribution of artists all around the world
Venues and festivals where our artists performed
In France
Banlieues Bleues, Cabaret Sauvage, CCR Les Dominicains de Haute-Alsace, CDN La Comédie de Reims, Festival d’Ile-de-France, Festival Jazz sur son 31, Festival Les Escales, Institut du Monde Arabe, JAM Montpellier, Jazz à La Villette, La Ferme d’en-Haut, La Villette - Scène d’Eté, Le Bikini, Le Duc des Lombards, Le Metronum, Les Abattoirs à Bourgoin, Les Suds à Arles, Le Lieu Unique - Scène nationale de Nantes, Les Traversées Tatihou, Maison de la Musique de Nanterre, Mezzo TV, Musée national de l'histoire de l'immigration, New Morning, Palais de Chaillot, Palais des congrès d’Ajaccio, Scène nationale de Sablé, Scène nationale du Parvis - Tarbes, Théâtre de la Ville de Paris, Welcome in Tziganie
In Europe
Bouquet Kiev Stage Festival (Ukraine), CCB Fora de Si (Lisbon), Cap Suds Festival (Belgium), Estate Musicale Sorrentina Festival (Italy), Evora Classica Festival (Portugal), Festival Voix des femmes (Antwerp & Liège), Wereldfesst Festival (Netherlands), Haapavesi Folk Music Festival (Finland), Half Note (Athens), French Institute in Bucharest (Romania), Jazz Club Moods (Zurih), Kaunas European Capital of Culture 2022 (Lithuania), Klaipeda Castle Jazz Festival (Lithuania), Les Halles de Schaerbeek (Brussels), Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music (London), Maxim Gorki Theater (Berlin), Mittelfest (Italy), Kunstpalast Museum (Düsseldorf), Mylos (Thessaloniki), State Philharmonic of Yerevan (Armenia), Sziget Festival (Budapest)
In Turkey
Akbank Jazz Festival, Atatürk Kültür Merkezi, Babylon Istanbul, Bomontiada, Caddebostan Kültür Merkezi, Çankaya Belediyesi Yılmaz Güney Sahnesi – Ankara, Hagia Irene Church, ENKA Sanat, Ankara International Jazz Festival, Izmir International Cinema and Music Festival, Istanbul Jazz Festival, Izmir International Fair, Harbiye Açık Hava Tiyatrosu, Italian Institute in Istanbul, French Intitute in Istanbul, Iş Sanat, Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Moda Sahnesi, Müze Gazhane, Nâzım Hikmet Kültür Merkezi – Bursa, Soho House, Bursa International Children and Youth Tehatre Festivali, Zorlu PSM
Elsewhere in the world
Festival de Fès des musiques sacrées du monde (Morocco), Festival international de musique spirituelle (Tunisia), Festival Musiqat (Tunisia), Festival Timitar (Morocco), Gnaoua Festival Tour (Casablanca), French Institute in Algeria (Alger, Annaba, Constantine, Oran, Tanger, Tlemcen), French Institute in Irak (Erbil, Dohuk, Souleymaniye), SESC Sao Paulo (Brasil), Suzanne Dellal Centre (Tel Aviv), Togoville Jazz Festival (Togo)
Caféturc worked with these artists
… Cesaria Evora (Cape Verde), Juan Carlos Caceres (Argentina), Bratsch (France), Cristina Branco (Portugal), Ivo Papazov (Bulgaria), Salvatore Adamo (Italy/Belgium), Cuarteto Cedrón (Argentina), Candye Kane (USA), Nikos ve Yasemin Saragoudas (Greece), Sœur Marie Keyrouz (Lebanon), Amelita Baltar (Argentina) …
… (Turkey) Hüsnü Şenlendirici, Önder Foçan, Selim Sesler, Erkan Oğur & Ismail Hakkı Demircioğlu, Okay Temiz, Musa Eroğlu, Kardeş Türküler, Sabahat Akkiraz, Zülfü Livaneli, Göksel Batagir, Techno Roman Project, Athens Byzantine Ensemble & Whirling Dervishes of Istanbul, Gülcan Kaya, Süleyman Ergüner Ensemble, Yıldız Ibrahimova, Erköse Kardeşler, İnci Çayırlı, Birol Topaloğlu, Nida Ateş & Seval Eroğlu, Hasan Yarımdünya, Nedim Nalbantoğlu, Sulukule Ensemble, Knar, Nilüfer Akbal, Kumpanya Istanbul, Hasbihal Ensemble, Erol Parlak, Istanbul Turkish Classical Music Ensemble of the Ministry of Culture ...
ARTISTIC CONSULTANCY
Caféturc advises cultural structures and festivals in the development of innovative programs and events.
Caféturc produced and organized
Istanbul Project
in Paris in collaboration with Cité de la musique and Salle Pleyel, 2007. Program: Erkan Oğur & Ismail Hakkı Demircioğlu, Selim Sesler & Techno Roman Project, Kardeş Türküler, Ensemble Byzance d’Athènes & Derviches Tourneurs d’Istanbul, Önder Foçan.
Turquie : La nuit des maîtres (Turkey: The Night of Masters)
in partnership with Maison de la Culture d’Amiens-Scène Nationale and Théâtre de la Ville de Paris, 2003. Program: Hasan Yarımdünya, Erol Parlak, Köçek Ensemble of Kastamonu.
Quinzaine de la musique turque (Fortnight of the Turkish Music)
in collaboration with Cité de la musique de Paris, Auditorium de Lyon, Festival 38ème Rugissant of Grenoble (Voiron), Scène nationale of Dieppe, Centre culturel Saint-Claude, 2000. Music program (Okay Temiz, Sabahat Akkiraz, Musa Eroğlu, İnci Çayırlı, Sulukule Ensemble, Birol Topaloğlu, Nilüfer Akbal, Elazığ Musiki Cemiyeti, Boğaziçi Quartet, Fotem), talks, exhibition.
Turkish Music Series
in Athens. Weekly concert series in partnership with the world-famous Athens jazz club Half Note. Erköse Kardeşler, Yıldız Ibrahimova & Ivo Papazov, Okay Temiz, Hüsnü Şenlendirici - Sulukule Ensemble, Kumpanya Istanbul.