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Serhan Bali

Born in Ankara in 1973, Serhan Bali, after graduating from the Political Science and International Relations department of Istanbul University in 1995, finished his master thesis in the field of late diplomatic history of the Ottoman Empire. After working several years as a professional in the private sector, he began publishing the only nationwide classical music periodical in Turkey named Andante in 2002. As both the publisher and the editor in chief of Andante, Serhan Bali, alongside other respected editors and classical music journalists of several European countries, is among the jury members of the International Classical Music Awards-ICMA (www.icma-info.com) which gives awards to the best classical music recordings every year. Bali is also the founder and editor in chief of the Opera and Ballet newspaper of the State Opera and Ballet Directorate of Turkey since 2011. Writing for the national press for over 10 years, Bali has also been the classical music columnist of the Radikal newspaper in Turkey since 2002. Also working as an editor in the music publishing field, Bali was the editor of pianist Fazıl Say’s latest book in Turkish named Yalnızlık Kederi-The Sadness of Loneliness. As an active radio producer, after working in Turkish Radio Television-TRT for several years, he now spends his time in producing and presenting music programs on Borusan Klasik, a 24 hours classical music radio channel in Istanbul. Bali took part in the advisory board of the Istanbul Music Festival between the years 2007-2009. During the previous years Serhan Bali has been an active participator in the meetings, conferences, panels all over the world in which the rich classical music tradition and the active classical music life in Turkey is being assessed. One of these recent meetings was organized by the BBC Radio 3 on 29th of July, 2014 in the Royal College of Music where Bali was one of the panelists talking about the recent developments in the classical music life of his country with good and bad aspects. Alongside the editorship of the Andante, Serhan Bali continues to write for the national and international press including the Opera magazine of UK of which he’s a regular contributor from Turkey. He’s also the presenter and scriptwriter of a documentary series on the Turkish channel IZ TV which has the topic of great composers and their birth cities.




 

The 2023 Queen Sonja Singing Competition

29.08.2023

Jasmin White emerged as the winner of this year’s Queen Sonja Singing Competition.    The American contralto takes home €50,000...

Pianist Can Cakmur is ICMA's Young Artist of the Year

30.01.2021

The Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) announced the Awards for 2021. German soprano Edita Gruberova is honoured with the Lifetime...

Workshop for opera singers in Modena

17.02.2020

Workshop for Opera Singers 14 - 21 April 2020 Modena, Italy    Opera workshop for opera singers (Nabucco, Aida, Zauberflöte)...

A talk with the first ever intendant of Leipzig Bach Fest: Michael Maul

10.01.2020

Dr. Michael Maul had shaken the music world in 2005 by his discovery of the now famous J.S. Bach aria “Alles mit Gott und nichts...

ICMA Award Ceremony and Gala

19.10.2019

The signing of the agreement for the ICMA Award Ceremony 2023 took place at the National Forum of Music NFM in Wroclaw, Poland.   In his welcome...

And the ICMA 2018 winners are...

18.01.2018

  ICMA 2018 - The Winners   For the International Classical Music Awards 2018, the ICMA Jury has once more selected musicians and...

Maximilian Hornung's journey to Bach's world

10.01.2018

Cellist Maximilian Hornung is one of the most sought after young musicians of today. Born in 1986 in Augsburg, he studied cello with David Geringas.

Conversation with violinist Sarah Christian on her debut CD

18.11.2017

Violinist Sarah Christian's debut CD recording ''Gegenwelten'' with the pianist Lilit Grigoryan has been issued by Genuin last...

An elegant classical music festival in the mad king's palace

10.07.2017

One of the most remarkable festivals of recent years in Germany, is being held in the Herrenchiemsee Palace.

An interview on Leipzig Bachfest with Alexander Steinhilber

12.06.2017

Dr. Alexander Steinhilber is the Managing Director of Bach-Archiv in Leipzig.

The best place to personally meet many interesting people

18.10.2016

Mondomusica is quite different from the other music exhibitions. Because of the venue: Cremona is one of the cities with the strongest music tradition.

The festival with best open air amplification to symphony orchestra

05.10.2016

I have known that in Ingolstadt, which is located in Germany’s Bavaria and also the homeland of the legendary secret organization Illuminati and...

This city reborns from her ashes with music every may

31.08.2016

This is my third article on Dresden and its music festival that competes with the city in beauty.

Les Talens Lyrique was in Vienna State Opera in their 25th year

04.08.2016

Gluck's Alceste has a special place among the composer's "reform operas'.

Farewell to Kissinger Sommer after 30 glorious years

31.07.2016

Kari Kahl-Wolfsjaeger, the founder of Bad Kissingen Festival (Kissinger Sommer) and its general manager ever since she founded it 30 years ago, is...

Impressions from the 11th ''Wagner in Budapest'' Festival

30.07.2016

Performing Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen (Nibelung’s Ring) tetralogy by overcoming every challenge that this work includes, in...

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