ISTANBUL
The French classical pianist sisters Katia and Marielle Labeque will give two concerts in Istanbul on January 17 and 18.
The Labeques' concerts will be at Lutfi Kirdar Convention Center on Jan. 17, performing Francis Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos with the Borusan Philharmonic; and at Borusan Music House on Jan. 18, when the duo will perform their latest project, "The Minimalist Dream Box."
Katia and Marielle Labeque, who have been performing as a piano duo all their lives, have performed with the most famous orchestras in the world such as Berlin Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra della Scala, Vienna Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra with prestigious conductors.
They performed for 33,000 people at the Waldbuhne gala concert, the last concert of the 2005 season of the Berlin Philharmonic.
Many works have been written especially for them, such as "Linea" for two pianos and percussion by Luciano Berio, "Water Dances" for two pianos by Michael Nyman, "Battlefield" for two pianos and orchestra by Richard Dubugnon, "Nazareno" for two pianos, percussion and orchestra by Osvaldo Golijov and Gonzalo Grau, "The Hague Hacking" for two pianos and orchestra by Louis Andriessen, and "Capriccio" by Philippe Boesmans.
