Constantinople

Name: Constantinople
Start: 2026-07-21T19:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-07-21T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Castle Pecka

took place · 21 Jul 2026

Castle Pecka, Pecka

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Constantinople, Kiya Tabassian & Cappella Mariana

About: Kiya Tabassian

Born in Tehran and transplanted to Montreal at fourteen, Kiya Tabassian has spent his career weaving Persian, Arab, and European musical traditions into new works. His Juno Award-winning ensemble Constantinople has performed across 59 countries, drawing on everything from medieval manuscripts to contemporary composition.

countries where Constantinople performed

studio albums of the Constantinople ensemble

programs created by the Constantinople ensemble

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musicians supported at the Centre des musiciens du monde residency

What's new

2025-05
The ensemble Constantinople with Kiya Tabassian and griot Ablaye Cissoko performed the program Traversées in Berkeley (California) for the San Francisco Early Music Society.
2025
Constantinople received the Angel Award in the classical music category for the album Pilgrimage recorded in collaboration with the Czech ensemble Cappella Mariana.
2025-06
Kiya Tabassian performed with Kayhan Kalhor and Hadim Hosseini in the program Songs of Hope at Müpa Budapest.

Tour

St. GallenPotsdamIstanbulBudapestBerkeleyVancouverTorontoMontreal

Tracks

Il Ponte di Leonardoalbum of the year 2024, winner of the Canadian Juno Award for best classical album

Pilgrimagealbum in collaboration with Cappella Mariana, winner of the Czech Anděl Award 2025

Traverséesproject with griot Ablayem Cissoko - dialogue between Persian setar and African kora

Khayyam & Oum Kalthumreinterpretation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam with singer Ghaliou Benali

Bach & Khayyamintercultural encounter of Bach's music with Persian poetry, with Hana Blažíková

Recent shows

Aug 29, 2021 Skeppet, Gothenburg (SE)

About: Cappella Mariana

The Prague-based Cappella Mariana has spent nearly two decades rescuing forgotten polyphony of the Middle Ages and Renaissance from obscurity. Led by Vojtěch Semerád, the ensemble is a fixture at Europe's top early-music festivals and took home two major prizes in 2024 - the Czech Anděl Award and the French Diapason d'Or.

Anděl Award 2024 - classical music category

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What's new

2025-03
A recording of Jean Richafort's masses (Missa O Genetrix and Missa Veni Sponsa Christi) released by Musique en Wallonie won the prestigious French award Diapason d'Or.
2025
Cappella Mariana continues its research into Flemish polyphony in a Central European context with the program "Mirror of Johannes Tourout" at the Concentus Moraviae festival.
2024
The album "Pilgrimage" (Kryštof Harant's journey to the Holy Land, recorded with the ensemble Constantinople) won the Anděl 2024 award in the classical music category.

Tracks

Pilgrimage: Musical Journey of Kryštof Harant to Jerusalemalbum 2024 (Supraphon), Anděl Award 2024 in the classical music category

Jean Richafort: Missa O Genetrix / Missa Veni Sponsa Christialbum 2024 (Musique en Wallonie), awarded Diapason d'Or 2025

Praga Rosa Bohemiaealbum 2019 (Supraphon), Renaissance polyphony of Rudolfine Prague

Song of Songs - Canticum Salomonisalbum 2018, released for the 10th anniversary of the ensemble

Codex Speciálníkrecording of a unique manuscript of Czech Renaissance polyphony

Constantinople

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