Concert Sibel Köse "From Vistula to Bosphorus: A Jazz Bridge"

This special night will take place at Akatlar Cultural Center on October 4, and invites listeners to witness the unifying power across geographies of jazz through a cultural bridge extending from Warsaw to Istanbul.

36th Akbank Jazz Festival

Leaving an unforgettable mark on the city's musical memory for 36 years, the Akbank Jazz Festival will meet with music lovers from September 26 to October 11, 2026.

Conversation Jazz Listening Club: The 60s: Jazz Out of Bounds

4 June 2026 - For the 16th session of the Jazz Listening Club we are thrilled to welcome Ahmet Ali Arslan—a musician known for his storytelling, velvet vocals, and deep instrumental landscapes.

36th Akbank Jazz Festival JAmZZ Masterclass Program winners are announced!

Conversation Jazz Listening Club: From Script to Screen: The Journey of Film Music

30 April 2026 - On International Jazz Day, we explore the world where notes meet frames and stories are rewritten through sound. For the 15th session of the Jazz Listening Club, hosted by Akbank Sanat and fugamundi, we dive into the intersection of cinema and jazz.

Concert Jazz Meets Rap

Taking place on April 29 at Babylon, Jazz Meets Rap is a bold and original project that fuses the improvisational nature of jazz with the lyrical sharpness of rap. Rooted in tradition yet forward-looking, the performance invites the audience on a genre-bending musical journey.

Conversation fugamundi x Elif Dikeç Jazz Listening Club: Cosmic Sounds - From Krautrock to Jazz

26 March 2026 - In this session of the Jazz Listening Club, with Elif Dikeç, we set our course for 1970s Germany, to that "cosmic" era where music was reinvented in laboratories.

Conversation Jazz Listening Club: Surprises in Music - Sounds That Change Direction

25 Şubat 2026 - In this session of the Jazz Listening Club, Zeynep Oktar invites us to follow the idea of “surprise in music”. Rather than a technical music talk, this is an intimate, participatory evening shaped by what music evokes and the stories it lets us hear.

34th Akbank Jazz Festival JAmZZ Masterclass Program winners are announced!

35th Akbank Jazz Festival JAmZZ Masterclass Program winners are announced!

Conversation Literature and Jazz

As part of the 35th Akbank Jazz Festival, the “Literature and Jazz” talk will take place on October 11 at Arter, the conversation will explore the intersections of writing, language, and sound.

Conversation fugamundi x Hakan Bıçakçı Jazz Listening Club: Jazz and Suspense in Cinema

Organized by fugamundi as part of the Akbank Jazz Festival, this special session invites writer Hakan Bıçakcı for an exploration of how jazz functions as a tool for creating cinematic tension.