Izmir Jazz Festival by IKSEV

The Izmir Foundation for Culture Arts and Education was founded to pursue all appropriate activities for arts and culture to be researched, studied, thought, learned, protected and extended to the general public. The foundation organizes two festivals each year; The International Izmir Festival and The Izmir European Jazz Festival. The Festival organized every year since 1994, aims to bring together masters and lovers of Jazz in attempt of generating feelings of love, friendship and peace. In the days Turkey’s EU membership started to be worded more often, what started as The “Izmir European Jazz Days” expanded both in content and duration to become The “Izmir European Jazz Festival”. Performers and bands coming from Turkey, Germany, Austria, Italy, France, Poland, The Netherlands and Greece with their experimental and electronic works constitute the finest examples of European Jazz. The festival which is organized in cooperation with The Goethe Institute, The Austrian Culture Institute, Izmir France Culture Institute, The Italian Consulate, Izmir Consulate of Hellenic Republic and General Consulate of Poland in Istanbul and The Embassy of Kingdom of the Netherlands is a showcase of European cultural collaboration.