The Pera-Ensemble, named after a district of Istanbul, where people from different origins, races, religions and cultures are meeting since the antiquity, was established in 2005 by the Istanbul-born musicians Mehmet Cemal Yesilcay and Ihsan Özer.
On stage, Pera combines the musical traditions of the Ottoman’s music vowels and instrumental virtuosity together with the historical and contemporary European music; whereby the musical functioning is based on musicological and historical research.