Inspired by the ancient city illuminating the East and West, Constantinople was founded in 2001 in Montreal by its artistic director, Kiya Tabassian. The ensemble has 20 albums to its credit and is the 2024 JUNO Award winner for Best Classical Album. Constantinople is acclaimed by the public, music professionals and critics alike and is regularly invited to perform in international festivals and prestigious concert halls, such as the Salle Pleyel in Paris, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music in Morocco, the Rencontres musicales de Conques in France, the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, the Cervantino Festival in Mexico, the Festival de Carthage in Tunisia, the Onassis Cultural Centre-Athens and the BOZAR in Brussels. Constantinople has travelled to more than 290 cities in 57 countries.

Constantinople has joined with the renowned international artist, the Mandinka (Senegalese) griot Ablaye Cissoko to perform their celebrated program Traversées: a musical journey from the orient to the new world through Africa. Watch a brief excerpt from “Traversées” here.