Goldberg. Reloaded

In 2010, Alexey Botvinov and Burhan Öçal started the “Goldberg. Reloaded” project. It was a revolutionary attempt to rethink Bach’s eternal music, combining it with the ethnorhythms of the East and lighting special effects.

Öçal and Botvinov played more than 20 concerts on the most famous stages of the world, including Istanbul, Paris, Zurich, Basel, Abu Dhabi and Montreux Jazz Festival. Also the concerts were performed for Ukrainian audience.

In 2018, Öçal and Botvinov teamed up again for the “Reloaded-2” project. This time, they took cult masterpieces of Bach, Beethoven (“Pathetique Sonata”), Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev and Mussorgsky. The premiere took place at the ODESSA CLASSICS festival.

The project's concerts are held periodically in different countries; the audience also knows this project as "Piano & Percussion"