KK won a two-year grant for 2023-2024 from the Ernest von Siemens Musikstiftung, one of Europe’s most prestigious contemporary music foundations. With the title “Putting the KK Composers Cauldron into Türkiye’s Festivals” this grant supports premieres of contemporary chamber compositions within 4 different festivals.These projects are also designed to enable collaborative work between composers, teachers, musicologists and performers.

2024 programs feature joint projects with the Hoppa Project, a US-based ensemble promoting folk, improvised and contemporary music from the Balkans and the Middle East. Together, we will present a concert program at the Bartok Museum in Osmaniye inspired by Béla Bartok's groundbreaking research from 1936 in the area of the recent earthquakes and described in his book 'Turkish Folk Music From Asia Minor'. The concert program will include Bartok's music, as well as unknown string quartets from musical champions of the early Turkish republic by Cemal Reşit Rey and Ekrem Zeki Ün. The world premiere performance of a new work by Mahir Cetiz, one of Turkey’s important award-winning composers, is inspired by Osmaniye-born Yaşar Kemal’s literary works . Chamber works for string quartet, saz and percussion by young composers Erberk Eryılmaz, Ceren Türkmenoğlu, Berfin Deniz and Atakan Turaç will also be performed.