Dimitris Papadimitriou and the Hellenic Project on the Onassis Channel
Three exceptional premieres curated by Dimitris Papadimitriou
The Onassis Channel is hosting three exceptional premieres curated by Dimitris Papadimitriou. On Saturday, April 30, we’re taking a journey into the historic past, with music and the Greek revolutionary poetry of 1821 as our vehicle. And on Thursday, May 1, two pieces composed by the great provocateur that is Dimitris Papadimitriou are set to premiere back-to-back, in partnership with the Athens State Orchestra. A Hellenic Project and Onassis Stegi co-production.
Photo: Yiannis Soulis
Dionysios Solomos – Andreas Kalvos – Lord Byron: a contemporary take on the heroic poetic past.
On Saturday, April 30, we’re taking a journey into the historic past with music and poetry as our vehicle, through pieces composed by Constantinos Evangelidis, Giorgos Kassavetis, and Angelos Theodorakis – all on the Onassis Channel on YouTube. This concert forms part of the Contemporary Music and Poetry Cycle, co-produced by the Hellenic Project and Onassis Stegi.
The Hellenic Project, under the artistic direction of Dimitris Papadimitriou, continues to support fresh works of Greek songwriting, commissioning young artists to compose original pieces. The Contemporary Music and Poetry Cycle provides a platform for new songs commissioned from both established and emerging composers. It presents new series of songs inspired by poetic texts drawn from the international literary canon, on themes selected by the Hellenic Project.
A major event of historic importance for the Greek world – with a focus here on its poetic dimensions, with past truths captured by iconic historical poems – is made a musical reality in the present day and brought to the fore in ways that spring, unconstrained, from genuine feeling.
Credits
Direction – Production: Angeliki Aristomenopoulou
Camera Crew: Yiannis Karabatsos, Yiannis Kanakis, Thodoris Paspaliaris
Sound – Montage: Tasos Kakoukis
Production: Vassilis Panayiotopoulos
Technical Manager: Lefteris Karabilas
Administrative Assistant: Rebecca Stamou
Line Producer: Despoina Sifniadou
Head of Video Production: Christos Sarris
Video Coordination & Line Production: Smaragda Dogani, Elena Choremi
Compositions by Constantinos Evangelidis, Giorgos Kassavetis, and Angelos Theodorakis
With the musicians:
Dionysis Dervitsiotis – violin
Tasos Mysirlis – cello
Thimios Papadopoulos – wind instruments
Achilleas Wastor – piano, orchestration
Songs performed by the vocalists Veronica Davaki, Apostolos Kitsos, and Vasilis Gisdakis.
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On Sunday, May 1, the composer Dimitris Papadimitriou presents the world first performance of his “Concerto for Piano & Orchestra No. 1” – with Titos Gouvelis, George Petrou, and the Athens State Orchestra – on the Onassis Channel on YouTube, as it was recorded and filmed on the Aristotle Onassis Main Stage at Onassis Stegi, with the entire production overseen by the composer himself.
This will be followed by a select cross-section of works by this great provocateur, including his “ Dream Errants” Symphonic Miniatures and other Symphonic Monographs, all conducted by the talented maestro that is George Petrou
Pieces included:
- Incompleteness
- Painting Soundtracks – Jackson Pollock
- Sparkling Bicycles
- The Rope Walkers
- Diabolic Fortune-teller
- White Nights
An elegy on loneliness and the colossal inner struggles faced by contemporary humankind.
“The Symphonic Miniatures were born in the flashes of mental disobedience, anarchy, and rebellion I experience when composing some other unrelated, long, and time-consuming work,” Dimitris Papadimitriou notes. “They’re fragments of thwarted desires that stow themselves away inside unrelated compositions, and grab hold of you in your sleep.”
Since the term “symphonic music” usually refers to large-scale musical compositions for orchestra, and thus to works of extended duration, the composer’s concept for his Symphonic Miniatures – that is, short-form and smaller-scale music for large orchestral ensembles – constituted an invitation and a challenge to create outside classical forms.
The two Symphonic monographs (Incompleteness, Pollock) are single-section, free-standing pieces that each develop a specific theme. In this instance, Gödel’s mathematical theorems, and the way in which the abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock painted his works.
All these pieces feature on a new worldwide release by the German label MDG, recorded for Super Audio CD – a recording that plays sound back in three dimensions. The CD also plays exceptionally well in a standard stereo system. The album is available to buy in Greece from the OPERA ART classical music record shop (on Akadimias Street, inside the old Greek National Opera arcade).
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Credits
Produced by Dimitris Papadimitriou, Irini Lagourou, Maria Samartzi, Veronica Davaki
Athens State Orchestra Stage Manager: Nikos Bourtzis
Sound Engineer: Yiannis Lambropoulos
Conductor: George Petrou
Athens State Orchestra Senior Administrative Team: Lukas Karytinos, Petros Apostolidis, Aliki Fidetzi
SACD Recording Engineer: Holger Schleger
Photographer: Yiannis Soulis
Camera Operator: Konstantinos Georgiopoulos, Dimos Mavridis, Spiros Goulas, George Razos, Ilias Archimandritis, Nikitas Tsichritzis, Marios Theofilopoulos, Spiros Pagonis, Paris Vavouranakis, Eneo Koukia, Nikolaos Sfakianakis
Driver: Sotiris Koros
Audio Assistant: Christos Vatougios, Marios Panou
Rigger: Spyros Smigadis
Ccu Operator: Kosmas Lazaridis, Konstantinos Dimitsantos
Evs Operator: Panagiotis Meliggonis, Fotini Gavriilidou, Renos Markousis
Ob Van Chief Audio Engineer: George Roussos
Ob Van Chief Technician: Panagiotis Kanellos
Producer On Site: Dimos Thomaidis
Producer On Site: Vaios Tsiamos
Editor: Dimitris Tzetzas
Director: Ilias Skaronis
Procuced By : Abc Production S.A.
With:
Piano: Titos Gouvelis (soloist), Thanos Margetis (and Celesta)
Tuner: Antonis Malamis
Harp: Gogo Xagara
1st Violin: Dimitris Agelidis, Dimitra Agelopoulou, Stella Georgiou, Vaggelis Kosmas, Anilda Liakou, Giorgos Mandilas, Emorfia Papadimitriou, Dimitris Semsis, Rudina Tsatsa, Panagiotis Tziotis
2nd Violin: Nikolaos Haliassas, Nikos Kiakos, Triantafyllos Loukas, Margarita Plesti, Dimitra Triantafyllou, Petros Vlassis, Konstantinos Vlavianos, Maria Zambeli
Viola: Alkistis Anastasiadou, Enkela Kokolani, Polina Koumi, Ilias-Ion Livieratos, Gerta Sinai, Antilochos Tranos
Cello: Marina Kislitsina, Nikos Kotzias, Hristina Koutrou, Dimitris Magriotis, Asterios Pouftis
Double Bass: Charalabos Arkatinis, Viatseslav Martinkevits, Angelos Repapis, Nikos Tsoukalas
Bassoon: Alexandros Ikonomou, Efstathios Martzoukos
Clarinet: Merkourio Karalis, Stathis Manatos, Spyros Mourikis
Flute: Evangelos Stathoulopoulos, Frank-Georg Yarke
Oboe: Stella Nikolaidi, Dimitris Vamvas
Horn: Ilias Barkas, Kostas Siskos
Trombone: Kostas Avgerinos, Evaggelos Karabas
Trumpet: Panagiotis Kesaris, Fanis Vernikos
Tuba: Georgios-Theodoros Rarakos
Tympani: Spyros Labouras
Percussion: Andreas Farmakis, Costas Seremetis, Charalabos Taliadouros, Stella Triantafyllou
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Production: Vassilis Panagiotakopoulos
Technical Manager: Lefteris Karabilas
Technical Manager Office Administrative Assistant: Rebecca Stamou
Line Producer: Despoina Sifniadou
Head of Video Production: Christos Sarris
Video Coordination & Line Production: Smaragda Dogani, Elena Choremi
Onassis Stegi
Director of Culture: Afroditi Panagiotakou
Deputy Director of Culture: Dimitris Theodoropoulos
Group Communication & Content Manager: Dimitris Drivas
Campaign Manager: Haris Giakoumakis
Content Leader: Alexandros Roukoutakis
Copywriters: Margarita Grammatikou, Evangelia Kolaiti
Social Media Manager: Vassilis Bibas
Social Media Editor: Sylvia Kouveli
Onassis Creative Studio
Head of Creative: Christos Sarris
Motion Graphics: Constantinos Chaidalis
Graphic Design: Georgia Leontara, Jilian Viglaki
Onassis Media Office: Vaso Vasilatou, Katerina Tamvaki
Onassis Media Office Assistant: Nefeli Tsartaklea-Kaselaki