ARTéfacts ensemble

The ARTéfacts ensemble was founded in 2007 by a group of young musicians specialized in contemporary music, all sharing the vision of contributing to the creation of favorable conditions for the understanding, promotion and flourishing of the 20th and 21st century music.

The ensemble consists of 6 core members and constantly collaborates with a number of other musicians and a varied range of artists. The flexible structure of the ensemble and, mainly, the presence of a director within its basic core, offer various possibilities for a more fresh, approachable and rich presentation of the contemporary repertoire.

The ensemble performs concerts and multimedia shows in various halls and festivals both in Athens and in certain districts in Greece, such as the Onassis Stegi, the Athens & Epidaurus Festival, Institut Francais d’ Athenes, KOTH Underground festival amongst many other and has performed outside Greece in France (Strasbourg 2013, Reims 2016), Hungary (Budapest 2017), Cyprus (Limassol 2018) and Turkey (Istanbul 2019), while it has collaborated with prominent artists.

Doina Rotaru, Nicolas Tzortzis, Dimitris Andrikopoulos, Balazs Horvath, Branka Popovic, Laurent Durupt, Cassandra Miller, Cornelis de Bondt, Panayiotis Kokoras, Esthir Lemi, Yannis Kyriakides, Cassandra Miller, Grzegorz Marciniak, Ofir Klemperer, Thanasis Deligiannis, Maurilio Cacciatore, Stathis Gyftakis, Kornilios Selamsis, Manos Ventouras, Kostas Tzekos, Tolga Tüzün, Anil Berk Zamandar, Asli Kobaner, Aslıhan Kabukçu, Can Memişoğulları, Ceren Sepçi, Deniz Can Barış, Emir Can Pehlivan, İpek Ektas, Kristina Golubkova have composed pieces exclusively for the ARTéfacts ensemble.

On April 2015 the ensemble released its first recording, titled “THIVA Km102” on the independent Greek recording label puzzlemusik produced by the NGO AMAKA, containing six new works, composed especially for the group and the project “PAROL! Writing and art beyond walls, beyond borders” and on September 2016 released the live recording of the project “Cohabitation”. A collaboration of the ARTéfacts ensemble with K.BHTA, produced by the Onassis Stegi.