Music Connects the Onassis Stegi and the Panteion University, Vol. 4
6 February 2019 | Panteion University | 20:30
Have you ever heard electric guitar in a contemporary music recital? Acoustic guitar with four extra strings? A solo oboe accompanied by the sound of crystal glasses or a harp? Have you seen scores containing only words, which anyone can play?
Photo: Dimitris Ouzounis
For the fourth consecutive year, the Music Bridge Over Syngrou Avenue connects the Onassis Stegi with Panteion University to offer up new combinations of instruments, new composers and works receiving their premiere performances.
Supported by the Onassis Stegi's know-how and networking, the students studying Culture and Cultural Management in Panteion’s Department of Communication, Media and Culture have undertaken to promote the concert series in close collaboration with the musicians. The concerts are the culmination of an intensive workshop which seeks to acquaint students with contemporary music and the experience of organizing a concert.
Another goal is to spotlight the talent of young composers and performers. The press releases, social media posts, reports, articles, interviews and often the photographs are the work of students working in groups. Every year, different instrumental combinations and themes are selected in order to cover as broad a repertoire as possible. The Onassis Stegi and Panteion University have joined forces for the fourth consecutive year to run the program.
3rd concert: 6 February 2019
In the third and last concert, the improvisation and experimental music ensemble 6daEXIt will perform 20th- and 21st-century works from six countries. Panteion students will be collaborating with 6daEXIt in what is, for most of them, their first concert experience.
6daEXIt Improvisation Ensemble: Odysseas Gkallios (laptop), Yiannis Dimitroudis (Korg Microsynth, percussion), Lina Koukouli (Korg portable synth, percussion, objects), Fotis Lazidis (electric guitar, synth), Ioanna Valsamara (percussion), Dimitra Pavlou (violin), Alexis Porfiriadis (electric piano, melodica, objects, percussion), Chrysi Parpara (accordion), Athina Sotiroglou (cello, percussion, melodica), Yorgos Holopoulos (laptop, French horn)
With the participation of a group of Panteion students
Works
Pauline Oliveros (US): “Teach yourself to fly” from her “Sonic Meditations” collection (1971-1989)
Makoto Nomura (Japan): “Shogi Composition”** (1999)
Carl Bergstrom Nielsen (Denmark): “Alchemy”*** (2016)
Liliana Alvarado Rodríguez (Mexico): “Círculos”*** (2017)
Ian Mikyska (Czech Republic/UK): “With/against” *** (2016)
Alexis Porfiriadis (Greece): “Between the We and the I”*** (2018)
* Commissioned by Onassis Stegi
** Greek premiere
*** Works written for the 6daEXit Improvisation Ensemble, premiere performances
Credits
Project Head: Lorenda Ramou
Professor in charge, Panteion University: Georgios Klimis
