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Music Connects the Onassis Stegi and the Panteion University, Vol. 3

Dates

Prices

Free Admission

Location

Athens

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Wednesday 24 January
Time
19:00 | 20:30
Venue
Panteion University
Day
Wednesday 31 January
Time
20:30
Venue
Panteion University
Day
Tuesday 13 February
Time
20:30
Venue
Panteion University

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For the third time, the music bridge over Syngrou Avenue connects the Onassis Stegi and Panteion University with three concerts which daringly spotlight both unusual instrumental combinations and contemporary Greek compositions.

For the third consecutive year, the Onassis Stegi and Panteion University build “a music bridge over Syngrou Avenue” and share their interest in contemporary culture and the sounds of our era. Supported by the Onassis Stegi 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 program has been co-curated by the two institutions.

The concerts in this year's season focus on unusual combinations of instruments and contemporary Greek composition. They feature: a double bass center stage in an international compositional panorama; a violin-cello-bayan trio which will transport us into uniquely Slavic territory, and four musicians “from the edge of the world" performing works for saxophone quartet by Greek composers from different generations. New works were written for the series by Kornelios Selamsis, with one eye fixed on Xenakis' emblematic “Theraps”, and by Thanasis Deligiannis.

The Greek premières of works by George Aperghis and Stratis Minakakis will be performed alongside repertoire works by Michalis Adamis and George Koumentakis. Finally, Nikos Stavropoulos' “Topophilia” provides the stimulus for a discussion on the dialogue between composers active today and the work of Iannis Xenakis.

Artwork: beetroot

Program

Wednesday 24 January 2018 “Theraps”

19:00 | Nikos Stavropoulos, “Topophilia” for electronics
Discussion with the composers Nikos Stavropoulos and Kornelios Selamsis

20:30 | Double bass recital
Nikos Tsoukalas: double bass
Nelly Mavroidi: soprano
Kostas Karitzis: violin
Tim Ward: electronics

Works
Iannis Xenakis, “Theraps” (1976) for solo double bass
Beat Furrer, “Lotofagos” (2007) for double bass and soprano
Kaija Saariaho, “Folia” (1995) for double bass and electronics
Stefano Scodanibbio, “Alisei” (1986) for solo double bass
Isang Yun, “Together” (1989) for double bass and violin
Kornelios Selamsis, “Aleph” (2017) for solo double bass

Wednesday 31 January 2018 | 20:30

GRASP Trio
Greta Papa: violin
Vasilis Saitis: cello
Konstantinos Raptis: bayan

Works
Thanassis Deligiannis, “ΕΚΕΙΝΟΣ” (2017) for violin, cello and bayan
Kirill Volkov, “Stichera” (1987) for cello and bayan
Peteris Vasks, “Plainscapes” (2002) for mixed choir, violin and cello, adapted by Konstantinos Raptis for violin, cello and bayan
Bohuslav Martinu, “Duo no. 2, H. 371” (1958) for violin and cello
Sofia Gubaidulina, “Silenzio” (1991) for violin, cello and bayan

Tuesday 13 February 2018 | 20:30

Ensemble du Bout du Monde, saxophone quartet
Quentin Darricau, Don-Paul Kahl, Noa Mick and Kay Zhang

Works
Iannis Xenakis, “XAS” (1987)
Stratis Minakakis, “Ta entos” (2006)
George Aperghis, “Signaux” (1978) - Greek première
Michael Adamis, “Evymnon” (1998)
Giorgos Koumentakis, “Typewriter Tune” (2006)

Credits

  • Project Head

    Lorenda Ramou

  • Professor in charge, Panteion University

    Andromachi Gazi

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