FESTIVAL 2018 PROGRAM

FESTIVAL 2018 PROGRAM

FESTIVAL 2018 PROGRAM

Friday July 20th 2018 (21.00h)
The dynamic youthful Arton Trio from Vienna, Austria, will present a program from Schubert to Piazzolla

Tuesday July 24th 2018 (21.00h)
Cellist, lyricist, improviser and composer Yiorgos Kaloudis performs in a unique recital, where a Cretan lyre and a cello reveal a poetic sound horizon within the “Innovating tradition” program

Friday July 27th 2018 (21.00h)
Members of the ERT National Symphony Orchestra will present music from the distant Baroque era to the 20th century, under the direction of Andreas Tselikas
(THE CONCERT WILL BE CARRIED OUT IN FRONT OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH “IPAPANTI” , NEXT TO THE ATLANTIS HOTEL, AT FIRA)

Tuesday July 31st 2018 (21.00h)
Natalia Kotsani, Manos Avarakis, Vangelis Papageorgiou and Stefanos Hadjianagnostou travel to Federico García Lorca’s Spain with traditional songs from around the world, as well as unreleased compositions by Manos Avarakis

Friday August 3th 2018 (21.00h)
The opera group “The Medium Project“, directed by the inventive Raia Tsakridis, presents Leonard Bernstein’s “Trouble in Tahiti“, an opera referring to the 1950s classic American musical with direct, simple and pure writing under the sounds of jazz music

Tuesday August 7th 2018 (21.00h)
Ross Daly, along with Kelly Thomas on the lyre, will present a program that includes their own compositions, which reflect a long journey through the wider musical traditions from Northwest Africa to India

Friday August 10th 2018 (21.00h)
German cellist Anja Lechner and French pianist Francois Couturier present the Moderato Cantabile, their own interpretative versions and orchestrations on G.I. Gurdjieff, K. Vardapet, and F. Mompou

Friday August 17th 2018 (21.00h)
The great performer Dimitra Galani meets two of the new generation’s best musicians, Thomas Konstantinou and Spyros Manesis, in a show that embraces songs with influences from East and West

Tuesday August 21st 2018 (21.00h)
Two outstanding artists, Irish violinist Maighread McCrann and Italian pianist Francesco Nicolosi, present a program that includes works by Bach, Schumann, Schubert and Liszt

Friday August 24th 2018 (21.00h)
Internationally acclaimed guitarists Duo Melis, Susana Prieto and Alexis Mouzourakis, perform works by D. Scarlatti, J. Rodrigo, A. Piazzolla

Tuesday August 28th 2018 (21.00h)
Miranda Verulis and the Desafinados band ,are skillfully craing the paths of Brazilian polyrhythmia, featuring the top trumpet player, Andreas Polyzogopoulos

Friday August 31st 2018 (21.00h)
Presenting the winners in the five categories of The Muse International Youth Competition, which has been hosted since 2005 at the Gyzi Megaron