Gyzi Megaro Festival. An institution and attraction for visitors of this island, which has been taking place in one of the few historical mansions of the 17th century that survived the earthquakes of 1956, the Gyzi Megaron. This year's programme embraces, as always, all kinds of music creation, inaugurating important collaborations with two of the […]
AENAON string quartet - ATHENS STATE ORCHESTRA Four distinguished musicians of the Athens State Orchestra re-create through the wide repertoire written for the string quartet. Using the counterpoint writing, they highlight pluralism, develop the potential of each instrument, with the ultimate goal of unity led by the vision of the composer, as they perceive it. […]
Music without borders. Songs and tunes from different places and time through a voice switching game. The ud virtoso Haig Yazdjian together with the outstanding musicians Giorgos Kontogiannis (lyre, percussion), Tasos Poulios (kanun, vocals) and George Pappas (lute, vocals).
SAVINA YANNATOU KOSTAS GRIGOREAS VOICE AND CLASSICAL GUITAR RECITAL Songs for solo guitar, Greek and foreign, modern and renaissance, artistic and traditional: Sephardic, Spanish and English Anonymous (16th Century), John Dowland, Benjamin Britten, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell and others. There will also be traditional and modern songs from Mediterranean countries, as well as Greek solo […]
The Young Masters programme for talented young musicians is an initiative of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the Johann Sebastian Bach Music School. Fifteen participants form the Young Masters Ensemble, a chamber orchestra that always plays without a conductor and in which the musicians take turns playing solos. The music directors […]
Piano: Christos Marantos The internationally acclaimed Young Masters Orchestra is the result of the collaboration of the historic Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts, which this year celebrates its 200th anniversary, with the J.S.Bach Musikschule Music School. As a result, Young Masters Orchestra performs a series of concerts in the birthplace of European […]
ATHENS QUINTET D. DOUNIS IOANNA FORTI Αn a walk take place around the world? Yes, when music is the vehicle. And if the voice is accompanied by instruments that go beyond geographical boundaries and musical idioms, there is no distance. The mandolin and the guitar are two such instruments that managed to overcome their origins […]
MUSIC AND PANTOMIME FOR SAXOPHONE, VOICE, VIOLIN AND PIANO How delightful it is to hear music and see a play? How more so when those are combined, as in this concert’s final work, where music unites with pantomime! The saxophone, the violin, and the piano recount a sad but wonderful story with a happy ending. […]
GIORGOS ANDREOU meets MANOS AHALINOTOPOULOS featuring KORINA LEGAKI Giorgos Andreou and Manos Ahalinotopoulos are old acquaintances on the stage (they have played together in many concerts) and in the studio. In the first part of their concert, they will play music together (piano and clarinet), adapting and interpreting Andreou's compositions, melodies from well-known songs by […]
The show, which fascinated audiences and critics, was first presented at the Athens Festival in summer of 2016 and was sold out, travelled all over Greece, Barcelona, London and the operas of Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt. The first part of the performance shows the unknown story of Attic's life in Paris, from the first day […]
Five young winners of the eMuse Online Music Competition 2017 from Singapore, Belgium and Poland will arrive to Santorini to give an unforgettable performance at the Megaro Gyzi Festival on August 29. After the short award ceremony they will show off their musicality and technical skills on piano, trumpet, trombone, clarinet and accordion! Piotr […]