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SUMMARY:PENNY & THE SWINGIN΄ CATS
DESCRIPTION:PENNY & THE SWINGIN΄ CATS\nThe Megaro Gyzi Festival 2011 is concluded on 23/8 with the band Penny & The Swingin’ Cats. They take us into a journey through time that runs from decade to decade\, and they invite us to a swing party with much enthusiasm and willingness to dance with remixes of favourite songs of the recent decades in rhythms of swing\, jive and charleston\, as well as soul and funk tunes of our times. The band will also share with us its own fresh songs and so this year’s festival is going to be completed with the best way. \nPenny Baltatzi\, vocals & kazoo\nYiorgos Zervos\, electric guitar & voice\nMarios Valinakis\, tenor saxophone\nStathis Paraskevopoulos\, bass\nChristos Konstantinidis\, drums \nPENNY & THE SWINGIN’ CATS \nThe band Penny & Swingin’ Cats is a group of five experienced musicians\, that was formed in 2009-10. They have performed in various festivals and night spots in Athens (Bacaro\, Belafonte\, Nueva Trova\, Tiki\, Jazzy Bar\, Ginger Ale and many more)\, as well as in other cities around Greece. \nSome of the highlight moments of the group have been their live performance at the “Gagarin” Music Hall in March 2010\, “opening” the program of Marc Almond\, as well as their participation to the first swing festival “The Swing Thing” at “Fuzz” Club in November 2010\, where they played “opening” the top swing band in the world\, the American Royal Crown Revue (RCR)\, a group considered to have contributed to the maximum extent of the swing revival in the 90’s. \nPenny & The Swingin’ Cats is a band that has kept the Greek media (the radio and the printed & online press) interested in their work. Their latest interviews are hosted on the April 2011 issue of “Jazz & Jazz” magazine and on the May 2011 issue of “Athens Magazine”.
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SUMMARY:HUMAN TOUCH
DESCRIPTION:HUMAN TOUCH\n\nThe musical journey continues on 20/8 with the jazz trio Human Touch\, one of the most famous\, with personality and unique style\, jazz bands in Greece. David Lynch (saxophones & flute)\, Stavros Lantsias (piano & keyboards) and Yiotis Kiourtsoglou (electric bass)\, having acquired their own unique identity in music as soloists\, move in a wide range of rhythms\, colours and emotional depth. Their direct and communicative music drifts the listener filling him with images and emotions. \nDavid Lynch\, tenor & soprano saxophone – flutes\nStavros Lantsias\, piano – keyboards – drums – guitar\nYiotis Kiourtsoglou\, electric bass \nDavid Lynch\, tenor & soprano saxophone – flutes \nDavid Lynch is one of the most respected and accomplished musicians on the contemporary Greek music scene today. Though obviously not of Greek descent\, the unique musical language he has developed by submerging his own expressive idiom into that of the Greek musical experience has earned him the reputation as being a musician of extraordinary sensitivity and versatility. Of Irish and Eastern European ancestry\, David was born and raised in Los Angeles\, California. He studied jazz music with James Moody\, Charles Lloyd\, Ralph Bowen and Garvin Buschell (John Coltrane΄s associate). After receiving various music awards and scholarships\, David continued his studies at Dick Grove Music Workshops and began his professional career playing in numerous clubs\, studios and with a variety of big bands. \nAt age 21\, his need and desire to broaden his musical and personal horizons brought him to Europe. After an extended period of travelling he settled in Athens\, where the environment seemed right for introspection and exploration. David’s insatiable quest for new and creative forms of expression quickly brought him in contact with some of Greece’s most outstanding musicians\, writers and singers from all parts of the country and from different traditions. Since then\, David has played on hundreds of albums\, numerous movie soundtracks and has co-founded several bands including The Missing Lynch\, Faros\, Trio\, The David Lynch Project\, Iskra\, and Human Touch (along with Stavros Lantsias and Yiotis Kiourtsoglou have internationally released recordings). \nHe has also written music for film\, theatre\, radio\, television and dance. He’s played with Arturo Sandoval\, Trilok Gurtu\, Arild Anderson\, Milcho Leviev\, Marcus Stockhausen\, The Temptations\, Barry White and others. Of major importance in David’s musical journey was his collaboration with the late traditional clarinettist\, Vassilis Soukas. This experience\, and its lasting influence\, was the crossroad leading David deeper into his own spirit of “Greekness” and his internal “world music”. \nAs a solo artist\, David has released three CDs\, Lit’l Song\, Music With a View and Wandering Home. The latter featured renowned Irish uilleann piper Davy Spillane and was recorded live at the Athens Concert Hall. In 2003\, along with cellist/multi-instrumentalist Yiorgos Kaloudis\, David co-founded the duet “Faros”\, an innovative duo which creates on-the-spot loops and spontaneous in-depth arrangements. One of David’s projects of pride was the re-working of the music of the late-great innovator\, Manos Hatjidakis. The recording was released in 2007 with Hatjidakis protege Ellie Paspala and guest Blaine Reinenger (Raining Pleasure). \nStavros Lantsias\, piano – keyboards – drums – guitar \nStavros Lantsias was born in Nicosia-Cyprus in 1966. He studied classical piano and music theory continuing his studies at Berklee College Of Music where he graduated in 1990. He there received the “Count Basie Jazz Masters Award for pianists 1989” and the “Quincy Jones Jazz Masters\nAward for arrangers 1990”. After Berklee he continued his jazz piano studies with jazz “guru” Charlie Banacos. \nStavros Lantsias is in high demand as a pianist and arranger\, always active performing with some of Greece’s most respected and acclaimed artists. \nOne of his most important projects is “Human Touch”\, a group he has formed with long time collaborators David Lynch and Yiotis Kiourtsoglou. In their two studio recordings\, «Human Touch» (LYRA 1998) and «Movin’» (LIBRA 2004)\, apart from composing and playing the piano Stavros expanded his playing with Drums\, Percussion and Acoustic Guitar. Together they have played in several international jazz and ethnic festivals in Europe\, Turkey and the Balkans. \nThroughout the years Stavros has developed a unique multi-instrumental approach playing piano and drums simultaneously! \nIn 1999 Stavros Lantsias signed a recording contract with Warner Music Greece and since has released two personal albums “Return” (WEA 1999) and “The Journey of a Note” (WEA 2002). In these albums he demonstrates his composition and orchestration skills performing with both jazz and classical ensembles. \nHis upcoming recording release “Diary Of Dreams” features the Athens Kamerata String Orchestra and world renowned musicians Peter Erskine on drums and Lars Danielsson on Bass. This compositional work was originally a commission by “Patra Cultural Capital of Europe 2006”. \nYiotis Kiourtsoglou\, electric bass \nYiotis Kiourtsoglou\, electric bass player and componist\, was born in Kozani in 1965. He started practicing guitar in 1981. His first influences were traditional\, rock and soul music. In 1983 he turned to electric bass and started listening to jazz. He also studied Jazz Harmony and Theory with Theo Kapilidis. Along with Theo and Nikos Kapilidis\, they created the “Electric jazz trio”. In 1988 he attended the “Musicians Institute” of Los Angeles \,where he was taught the electric bass technique by great teachers such as Gary Willis\, Bob Magnuson and Jeff Berlin. He also performed live in many clubs in L.A. While living in America he had the chance to watch great musicians and to appreciate their music\, their technique and their philosophy of life and of the relationship between life and music. In 1989 he graduated from the M.I. and was awarded as “The most improved student of the year” while he was nominated as “The most outstanding player”. \nWhen he returned to Greece he performed with “Electric jazz Trio” in the jazz club Mantato in Thessalonica with the saxophone Manny Boyd and the trumpet player Danny Hayes. He recorded with them two albums\, one with jazz standards and one with arrangements of Theo Kapilidis. In 1993 he records with the guitarist Lior Yekutielli from Israel and drummer Mark Halbheer from Switzerland. During that period\, he performed live in various clubs in Greece and Europe along with Elli Paspala and David Lynch. In 1996 along with the guitarist Kostas Baltazanis and the drummer Petros Kourtis they created the “Iasis” trio and a same titled record. \nAt the same period he co-operates with David Lynch and Stavros Lantsias\, who all formed the “Human Touch” band. The result of this collaboration was an album in 1998. This album is the result of their internal quest\, a beautiful combination of modern technique\, while sticking to tradition. \nHe also works with many Greek and foreign artists in recording albums and in live performances. In 2003 he collaborates for one live show in Thessaloniki with the world known drummer Billy Cobham. After that he appears with ‘Human Touch’ in many live shows in Greece and abroad\, where they played their music in festivals and shows next to some of the greatest musicians of the world’s scene. Their new album «Movin’» was recorded in February 2004.
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SUMMARY:JOSE FRANCH-BALLESTER & VANESSA BENELLI MOSELL
DESCRIPTION:JOSE FRANCH-BALLESTER & VANESSA BENELLI MOSELL\nA special recital of classical music for clarinet and piano by two internationally award-winning exceptional virtuoso soloists of the new generation of rising stars\, the Spanish clarinetist Jose Franch-Ballester and the Italian pianist Vanessa Benelli Mosell\, will take place on 17/8. Jose Franch-Ballester has won the worldwide famous prize “2010 MIDEM Classique Outstanding Young Artist” and with his fabulous technique and sensitive interpretation has already a significant career with appearances in numerous concerts in USA\, Europe\, Asia and South America. Vanessa Benelli Mosell is an internationally recognized talented pianist\, award-winning for her poetic and sensual playing. \nJose Franch-Ballester\, clarinet\nVanessa Benelli Mosell\, piano \nJose Franch-Ballester (Spain)\, clarinet \nA native of Moncofa (Valencia\, Spain)\, Jose Franch-Ballester is one of the most promising clarinetists of his generation. In 2008 he received the highly coveted “Avery Fisher Career Grant” and in 2007 he was one of a handful of participants selected for a Carnegie Hall Professional Training Workshop with Emmanuel Ax and Richard Stoltzman\, and one of the year’s “most prominent emerging soloists”\, as selected by the American Symphony League Magazine. \nAs First Prize winner in both the 2004 Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York and the Astral Artists 2004 National Audition in Philadelphia\, he has joined the roster of both organizations and performed countless concerts throughout the United States\, Europe\, Asia and South America. \n“He is a natural onstage… played with technical wizardry and tireless enthusiasm” The New York Times \n“…sweetly nostalgic\, breathily passionate\, and busily humorous…” The New York Sun \n“…a clarinetist who shows promise enough to eclipse the careers of stellar counterparts such as Richard Stoltzman and David Shifrin…” Birmingham News \n– “Jose Franch-Ballester has the presence and musicality of a major star\, and in the Copland Concerto for Clarinet\, he gave a performance that left one wondering how even the great Benny Goodman\, for whom it was written\, could have played it any better” Santa Barbara Independent \nJose Franch-Ballester is a member of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 2 in New York\, with which he has recorded Bartok’s “Contrasts” for Deutsche Grammophon. \nHe has played with such outstanding artists as Charles Wadsworth\, Arnold Steinhardt\, Warren Jones\, Ida Kavafian\, Frederica von Stade and David Shifrin\, the Saint Lawrence and Jupiter String Quartets\, and as a soloist with such orchestras as Orquesta de la Radiotelevisión Española\, I Musici de Montréal and Orchestra of Saint Luke’s (New York)\, City of London Sinfonia. He is a founding member of Nuevo Tango Zinger Septet (Valencia)\, performing and recording the music of Latin America throughout Spain\, and a frequent artist with the International Music Festival of Cartagena de Indias\, Colombia. \nHe has commissioned new music and worked with contemporary composers such as Kenji Bunch\, Paul Schonfield\, Edgar Meyer\, William Bolcom\, George Tsontakis\, John B. Hedges\, David Schiff\, Jake Heggie and Kevin Puts and has been a dedicated music educator\, developing new audiences by playing countless educational concerts and workshops for young people and community audiences. \nJose Franch-Ballester is in demand at numerous festivals\, including Chamber Music Northwest\, the Skaneateles Festival\, the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival\, Music from Angel Fire\, Usedomer Musikfestival\, and Verbier Festival. \nThis season Jose Franch-Ballester will perform throughout the US\, South America\, Europe\, Korea and Japan\, and will play recitals in New York\, Michigan\, Philadelphia\, Panama City\, Colombia and Tokyo. He will appear as a soloist with orchestras such as I Musici de Montréal\, Ridgewood Symphony\, Vallejo Symphony\, Orquesta de Valencia\, Jove Orquesta de la Comunidad Valenciana\, Whichita Falls Symphony and the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra. \nHe was born in Moncofa\, Spain in 1980\, where he has started his musical studies with Venancio Rius Marti since the age of nine years old. He graduated in 2000 from the Conservatory Superior of Music “Joaquín Rodrigo” of Valencia and then he entered the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia with Donald Montanaro. \nVanessa Benelli Mosell (Italy)\, piano \nVanessa Benelli Mosell is internationally recognized as one of the great virtuoso young pianists\, a versatile artist. The American press described her as “a real music maker\, playing with poetry\, feeling and great chops” (The Sun)\, “a remarkably musical and fluent young pianist named Vanessa Benelli Mosell. She held up her end of the tight interplay with complete ease and the fine sense of style. Remember the name” (New York Post) and the Washington Post wrote “a great talent”. Pascal Rogé said of her “…she is the most natural musical talent I have encountered in my entire life as a musician and teacher”. \nBorn in Prato\, Italy\, in 1987 Vanessa Benelli Mosell began studying the piano at the age of three with Alberto Alinari in Florence. At seven years old she was admitted at the International Piano Academy in Imola\, where she has been studying with Prof. Franco Scala. At the age of nine she made her performing debut with orchestra playing Bach F minor Keyboard Concerto. \nShe first came to international attention in 1999 when at eleven years old she performed Poulenc’s Double Concerto with pianist Pascal Rogé and the New York Chamber Orchestra in New York’s Tish Center for the Arts. From then on they perform together in the major concert halls all over Europe\, USA and Canada such as New York’s Lincoln Center\, Harvard University in Boston\, Center for the Arts in Toronto and the Winspear Center in Edmonton. \nIn 2001 she made her Swiss debut playing in Zurich’s Tonhalle Grosser Saal performing later in the notable recital series of Tonhalle Orchester\, playing furthermore with chamber music partners as Renaud and Gautier Capucon. In 2004 she has been awarded the “Elba Festival Antares Prize” performing as well as in Russian provinces with the Moscow Soloists\, conducted by Yuri Bashmet. Since then she performed in Italy and France making debuts for Fondazione Società dei Concerti in Milan\, Concerti a Palazzo del Quirinale in Rome\, Amici della Musica in Florence\, Festival de Radio France et Montpellier\, Accademia Musicale Chigiana\, Saratoga Summer Music Festival\, Associazione Musicale Lucchese\, Concerti di Primavera di Prato among others. \nIn 2006 she met the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen being invited by him to study in Germany\, after Radio3 broadcasted her recording of Klavierstuecke. Working closely with the composer until his death\, her performances of Stockhausen Piano Pieces have received much critical acclaims and prizes during the Stockhausen Courses in Kuerten. \nIn 2007 she was invited to enter the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory to study with Prof. Mikhail Voskresensky\, receiving the Postgraduate Diploma in Performance. Since 2007\, during her staying in Moscow\, she has been regularly performing in the Rachmaninov Hall\, the Small Hall and the White Hall of the Moscow Conservatory as well as in the Pushkin Museum. \nAmong the highlights of 2006-2007 there are a celebrating tour of Russia with the Moscow Soloists conducted by Yuri Bashmet\, acclaimed performances of Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen in Germany and an appearance for “Nuove Carriere” 2006 in Turin. \nIn 2010\, she was admitted at the Royal College of Music in London\, where she is studying with Prof. Dmitri Alexeev\, generously supported by two RCM Foundation scholarships. Among the highlights of 2010 were performances for the Keyboard Trust making debuts in London\, Steinway Hall and Frankfurt\, Bechstein Hall and Foundation Ars Vivendi; tours in China and Japan with George Gao and Shan Xiang Tu\, erhu and pipa players\, performing in many chinese and japanese cities as Shanghai\, Xi’an\, Dalian\, Chengdu\, Ningbo\, Chongqing\, Dongguan\, Guangzhou\, Tokyo\, Osaka\, Nagoya as well as the 2010 WORLD EXPO; a concert for Chinese integration policies with George Gao and Shan Xiang Tu in Prato. \nIn 2010 Vanessa Benelli Mosell also appeared on stage with violinist Michael Guttman featuring Brahms at the Tuscan Sun Festival 2010 in Cortona\, Teatro Signorelli\, while last October she made her debut at Berlin Philharmonie performing Liszt E minor Concerto with the Berliner Symphoniker conducted by Lior Shambadal. \nVanessa performed with such prestigious conductors as Yuri Bashmet\, Grzegorz Nowak\, Lior Shambadal\, Howard Griffiths\, Michael Guttman\, Heiko Foerster\, Enrique Diemecke\, Uriel Segal\, collaborating with a variety of top orchestras as the Moscow Soloists\, Berliner Symphoniker\, Muenchner Symphoniker\, New York Chamber Orchestra\, Zurcher Kammer Orchester\, Orchestra Regionale Toscana\, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra with concerts broadcasted live in many radio stations in Europe and USA. \nIn addition to her solo performances Vanessa is a devoted performer of chamber music playing with partners as Renaud and Gautier Capuçon\, Boris Andrianov\, Michael Guttman\, Pascal Rogé and Chantal Juillet. \nVanessa received numerous distinctions throughout her career\, including the “Elba Festival Antares Prize” given by Y. Bashmet\, the Honour Diploma of the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena\, Prize “Maria de Lourdes Avellar” in Portugal. She is Laureate of the International Piano Competition “Principat di Andorra”\, “Delia Steinberg” International Piano Competition in Madrid and the “Alexander Scriabin” International Piano Competition in Paris. \nHer Debut Recital CD recording was released in February 2011 by Brilliant Classics. \nVanessa Benelli Mosell has been appointed a Young Steinway Artist.
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SUMMARY:VASSILIS TSABROPOULOS
DESCRIPTION:VASSILIS TSABROPOULOS\nEros and Soul” \nA unique musical experience will take place on 13/8 from a leading representative of modern pianistic art. Vassilis Tsabropoulos presents in a unique appearance at Megaro Gyzi his new work\, titled ”Eros and Soul”\, which will be released next autumn. Pianist and composer of international acclaim\, Vassilis Tsabropoulos combines -with masterful flexibility- different musical styles and idioms\, unfolding his vast range of playing the piano\, along with his spectacular compositional skill. Through his outstanding international recordings for ECM\, he has created a special and identifiable personal musical style by mixing elements of classic\, jazz and ethnic music. \n“Eros and Soul” … a passionate journey into the musical world of the master of the piano Vassilis Tsabropoulos\, a musician whose name is henceforth identified with the piano. \nVassilis Tsabropoulos\, piano \n \nVassilis Tsabropoulos\, composer & pianist \nBorn in Athens in 1967\, Vassilis Tsabropoulos\, who is considered to be one of the greatest Greek pianists\, started playing the piano from a tender age. A prodigy was winning music competitions from the age of ten\, and after graduating from the Athens National Conservatory\, continued his studies on an Aristotle Onassis Scholarship at the Paris Conservatory\, the Salzburg Academy and the Julliard School\, with great teachers including Rudolf Serkin and Tatiana Nikolayeva. \nTsabropoulos was an early achiever\, winning the UNICEF competition when he was only ten. His distinctions and awards are too many and many are his collaborations with Orchestras in Greece and Europe\, performing an ever-expanding repertoire in both recitals and concertos. He has future as soloist with Orchestras such as the Czech Philharmonic\, the Yuta Symphony Orchestra\, the Budapest Chamber Orchestra\, the Sofia Philharmonic\, the Italy Radio Orchestra\, the Athens Camerata\, the Athens Radio Symphony Orchestra\, the Color Orchestra\, the Lyon Orchestra and the Huston Philharmonic. \nTsabropoulos has participated in many international festivals all over Europe and he has performed every season in the musical centres of the world\, presenting an ever growing repertoire in recitals\, concertos and chamber music. He has made the works of Beethoven\, Mozart\, Chopin and Bach central references in his performance repertoire but is also committed advocate of Russian music\, frequently playing the works of Rachmaninov\, Prokoviev and Scriabin. His playing combines intellectual probity with warm and musical feeling\, which is marked by sensitivity to tone colour and delicacy of finger work. \nWhile Tsabropoulos began his career as a keyboard virtuoso playing concerto and solo pieces\, he has since broadened the range of his activities quite considerably. He has reputation as a classical pianist\, an interpreter of 19th and 20th century music\, and there is an internationally growing recognition for both his composing and his very special improvising piano playing. \nTsabropoulos has composed works for Orchestra\, string quartets\, music for violin and cello and many solo piano works include the preludes which he wrote especially for Vladimir Ashkenazy. Since 2000 he is an artist of ECM Records label\, and since then he has toured in Europe playing with Arild Andersen and John Marshal as a piano trio\, and in piano solos with concerts in England\, Germany\, Italy\, Austria\, Norway\, Denmark\, France and Greece. Alongside his tight schedules of concert activities\, Tsabropoulos has given master classes of compositions and piano and frequently he is a member of piano competitions. \nVassilis Tsabropoulos is considered as one of the most meticulous musicians of his generation.
URL:http://gyzimegaron.gr/event/vassilis-tsabropoulos/
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SUMMARY:"ANOTHER FRIDA ..."
DESCRIPTION:“ANOTHER FRIDA …”\nThree women bring alive Frida Kahlo \nThree women\, the mezzo-soprano Katerina Roussou\, the pianist Alexandra Nomidou and the actress Magda Mavroyanni\, bring alive Frida Kahlo in the musical performance ”Another Frida …” on 10/8. They will approach her through the eyes of her sister and the texts written by herself in her diary\, presenting the legend of Frida through a musical journey to Latin America and Mexico. \nKaterina Roussou\, mezzo-soprano\nAlexandra Nomidou\, piano\nMagda Mavroyanni\, narration \n“I was painting a door over the dull windows and from this door\, with my imagination\, I was running away with great joy and fury …”. With her art\, the painter Frida Kahlo managed to turn into strength and motivation all the laminated blows of fate. “I hope the end is joyful – and I hope never to come back” Frida Kahlo wrote in her diary few hours before leaving her last breath in the famous Blue House. Yet\, as if she never left\, she comes back again and again since\, with her works and her strong personality\, she has left her stamp indelibly in the history of modern art. \nThis Frida\, but through the eyes of her sister\, of “one other Frida”\, will be presented by the mezzo-soprano Katerina Roussou\, the pianist Alexandra Nomidou and the actress Magda Mavroyanni\, on August 10th in the Concert Hall of Megaro Gyzi. They will reach her\, by revealing the parallel\, intense and complex life of the two women\, through texts written by Frida herself in her diary or others for her\, and with a lot of music from Latin America and Mexico (A. Piazzolla\, A. Ginastera\, H. Villa-Lobos\, M. Ponce\, C. Guastavino\, E. Lecuona\, E. Granados)\, but also works of F. Chopin\, F. Poulenc\, D. Shostakovitch and A. Scriabin. The program also includes a work by composer Stathis Gyftakis\, based on a poem by Pablo Neruda. \n \nKATERINA ROUSSOU\, mezzo-soprano \nKaterina Roussou studied singing at the Athens Conservatory of Music and Drama and received her Diploma in Singing with the Highest Distinction. At the same time she graduated from the National Technical University of Athens in the Department of Electrical Engineering. She received the “Maria Callas Scholarship” from the Athens Conert Hall “Megaron” and an award from the “Propondis Foundation” to continue her studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London (RAM) in the Postgraduate Course. In September 2007 she continued on the Royal Academy Opera Course (RAO)\, with the support of the “A. Onassis Foundation”\, from which she graduated with the highest award in performance\, DipRAM. She is currently studying on the postgraduate course at the Academy of Music of Ljubljana with Professor Alenka Dernač-Bunta. \nHer operatic experience include the roles of Cherubino and Marcellina in Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro”\, Vava in Shoshtakovich’s “Cheryomushki”\, Il Destino and Furia II in Cavalli’s “La Calisto”\, as well as Third Lady for British Youth Opera’s production of “The Magic Flute”. She has performed one of the Flowermaidens in Wagner’s “Parsifal” for the London Wagner Society. \nAs a soloist she has sung with the Athens State Orchestra (Mozart arias)\, the Symphonic Orchestra of the Greek Television (arias and duets\, Mozart “Requiem”)\, the Ljubljana Philharmonic Orchestra (arias)\, the International Bachakademie under Helmut Rilling in Greece and Germany (Bach cantatas)\, the Orchestra and Choir of the “Filippos Nakas Conservatory”\, the Orchestra and Choir of High Wycombe. In April 2010 she sang in a gala benefit concert at the Athens Megaron with world famous tenor Jose Cura. At the Athens Megaron she has also sung in opera scenes and in a gala concert for the Maria Callas Scholarship holders. At the Palacio de Festivales in Santander-Spain she sang “5 poemas de Javier Alfaya” by David del Puerto (Sala Argenta) and in a gala concert (Sala Pereda). \nAs part of the celebration of the Academy of Music of Ljubljana’s jubilaeum\, she sang the Alt-solo in Mahler’s “2nd Symphony” with the Symphonic Orchestra of the Academy under Anton Nanut in Trieste (Sala Tripcovich) and Ljubljana (Cankarjev Dom-Gallusova Dvorana). In November 2009 she sang in a concert in the honour of the President of the Hellenic Democracy on the occasion of his official visit to Slovenia. She participated in the festival “Encuentro de Musica y Academia” in Santander\, where she had masterclasses with Teresa Berganza and a series of solo recitals. She has worked closely with the famous pianist Elizabeth Cooper: as a guest in the summer festival “Plaisir de musiques” that she organizes in Annecy\, as well as in the annual concert of the Gouverneur Militaire in Paris in the cathedral St Louis des Invalides. \nShe has given a number of recitals in Greece (“Parnassos” Recital Hall\, Psichiko Cultural Centre\, Megaro Gyzi Cultural Centre\, Symi Festival\, Bellonio Center\, P. N. Nomikos Congressal Center) and abroad (Spain\, UK\, Slovenia\, France). She has also sung in many oratorios: A. Vivaldi “Beatus vir”\, G.B. Pergolesi “Stabat Mater”\, C. Saint-Saëns “Oratorio de Noël”\, J.S. Bach “Weihnachtsoratorio”\, “Matthauspassion”\, J. Haydn “Schopfungsmesse”\, W.A.Mozart “Missa brevis in d”\, L.v.Beethoven “Messe in C”. \nShe won first prize at the “Isabel Jay Memorial Prize for Opera” and was Highly Commended at the National Mozart Competition (London 2007). She has recorded excerpts from Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro” (Marcellina) for BBC Radio3\, 5 songs by Markos Dragoumis for the literary magazine “Nea Synteleia” and 2 songs on poems by Giorgos Karter for the State Radio of Thessaloniki. \n \nThe pianist Alexandra Nomidou graduated from the Athens Conservatory and continued her studies in Paris. She has appeared many times in the Athens “Megaron” Music Concert Hall and in many known concert halls in France\, England\, Belgium\, Switzerland\, Italy\, Turkey\, Brazil and USA\, as a soloist with major orchestras and in chamber music concerts\, mainly with “Trio Hellenique”. She has recorded two albums with EMI\, with works by Schumann\, Schubert\, Brahms and Ravel\, which received excellent reviews. Since 2005\, Alexandra Nomidou has created in Athens the cycle of concerts “Around the piano”\, which she runs as artistic director. She lives and works in Paris. \n \nMagda Mavroyanni\, actress – director – musician – author \nMagda Mavroyanni is inspired by women personalities from the arts who left their indelible mark in time\, such as Clara Schumann\, Anna Magdalena Bach\, Coco Chanel\, Princess Sissy\, Frida Kahlo and others. The actress\, director\, musician and author Magda Mavroyanni has studied music and theater in Athens and Paris\, where she began her career. She has professional experience as actress and director\, while she specializes mainly in musical lecterns that combine the speech with the music. \n \nFrida Kahlo (1907- 1954)\n(full name: Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón) \n“In 1953\, when Frida Kahlo had her first solo exhibition in Mexico (the only one held in her native country during her lifetime)\, a local critic wrote: ‘It is impossible to separate the life and work of this extraordinary person. Her paintings are her biography.’ This observation serves to explain both why her work is so different from that of her contemporaries\, the Mexican Muralists\, and why she has since become a feminist icon. \n“Kahlo was born in Mexico City in 1907\, the third daughter of Guillermo and Matilda Kahlo. Her father was a photographer of Hungarian Jewish descent\, who had been born in Germany; her mother was Spanish and Native American. Her life was to be a long series of physical traumas\, and the first of these came early. At the age of six she was stricken with polio\, which left her with a limp. In childhood\, she was nevertheless a fearless tomboy\, and this made Frida her father’s favourite. He had advanced ideas about her education\, and in 1922 she entered the Preparatoria (National Preparatory School)\, the most prestigious educational institution in Mexico\, which had only just begun to admit girls. She was one of only thirty-five girls out of two thousand students. \n“It was there that she met her husband-to-be\, Diego Rivera\, who had recently returned home from France\, and who had been commissioned to paint a mural there. Kahlo was attracted to him\, and not knowing quite how to deal with the emotions she felt\, expressed them by teasing him\, playing practical jokes\, and by trying to excite the jealousy of the painter’s wife\, Lupe Marin. \n“In 1925\, Kahlo suffered the serious accident which was to set the pattern for much of the rest of her life. She was travelling in a bus which collided with a tramcar\, and suffered serious injuries to her right leg and pelvis. The accident made it impossible for her to have children\, though it was to be many years before she accepted this. It also meant that she faced a life-long battle against pain. In 1926\, during her convalescence\, she painted her first self-portrait\, the beginning of a long series in which she charted the events of her life and her emotional reactions to them. \n“She met Rivera again in 1928\, through her friendship with the photographer and revolutionary Tina Modotti. Rivera’s marriage had just disintegrated\, and the two found that they had much in common\, not least from a political point of view\, since both were now communist militants. They married in August 1929. Kahlo was later to say: ‘I suffered two grave accidents in my life. One in which a streetcar knocked me down… The other accident is Diego.’ \n“The political climate in Mexico was deteriorating for those with left-wing sympathies\, thanks to the reactionary Calles government\, and the mural-painting programme initiated by the great Minister of Education Jose Vasconcelos had ground to a halt. But Rivera’s artistic reputation was expanding rapidly in the United States. In 1930\, the couple left for San Francisco; then\, after a brief return to Mexico\, they went to New York in 1931 for the Rivera retrospective organized by the Museum of Modern Art. Kahlo\, at this stage\, was regarded chiefly as a charming appendage to a famous husband\, but the situation was soon to change. In 1932 Rivera was commissioned to paint a major series of murals for the Detroit Museum\, and here Kahlo suffered a miscarriage. While recovering\, she painted Miscarriage in Detroit\, the first of her truly penetrating self-portraits. The style she evolved was entirely unlike that of her husband\, being based on Mexican folk art and in particular on the small votive pictures known as retablos\, which the pious dedicated in Mexican churches. Rivera’s reaction to his wife’s work was\, however\, both perceptive and generous. \nFrida began work on a series of masterpieces which had no precedent in the history of art – paintings which exalted the feminine quality of truth\, reality\, cruelty and suffering. Never before had a woman put such agonized poetry on canvas as Frida did at this time in Detroit. Kahlo\, however\, pretended not to consider her work important. As her biographer Hayden Herrera notes\, ‘she preferred to be seen as a beguiling personality rather than as a painter.’ From Detroit they went once again to New York\, where Rivera had been commissioned to paint a mural in the Rockefeller Center. The commission erupted into an enormous scandal\, when the patron ordered the half-completed work destroyed because of the political imagery Rivera insisted on including. But Rivera lingered in the United States\, which he loved and Kahlo now loathed. When they finally returned to Mexico in 1935\, Rivera embarked on an affair with Kahlo’s younger sister Cristina. Though they finally made up their quarrel\, this incident marked a turning point in their relationship. Rivera had never been faithful to any woman; Kahlo now embarked on a series of affairs with both men and women which were to continue for the rest of her life. Rivera tolerated her lesbian relationships better than he did the heterosexual ones\, which made him violently jealous. \nOne of Kahlo’s more serious early love affairs was with the Russian revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky\, now being hounded by his triumphant rival Stalin\, and who had been offered refuge in Mexico in 1937 on Rivera’s initiative. Another visitor to Mexico at this time\, one who would gladly have had a love affair with Kahlo but for the fact that she was not attracted to him\, was the leading figure of the Surrealist Group\, André Breton. Breton arrived in 1938 and was enchanted with Mexico\, which he found to be a ‘naturally surrealist’ country\, and with Kahlo’s painting. Partly through his initiative\, she was offered a show at the fashionable Julian Levy Gallery in New York later in 1938\, and Breton himself wrote a rhetorical catalogue preface. The show was a triumph\, and about half the paintings were sold. In 1939\, Breton suggested a show in Paris\, and offered to arrange it. Kahlo\, who spoke no French\, arrived in France to find that Breton had not even bothered to get her work out of customs. \n“The enterprise was finally rescued by Marcel Duchamp\, and the show opened about six weeks late. It was not a financial success\, but the reviews were good\, and the Louvre bought a picture for the Jeu de Paume. Kahlo also won praise from Kandinsky and Picasso. She had\, however\, conceived a violent dislike for what she called ‘this bunch of coocoo lunatic sons of bitches of surrealists.’ She did not renounce Surrealism immediately. in January 1940\, for example\, she was a participant (with Rivera) in the International Exhibition of Surrealism held in Mexico City. Later\, she was to be vehement in her denials that she had ever been a true Surrealist. ‘They thought I was a Surrealist\,’ she said\, ‘but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.’ \n“Early in 1940\, for motives which are still somewhat mysterious\, Kahlo and Rivera divorced\, though they continued to make public appearances together. In May\, after the first attempt on Trotsky’s life\, led by the painter Siqueiros\, Rivera thought it prudent to leave for San Francisco. After the second\, and successful attempt\, Kahlo\, who had been a friend of Trotsky’s assassin\, was questioned by the police. She decided to leave Mexico for a while\, and in September she joined her ex-husband. Less than two months later\, while they were still in the United States\, they remarried. One reason seems to have been Rivera’s recognition that Kahlo’s health would inexorably deteriorate\, and that she needed someone to look after her. \n“Her health\, never at any time robust\, grew visibly worse from about 1944 onwards\, and Kahlo underwent the first many operations on her spine and her crippled foot. Authorities on her life and work have questioned whether all these operations were really necessary\, or whether they were in fact a way of holding Rivera’s attention in the face of his numerous affairs with other women. In Kahlo’s case\, her physical and psychological sufferings were always linked. in early 1950\, her physical state reached a crisis\, and she had to go into hospital in Mexico City\, where she remained for a year. \n“During the period after her remarriage\, her artistic reputation continued to grow\, though at first more rapidly in the United States than in Mexico itself. she was included in prestigious group shows in the Museum of Modern Art\, the Boston Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In 1946\, however\, she received a Mexican government fellowship\, and in the same year an official prize on the occasion of the Annual National Exhibition. She also took up teaching at the new experimental art school ‘La Esmeralda’\, and\, despite her unconventional methods\, proved an inspiration to her students. After her return home from hospital\, Kahlo became an increasingly fervent and impassioned Communist. Rivera had been expelled from the Party\, which was reluctant to receive him back\, both because of his links with the Mexican government of the day\, and because of his association with Trotsky. Kahlo boasted: ‘I was a member of the Party before I met Diego and I think I am a better Communist than he is or ever will be.’ \n“While the 1940s had seen her produce some of her finest work\, her paintings now became more clumsy and chaotic\, thanks to the joint effects of pain\, drugs and drink. Despite this\, in 1953 she was offered her first solo show in Mexico itself – which was to be the only such show held in her own lifetime. It took place at the fashionable Galeria de Arte Contemporaneo in the Zona Rosa of Mexico City. At first it seemed that Kahlo would be too ill to attend\, but she sent her richly decorated fourposter bed ahead of her\, arrived by ambulance\, and was carried into the gallery on a stretcher. The private view was a triumphal occasion. \n“In the same year\, Kahlo\, threatened by gangrene\, had her right leg amputated below the knee. It was a tremendous blow to someone who had invested so much in the elaboration of her own self image. She learned to walk again with an artificial limb\, and even (briefly and with the help of pain-killing drugs) danced at celebrations with friends. But the end was close. In July 1954\, she made her last public appearance\, when she participated in a Communist demonstration against the overthrow of the left-wing Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz. Soon afterwards\, about a week after her forty-seventh birthday\, Kahlo died on July 13 at her beloved Blue House. She died in her sleep\, apparently as the result of an embolism\, though there was a suspicion among those close to her that she had found a way to commit suicide. Her last diary entry read: “I hope the end is joyful – and I hope never to come back – Frida”. \nSince her death\, Kahlo’s fame as an artist has only grown. Her beloved Blue House was opened as a museum in 1958. The feminist movement of the 1970s led to renewed interest in her life and work\, as Kahlo was viewed by many as an icon of female creativity. In 1983\, Hayden Herrera’s book on the artist\, A Biography of Frida Kahlo\, also helped to stir up interest this great artist. More recently\, her life was the subject of a 2002 film entitled Frida\, starring Salma Hayek as the artist and Alfred Molina as Diego Rivera. Directed by Julie Taymor\, the film was nominated for six Academy Awards and won for Best Makeup and Original Score. \n[ Text from Edward Lucie-Smith\, “Lives of the Great 20th-Century Artists” ] \n 
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LOCATION:GYZI MEGARON CULTURAL CENTRE\, FIRA\, SANTORINI - GREECE
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SUMMARY:ANDERS LONNE GRONSETH & DAVID SKINNER
DESCRIPTION:ANDERS LONNE GRONSETH & DAVID SKINNER\nJazz Duo \nThe festival continues on 7/8 with a unique collaboration\, the award-winning jazz duo with Norwegian saxophonist Anders Lønne Grønseth and English pianist David Skinner\, who are playing together since 1999 as members of the Norwegian jazz quartet Sphinx. Since 2005\, they started playing together as a duo\, looking for new directions and ways to combine their influences from American jazz\, European classical music of the 20th century and contemporary jazz. They are going to present a wide repertoire ranging from works of well-known composers (such as Messiaen\, Bartok and Ligeti) to jazz standards\, but also their compositions from their personal discography. \nAnders Lønne Grønseth\, saxophone\nDavid Arthur Skinner\, piano \nAnders Lønne Grønseth / David Arthur Skinner JAZZ DUO \nNorwegian saxophonist Anders Lønne Grønseth and British pianist David Arthur Skinner have been collaborating for many years in different formations. They have toured extensively\, released several albums and received international prizes and acclaim for their music. Pianist David Arthur Skinner and saxophonist Anders Lønne Grønseth have played together since 1999 as members of the group Sphinx\, which has toured internationally for many years. \nIn 2005 they began working together as a duo\, to explore more “classical” sonorities. In duo-format\, they are seeking new directions and ways to combine their influences from American jazz\, European classical music of the 20th century\, ethnic music from different parts of the world and contemporary jazz compositions. The borders between the improvised and the composed are challenged and come together in imaginative and innovative chamber music. \nIn 2006\, they released the first duo album “Phantasmagoria”\, which was met by the critics with enthusiastic acclaim. The instrumentation of just piano and saxophone\, without bass and drums\, opened up new possibilities for working with a less overtly rhythmic manner of phrasing\, and a flexible form. In this way improvisations could be used to link written sections\, rather than extemporizing on the harmonies of a repeated chord-sequence. The great composers of the 20th Century are often mentioned among the main inspirators of modern jazz musicians. A unique genre is emerging where sounds and ideals from the European classical tradition is combined with ideas from American jazz. \nAmong the most prominent composers are Olivier Messiaen\, Bela Bartok and Gyorgy Ligeti. Through their project “Arc-en-ciel”\, Grønseth and Skinner interpret the masters from their own improvisatory angle. Their latest album “Arc-en-ciel” features partly-improvised arrangements for piano and saxophone of various classical pieces\, which were originally written for piano alone: Olivier Messiaen’s «Preludes»\, Gyorgy Ligeti’s «Etudes» and two chromatic fantasies by Bela Bartok΄s «Mikrokosmos». The listener is invited into the exploration of unusual tonalities and rhythms\, improvised forms and shapes\, and expressions from the quiet and contemplative to the ecstatic. \nTheir repertoire stretches over a large span\, from works by famous composers to jazz standards and original compositions. In summer 2011\, the duo will be performing in Norway\, France\, Greece and Japan. \n \nAnders Lønne Grønseth\, saxophone \nBorn in 1979\, resident in Oslo\, the Norwegian reed-player Anders Lønne Grønseth plays soprano\, alto and tenor sax\, as well as clarinet and bass clarinet. Anders started playing the piano at early age\, and got his first tenor sax at age ten. \nHe studied briefly at Leeds College of Music before choosing to return to Oslo to study jazz and contemporary composition at the Norwegian State Academy of Music in Oslo\, where he took his Bachelor’s degree in music. He also has a Master’s degree in performance from Gothenburg University in Sweden. \nHe is a busy professional musician who works as a conductor with several different Big-bands. He has very wide musical interests. He is also very active as a composer; he writes for string quartets as well as jazz groups. His wide interest in Music around the world has also lead him to studies of Arabic music tradition and Indian classical music at Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya’s School of Universal Music in Calcutta\, India. \nAnders composes and plays regularly with the quartet Sphinx\, the Anders Lønne Grønseth / David Skinner duo and Mini Macro Ensemble. He also runs the record label Pling Music. \n \nDavid Skinner\, piano \nDavid Skinner plays the piano\, guitar and percussion\, composes music and writes about music theory. He grew up in the south of England and spent a year in France teaching English\, before moving to Yorkshire in 1999 to go to the Leeds College of Music. He left the college after a year\, but carried on to become a full-time musician.\nOver the course of the next five years\, he played hundreds of gigs\, mostly in the Yorkshire area\, but also all over England. He got experience playing many styles of jazz (traditional\, swing\, bebop\, funk\, free impro) with a wide range of musicians in a variety of venues. Skinner was also house pianist at several local jazz clubs over the years. \nIt was when he was studying at Leeds College of Music that he joined the group Sphinx. This group has played extensively in Norway and England\, and has also taken part in festivals in Germany\, France\, and Belgium\, as well as releasing four albums and touring in Finland in 2006 and Japan in 2007 and 2008; with a fourth tour planned in 2011. \nSkinner moved to Norway in 2005\, first to Oslo\, and then to Bergen in 2007\, where he now studies classical composition at Griegakademiet. He still works as a musician and piano teacher and has played all over Norway\, from the south coast to Svalbard. \n  \n 
URL:http://gyzimegaron.gr/event/anders-lonne-gronseth-david-skinner/
LOCATION:GYZI MEGARON CULTURAL CENTRE\, FIRA\, SANTORINI - GREECE
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SUMMARY:ZOE PAPADOPOULOU
DESCRIPTION:ZOE PAPADOPOULOU\nThe festival’s musical journey begins on 4/8 with Zoe Papadopoulou\, a singer who has won the audience with her vocal abilities and interpretation through partnerships in recent years with well known Greek artists. For 2011 she has prepared a musical journey through time\, based on the feeling and emotion that good Greek songs know how to cause. She interprets old and latest songs of the soul and songs from her personal discography\, in a musical compilation for piano and voice. Together with her on the piano is Sassa Papalamprou. \nZoe Papadopoulou\, vocals\nSassa Papalamprou\, piano – vocals \nZOE PAPADOPOULOU\, vocals \nZoe Papadopoulou is a Greek singer\, who ever since she was a little girl had the dream of becoming a professional singer\, and this dream came true. After graduating from College\, she started singing at clubs in Thessaloniki\, Greece\, where she was born and grew up. That was the place where the famous Greek singer Dimitris Mitropanos heard her singing and immediately invited her to go to Athens and participate in the summer music concert tour he had organized! That was almost nine years ago. \nIn 2002\, Zoe Papadopoulou came to Athens\, where she immediately started a series of exceptional music collaborations and she appeared on stage with famous and extraordinary Greek artists\, as Dimitris Mitropanos\, Haroula Alexiou\, Yannis Kotsiras\, Eleftheria Arvanitaki\, Kostas Makedonas etc. Three years later\, her first album was released\, titled “Krystalla kokkina filia”\, which was produced by Haroula Alexiou. The album was a great success and the duet song of both Zoe Papadopoulou and Haroula Alexiou\, “Ah kai na se iha edo” was the one that mostly stood out\, as it combined the voices of two great singers. \nIn 2008\, her second album\, titled “Τatouaz”\, was released. The homonymous song was a great hit\, once again with the lyrics of Haroula Alexiou\, who has not stopped believing in her. From then and on\, Zoe has been invited by many music festivals and clubs\, where she has presented her own live concerts marking her personal music path. \nZoe Papadopoulou has organized for 2011 a live music tour all around Greece and abroad\, with a show that apart from her beautiful songs also includes foreign modern and more classic songs\, and generally songs that touch everyone’s heart. Her show is supported by the pianist Sassa Papalamprou in an extraordinary combination of musical rhythms. \n \nSassa Papalamprou\, piano – vocals \nSassa Papalamprou was born in Drama in 1980. From her childhood she studied classical piano lessons and other academic subjects. She graduated in Harmony with cum laude honors. She studied at the Ionian University of Corfu\, in the music department\, while making classical voice lessons. She specialized in studies on jazz singing\, watching numerous seminars\, as well as in jazz piano. She was professor of voice and other academic subjects\, in cooperation with conservatories of Corfu\, Thessaloniki and Athens. \nFrom 19 years old until now she has collaborated with live music scenes\, piano bars and hotels in Thessaloniki\, Athens and other cities\, as a singer and pianist with a repertoire of jazz\, latin\, funk\, soul and Greek rembetiko and retro. She has participated in concerts of Greek and foreign repertoire throughout Greece. \nShe has participated to the jazz festival of Thessaloniki in 2008\, at the music scene of Mylos\, together with bassist Dimitri Goumperitsi and participated in the record collection of Jazz Society 2008/09\, with their piece “Moments without you”. She took the second prize of singing at a pan-European contest in Bulgaria in the spring of 2003 and had a proposal for cooperation by the Bulgarian National Radio. \nShe took on the orchestration of musical and theatrical performances “Anemistiras” and “Portraito” (2009-10) and participated as a singer\, actor\, pianist and accordionist. She collaborated with the theatrical group “Tsiritsantsoules” as an actor and musician in the child performance of “The Day After Tomorrow” with appearances at festivals of Naxos and Rio\, at the “Fournos” and “Altera Pars” theatres.
URL:http://gyzimegaron.gr/event/zoe-papadopoulou-2/
LOCATION:GYZI MEGARON CULTURAL CENTRE\, FIRA\, SANTORINI - GREECE
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SUMMARY:VANGELIS TZERMIAS Painting Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:VANGELIS TZERMIAS Painting Exhibition\n\n“Sea Wanderings” by Vangelis Tzermias \nThe Megaro Gyzi Festival 2011 raises curtain on August 1st with the opening of the solo painting exhibition of Vangelis Tzermias\, in which the artist presents his new work titled “Sea Wanderings”. The blue of the sea\, the intensity that conveys the movement of ships in the foam and the battle of the mast with the wind are exploited allegorically and worked with poetic mood at the painting works of Vangelis Tzermias\, giving to the traditional theme of seascapes new life with strong expressionistic mood. The exhibition is organized and curated by Yannis Papaconstantinou\, Artistic Director of Megaro Gyzi. \nOpening of exhibition: 1st August 2011\, 21:00\nDuration of exhibition: 1 – 23 August 2011 \n“Sea Wanderings” \nPaintings\, small and large\, travel us on sea roads urging us to see the world from another angle between earth and sky. The artist’s ships are sailing sometimes calmly and sometimes to hostile sea. \n“The anarchic sea of Vangelis Tzermias with its dense untamed blue colour\, worked with violent gestural brush strokes\, is often a furious element where the imaginary ships of his inspiration are fighting”\, as the art historian Euridice Trichon-Milsani notes. \n \nVANGELIS TZERMIAS (1960)\nVangelis Tzermias was born in Neapoli of Lassithi\, Crete\, Greece. He studied initially at the Accademia di Belli Arte di Firenze\, Italy (1980). He continued his studies in painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts – ASFA (1980-1985) with Dimitris Mytaras and Ilias Dekoulakos. \nVangelis Tzermias presented the following solo exhibitions: \nIdeografimata\, Titanium Art Gallery\, Athens (1988)\nVoyage into the Past\, Nafplio Art Center (1994)\nLandscapes of Odyssey\, Titanium Art Gallery\, Athens (1994)\nLandscapes of my Memory\, Zakynthos\, Art Center (1995)\nWills\, Titanium Art Gallery\, Athens (1998)\nSeascape\, Zakynthos\, Art Center (1998)\nShip Portraits\, Anny Balta Gallery\, Thessaloniki (2000)\nThe Ships\, Omma Gallery\, Chania\, Crete (2000)\nBrussels\, Belgium (2001)\nThe Vision\, Adam Gallery\, Athens (2002)\nVangelis Tzermias Retrospective\, Art Center of Markopoulo\, Greece (2004)\nMataroa\, The French Institute of Athens (2006)\nTheasis\, Red Gallery\, Athens (2006)\nTheasis\, French Institute\, Thessaloniki (2007) \nGaia Art Gallery\, Pireas (2008)\nEmigre\, European Parliament\, Brussels (2010) \nHe also took part in the following group exhibitions: \nStudents of the Athens School of Fine Arts\, Athens Conservatory\, Athens (1981-1985)\nDistinguished Students of the Athens School of Fine Art\, Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation – Andros Museum of Modern Art\, Andros Island (1984)\nFormulations Plastiques\, Leondios School\, Athens (1989)\nArt and Technology\, Titanium Art Gallery\, Athens (1990)\nNight Passage I\, Titanium Art Gallery (1992)\nNight Passage II\, Titanium Art Gallery (1993)\nSummertime\, Zakynthos Art Center\, Zakynthos Island (1995)\nGallery Metopi\, Athens (1997)\nLyra & Doxari\, Center for Contemporary Art – L. Kanakakis Municipal Gallery\, Rethymno\, Crete (1998)\nAt the Crossroad of Crete\, Gallery Tzamia & Krystalla\, Chania\, Crete (1998)\nChristmas\, Gallery Stigma (2001)\nGroup Exhibition\, Stavros Mihalarias Art City\, Attiki (2002)\nVorres Museum\, Peania (2005)\nIris Gallery\, Athens (2006)\nSilent Dialogues: Multimedia Portraits Throughout Time\, ACG Art Gallery\, The American College of Greece\, Athens (2008). \nArtworks by Vangelis Tzermias can be found at the following public collections: Aegean Museum; The American College of Greece; Athens School of Fine Arts; Centre of Contemporary Art – L. Kanakakis; Dimitris Pierides Museum; Florina Museum; General Bank of Greece; Municipal Gallery of Rethymno; National Bank of Greece; and Nautical Museum of Chania.
URL:http://gyzimegaron.gr/event/vangelis-tzermias-painting-exhibition/
LOCATION:GYZI MEGARON CULTURAL CENTRE\, FIRA\, SANTORINI - GREECE
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