Poinciana Quartet
Co-organization: Municipality of Thira – Gyzi Megaron Cultural Centre – D.A.P.P.O.S.
Co-organization: Municipality of Thira – Gyzi Megaron Cultural Centre – D.A.P.P.O.S.
In the performance “Window with a view”, the composer Minas Bogris unfolds his musical influences and presents his new songs to the lyrics by Michalis Brouzos, which portray human behaviors and express vividly our need for communication. Spyros Kleissas (singer) together with Catherine Tepelena (violin – flute), Stefanos Giannopoulos (violoncello) and Minas Bogris (guitar) also […]
Co-organization: Municipality of Thira – Gyzi Megaron Cultural Centre – D.A.P.P.O.S.
ARTON TRIO YOUNG MASTERS ENSEMBLE This dynamic young trio from Vienna, Austria, formed in the fall of 2017 when pianist Sophie Druml, violinist Andreas Siles Mellinger (who performed at the Gyzi Megaron Festival with the Young Masters Ensemble last summer) and cellist Lukas Rothenfußer first played together and discovered their love for chamber music. All […]
YIORGOS KALOUDIS - INNOVATING TRADITION Through the freedom of silence where time expands, the composer is searching the precious enlightenment through the poetic truth of the Cello and the Cretan Lyra sound, revealing soundscapes, and extending the expressive limits of the two instruments. He uses the live-loop-recording technique to orchestrate sound layers during his performance. […]
NATIONAL RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (ERT) The National Radio Symphony Orchestra (ERT) was founded in 1938 and covers the classical, Greek and foreign repertoire. It has performed works by important Greek and foreign composers, masters and researchers through recordings, live broadcasts from radio and television, as well as concerts in Athens and the region. The National […]
WITHOUT WIND ...LISTEN TO ME Natalia Kotsanis' unique voice, the inconceivable skill and lyrical expression of Manos Avarakis' harmonica, flutes and exotic kalimbo, and this wonderful, "portable piano", the accordion bayan, that will simply fascinate everyone in Vangelis Papageorgiou's hands, all together create a rare, lyrical but also dynamic sound palette. Stefanos Hadjianagnostou an outstanding […]
TROUBLE IN TAHITI LEONARD BERNSTEIN The "Medium Project" opera group is a new group of artists founded in 2013 by the director Raia Tsakiridis. Their first production, the presentation of Giancarlo Menoti's masterpiece "The Medium', received rave reviews from both critics and the public, with great success. Leonard Bernstein's "Trouble in Tahiti" presents a day […]
ROSS DALY - KELLY THOMA Ross Daly, along with Kelly Thoma on the lyre, will present a program that includes their own compositions belonging to the "Contemporary Modal Music" genre. These compositions reflect Ross Daly's long-lasting journey into the broader range of modal music's traditions that extends from Northwest Africa to India. Ross Daly is […]
MODERATO CANTABILE After a fifteen-year collaboration with the Tarkovsky Quartet and the album Il Pergolese, along with the singer Maria Pia De Vito, German cellist Anja Lechner and French pianist Francois Couturier formed and present their own duet. The artists approach music from different angles. Lechner is a classical soloist with an interest in the […]
Dimitra Galani The great performer Dimitra Galani meets this summer in selected venues all over Greece, two of the best musicians of the new generation in the Greek music scene. Thomas Konstantinou, a great oud virtuoso and the outstanding jazz pianist Spiros Manessis. Together they perform songs with influences from the East and the West. […]
MAIGHREAD McCRANN – FRANCESCO NICOLOSI Irish violinist Maighread McCrann is first concertmaster of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Αs a soloist and chamber musician she performed extensively in all the major european cities. She has played baroque violin in Nicolaus Harnoncourt’s Concentus Musicus and was appointed Professor of violin in the University for Performing Arts […]
DUO MELIS Spanish guitarist Susana Prieto and Greek guitarist Alexis Muzurakis made their debut as Duo Melis in 1999 at the International Guitar Festival of Volos (Greece). Since then they have performed in such prestigious halls as the Berlin Philharmonie, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, the Megaron in Athens,and the Merkin […]
MIRANDA VEROULI & DESAFINADOS feat. ANDREAS POLYZOGOPOULOS With a long presence in the Greek jazz and world stage and remarkable recordings, Miranda Verouli, the Brazilian Ambassador for Brazilian Music in Greece for 20 years, is a jazz singer – songwriter with a deep knowledge of Brazilian culture and with personal style in the Brazilian repertoire, […]
THE MUSE INTERNATIONAL ASSOSIATION OF ART Seven young winners of the eMuse Online Music Competition 2017 from the USA, Singapore, Spain and Greece will arrive to Santorini to give an unforgettable performance at the Gyzi Megaron Festival on August 31. After the short award ceremony they will show off their musicality and technical skills on […]
A concert featuring the outstanding cellist and Artistic Director of the Festival di Maggio in Campania, Giuliano De Angelis, along with the internationally acclaimed and award-winning pianist, Paolo Scafarella, performing works by Beethoven, Schumann, and Piazzolla. A few details about the artists GIULIANO DE ANGELIS Giuliano De Angelis graduated with celebrated cellist […]
Opera Night titled "Giacomo Puccini and His Era" featuring two permanent collaborators of the Greek National Opera. The distinguished soprano, a graduate of the renowned Music Academy of Munich, Anna Stylianaki, and the tenor, a graduate of Trinity College of Music in London, Philip Modinos. Accompanying on the piano is the exceptional Dimitris Yiakas. […]
The exceptional Spanish trumpetist, professor at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Valencia, Dr. Vicente Campos, and the internationally award-winning pianist, professor at the Conservatorio Superior del Liceo de Barcelona, Michael Davidov Butusov, will perform a program featuring works by Haydn, Albinoni, and others. A few details about the artists VICENTE CAMPOS […]
A demanding yet delightful program for two flutes, cello, and piano featuring the principal flutist of the Greek National Opera, Zacharias Tarpagkos, one of the most recognized and pioneering flutists of her generation, Ana Chifu, the cellist of the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, Christos Grimpas, and Valeria Charitidou on piano. In the concert, they will […]