2023 06 21 Music day - 2023
With Neapolitan canzonetti, introductions from famous Italian operas, iconic Beatles hits and original jazz compositions and arrangements, this year the Garden welcomes the Music Day. The soprano Despina Skarlatou takes us on a journey to the charming melodies of the Italian South, accompanied by the Athens State Orchestra, which reminds us of two delightful introductions by Gioachino Rossini from the operas “The Barber of Seville” and “William Tell”. Yannis Poulakis conducts the orchestra.
2023 06 18 Honouring Maria Callas – The Athens State Orchestra with the Cretan Youth Symphony Orchestra of Heraklion's Municipality, concert in Chania
The Athens State Orchestra returns to Crete to participate in the Festival of Crete for the second year running. The Festival is organised by the Region of Crete. This is the Year of Maria Callas, and the Athens State Orchestra will be joining forces with its young colleagues from the Municipality of Heraklion's Cretan Youth Symphony Orchestra to perform an opera gala under the baton of Miltos Logiadis to mark the centenary of the birth of La Divina, Greece's gift to the world. The soprano Vassiliki Karayanni and tenor Dimitris Paksoglou will perform arias and duetti from some of the most famous operas in the international repertoire.
2023 06 17 Honouring Maria Callas – The Athens State Orchestra with the Cretan Youth Symphony Orchestra of Heraklion's Municipality, concert in Rethymnon
The Athens State Orchestra returns to Crete to participate in the Festival of Crete for the second year running. The Festival is organised by the Region of Crete. This is the Year of Maria Callas, and the Athens State Orchestra will be joining forces with its young colleagues from the Municipality of Heraklion's Cretan Youth Symphony Orchestra to perform an opera gala under the baton of Miltos Logiadis to mark the centenary of the birth of La Divina, Greece's gift to the world. The soprano Vassiliki Karayanni and tenor Dimitris Paksoglou will perform arias and duetti from some of the most famous operas in the international repertoire.
2023 06 16 Honouring Maria Callas – The Athens State Orchestra with the Cretan Youth Symphony Orchestra of Heraklion's Municipality, concert in Heraklion
The Athens State Orchestra returns to Crete to participate in the Festival of Crete for the second year running. The Festival is organised by the Region of Crete. This is the Year of Maria Callas, and the Athens State Orchestra will be joining forces with its young colleagues from the Municipality of Heraklion's Cretan Youth Symphony Orchestra to perform an opera gala under the baton of Miltos Logiadis to mark the centenary of the birth of La Divina, Greece's gift to the world. The soprano Vassiliki Karayanni and tenor Dimitris Paksoglou will perform arias and duetti from some of the most famous operas in the international repertoire.
2023 07 23 Eleusis European Capital of Culture 2023
The words of Aeschylus combine archaic grandeur, ritual robustness, and Dionysian ecstasy. Iannis Xenakis – a foundational figure of the international avant-garde music scene during the second half of the 20th century – was directly inspired by these elements when composing his Oresteïa (1965-1966), a work that distils the plot and very essence of the Aeschylean trilogy, teetering on the cusp between opera, oratorio, and ritualistic dance theatre. Without any intention of employing traditional “embellishments,” the music places an emphasis on primal rhythms (hence the extensive use of percussion instruments), and on the expressive power of speech, which is constantly hewn and remoulded by means of imaginative and contemporary compositional techniques. This centenary year of the great composer’s birth presents a fantastic opportunity for the revival of his thrilling, evocative, and altogether immensely demanding piece of music at the hands of the Athens State Orchestra and its top-tier artistic associates.
2023 05 06 Journey to the centre of Music - the Symphonic Suite
A series of interactive concerts which seeks to shed light on everything that connects contemporary audiences with symphonic music, making its timeless repertoire more approachable to everyone, whether they are newcomers to the form or music lovers who are already fans. Video, Talks and Music are combined to provide a dramatized portrait of a different symphonic genre each time. Historical facts both well-known and unfamiliar, personal stories, hidden symbolisms and motifs, and the structural magic of the works are presented in an entertaining way.
2023 05 09 Concert for the end of the Brass Workshops of the Athens State Orchestra
For the 9th year in a raw, the Brass Workshops of the Athens State Orchestra present its annual and festive ending concert of its ninth season.
The workshop is realized with the support of the Philippos Nakas Conservatory and with its collaboration with the Athens State Orchestra.
The Philippos Nakas Conservatory's String Orchestra participates to the concert under the baton of Michalis Papapetrou and presents works by Georg Friedrich Handel, Antonio Salieri and famous Astor Piazzola's tangos.
Works by A. L. Weber, Vangelis Papathanasiou, Kenneth J. Alford and other composers
The Philippos Nakas Conservatory's String Orchestra presents works by Georg Friedrich Handel, Antonio Salieri and famous Astor Piazzola's tangos.
2023 03 04 Journey to the centre of Music - the Symphony
A series of interactive concerts which seeks to shed light on everything that connects contemporary audiences with symphonic music, making its timeless repertoire more approachable to everyone, whether they are newcomers to the form or music lovers who are already fans. Video, Talks and Music are combined to provide a dramatized portrait of a different symphonic genre each time. Historical facts both well-known and unfamiliar, personal stories, hidden symbolisms and motifs, and the structural magic of the works are presented in an entertaining way.
2022 12 29 New Year Musicals Gala
The New Year Gala, co-produced by the Athens Concert Hall and the Athens State Orchestra, has for years now been an integral part of the New Year celebrations—something like a coveted musical "good luck charm" for the New Year! This year, the Gala’s theme is musicals— that complex music theatre genre which combines theatre, dance and music and is loved like no other—especially the works from its Golden Age between the 1940s and 1960s. Under the baton of maestro Michalis Economou, selected singers with a proven track record in this unique and popular style sing melodies that left their mark on New York's Broadway and London's West End, promising to add glamour and joy to this New Year's Eve.