2022 09 16 Classic Rock 6
David Garett comes for the first time in Greece with his band, after a great successful tour around the world. Nicknamed "Devil's Violin", virtuoso violinist of the 21st century, David Garett is one of the most preferred artists in pop and rock stage all over the world. Astonishing on his performances, with an international acknowledgment and delighted audiences, David Garett with his band presents an unforgettable show in Odeon of Herodus Atticus, under the Acropolis, with Athens State Orchestra.
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2023 03 17 Plamena Mangova in Rachmaninoff's 4th Concerto
Rachmaninoff’s First Symphony and Fourth Piano Concerto may be among the composer's least known and popular works, but that does not mean they lack worth, emotional depth and charm. In fact, in the capable hands of the up-and-coming Bulgarian pianist Plamena Mangova and the outstanding conductor Michel Tilkin, these two out-and-out masterpieces promise to move even our most demanding listeners! In the rest of the programme, the Athens State Orchestra performs the Asia Minor Rhapsody, which the great Yannis Constantinides composed as "a musical epitaph to a life and a world forever lost".
2023 03 03 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.
2023 02 24 Markella Hatziano returns to the Athens State Orchestra
You may doubt that sounds can paint? And yet they can! If you want to ‘see’ an ancient forest deity flirting with beautiful nymphs, a couple in love exchanging passionate kisses by the sea under the mid-day sun, bustling celebrations in Baghdad, or a ship swept by raging seas onto the rocks, all you have to do is come to our concert, conducted by Nikos Haliassas, together with the famous mezzo-soprano Markella Hatziano! Because, for the first time, these images and many more besides will be brought to life before your eyes with the help of Katerina Barsukova's imaginative sand animation.
2023 02 15 Pletnev's Rachmaninoff - 150 years since the birth of Sergei Rachmaninoff
Russian music—and Rachmaninoff's oeuvre in particular—often combines a veneer of sober cerebrality with a core of unstoppable, fervent passion. Few musicians have managed to convey this unique duality as successfully as the pianist and conductor Mikhail Pletnev, whose refined taste and flawless virtuosity make him one of the most ideal performers of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody. In the second half of the programme, Loukas Karytinos leads a performance of Richard Strauss's colossal tone poem, in which the composer employs exuberant orchestral timbres to wrestle with... himself, his dreams, his conflicts and his triumphs!
2023 02 03 80 years of the Athens State Orchestra - Vadim Repin in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto
The official concert in celebration of the Athens State Orchestra’s 80th birthday could only be a glorious and gloriously musical event. The soprano Cellia Costea performs the lyrical Vocalise by the eminent Greek composer Nestor Taylor, while our artistic director Loukas Karytinos conducts a new reading of Mahler's "titanic" (and not in name alone!) First Symphony, one of the most popular and deeply moving symphonies of late Romanticism. At the heart of the programme, the legendary violin virtuoso Vadim Repin turns his sparkling virtuosity to a performance of a veritable heavy-weight of the violin repertoire.
2023 01 20 Giorgos Petrou with the Athens State Orchestra - A tribute to the memory of Karolos Trikolidis
Exactly a year ago, the death of the eminent maestro Karolos Trikolidis, who had graced the podiums of major Greek and foreign orchestras for decades, left our musical world the poorer for his loss. The Athens State Orchestra honours his memory with a performance of the magnificent First Symphony by Bruckner, a composer whose symphonic works the late maestro had studied in depth and performed to acclaim. Iason Keramidis undertakes the solo duties in the premiere performance of the much-anticipated violin concerto by the tirelessly creative Dimitris Papadimitriou, conducted by the internationally acclaimed maestro George Petrou.
2022 12 30 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.
2022 12 16 Messiah - the baroque maestro Christian Curnyn
If there is one work in the European sacred music repertoire that is inextricably linked with the celebration of Christmas, it is surely Handel's Messiah. Since its premiere in 1742, the oratorio has remained Handel's best-known work and one of the absolute pinnacles of the baroque. The Athens State Orchestra is conducted by the British conductor Christian Curnyn, an expert in early music with few equals on the international music scene.
2022 12 09 100th anniversary of Iannis Xenakis' birth
The creative work of Iannis Xenakis left an indelible mark on the musical avant-garde of the latter half of the 20th century. One hundred years after his birth, the dynamic maestro Nikos Vasiliou honours the memory of the composer who transubstantiated his mathematical and architectural knowledge into truly novel, imaginative music. The concert presents two well-known symphonic works by Xenakis along with the Oiseaux exotiques by his mentor in Paris, Olivier Messiaen, and a work by the French avant-garde composer, Edgard Varèse. The guitarist Costas Cotsiolis brings the concert to a close with the sensual concerto by his great fellow guitarist, Leo Brouwer.