2023 04 25 Students of the Permanent Chamber Music Workshop in concert - 7th season
It is with great joy that the Athens State Orchestra adds the "Permanent Chamber Music Seminar”, an initiative of the cellist Angelos Liakakis and pianist the Titos Gouvelis, to its Educational and Social programme from the 2021–2022 season on. The two artists, both members of the Orchestra, are known not only for their activities as soloists, but also for their long and ongoing collaboration in the field of chamber music. Considering it their duty to pass on their knowledge and experience to the younger generation, they have been running the "Permanent Chamber Music Seminar” for the last seven years with a view to introducing young students and professional musicians to the particular challenges of the chamber music repertoire. The primary focus of the seminar are the chamber music ensembles in which strings play alongside the piano. To immerse the participants as deeply as possible in the target repertoire, the seminar takes place over several months, allowing the leaders to observe the students’ progress at regular intervals. The response of the young musicians who have taken part in the Seminar to date has been overwhelmingly positive, confirming its value and necessity.
In this final concert of the seventh season of the Permanent Chamber Music Seminar, its students present compositions of Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Sergei Rachmaninoff.
2022 07 10 The Athens State Orchestra in Crete, concert in Chania
The Athens State Orchestra (ASO) was moved by the invitation it received from the Region of Crete to participate in the Festival of Crete, and was delighted to accept. For the first time in its 80-year presence on the Greek artistic scene, the KOA will enjoy the honour of playing for Heraklion’s music-lovers at the world-famous Knossos archaeological site.
The programme could not have failed to include a work by our great composer Mikis Theodorakis, especially since these concerts are being staged just a year after his death. In addition to his atmospheric Adagio, our Artistic Director, Loukas Karytinos, will also be conducting a performance of Beethoven's evergreen First Symphony, while our renowned concertmaster Dimitris Semsis will be taking on Beethoven's Concerto, the undisputed "Parthenon" of violin concertos.
2022 07 09 The Athens State Orchestra in Crete, 2nd concert in Heraklion
The Athens State Orchestra (ASO) was moved by the invitation it received from the Region of Crete to participate in the Festival of Crete, and was delighted to accept. For the first time in its 80-year presence on the Greek artistic scene, the KOA will enjoy the honour of playing for Heraklion’s music-lovers at the world-famous Knossos archaeological site.
The programme could not have failed to include a work by our great composer Mikis Theodorakis, especially since these concerts are being staged just a year after his death. In addition to his atmospheric Adagio, our Artistic Director, Loukas Karytinos, will also be conducting a performance of Beethoven's evergreen First Symphony, while our renowned concertmaster Dimitris Semsis will be taking on Beethoven's Concerto, the undisputed "Parthenon" of violin concertos.
2022 07 08 The Athens State Orchestra in Crete, 1st concert in Heraklion
The Athens State Orchestra (ASO) was moved by the invitation it received from the Region of Crete to participate in the Festival of Crete, and was delighted to accept. For the first time in its 80-year presence on the Greek artistic scene, the KOA will enjoy the honour of playing for Heraklion’s music-lovers at the world-famous Knossos archaeological site.
The programme could not have failed to include a work by our great composer Mikis Theodorakis, especially since these concerts are being staged just a year after his death. In addition to his atmospheric Adagio, our Artistic Director, Loukas Karytinos, will also be conducting a performance of Beethoven's evergreen First Symphony, while our renowned concertmaster Dimitris Semsis will be taking on Beethoven's Concerto, the undisputed "Parthenon" of violin concertos.
2022 06 21 Music day - 2022
2022 06 04 Concert for child refugees from Ukraine
The latest collaboration between the Athens State Orchestra and the leading violinist and conductor Leonidas Kavakos opens a new chapter in the Orchestra's educational, social and charitable work. The proceeds from the concert will be made available for child refugees from Ukraine, many of whom are unaccompanied. The programme of the event, which was decided on at a meeting between Leonidas Kavakos and the musicians of the Athens State Orchestra, will be celebratory and participatory in nature. Its centre piece will be Brahms' iconic Fourth Symphony.
2022 07 04 Athens Festival
The Athens Epidaurus Festival and Maria Farantouri invite Festival audiences to a magical evening in memory of the late Mikis Theodorakis as a tribute to his invaluable legacy. Farantouri is joined by brilliant baritone Tassis Christoyannis under the baton of renowned conductor Miltos Logiadis.
In the first part, Farantouri will perform pieces from the iconic Canto General, a poem by Pablo Neruda, which was performed for the very first time by Farantouri and Petros Pandis, and has been praised by audiences at the greatest theatre venues around the globe. At the Roman Odeon, we will rediscover it in its original arrangement for a musical ensemble of 15 performers and two choirs (the ERT National Choir and the City of Athens Choir). In the second part, Maria Farantouri and Tassis Christoyannis, always under the baton of Miltos Logiadis, will perform seminal songs that have left a profound mark on half a century of Greek musical history, orchestrated by pianist Achilleas Wastor.
2022 07 18 Athens Festival
The year 2022 marks the 80th anniversary since the founding of the Athens State Orchestra, the oldest Greek symphonic ensemble. In the context of this celebration, the Orchestra pays tribute to the late and great Manos Hadjidakis, presenting two of his most famous works. In addition to the great value of Hadjidakis’ symphonic work that left its mark on post-WWII music, it bears mentioning that the composer had close ties with the Athens State Orchestra, having served as its director in the period 1976-1982.
2022 07 02 Athens Festival
The concert opens with one of the most important symphonic works of Antiochos Evangelatos, promiment representative of the National School of Music. Subsequently, legendary cellist Mischa Maisky performs the epic Cello Concerto by Czech Romantic composer Antonín Dvořák. In the second part of the concert, up-and-coming French conductor Lionel Bringuier conducts Rachmaninoff’s epic, timeless, and popular Symphony No. 2, the crown in the jewel of his symphonic work.
2021 12 12 Christmas concert at Euboea, Limni
Musicians of METALLON, one of the oldest and most active chamber music ensemble of the Athens State Orchestra, will interpret classical, popular Christmas songs.