Christmas with the Athens State Orchestra
The Athens State Orchestra, always aiming to play an active role in the musical life of rural Greece, this year chose to transmit the Christmas message in its own musical way to the capital of Messene by bringing the local audience to contact with timeless masterpieces of the erudite European creation. Young, talented conductor, Maria Bazou reimagines beloved melodies from the famous George Bizet’s opera, Carmen, while the Athens State Orchestra’s Concert Master, Apollon Grammatikopoulos and its leading flutist, Nikos Nikopoulos, take on solo roles in impressive concerts highlighting the full beauty of their instruments’ sound.
In collaboration with the Friends of Music Society of Kalamata
Christmas with the Athens State Orchestra Corinth
The Athens State Orchestra, always aiming to play an active role in the musical life of rural Greece, this year chose to transmit the Christmas message in its own musical way to Corinth by bringing the local audience to contact with timeless masterpieces of the erudite European creation. Young, talented conductor, Maria Bazou reimagines beloved melodies from the famous George Bizet’s opera, Carmen, while the Athens State Orchestra’s Concert Master, Apollon Grammatikopoulos and its leading flutist, Nikos Nikopoulos, take on solo roles in impressive concerts highlighting the full beauty of their instruments’ sound.
In collaboration with the Municipality of Corinth
New year in Broadway
My fair lady, Cabaret, Annie get your gun, The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Mamma mia: all Boadway’s repertoire moves to Megaron the Athens Concert Hall just for one night!
The New Year’s gala organized by the Athens State Orchestra and Megaron the Athens Concert Hall has been for many years a successful milestone, that all lovers of music await impatiently. This time, countdown to the New Year features a musical journey to the American Broadway: beloved melodies and captivating jazz harmonies from the most popular musicals of all times return to our lips, thanks to the vivid and fresh performances of four soulful singers and the precise and energetic conducting of musical director Stathis Soulis.
Liszt's Christmas oratorio
Christmas is not exclusively connected to Santa Claus’s figure, Christmas trees, presents and family reunions; first and foremost, Christmas marks the arrival of a message of Hope, the celebration of a Birth that transcends human measure and promising something larger, beyond the narrow human view. Liszt and Kodály, two important Hungarian composers of the 19th and the 20th century correspondingly, have expressed through their music Man’s awe before God’s incarnation, in the most ideal and passionate way. The Athens State Orchestra, selected lyrical artists and active choruses, under the baton of the versatile conductor Michalis Zeke, give this Christmas the corresponding spiritual dimension through great religious music pieces, worthy of being remembered or discovered by all of us.
Stravinsky's Petrushka
Talented and renown musicians, such as Iason Keramidis, violinist, Ilias Livieratos, violist and Georgios Balatsinos, conductor, make us proud and once again prove that Greek artists may perform in an equally fascinating way as their best peers from abroad! Let’s verify it, by listening to the two soloists creating a fine musical narrative in Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, and the third conducting the Athens State Orchestra, extracting the vitality and transcending energy required by the famous Stravinsky’s ballet, “Petrushka”.
Beethoven's Eroica
It’s with great pleasure and emotion that the Athens State Orchestra welcomes again, after several years, the tireless conductor and composer, Yoav Talmi, a true “Master” of music, setting his long experience in Beethoven’s work at the service of the piece that inaugurated a new era for the composer and for music all over the world: Eroica Symphony! By his side, the young British pianist, Isata Kanneh-Mason, one of the most demanded piano soloists globally, originating from a prominent music family, performs the last and clean-cut beautiful Mozart’s piano concert.
Brahms - Lugansky
Russian conductor, Stanislav Kochanovsky and his compatriot, the pianist Nikolay Lugansky, do not merely enjoy successful international careers; their names have come to be synonymous with the pinnacle of poeticism, subtlety, and sensitivity. Both the former’s performance of Johannes Brahms’s final and, in every respect, most mature Symphony, as well as the two artists’ collaboration on the German Romantic composer’s colossal Concerto no.2, are expected to be spellbinding and worthy of the depth of these two iconic symphonic works of German Romanticism.
Liszt with Alexei Volodin
The Athens State Orchestra performs under the reputable musical direction of the experienced conductor Zoi Tsokanou and featuring the distinguished Russian soloist Alexei Volodin, who has repeatedly captivated Athenian audiences in recent years with his dazzling performances. Both Nikos Astrinidis’s fascinating work -inspired by a short story by Edgar Allan Poe- and the romantic music of Franz Liszt and Albert Russell, with their high emotional intensity and orchetral brilliance, promise an unforgettable listening experience.
Bernstein and Gershwin
Carl St. Clair’s name is directly linked to the Pacific Symphony Orchestra by being its artistic director for 35 years; a lasting, creative task rendering him the longest-serving American-born conductor of a major U.S. orchestra. Deeply versed in the American symphonic repertoire, as well as one of its most inspired performers, he has left his mark on beloved melodies combining symphonic glory with Broadway’s pieces’ levity and sensuality. Carl St. Clair performs together with Alain Lefèvre, the famous French-Canadian pianist, well-known to the Athenian audience for his “electrified” playing attitude.