Tribute to Odysseas Dimitriadis
The Athens State Orchestra honors the memory of the great conductor Odysseas Dimitriadis with a concert - tribute to his long and manifold career. From the podium of the Bolshoi to the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Dimitriadis stamped his work on the 20th century as a composer, arranger and conductor of international prestige. With 19 appearances on the podium of the Athens State Orchestra, he contributed decisively to the presentation of important works of the Russian and Greek repertoire. The concert also includes his orchestration of “Samiotissa”, paying a musical tribute to an emblematic figure.
Journey to the center of the Music – Valse
A series of interactive concerts aiming to shed light to all this that connects the modern audience with timeless symphonic music, bringing the latter closer to those who are not acquainted therewith, as well as to its most fanatic audience.
Videos, Speeches and Music interact by dramatizing each time the portrait of a different symphonic musical genre. Known and unknown historical information, personal stories, concealed symbolisms and patterns and the magic of the works' structure, presented in a delightful way.
Journey to the center of the Music - Valse
A series of interactive concerts aiming to shed light to all this that connects the modern audience with timeless symphonic music, bringing the latter closer to those who are not acquainted therewith, as
well as to its most fanatic audience.
Videos, Speeches and Music interact by dramatizing each time the portrait of a different symphonic musical genre. Known and unknown historical information, personal stories, concealed symbolisms and patterns and the magic of the works' structure, presented in a delightful way.
Claire Huangci performs Chopin
The American pianist of Chinese origin, Claire Huangci was found at the center of international interest when awarded the 1st prize at the Zurich Geza Anda contest in 2018 - to be added to many more important awards that she started to receive when she was still a child. Since that moment, the pianist is having one of the most active and successful soloist careers of our times. For her debut in Athens, she chose to take on Chopin's Concert No. 1, a work of enormous lyricism, but also requiring pianist mastery! It's with particular emotion that the Athens State Orchestra receives for the first time the distinct Georgian lead musician, Vakhtang Kahidze, son of the late conductor Jansug Kahidze, who for several consecutive years was found at the Orchestra podium, leading it in some of its most beautiful concerts of its long story...
Christian Lindberg for the first time at the Athens State Orchestra
In 2016, the reputed British classical music radio station, CLASSIC-FM, previous voting of the public, declared the Swedish trombonist Christian Lindberg as the greatest brass player of all times! Indeed, we wouldn´t exaggerate by saying that Lindberg means for trombone the same as Paganini for violin or Lizst for piano: the absolute, incontestable "emperor" of his instrument, the man who revealed by his practice innovative possibilities of the trombone and inspired several new works to important composers of our times! His first performance with the Athens State Orchestra - especially with a concerto of his own! - is one of this year's artistic period's highlights, that you shouldn't miss!
100 years Pierre Boulez
The figure of the French composer, Pierre Boulez is emblematic to the vanguard of the 20th century: as a creator but also as a conductor he served the modern tendencies to a unique depth, with works and performances that serve as a reference for an entire era. Honouring the one- hundred year anniversary from his birth, the Athens State Orchestra presents the peak of his symphonic work, the excellent Notations, together with important symphonic works of top representatives of the Second Viennese School, Anton Berg and Anton Webern. It's with great pleasure to receive again as a soloist the internationally renowned violinist Jonian Ilias Kadesha who, taming any skill-related difficulty, always penetrates with insuperable expressiveness to the works he chooses to perform.
Beethoven - Prokofiev: From Prometheus to Romeo and Juliet
Born in Venezuela and actually residing in Berlin, Rodolfo Barráez has proven his gifted musical personality not only by winning prizes in contests in Mexico, Manchester and Hong Kong, but also by his successful permanent collaboration with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and the renowned "Simon Bolivar" orchestra of Venezuela. In his debut in Athens, he shall lead the Athens State Orchestra, promising an exciting performance of the dramatic music composed by Sergei Prokofiev for the ballet "Romeo and Juliet" The beloved pianist, Elisavet Kounalaki, the concert's soloist, performing the youthful and sparkling Beethoven's Concerto No.2, sets her long experience and fine aesthetics to the service of such a great score.
Pictures of Rome: Nino Rota and Ottorino Respighi
No objection, opera dominated within the Italian music for centuries and many (if not most) of the top opera composers of all times were Italians. However, Italian music also includes instrumental music works of exceptional beauty! If you still doubt, it's worth to discover along with the Athens State Orchestra, the Italian conductor and guest of the former, Massimo Zanetti, one of the top lead musicians of his generation at a European level; Giuseppe Martucci's (also called the Italian "Brahms") romantic music; Ottorino Respighi's seducing impressionism and the light, intensely narrative music of Nino Rota who, apart from composing film scores, he also wrote several high quality symphonic works.
200 years of Johann Strauss
Certainly, Johann Strauss (son) is one of the main responsible for the immense popularity that the waltz dance acquired in the 19th century and for this he rightfully earned the designation "king of the waltz"; yet even more impressive is the fact that his vast oeuvre remains fascinating to this day, capable of touching the heart of a wide audience around the world, always pleasant, welcomed and, of course, very harmonious with the smile of optimism for the advent of a New Year... It is with such a "smile" that the Athens State Orchestra honours the great Austrian composer and welcomes the New Year with his music, under the baton of the multi-award-winning and rising Georgian conductor, Mirian Khuhunaishvili.
200 years of Johann Strauss
Certainly, Johann Strauss (son) is one of the main responsible for the immense popularity that the waltz dance acquired in the 19th century and for this he rightfully earned the designation "king of the waltz"; yet even more impressive is the fact that his vast oeuvre remains fascinating to this day, capable of touching the heart of a wide audience around the world, always pleasant, welcomed and, of course, very harmonious with the smile of optimism for the advent of a New Year... It is with such a "smile" that the Athens State Orchestra honours the great Austrian composer and welcomes the New Year with his music, under the baton of the multi-award-winning and rising Georgian conductor, Mirian Khuhunaishvili.