Journey to the New World
With a Journey to the New World, The Athens State Orchestra returns for the third year to the Stavros Niarchos Park’s Great Lawn.
This journey takes us through the characteristic melodies of North and South America – a music tradition that remains fascinating in its diversity.
The focus is on three iconic composers of the Americas – the Argentinean tango master Astor Piazzolla and two Americans, the classical and popular music legend George Gershwin and the trailblazer Leonard Bernstein.
Sharing the stage with The Athens State Orchestra, the accordion and bandoneon virtuoso Klaudiusz Baran and his bandoneon will be the perfect guide for this journey; the orchestra will be conducted by distinguished Greek conductor Georgios Vranos.
Visitors are advised to bring insect repellent and a mat, or a blanket for sitting on the ground.
The Roads of Friendship, Ravenna
The annual musical pilgrimage, curated by Ravenna Festival since 1997, has taken the internationally acclaimed conductor Riccardo Muti and an ensemble of Italian musicians to historic cities of the past and the present, where they have performed together with local musicians. After concerts in cities as diverse as Sarajevo, Beirut, Jerusalem, Cairo and Tehran, the Roads of Friendship have chosen Athens as its next destination, a city connected to Ravenna by the Mediterranean Sea and by the common Byzantine ties.
Under Muti’s baton, Italian and Greek musicians and choristers will interpret in common Beethoven’s ever-popular Symphony No. 9.
European Music Day - 2019
For the past 37 years, European Music Day has united millions of people through thousands of events in over 700 cities. The Athens State Orchestra, for this year's celebration, chooses popular pieces of the international and Greek repertoire.
Welcoming Spring in the Acropolis Museum
The Athens State Orchestra and the Acropolis Museum welcome the most hopeful season of the year and invite you in a celebration dedicated to Spring. Some of the most notorious masterpieces of the international repertoire have been chosen by the Athes State Orchestra String Quartet Tet-Art-On for this concert, which will be held in Parthenon room, within the celebration events of the Acropolis Museum.
String quartet «Tet-Art-On»
Morfo Papadimitriou (1st violin)
Kostas Karageorgopoulos (2nd violin)
Alexandros Papanikolaou (viola)
Ivi Papathanasiou (cello)
Concert for the end of the Brass Workshops of the Athens State Orchestra
With the established, annual and festive concert, the seventh cycle of Brass Workshops of the Athens State Orchestra comes to its end.
Vladimir Fedoseyev conducts the Athens State Orchestra
For the first time in its history, the Athens State Orchestra hosts Vladimir Fedoseyev, the conductor who receives for decades the highest acknowledgment by the public and the Music Art. The programme is signed by the Russian creation, with pieces composed by Mussorgsky, Eshpai and Shostakovich, as well by the maestro himself, whose art constitute a honor for the Orchestra and for our eminent saxophonist, Theodoros Kerkezos, soloist of the alto saxophone concerto.
Symphonic Rock (2)
So how unbridgeable is that chasm separating symphonic from rock music? The success of last year's Classic Rock I concerts proved how keen audiences were to break down the barriers between musical genres, and led to this season's Classic Rock II! So on the stage of the Herodes Atticus theatre, we will once again be lending a symphonic dimension to rock music that has gone down in history, bringing together both different generations and different "tribes" of music lovers. The Athens State Orchestra joins forces with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Friedemann Riehle, who also composed and orchestrated the programme, and welcomes John Lees' Barclay James Harverst for two special evenings in the shadow of the Acropolis.
Music and songs by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Queen, U2, Europe, Alannah Myles and John Lees’ Barclay James Harvest
In collaboration with Robin4Arts
War and Peace ΙΙ
The dynamic Belgian conductor Michel Tilkin makes his Athens State Orchestra debut with Beethoven's ever-thrilling Seventh Symphony, a milestone in the symphonic repertoire. During World War One, Ravel composed his soulful "le Tombeau de Couperin" suite as a tribute to friends of his who had fallen in the war. Inhabiting an entirely different aesthetic space, Prokofiev's epic Second Piano Concerto, interpreted by Titos Gouvelis, with its gloomy timbres, dissonance and fiendish technical challenges, conjures up a 'war-like' atmosphere.
War and Peace I
Music, like every Art, has always been open to history as it unfolds, inspiring and being inspired by ideas, people and societies as they clash and come together. This is the sort of music we will be hearing in the concerts in the "War and Peace" cycle, starting with these outstanding examples of symphonic and film music conducted by the leading German maestro, and favourite of Greek audiences, Frank Strobel.