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.
Opening concert – Skalkottas and his contemporaries I
Taking Skalkottas' apprenticeship under Schoenberg as its starting point, this year's thematic cycle "Skalkottas and his contemporaries" sheds light on the Greek composer's invaluable oeuvre in tandem with compositions by his contemporaries. In this spirit, our Orchestra's Artistic Director, Stefanos Tsialis, has coupled Skalkottas' Classical Symphony with Webern's expressionistically dramatic Passacaglia for this first outing of the series. This season's opening concert is rendered more glorious still by the participation of the legendary David Geringas in a performance of the quintessential Romantic cello concerto.
Symphonic Rock
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
A Tribute to Steven Spielberg - Greek Festival 2019
Steven Spielberg’s name has been linked to some of our most enjoyable experiences in a movie theatre: who hasn’t had goosebumps while watching Jaws or Schindler’s List? Who hasn’t experienced an adrenaline rush while watching the Indiana Jones movies, Jurassic Park, Gremlins or, more recently, First Man? His movies either as director or producer have also been noted for their memorable movie scores, composed by some of the world’s greatest film composers, including Jerry Goldsmith, Alan Silvestri and above all the great John Williams. The Athens State Orchestra, conducted by the dynamic Indonesian maestro Adrian Prabava, will guide us through the magical world of Spielberg’s films -both his own films and his reminding us some of the most beloved film scores of all time.
Maxim Vengerov with the Athens State Orchestra
Maxim Vengerov is one of the greatest violinists of the last few decades and a highly cultured and sensitive artist, whose every performance is a must-see event. In this, his first collaboration with the Athens State Orchestra, Vengerov will perform one of the greatest and most demanding concertos for violin ever, Concerto for violin and orchestra in D major, op. 77 by the great German Romantic composer Johannes Brahms. The distinguished soloist has already left his mark on this concerto, highlighting this majestic piece in various performances across the globe. The performance will also include the famous Symphony “From the New World” by the major Czech composer Antonín Dvořák, conceived during his stay in New York City (1892-93). The Symphony has become one of the most popular compositions of all time, with its masterful structure, its fully realized orchestration and its diverse musical influences encompassing Native American music and the Spiritual music of the African Americans. The Orchestra will be conducted by its Artistic Director, Stefanos Tsialis.