Leonidas Kavakos with the A.S.O – Offer of Music and Musical Offer - Veria

Leonidas Kavakos's appearances are a world-class artistic event. In Greece, together with the expectation, there is also the very welcome, particularly in hard times, pride. Leonidas Kavakos desire to offer a high level music in regional cities. To offer the same music. To make symphonic concerts accessible to all those who haven't an easy access to such events, to grant the less privileged but also to assist the big needs of the Athens State Orchestra, with which he is linked with an old, deep connection.
Once more, Leonidas Kavakos collaborates pro bono with the Athens State Orchestra, offering his reward to the big needs of the Orchestra, and all revenues of the concert to charity cause.

Leonidas Kavakos with the A.S.O – Offer of Music and Musical Offer - Ioannina

Leonidas Kavakos's appearances are a world-class artistic event. In Greece, together with the expectation, there is also the very welcome, particularly in hard times, pride. Leonidas Kavakos desire to offer a high level music in regional cities. To offer the same music. To make symphonic concerts accessible to all those who haven't an easy access to such events, to grant the less privileged but also to assist the big needs of the Athens State Orchestra, with which he is linked with an old, deep connection.
Once more, Leonidas Kavakos collaborates pro bono with the Athens State Orchestra, offering his reward to the big needs of the Orchestra, and all revenues of the concert to charity cause.

Meet the Orchestra! 19-04-2019

Joyful and melancholic melodies, fast and slow pace, strong and soft sounds, small and big instruments, familiar and exotic rythms, words and notes, humor but also seriousness: this is the magic formula of the creation of Benjamin Britten’s ‘The young person’s guide to the Orchestra’ and Gregory Smith’s ‘Mr. Smith’s composition’, two pieces for the initiation of children and young audience in the world of music. Between them, a journey in the mystic sounds of the Organ, but also to its interior, through a movie projection.

As guides in the immense map of the symphonic music, the members of the Athens State Orchestra under Miltos Logiadis’s baton, Artistic Director of the Megaron, and the distinguished baritone Tasis Christogiannis in the role of the narrator. Urania Gasiou, organist of the Megaron, will interpret Johann Sebastian Bach’s ‘Toccata and Fuga’, while the texts of the event are signed by Sofia Topouzi, head of Educational Programmes of the Megaron – the Athens Concert Hall.

Writing and translation of texts: Sofia Topouzi

Meet the Orchestra! 18-04-2019

Joyful and melancholic melodies, fast and slow pace, strong and soft sounds, small and big instruments, familiar and exotic rythms, words and notes, humor but also seriousness: this is the magic formula of the creation of Benjamin Britten’s ‘The young person’s guide to the Orchestra’ and Gregory Smith’s ‘Mr. Smith’s composition’, two pieces for the initiation of children and young audience in the world of music. Between them, a journey in the mystic sounds of the Organ, but also to its interior, through a movie projection.

As guides in the immense map of the symphonic music, the members of the Athens State Orchestra under Miltos Logiadis’s baton, Artistic Director of the Megaron, and the distinguished baritone Tasis Christogiannis in the role of the narrator. Urania Gasiou, organist of the Megaron, will interpret Johann Sebastian Bach’s ‘Toccata and Fuga’, while the texts of the event are signed by Sofia Topouzi, head of Educational Programmes of the Megaron – the Athens Concert Hall.

Writing and translation of texts: Sofia Topouzi

Meet the Orchestra! 17-04-2019

Joyful and melancholic melodies, fast and slow pace, strong and soft sounds, small and big instruments, familiar and exotic rythms, words and notes, humor but also seriousness: this is the magic formula of the creation of Benjamin Britten’s ‘The young person’s guide to the Orchestra’ and Gregory Smith’s ‘Mr. Smith’s composition’, two pieces for the initiation of children and young audience in the world of music. Between them, a journey in the mystic sounds of the Organ, but also to its interior, through a movie projection.

As guides in the immense map of the symphonic music, the members of the Athens State Orchestra under Miltos Logiadis’s baton, Artistic Director of the Megaron, and the distinguished baritone Tasis Christogiannis in the role of the narrator. Urania Gasiou, organist of the Megaron, will interpret Johann Sebastian Bach’s ‘Toccata and Fuga’, while the texts of the event are signed by Sofia Topouzi, head of Educational Programmes of the Megaron – the Athens Concert Hall.

Writing and translation of texts: Sofia Topouzi

Meet the Orchestra! 16-04-2019

Joyful and melancholic melodies, fast and slow pace, strong and soft sounds, small and big instruments, familiar and exotic rythms, words and notes, humor but also seriousness: this is the magic formula of the creation of Benjamin Britten’s ‘The young person’s guide to the Orchestra’ and Gregory Smith’s ‘Mr. Smith’s composition’, two pieces for the initiation of children and young audience in the world of music. Between them, a journey in the mystic sounds of the Organ, but also to its interior, through a movie projection.

As guides in the immense map of the symphonic music, the members of the Athens State Orchestra under Miltos Logiadis’s baton, Artistic Director of the Megaron, and the distinguished baritone Tasis Christogiannis in the role of the narrator. Urania Gasiou, organist of the Megaron, will interpret Johann Sebastian Bach’s ‘Toccata and Fuga’, while the texts of the event are signed by Sofia Topouzi, head of Educational Programmes of the Megaron – the Athens Concert Hall.

Writing and translation of texts: Sofia Topouzi

Meet the Orchestra! 15-04-2019

Joyful and melancholic melodies, fast and slow pace, strong and soft sounds, small and big instruments, familiar and exotic rythms, words and notes, humor but also seriousness: this is the magic formula of the creation of Benjamin Britten’s ‘The young person’s guide to the Orchestra’ and Gregory Smith’s ‘Mr. Smith’s composition’, two pieces for the initiation of children and young audience in the world of music. Between them, a journey in the mystic sounds of the Organ, but also to its interior, through a movie projection.

As guides in the immense map of the symphonic music, the members of the Athens State Orchestra under Miltos Logiadis’s baton, Artistic Director of the Megaron, and the distinguished baritone Tasis Christogiannis in the role of the narrator. Urania Gasiou, organist of the Megaron, will interpret Johann Sebastian Bach’s ‘Toccata and Fuga’, while the texts of the event are signed by Sofia Topouzi, head of Educational Programmes of the Megaron – the Athens Concert Hall.

Writing and translation of texts: Sofia Topouzi

Concert for the inauguration of Kalamata Dance Megaron

The Athens State Orchestra is participating in the events of the inauguration of the Kalamata Dance Megaron, interpreting popular pieces of the repertoire that accompany the Art of Dance, but also two pieces of a festive character, directly linked to the sense of inauguration. The first of them is the ‘Overture to The Consecration of the House’, written for the inauguration of the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna (October 1822). The second, ‘Celebration I’ was especially created by the distinguished composer and pianist Stathis Giftakis in November 2018 for the premiere of the Kalamata Symphonic Orchestra.


CLASSICS 4 ALL

Classics are beautiful in a way that transcends time and place. And classical music is powerful in a way that opens doors into the hearts of a mass audience, that influences other kinds of art and, on occasions, has even allowed it to be assimilated into popular culture. The Stavros Niarchos Park will flood with classic melodies as extracts from the musical West Side Story, pieces everyone knows from the opera Carmen, and Ravel's Bolero remind us all how integral classical music is to our everyday lives!