Play it Presto, Maestro! - Festival at the Sea
The entire history of the symphony orchestra in just one hour! An on-the-fly refresher course in how the largest and most magnificent musical schema the world has ever seen emerged and developed, both numerically and sonically. Texts and slides cover some 400 years of musical creativity, while extracts from representative works illustrate how the symphonic repertoire shaped the development and composition of the orchestra.
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Antonio Vivaldi
Johann Sebastian Bach
Josef Haydn
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ludwig van Beethoven
Franz Schubert
Johannes Brahms
Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky
Gustav Mahler
Richard Strauss
Dmitri Shostakovich
Production and texts:
Iris Louka
Narrators:
Orestis Tziovas
Tasos Dimitropoulos
Musical promenades in museums, concert of Metallon quintet and Ines Zikou
For the International Archives day, celebrated in June 9th, the Historical Archives of the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation have seized the chance to organize, together with the Athens State Orchestra, a festive concert of the Brass Instrument and drums Quintet of A.S.O. “Metallon”, with the participation of the eminent mezzo soprano Ines Zikou. The program of the concert, very “relevant” to the spirit of the day, includes mostly pieces of great Greek musical archives.
Spyros Samaras, music for piano and songs - Hellenic Music Festivities
Within the program of the Hellenic Music Festivities of 2017, the distinguished musicians Maira Milolidaki and Titos Gouvelis will perform a program of pieces for piano and songs by Spyros Samaras, very characteristic for the art of the great composer from Corfu. It is worth mentioning that piano pieces of Samaras are “diamonds” of the Greek piano repertoire and are presented very rarely. Among them, there will be performed two works that were considered until very lately lost.
Clarinet Quintet - Hellenic Music Festivities 2017
Within the program of the Hellenic Music Festivities of 2017, the Athens String Quartet, one of the most dynamic Greek chamber music ensembles, join the distinguished clarinetist of the Athens State Orchestra, Spyros Mourikis, and perform a program of pieces for Quintet with clarinet created by eminent composers: Thodoros Antoniou, Philippos Tsalahouris (world premiere) and Boris Papandopulo (Greek premiere).
Martha Argerich - Theodosia Ntokou
Conducted by Stefanos Tsialis, the Athens State Orchestra will accompany Martha Argerich, a living legend of the piano and one of the leading music artists of the 20th and 21st century, in a magical evening at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus. The celebrated pianist will be joined by her beloved student and rising star Theodosia Ntokou. French actress and Argerich’s daughter, Annie Dutoit, will act out the narrative interludes (with Greek subtitles). Dora Bakopoulou, a personal friend of Martha Argerich, will perform as special guest of the concert.
Dora Bakopoulou
Music Day 2017
On the occasion of the Music Day, which is established on the 21st of June, but also respecting the Athens State Orchestra's meeting with its audience in the Megaron Concert Hall Gardens, Members of the Young Musician's Academy of the Athens State Orchestra 2017 present the famous Serenade for Strings of Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Tectonics Festival - Athens 2017
How can an orchestra, the 19th-century beast, be more radical and experimental?” Taking this question as its starting point, Tectonics Festival has traveled to Glasgow, New York, Oslo, Reykjavik, Adelaide and Tel Aviv, breaking down sound barriers along the way and bringing together seemingly incompatible musical practices. In its Athenian version, the Athens State Orchestra plays under the baguette of the curator of the festival and celebrated conductor, Ilan Volkov and with Fred Frith, the distinguished guitarist.
Water Music - Music for the Royal Fireworks
The Athens State Orchestra presents two pieces of George Frideric Handel which bring us mentally to London:
"Water Music" to the River Thames in early 18th century, where it premiered in response to King George I's request for a concert, and "Music for the Royal Fireworks", premiered in London's Green Park, under contract of George II.
Battleship Potemkin
A landmark masterpiece in the history of cinema and arguably the greatest silent film ever made, Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin will be shown at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus. The Athens State Orchestra, under the baton of distinguished conductor Jens Troester, will perform live Shostakovich’s music, accompanying Eisenstein’s 65 minutes of breathtaking cinematic narration.
Symphony from the Third World
Maestro Joaquín Orellana, one of Latin America’s foremost composers, interprets the recent history and soundscape of Guatemala within a larger imagination, influenced by colonialism, civil war, economic deprivation, as well as cultural exchange and innovation, all expressed by the notion of the Third World. The performance is the world premiere of the symphony.
Director of “Little Musicians” Choir of Athens Conservatoire: Christina Michalaki, under the artistic direction of Kalliope Germanou