2024 09 28 Classic Rock 8
The 8th Classic Rock will present a crossover project at the Herodeion where the rock and metal sounds of Septicflesh meet the symphonic sound of the Athens State Orchestra, for the first time in Greece. The Piraeus Vocal Ensemble LIBRO CORO will complement the unique spectacle. This project has already been presented in Mexico in 2019 at the "Metropolitan Theater of Mexico City" with the Mexico Symphony Orchestra, featuring 140 musicians and a 40-member choir. It was a top-tier sold-out concert attended by more than 3500 spectators. The international career of SEPTICFLESH and the prestige of the Athens State Orchestra, combined with the unique location of the Herodeion, will certainly attract fans from other countries who will enjoy the unique spectacle. The execution and production organization of Classic Rock 8 will be undertaken, as every year, by the renowned company Robin 4 Arts.
Concert in Achaia Clauss Winery, Patras
The Athens State Orchestra presents Manuel Ponce's Concerto del Sur and George Gershwin's Concerto for piano and orchestra in premiere in Greece at the Achaia Clauss Winery, Patras.
2024 07 06 Concert in Akrocorinthos
The Athens State Orchestra presents Manuel Ponce's Concerto del Sur and George Gershwin's Concerto for piano and orchestra in premiere in Greece.
2024 10 25 The greatest classical era composers in northern Greece, concert in Veria
The Athens State Orchestra, always keen on its will and effort to stand by the public of all Greece’s regions, is holding a concert in Veria, presenting works by the three greatest composers of classicism, Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig Van Beethoven. Under the precise and pertinent direction of Maestro Vladimiros Symeonidis, a dynamic interpretation of Beethoven’s olympic Seventh Symphony, four brilliant and promoted Musicians of the Orchestra join their forces as soloists, bringing their own inspired talent at the service of Haydn’s delicate music.
2024 12 14 The Christmas Nutcracker
On the eve of the Christmas holidays, the music from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite is so closely linked in our minds to the great feast of Christianity, it could hardly be absent from our concerts. The evergreen melodiousness and delicacy of the work is highlighted by the energetic German maestro Cornelia von Kerssenbrock, who regularly appears on the podiums of major orchestras and opera houses in Europe, Asia and America. Performing alongside her, the Greek-Japanese violinist Noé Inui, an inspired and internationally celebrated poet of the violin, takes on the "Parthenon" of the violin repertoire: Beethoven's unique Violin Concerto —which, apart from being the only work of this type the composer wrote, is also of singular value.
2025 05 30 Tchaikovsky's fifth symphony with Dionysis Grammenos
Dionysis Grammenos, the artistic director of the Greek Youth Symphony Orchestra and a maestro often invited to conduct prominent symphonic ensembles around the world, internationally acknowledged trombonist Achilles Liarmakopoulos and Alexandros Livitsanos, who is at the height of his powers as a composer and imaginative arranger, are all Greek artists who have carved brilliant careers out for themselves in Greece and beyond. All three are richly deserving of the recognition and appreciation they have earned for their valuable contributions to the music scene. Their playing together in the same concert is an ironclad guarantee that audiences can look forward to a flawlessly fascinating and charming musical performance we all deserve to enjoy!
2025 05 16 Vasilis Christopoulos in "Pictures at an exhibition"
The Athens State Orchestra welcomes the exceptionally talented Pavel Kolesnikov, the Russian pianist, whose triumphant performances in the world's greatest halls and recordings have earned him accolades from critics and the adoration of audiences, as well as keeping him at the very apex of the serious music scene for over a decade. Intensely expressive and graced with supreme virtuosity and a profound vision for every work he chooses to perform, his interpretations of Shostakovitch's two piano concertos are sure to be nothing short of scintillating. The interpretations of the acclaimed maestro Vassilis Christopoulos are equally fascinating, informed as they are by his ability to see to the very heart of the music and bring to life the smallest details of a score —even in a work of the Russian Romantic school as monumental as Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition", as re-envisioned by Maurice Ravel in his version for orchestra.
The Polar Express in Concert
Get up, get on, and get ready for the ride of your life! It’s Christmas Eve, and you’re about to roller-coaster up and down mountains, slip-slide over ice fields, teeter across mile-high bridges, and be served hot chocolate by singing waiters more astonishing than any you can imagine. You’re on The Polar Express!
Tom Hanks stars in and Robert Zemeckis directs this instant holiday classic filmed in dazzling performance-capture animation that makes every moment magical. “Seeing is believing,” says a mysterious hobo who rides the rails with you. You’ll see wonders. And you’ll believe. All aboooooard!
THE POLAR EXPRESS and all related characters and elements © & ™ Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (s24)
Alan Silvestri (b. 1950)
The Polar Express in Concert
audio in English
subtitled in Greek
2025 04 25 Edgar Moreau & Mihkel Kütson
The internationally acknowledged Maestro Mihkel Kütson returns to the podium conducting the Athens State Orchestra in two enormously affecting works by the great Finnish composer, Jean Sibelius —in particular, his Seventh Symphony which, though not heard anything like as frequently as it deserves, is undoubtedly one of the most spiritual and simultaneously brilliant symphonies of the 20th century; a true hidden treasure of the symphonic repertoire! Together with Edgar Moreau, the French cellist who, through still very young, already has several major international competitions under his belt, they commemorate the anniversary of Shostakovitch's death with a performance of the composer's devastatingly virtuoso and eloquent first cello concerto.