2024 03 19 Janoska style goes symphonic
Since the release on Deutsche Grammophon of the Janoska Ensemble’s debut album “Janoska Style”, that same Janoska Style has evolved into a brand and a guarantee of quality.
The success of the ensemble is the proof. Since their first Album presentation in 2016, these creative musicians have won the hearts of thousands of enthusiastic fans on four continents with their unique talent for combining different musical genres.
2023 12 21 The Athens State Orchestra in motion Ι – Mozart the Magic Flute
The timeless appeal of Mozart's Magic Flute has a lot to do, of course, with the universally acknowledged perfection and expressiveness of his music, but it's also because Emanuel Schikaneder's libretto expresses the ever-topical humanist ideals of the European Enlightenment and of Freemasonry in an elegant and vividly symbolic way. Under the baton of the dynamic Katia Molfesi, a cast of fine Greek lyric actors recreate Mozart's operatic swansong in a semi-staged version, adding a beautifully spiritual, fairy tale tone to this year's Christmas celebrations.
2024 05 31 An East - West Wind 65 years of diplomatic relations between Greece and Thailand
Athenian audiences know the Belgian conductor Michel Tilkin and his work very well, thanks to his highly successful collaborations with the Athens State Orchestra in recent years. As a distinguished interpreter of the Greek repertoire, he will leading a performance of Georgios Lambelet's celebrated Feast and a recent work by Lefteris Veniadis. Theodore Kerkezos and Theodosia Ntokou, both soloists who have achieved considerable international acclaim, will bring this season to a spectacular close with performances of two outstanding concerti, for saxophone and piano respectively.
2024 04 30 Johann Sebastian Bach, St Matthew's Passion - in motion ΙI
For every lover of Johann Sebastian Bach's music and of music in general, St Matthew's Passion is "sacred", a supreme expression of Man's progress towards the divine and as a de profundis testament to the soul and spirit at their purest and most sincere. On this occasion, the Passion will acquire an additional dimension: movement, with dance that seeks to embody its sublime musical meanings and render them more tangible, dramatic and - why not?- topical.
2024 04 11 Christoph Eschenbach conducts the Athens State Orchestra
Mahler's magnificent Second Symphony fully justifies the dictum that the Austrian composer's symphonies are "operas without words". Its five movements constitute a multifaceted musical meditation on life and death, the essence and the tragedy of human existence, but also assert faith in God's infinite mercy. The great and highly experienced conductor Christoph Eschenbach brings out all the heart-breaking and febrile thoughts, recreating one of the greatest symphonic edifices of all time with his baton.
2024 04 06 Journey to the centre of Music - Ballet music
A series of interactive concerts which seeks to shed light on everything that connects contemporary audiences with symphonic music, making its timeless repertoire more approachable to everyone, whether they are newcomers to the form or music lovers who are already fans. Video, Talks and Music are combined to provide a dramatized portrait of a different symphonic genre each time. Historical facts both well-known and unfamiliar, personal stories, hidden symbolisms and motifs, and the structural magic of the works are presented in an entertaining way.
2024 04 05 Journey to the centre of Music - Ballet music
A series of interactive concerts which seeks to shed light on everything that connects contemporary audiences with symphonic music, making its timeless repertoire more approachable to everyone, whether they are newcomers to the form or music lovers who are already fans. Video, Talks and Music are combined to provide a dramatized portrait of a different symphonic genre each time. Historical facts both well-known and unfamiliar, personal stories, hidden symbolisms and motifs, and the structural magic of the works are presented in an entertaining way.
2024 03 29 Music – Poetry II
The relationship between poetry and music has always been a close one, and vital for both art forms. Music's limitless emotional depth gives poetry a goal to aim for, while poetry's clarity of meaning is something music has always sought to emulate. Great poems make great music, and the concert to be conducted by the multifaceted Levi Hammer brings together two works born of such fortunate comings-together. The programme also includes the Concerto for two pianos by the Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů, a work as little known as it is scintillating, performed by the distinguished soloists Panagiotis Trochopoulos and Apostolos Palios.
2024 03 08 Fairy tale movements
German musical Romanticism often drew on the realm of myth for its themes, imbuing Apollonian narratives and images with a Dionysian dimension through its highly emotive music. We will be enjoying three milestones in the history of music and the Romantic movement. Under the baton of the Athens State Orchestra's artistic director, Lukas Karytinos, the leading baritone Dimitris Tiliakos and two fine members of our Orchestra will sing the two main roles from Cervantes' masterpiece: the visionary Don Quixote and his faithful servant, Sancho Panza.
2024 03 01 Some prefer it blue - 200 years since the birth of Édouard Lalo
Two seminal works of American serious music: the mysterious Unanswered Question by the pioneering Charles Ives and George Gershwin's jazz-inspired Rhapsody in Blue, are juxtaposed against two European masterpieces: Arnold Schoenberg’s expressionistically passionate Transfigured Night and French Romantic composer Édouard Lalo's virtuosic Spanish Symphony for violin and orchestra. The performances will be led by maestro Kornilios Michailidis, a conductor known for interpretations that reach deep, while the Athens State Orchestra will also be joined by two equally distinguished Greek soloists.