2024 10 21 Musical Promenades: The war of ways
A musical fairy tale with music and an original text by Nefeli Liouta, the "War of Ways" attempts to familiarize young and old listeners with the core terms and atmospheres of Music, while simultaneously stressing the importance of cooperation, balance and respect for identity and diversity.
2024 10 07 Musical promenades: Musical Smyrna: a musical journey into time
Smyrna had always a wide and long-lasting musical tradition, adopting richness from many sources, so many as were the communities of this city: Turks, Greeks, Armenians, Arabs, Jewish but also Europeans, they all were exchanging cultural and musical “expretise” through their day-to-day interaction. This is why music in Smyrna had always been a blend of many different genres. Musicians who ever visited Smyrna, those who were living there, those who were born and achieved great things with Smyrna’s memory, will be the phares showing us the way to this unique musical journey. Works by Edward Elgar, Giannis Konstantinidis (Kostas Giannidis) and Manolis Kalomoiris from Smyrna’s erudite music, will stand side by side with traditional and popular music of the City, whether known or unknown to the audience, as well as with new compositions by Dimitris Gouzios and Alekos Vretos, in an eyeful towards future, and with a new composition written for the Quintet with Smyrna’s traditional instrument, oud.
Dodecanese suite (1948)
Edward Elgar
In Smyrna (1905) - transcription for string quintet by Alekos Vretos, 2022
Alekos Vretos
Smyrna Icons for string quintet and oud (2020)
Dimitris Gouzios
Smyrna swaying (2022)
Cinuçen Tanrıkorur
Nihavend Saz Semaisi (Mehtapta Yakamozlar) (1986)
Resat Aysu
Nihavend Saz Semasi (1953) - transcription for string quintet by Alekos Vretos, 2022
Simon Shaheen: Fantasia on oud and string quintet (1990)
2024 09 22 Chinese Lunar
Leading artists from China and Greece will combine their talents to perform works by celebrated composers. The Greek pianist Philippos Tsalahouris, under the baton of the Chinese maestro Qian Junping and accompanied by the members of the Athens State Orchestra joined by guest artists including the violinist Weng Qingzhu, the pianist Yu Hanwen, the flutist Stratos Pogosyan, the pianist Petros Chochlakakis, the synthesist Jiao Jie, Sofia Delli and the pianist Andreas Tsouvalas, will perform works by Mozart, Beethoven, Wieniawski, Hadjidakis and other composers.
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.