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A co-production of the Department of Music Science & Art (UoM) and olipoli

For the third consecutive year, the historic venue of Agios Nikolaos Orfanos in Thessaloniki’s Upper Town will host the creative encounters of students from the Greek Traditional Music Department of the Department of Music Science & Art (University of Macedonia).

This year, for the first time, the event is organized as a collaboration between the university music community of the Department and the Anopolis World Music Festival, creating opportunities for emerging and promising musicians and artists studying traditional instruments in our city to present their work alongside professional musicians and cultural organizers.

The two-day programme consists of a sequence of performances in which one ensemble follows another, presenting diverse artistic approaches to both contemporary and historical musical traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean and Greece, as well as fresh interpretations of this repertoire in dialogue with the musical currents of our time.

Artistic Coordination

Thymios Atzakas
Manos Achalinotopoulos
Sakis Laios
Stamatis Pasopoulos
Natasa Tsakiridou
Giannis Tsanasidis

  

ΠΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑ ΔΙΗΜΕΡΟΥ

Anopolis World Music Festival

THURSDAY, 6 JUNE

“The Flowers of Solon etc.”

Original art-music compositions emerging from the folk environment of Poetics.

  • Armenaki • Dimitris Sintos
    (based on an adaptation of the lyrics of the Aegean folk song of the same name)

    Panormitis Boumpas: voice
    Makis Baklatzis: violin
    Akis Papaemmanouil: violin
    Iakovos Moysiadis: lute
    Dimitris Sintos: lute

  • Бели раце (Beli Ratse) • Vasilis Nenes
    ("White Hands" in Macedonian)

    Vasilis Nenes: oud
    Neilos Karagiannis: piano
    Kostis Paliogiannis: electric bass
    Olga Alexiou: percussion

  • Syrtos • Vasilis Mavromoustakidis

    Vasilis Mavromoustakidis: Pontic lyra
    Giannis Papachatzakis: mainland Greek lute

  • How Long Does It Take for a Flower to Bloom? • Spyros Tzitzis

    Konstantina Samara: voice, violin
    Lydia Roumelioti: qanun
    Stelios Pantechis: oud
    Spyros Tzitzis: percussion

  • Solon • Dimitris Sintos

    Pantelis Agkistriotis: Politiki lyra
    Iakovos Moysiadis: lavta
    Melina Bitzidou: santur
    Dimitris Sintos: percussion

The works Armenaki and Solon are dedicated to Solon Lekkas, the beloved traditional singer from Lesvos.
— Dimitris Sintos

 

“Sevda: Lavta Duet”

Contemporary instrumental compositions and traditional musical pieces from the Eastern Mediterranean, framed by the distinctive timbre of the lavta (Politiki lute).

  • Vasiliki Danitsa: lavta
  • Sevastiana Vletsi: lavta

 

“A Musical Journey with Rum Composers”

  • Evina Koutsokosta: qanun
  • Elena Katsiagianni: percussion
  • Panagiotis Plioukas: oud

 

“Project Nomadia”

  • Argyris Karagkounis: trumpet, violin
  • Akis Papaemmanouil: violin
  • Panagiotis Aivazidis: qanun
  • Manolis Archontoulis: guitar, bass
  • Giorgos Pantas: percussion

 

FRIDAY, 7 JUNE

“Arnachcheman”

Arnachcheman or archineman (Pontic dialect): the beginning of a process.

Settings of Pontic folk songs composed within the framework of the doctoral research of Ioannis Tsanasidis.

  • Natasa Tsakiridou: vocals
  • Ioannis Tsanasidis: Pontic lyra, composition
  • Iakovos Moysiadis: lavta
  • James Wylie: Iranian kamancheh

 

“Voices and Lyras of Drama”

Songs from native and refugee villages of the Drama region.

Traditional Music Vocal Ensembles – Department of Music Science & Art

Voices:

  • Stavrenia Zeibeki
  • Eleni Simikoglou
  • Giorgos Siomos
  • Georgia Tsianta
  • Katerina Arabatzi
  • Despoina Arkou
  • Maritzina Antonatou
  • Nasia Vlachou
  • Sofia Giouldouri
  • Ira Drogoula
  • Efi Markou
  • Despoina Michoudi
  • Christiana Samara
  • Katerina Stampolaki
  • Christos Gkinis
  • Andreas Markakis
  • Eleftheria Ntani
  • Sofia Panagiotidou
  • Katerina Siozou
  • Akylina Syrpa
  • Christodoulos Markopoulos: Drama and Thrace lyra
  • Giannis Tsanasidis: Pontic lyra

 

“Scents of Pontus”

A fresh perspective on the music of Pontus.

  • Vasilis Mavromoustakidis: Pontic lyra
  • Evina Koutsokosta: qanun
  • Giannis Papachatzakis: lute
  • Elli Syrouchidou: percussion
  • Anna-Maria Sinopidou: kaval

 

“Muhabetia”

A programme inspired by the musical traditions of each performer’s place of origin, approached through a creative contemporary lens.

  • Giorgos Markopoulos: clarinet
  • Nikolas Delivasilis: violin
  • Christos Gkinis: lute, voice
  • Panagiotis Plioukas: oud
  • Giorgos Delivasilis: percussion
     

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