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Orgiastic Compression by Piandaemonium at Thessaloniki Concert Hall | Greece

Orgiastic Compression, for 12 (or more) pianists will be presented, for a second time, at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall. The concert will take place on 27th & 28th of April 2023. It will be performed by the Greek Pandemonium as a part of the Thessaloniki Piano Festival 2023. The piece is programmed to be the last piece of the first part of the concert and -as it is asked in the score- it will take the form of a happening, covering all the break and extending till the beginning to the second half of the concert. An extensive set of sound-generating objects (vibrators, electric toothbrushes, etc) will be utilized to create a unique and autonomous soundscape.

Friday 28 & Saturday 29 – Public Performances | 18:00 & 20:30
Thursday 27 & Friday 28 – School Performances | 9.30 & 11.00
Concert Duration 60′ Concert Info: Anastasia Ioannou, tel.6981055760 & info@tpf.gr
More info here

Piandaemonium consists of Charalampos Aggelopoulos, Eftyhia Veniota, Evi Giamopoulou, Nikos Zafranas, Stephanos Thomopoulos, Nikos Kyriosoglou, Christos Lenoutsos, Nefeli Mousoura, Maria Mylaraki, Stephanos Nasos, Dionysis Pantis, Antonis Selemidis, Melina Tsinavou & Kostas Chardas

Contemporary Greek Music CD presentation | Thessaloniki

On April 6th, Fani Karagianni is presenting a new CD release with Contemporary Greek works for solo piano. The album includes 18 works for solo piano by 13 Greek composers of the 20th and 21st century: Nikos Skalkotas, Giannis A. Papaioannou, Argyris Kounadis, Costas Nikitas, Christos Samaras, Costas Tsougras, Maronidis, Dimitris Oikonomou, Stella Dalampira, Glykeria Koutoula, Orestis Papaioannou. The 4th etude from 4 (Hommage) Etudes is included in the CD.

There will be a round-table discussion with Costas Tsougras, Fani Karagianni, Georgios-Ioulios Papadopoulos, George Sakallieros, Petros Vouvaris. The presentation/concert will take place at the concert hall “Melina Mercouri” of the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki (15 Frangon, Thessaloniki) on Wednesday, April 6, 2022, at 20:00.

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4 (hommage) études performed by Tobias Weiß | Vienna

Please watch a new video of Tobias Weiß performing 4 (hommage) études. The concert took place at Fanny Hensel-Saal in Vienna on the 6th of February 2019. The piece is an hommage to the following composers I. Hommage à Helmut Lachenmann, II. Hommage à Gyorgy Ligeti, III. Hommage à Steve Reich and IV. Hommage à Gundega Šmite. Various aspects of the piano playing techniques are highlighted in each of these miniature etudes whilst the fundamental aim of the piece is to help the younger students to open up their minds into a poly-stylistic acoustic environment of negative pedaling, minimalism, patterns, clusters, and isorhythmic structures; in an emotional trip that spans from icy austerity to a warm contemplative nirvana! Enjoy!

Live recording of Fantasia & Toccata | Latvia

Please listen to a live recording of my most recent piece performed in Riga by LNSO Double Bass Orchestra conducted by Jānis Stafeckis. Fantasia & Toccata was composed in 2020 amidst the worldwide Covid19 pandemic and under tremendously stressful conditions in my personal life. It has been a piece of luck that in that particular circumstance such an extraordinary and weird formation of an ensemble was given in my hands. No other medium could express better the turmoil I was going through the months this piece was composed. 

Please mind using a pair of speakers or headphones to listen to this music due to its low-frequency content.

Live recording (Radio 3) of the premiere at Great Guild Hall, Riga 08.10.2020
Performers: LNSO double bass orchestra (Oskars Bokanovs, Toms Timofejevs, Andris Veinbergs, Dāvis Vilks, Alise Broka, Kristaps Pētersons, Jurģis Klotiņš, Gustavs Vilsons, Viktors Stankēvičs, Raivo Ozols, Viktors Veļičko, Haralds Arnis, Undīne Berga, Mārcis Lipskis, Dzintars Sabļins, Raivis Misjuns)

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Live Recording of Clarinet Concerto | Latvia

Please find on youTube a live recording of my new Concerto for Clarinet, String Orchestra, and Electronics, conducted and performed by Guntis Kozma and Sinfonia Concertante at Riga, Latvia on 12th of March 2020.

The piece was commissioned by Mūzikas Festivāls deciBels at Riga, Latvia, and was composed in January of 2020. Please use a pair of headphones, or loudspeakers to listen to this music.

Clarinet Concerto premiere in Rīga by Guntis Kuzma | Latvia

Concerto for Clarinet, String Orchestra and Electronics is getting its premiere at Latvia on the 12th of March by Sinfonia Concertante and Guntis Kuzma who is going to be both the soloist and conductor! The piece was commissioned by JVLMA Mūsdienu Mūzikas Festivāls deciBels, a festival on Contemporary Music in Latvia.

Prob_My Berio for solo Flute premiere in Thessaloniki

Prob_My Berio Chain for solo flute is getting its premiere on 24th of February 2020 at Vafopouleio Cultural Center at 20:30 by Andreas Smyris. The piece was composed 17 years ago, while I was still a student at the Music Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. It was part of an assignment in the Computational Models Course which was taught by Emilios Cambouropoulos at that time. In this piece, I implement first order Markov Chains to analyze and then re-compose the Sequenza for solo flute by Luciano Berio. The piece is a tribute to this great Italian Composer.

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Muted Blast (.2) Concert of meta.ξ | New York

Transient Beauty for tape and Orbits for piano and tape are going to be performed at New York on 15th of November 2019 by the Canadian pianist Jana Luksts!

-meta.ξ, a collective of Greek composer/artist/design-curators, is presenting a concert of cutting-edge works featuring piano, electronics, double bass, interspersed with electro-acousmatic music. meta.ξ is bi-laterally based between the United States and Greece, with members living and working everywhere in between. The collective aims to strengthen the voice of the post-crisis generation of Greek composers, while embracing subversive and under-represented artists internationally.

With performances in prestigious venues across the globe, this is the first time meta.ξ will bring a concert to New York City. Jana Luksts (piano) and Evan Runyon (double bass), will navigate and experiment with scores involving electronics, robotics, and light design.

Programm, Muted Blast 2, metaξ (meta-ksi.com)
Benzaquen Hall, Dimenna Center for Classical Music
Jana Luksts, piano (www.janaluksts.com)
Evan Runyon, bass (http://evanruyon.com)
November 15, 2019 at 8PM

Pierrot Lunaire by Arnold Schönberg | Athens

Arnold Schoenberg’s most famous work and a touchstone of musical modernism, “Pierrot Lunaire” has been turned into a music theatre production by the combined forces of the dissonArt ensemble, composer Dimitris Maronidis (electronics), and director Alexandros Efklidis.

“Pierrot Lunaire” (1912), the first atonal masterpiece from the father of the twelve-tone technique, Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), is transformed here into a piece of music theatre. The vocally demanding role of Pierrot is performed by Frauke Aulbert, a singer the international Press has dubbed the “Queen of avant-garde”.

On a set inspired by Man’s efforts to commune with the universe, musicians and stage performers execute minor rituals that they hope will bring them closer to the unknown to which they aspire. Making use of the innate theatricality of the 21 poems by Albert Giraud which Schoenberg set to music, the production brings together Schoenberg’s historic avant-garde, contemporary psychoacoustics, the moon-dreams of the post-Romantic Pierrot, and the bleakness of the world after the conquest of the Moon.

Athens | Stegi | 2&3 April 2016

https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/pierrot-lunaire-by-arnold-sch%C3%B6nberg

Fragmented Contours premiere by Diotima String Quartet | Thessaloniki

Fragmented Contours got its premiere by the French string quartet “Diotima” on 29th of April 2009 at the State Conservatoire of Thessaloniki along with pieces by T. Zlikas, K. Siembis and T. Simaku. The piece was composed furiously back in the Autumn of 2016 at York and it deals with the application of aliasing effect on melodic contours.