Now in its 17th year, the International PelionFestival will include courses in Zagora, as well as concerts around Εast Pelion, in Tsagarada and Kissos, that will be taking place from the 23th until the 31st of July 2016. The Festival is organised by “Polyrrhythmia civil non profit company” under the artistic direction of Zoe Samsarelou, pianist and Dimitris Karagiannakidis, cellist.
As it happens for the third consecutive year, as a part of the I.P.F. the 3rd Violoncello Festival is organised, which comprises courses, concerts and workshops that promote the collaboration and the exchange of ideas between professors and students. Additionally, all cellists will work together every day, as members of the PelionFestival Violoncello Ensemble, which has been formed since 2012, under the artistic direction of Prof. Ulrich Voss.
Prof. Ulrich Voss, a distinguished music teacher from Germany, will attend the festival for the 6th year running. The group of the violoncello tutors will also be complemented by Vasilis Saïtis from Thessaloniki, Angelos Liakakis from Athens, who will teach baroque violoncello as well, and Themistocles Vagenas from Volos, all of whom have been taking part and collaborating in the PelionFestival since 2014.
Apollon Grammaticopoulos from Athens will conduct courses on the violin, soprano Sophia Kyanidou from Vienna in voice and opera performance and the flutist Prof. Ana Domančić Krstulović from Split-Croatia in flute. Finally, Zoe Samsarelou, artistic co-director of the festival, will be offering piano courses.
A special participation in this year’s programme are the two saxophonists, Daniel Gauthier from Germany and George Ligeridis from Thessaloniki. The former will teach the saxophone while the latter will conduct the PelionFestival Sax Orchestra, which will be formed with the support of the Sax Nouveau Orchestra, thus offering to the audience of the festival an exceptional and highly original sound.
In this year’s organisation the festival focuses on chamber music and the collaboration between professors and students playing different instruments. In this context, apart from the spontaneous, on the spot, formation of various ensembles, participants in one-to-one tutorials, before coming to the festival, will prepare chamber music pieces recommended by their tutors and performed during the concerts.
As every year, PelionFestival will play a central role in the cultural life of Eastern Pelion, through daily performances and events that will take place indoors and outdoors, al fresco, in Zagora, Tsagarada and Kissos.
EVENTS PROGRAMΜΕ
Sa. 23.7 : “Eros-Figures and masks”
Music and discourse, works by Porter, Weill, Gardel, Piaf, Piazzolla, Giannidis
Nadia Fiorou, song
Zoe Samsarelou, piano
Zagora, 1rst Primary School, at 20.30
Mo. 25.7 : Concert of the professors A. Domancic, D. Gauthier, Τh. Vagenas, Ε. Veniota, A, Grammatikopoulos, D. Karagiannakidis, S. Kyanidou, A. Liakakis, G. Lygeridis, V. Saïtis, Z. Samsarelou
Zagora, 1rst Primary School, at 20.30
Tue.26.7 : Concert with strings
Kissos, Agia Marina Church, at 20.30
Wed.27.7 : A. PelionFestival Sax Orchestra with the support of Sax Nouveau Orchestra under the artistic direction of George Ligeridis
Tsagarada, Agia Paraskevi square, at 20.30
Ιn collaboration with the Tourist and Development Association of Tsagarada and
B. Concert with string, wind instruments, voice and piano
Zagora, 1rst Primary School, at 20.30
Thur. 28.7 : Concert with string instruments
Zagora, Agia Kyriaki Church, at 20.30
Fr. 29.7 : Concert with string, wind instruments, voice and piano
Zagora, 1rst Primary School, at 20.30
Sa.30.7: PelionFestival Violoncello Ensemble under the artistic direction of Ulrich Voss and PelionFestival Sax Orchestra with the support of Sax Nouveau Orchestra under the artistic direction of George Ligeridis
Zagora, “Vigla”, at 20.30
Entrance free
Changes in the programme may occur
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