Giovanni Sollima (*1962): \u201cSuite Case\u201d for two violins (2016)
\nI. Wood (Moderato)
\nII. B275 (Allegro assai)
\nIII. Alleluja (Allegro)
\nPablo Hern\u00e1n Bened\u00ed & Jonian Ilias Kadesha \u2013 violins<\/p>\n
Stathis Giftakis (*1967): Agnus Dei (2022)<\/p>\n
Eric Whitacre (*1970): The Seal Lullaby (2008)<\/p>\n
Bulgarian folk song: Kaval Sviri<\/p>\n
Serbian folk song: Ni\u0161ka Banja<\/p>\n
Jim Papoulis (*1961): Sililiza (2012)<\/p>\n
Greek folk song (Drama): Koita me glykia mou agapi, arr. Eleni Siniari<\/p>\n
Greek folk song (Thrace): To Margoudi, arr. Konstantinos Matis<\/p>\n
\u201cMelifono\u201d Women\u2019s Vocal Ensemble Extended
\nAthanasia Kyriakidou \u2013 conductor
\nKaterina Palaiologou, Viki Vasileiadi, Foteini Arapi, Georgia Kotsimpou, Polytimi Anagnostopoulou, Maria Tserpe, Eleni Gkini, Eleni Loura, Martzy Michail, Sofia Katsoulea, Voula Mavrea, Niki Grigoropoulou, Zoi Kleidona, Georgia Tsompou, Vasiliki Moulouchakou, Stavroula Damilou, Katerilena Stamatelopoulou, Lena Angeletou, Tonia Dikaiou, Eleni Pertselaki, Irena Choliastou, Eva Koufalakou, Giannis Garantziotis, Alexandros Foukaras, Kostas Anagnostopoulos, Panagiotis Tzoumakis, Nikos Michalopoulos, Michalis Kanavos<\/p>\n
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756\u20131791): Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat major, K.493 (1786)
\nI. Allegro
\nII. Larghetto
\nIII. Allegretto
\nJonian Ilias Kadesha \u2013 violin
\nPablo Hern\u00e1n Bened\u00ed \u2013 violin
\nVashti Hunter \u2013 violoncello
\nNoam Greenberg \u2013 piano<\/p>\n
Johannes Brahms (1833\u20131897): Piano Quintet, Op.34 (1864)
\nI. Allegro non troppo
\nII. Andante, un poco Adagio
\nIII. Scherzo. Allegro \u2013 Trio
\nIV. Finale. Poco sostenuto \u2013 Allegro non troppo
\nJonian Ilias Kadesha \u2013 violin
\nPablo Hern\u00e1n Bened\u00ed \u2013 violin
\nLily Francis \u2013 viola
\nVashti Hunter \u2013 violoncello
\nNoam Greenberg \u2013 piano<\/p>\n
The Caerus Chamber Ensemble was founded in 2017. It confronts the passing of time by capturing the moment. Inspired by Caerus \u2013a religious-philosophical term in ancient Greece for the right, distinctive point in time for a decision and also personified as a deity in mythology\u2013 this unique ensemble consists of outstanding instrumentalists of the young European generation of musicians under the artistic direction of Jonian-Ilias Kadesha. It brings the spirit of Caerus into music, creating something unique and unforeseen: music arising from the right, not reproducible moment. As a flexible ensemble, it can play in programmes with different instrumentations; the design of the programmes thus gains the greatest freedom and relevance in terms of content. The young artists share a common desire to perform chamber music at the highest level. In this, each individual is required as a soloist and, at the same time, as a sensitive part of a community.<\/p>\n
\u00a9 Sigi M\u00fcller
\nLily Francis is an American violinist and violist living in Austria. As a top prize winner at the 2009 ARD competition, Lily has appeared with a number of European orchestras, including the Bayrischer Rundfunk Orchester, and made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2008. Recent chamber music collaborations have included recordings with the Gringolts Quartet, appearances at the Lockenhaus and Marlboro Festivals and the Caerus Chamber Ensemble. Her chamber music collaborators have included Andras Schiff, Mitsuko Uchida, Alexander Melnikov, Vilde Frang, Nicolas Altstaedt and Pekka Kuusisto. A student of Joseph Silverstein and Miriam Fried, Lily is Professor of Violin at the Universit\u00e4t Mozarteum Salzburg since 2017 and plays an 1846 Silvestre violin and a 2004 Marco Coppiardi viola.<\/p>\n
British\/Israeli pianist Noam Greenberg studied in London with Maria Curcio and in Budapest with Ferenc Rados. He enjoys a busy international career playing both recitals and chamber music and has participated in many festivals, including Aldeburgh, Lucerne, Cheltenham and Schleswig-Holstein, to name a few. For many years, he was a member of the Waldstein Ensemble, a piano quartet formed together with violinist Gerhard Schulz. As a soloist, he has performed with numerous orchestras and given the Israeli premiere of the Ligeti piano concerto, broadcast live to numerous European countries. He also often works with singers, including Christine Schaffer, Mark Padmore, Ailish Tynan and Ruby Hughes. He has given and led many masterclass courses in academies and universities in the UK and Europe. He is also the Artistic Director for the Music at Tresanton festival in a beautiful part of Cornwall. He lives in London.<\/p>\n
\u00a9 Verena Chen
\nPablo Hern\u00e1n Bened\u00ed was born in 1991 in Madrid. He studied violin at the Antonio Soler Conservatory in San Lorenzo de El Escorial with Polina Kotliarskaya and at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with David Takeno and Andr\u00e1s Keller. In 2010, Pablo became a member of the Chiaroscuro Quartet. The Quartet\u2019s debut recording was released in 2011 to critical acclaim. As a soloist, Pablo has appeared with orchestras like Philarmonia Orchestra, London Mozart Players and Concerto Budapest.<\/p>\n
\u00a9 Andrej Grilc
\nBorn into a musical family in London, cellist Vashti Hunter enjoys a versatile career as a soloist and chamber musician. Vashti has been invited to important festivals, to play in prestigious halls throughout Europe and to perform as a soloist with many orchestras. Vashti studied in London and Hannover for many years with Leonid Gorokhov and later in Berlin with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt. A very important influence is the cellist Steven Isserlis. Vashti is a co-founder of Trio Gaspard and a member of the Kelemen Quartet. Vashti was recently appointed Professor of Cello at the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz in Austria and also holds a teaching position for cello master students at the university in Hannover. She is also a Guest Chamber Music Professor at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole in Italy. www.vashtihunter.de<\/p>\n
\u00a9 Kaupo Kikkas
\nJonian Ilias Kadesha is a renaissance musician in the diversity and creativity of his intellectual interests and music-making. His studies in philosophy and rhetoric influence the stylistic accuracy of his interpretations, whether of early or contemporary music, and his rich imagination is clear both in the sound worlds he creates and the projects he curates as soloist, player\u2013director and chamber musician. As a soloist, he has performed throughout Europe. Kadesha is also a committed chamber musician who collaborates with renowned musicians. He is co-founder of the award-winning Trio Gaspard, a member of the Kelemen Quartet and increasingly in demand with leading chamber orchestras as player\/director. In 2017, Kadesha founded and assumed the role of Artistic Director of the Caerus Chamber Ensemble. Born in Athens, with Albanian and Greek heritage, Kadesha studied from a young age at Musikhochschule W\u00fcrzburg, followed by studies at Kronberg Academy. www.jonianiliaskadesha.net<\/p>\n
Athanasia Kyriakidou is a choral conductor specialising in multisensory vocal training and nonverbal leadership. She graduated from CSULA (USA) and AUTh (Greece) with a MM in choral conducting and a PhD in historical musicology. While also being a Guest Conductor for the Greek National Radio Choir (ERT), Choral and Orchestra Ensemble of Armonia Atenea and Assistant Conductor for the choir of the National Technical University of Athens, Athanasia has academic experience in the Department of Music, School of Fine Arts, AUTh and teaches at the National Masterclass for Orchestra and Choir Conductors with the Athens Municipality Orchestra. She currently conducts the Melifono women\u2019s choir and the choir of the Youth Orchestra of Creta.<\/p>\n
The \u201cMelifono\u201d Women\u2019s Vocal Ensemble was created in 2013 by the Municipal Conservatory of Kalamata and has charted a significant course in the field of choral music, earning distinctions and awards in worldwide competitions and taking part in international festivals such as the Athens & Epidaurus Festival, the Kalamata International Dance Festival, the International Kalamata Music Days festival, the Kalamata International Choir Competition and Festival and the Vox Lucensis International Choir Festival in Lucca, Italy. The conductor of the Ensemble is Athanasia Kyriakidou, assisted by Katerina Palaiologou. The \u201cMelifono\u201d Ensemble is among the Municipal Conservatory\u2019s most significant exports and has made numerous concert appearances in Greece and abroad beyond the aforementioned contests and festivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":250,"template":"","tags":[],"location":[62],"event_category":[53],"thematic_areas":[],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-271","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kalamata-dance-megaron","event_category-concert"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"thematic_areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thematic_areas?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}