13 Wednesday Jun 2018
Posted in commission, Concerts, Delian Academy for New Music, Premiers
Delian Academy for New Music | Grypareio, Mykonos, GR | Wednesday, 13 June 2018 | 19:30
Premiere of “Even the sky screams sometimes too II” (2018) for accordion. Commissioned by the Delian Academy for New Music with the friendly support of ERNST von SIEMENS Music Foundation.
10 Sunday Jun 2018
Posted in Delian Academy for New Music, guest composer, symposium
Delian Academy for New Music, International Symposium on New Compositional Concepts (2018). The Reconstruction Nature of Memory as a Compositional Model. Grypario Cultural Center, Mykonos, Greece. 10th June, 2018.
05 Tuesday Jun 2018
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A lot of interesting stuff this year at the 2nd Edition of the Delian Academy for New Music on the island of Mykonos, Greece, 8 June to 17 June.
Read more details at Official Booklet – Programme 2018
04 Monday Jun 2018
Posted in Delian Academy for New Music
The Delian Academy for New Music 2018, an international summer academy for composers & sound artists curated by Alexandros Spyrou
under the auspices of
Georges Aperghis
is taking place on June 8 to June 17, 2018 at the island of Mykonos, Greece
with
Trio Accanto (Marcus Weiss, Nicolas Hodges, Christian Dierstein) – ensemble in residence
Zone Experimentale – ensemble in residence and Jana Luksts, piano – guest artist
and
Guest Composers/Faculty
Michael Finnissy
Elaine Lillios
Dimitri Papageorgiou
More info at delianacademy.com
04 Friday May 2018
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off borders festival for electroacoustic music, video and performing arts | thessaloniki @ 21 & 22 April, 2018
17 Tuesday Apr 2018
Posted in Concerts
Ensemble Reconsil | Reaktor, Geblergasse 40, 1170, Vienna, Austria | 19:30
“EFFLUENCES”
Angélica CASTELLÓ (MEX/AT): Principio sin título
Javier QUISLANT (ESP/AT): Materia-Imagen
Norbert STERK (AT): AmorFunica (world premiere)
Dimitri PAPAGEORGIOU (GR/AT): Effluences (austrian premiere)
Sukju NA (KOR/AT): Amoeba vs Paramecium (austrian premiere)
Ioannis PAPADOPOULOS (GR/BR/GER): Anodos-Kathodos (austrian premiere)
11 Wednesday Apr 2018
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2018_04_11_Ο-Απρίλιος-κατέφθασε-στη-Θεσσαλονίκη-με-πειραματική-διάθεση
10 Saturday Mar 2018
Posted in Delian Academy for New Music
We are very pleased to announce, in alphabetical order, the composers selected to participate in the
a) category of “Acoustic Composers”.
*The 2018 Scholarship in memoriam Iannis Xenakis is awarded to Felipe Pinto d’Aguiar.
b) category of “Electronic Composers and Sound Artists”.
c) category of “visiting composers”.
More at https://www.delianacademy.com/
22 Thursday Feb 2018
Posted in Festival
We are very proud to announce the organization of OFF BORDERS FESTIVAL OF ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC, VIDEO & PERFRORMING ARTS in collaboration with the State Museum of Contemporary Art.
21/22 of April 2018, Thessaloniki
Open call for Artists from Iran, Greece and Germany
Deadline: 3 MARCH 2018
Organization Committee.
Dimitri Papageorgiou, composer/faculty AUTH
Athina Dragkou, stage director/A4M
Dimitris Papadopoulos, performer,composer/A4M
In collaboration with:
Eirini Papakonstantinou, Art historian/curator SMCA
Joachim Heintz, composer/director of FMSBW electronic studio
Mehdi Jalali, composer,conductor/director of Yarava Music Group
Production
Marily Ventouri
About
This initiative investigates new ideas in the field of sound, visual and performance art. Off borders festival, intends to provoke conversations into the intercultural coexistence among the dipole artists & audience.
Wondering where the periphery starts and where the center, strong proponent of DIY culture (do it yourself), we aspire to create another node in the world DIY network and develop communication channels having intercultural exchange as their main goal.
Our goal is the integration of the periphery into within the internationalization process of contemporary art. Sounds, Pictures and Movements create a meeting point in Greece, disseminating frequencies across Europe and nearby countries.
Bridging the gap
GREECE-IRAN-GERMANY
The off borders Festival wants to establish itself as an out of bounds 2 day event at the city of Thessaloniki. This year we aim to artists from Iran, Germany and Greece, whose works focus on investigating new ideas, consider risk as an inherent aspect of their work. Unlike other festivals, off borders is particularly interested of participants-driven projects focusing at the fields of:
Electronic Music/Sound Art
Video Art
Performance Art
03 Wednesday Jan 2018
Posted in Interview, radio broadcast
KEIN GELD ABER DISCO – part 1.
new music in Greece
Tuesday January 2nd, 2018, 0.05–1.00 (1.05–2.00 Athens time) Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Words and music by Dimitri Papageorgiou, dissonArt ensemble, Iannis Xenakis, Christos Carras, Michalis Paraskakis, Kristin Sofroniou, Stamatis Pasopoulos, Nikos Galenianos (and Christoph Blum).
Entails an interview to Jim Igor Kallenberg recorded on September 30th 2017 at my apartment in Thessaloniki and the broadcast of my work In the Vestige of the Present for flute, cello, and piano performed by Trio IAMA (Jannis Anissegos – flute, Maria Anissegou – cello, Antonis Anissegos – piano) from the CD Present Perfect Vol. 1 by Dissonance Records, Thessaloniki.
In the Vestige of the Present on Soundcloud.com (https://soundcloud.com/dimitripapageorgiou/dimitri-papageorgiou-in-the)
30 Monday Oct 2017
Posted in commission, Competition
The results of the International Call For Scores & Commission 2017, organized by Ensemble Suono Gialloand IlSuono Contemporary Music Week have been announced and I am glad to be one of the two winners of the Commission 2017 in a statement on their webpage and Facebook page issued on October 29th:
The selection process of the applications received for the International Call For Scores & Commission 2017, organized by Ensemble Suono Giallo and IlSuono Contemporary Music Week, ended, with the selection committee thoroughly reviewing applications by:
143 composers (a total of 278 works) from 34 countries
The selection committee went through a strong applicant pool, including a large number of exceptional entries, making the decision process quite challenging. We would like to THANK all composers who sent in their music and trusted us with it. And, feeling grateful to the large amount of interest shown in the call, the committee decided to offer TWO commissions this year.
SELECTED WORKS FOR PERFORMANCE
We are excited to announce the following works have been selected to be included in the repertoire of ensemble Suono Giallo and its concert programs for the following season.
due forme dell’insonnia (2017) for sax, perc, pno
by Marco Longo (Italy, 1979)
L’erotisme sacré (2012) for fl, pno, and elec
by Taylor Brook (Canada/USA, 1985)
l’œil brisé (2017) for sax, perc, and elec
by Yiqing Zhu (China, 1989)
Piccolo inventario degli insetti (2017) for fl, sax, perc, pno, and elec
by Claudio Panariello (Italy, 1989)
will the voice remain the same (2015-17) for fl, sax, perc, pno
by Charles Kwong (UK/Hong Kong, 1985)
STATISTICS
• 143 applications
• 10 applications were rejected;
-4 provided nonfunctional links
-6 submitted scores and/or recordings with composer’s identifying information (e.g. name in the score, soundcloud links)
• 23% of the applications were by female composers and 77% by male composers.
• 34 countries
Follow the link for a more analytical representation of statistical data. https://www.ilsuonoacademy.com/call-for-scores-2017
21 Saturday Oct 2017
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A nice critique about Iwona Glinka’s CD One Minute by Piotr Grella-Możejko, that mentions my Etude in Quarter Tones
… Two compositions played superbly on the bass flute, i.e. “Path” by Rania Chrisostomou (Cyprus) and “Catharsis” by Héctor Oltra Garcia (Spain), as well as “Kekkai” by Nicolas Marty (France), “The Clown” by Michail Travlos (Greece; the title is misleading – the music is actually quite good), “Etude In Quarter Tones” for piccolo flute by Dimitri Papageorgiou (Greece), and the remarkable “Concert Etude”, also for the piccolo, by Paweł Siek (Poland; again, the title turned me off, but the music did exactly the opposite) all stand out as examples of very well written mini-pieces aptly projecting the composers’ individual “voices” really worth exploring further.
Read more:
02 Monday Oct 2017
Posted in Festival
Photo gallery at Da Theater, Tehran, Iran | Sep 2, 2017
Photo credits: Farhad Ilaghi Hosseini
22 Friday Sep 2017
Posted in Concerts, Delian Academy for New Music, Recording
Listen to Effluences (2011) for flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, and piano Live @ Delian Academy for New Music 2017 (delianacademy.com)
Grypario Cultural Center, Mykonos, Greece
A huge thank you to the ensemble Oerknal for their stunning performance!
Gregory Charette – conductor
Susanne Peters – flutes
Daniel Boeke – clarinets
Daniel Walden – piano
Mariana Hutchinson Siemers – violin
René van Munster – cello
15 Friday Sep 2017
Posted in Concerts
Proud to be a member of the Women in Music Information Retrieval (WiMIR) Mentoring Program!
Poster design: Julia Wilkins Blog post by Anja Volk (Utrecht University), Co-Founder of the WiMIR Mentoring Program We started the mentoring program in 2016, after many years of regular meetings of…
Source: WiMIR Mentoring Program Report 2017: the many faces of diversity
09 Saturday Sep 2017
Posted in guest composer, Lecture, Master Class
This gallery contains 8 photos.
Composition presentation and master class | Tehran, Iran | August 30th, 2017 A photo gallery from my masterclass in Tehran. …
04 Monday Sep 2017
Posted in Awards
Award Ceremony of the Reza Korourian Electroacoustic Composition Competition 2017 | September 1st, 2017 | Arasbaran Cultural Center, Tehran, Iran
SCHEDULE
* Releasing the CD of the first year’s selected works of the Reza Korourian Award 2016
* The members of the Jury, Joachim Heintz, Shahrokh Khajenouri, and Dimitri Papageorgiou award the second year’s winners of the Reza Korourian Award 2017
Winners 2017:
Farzad HosseinAbadi (1989): “Sunset in the woodland”
Soheil Shirangi (1987): “Suspension No.2”
Bahar Royaee (1984): “Tendency and Avoidance”
* Screening a Video art by Hasan Sheidaei
* Speechs by Joachim Heintz, Shahrokh Khajenouri, …
* Reception
20 Sunday Aug 2017
Posted in Lecture, Master Class
The Second year of Electroacoustic Music composition competition
Reza Korourian Awards 2017
Composition Seminars and Master Classes
Shahrokh Khajenouri, Joachim Heintz, Dimitri Papageorgiou
Poster:Ashkan Rahbarian
12 Saturday Aug 2017
Posted in guest composer, Master Class
It is a great honor for me to hold a composition master in Tehran, Iran, at the end of August, as part of the 2nd Electroacoustic Music Composition Competition Reza Korourian Award 2017, which is issued by the Yarava Music Group, Contemporary Music Records.
Further composition master classes will be held by other members of the Reza Korourian Composition Competition Jury, Shahrokh Khajenouri and Joachim Heintz, on August 28th and 29th, respectively .
Lectures, panel discussions and concerts will be announced soon!
28 Friday Jul 2017
Posted in Delian Academy for New Music, Interview, radio broadcast
This is the recording of the interview, at the 9,58 Greek National Radio of Northern Greece, about the Delian Academy for New Music.
Follow the link below to listen to the recording (in Greek): https://www.dropbox.com/s/eb85gt15ab9yotg/%CE%94%CE%97%CE%9B%CE%99%CE%91%20%CE%91%CE%9A%CE%91%CE%94%CE%97%CE%9C%CE%99%CE%91%2008-06-2017.wav?dl=0
Composers Panayiotis Kokoras and Dimitri Papageorgiou together with the artistic director Alexandros Spyrou as guests of journalist Thanasis Gogadis in his show “En Thessaloniki” .
Main subject of their talk is the Delian Academy for New Music, which opened its gates for the first time this Monday, June 12th 2017, at the Grypario Cultural Center of the City of Mykonos and welcomes talented composers and musicians from all over the world.
The pictures are from the follow up interview, a retrospective of the Delian Academy, which took place on July 10th, but unfortunately has not been recorded due to technical programs.
21 Friday Jul 2017
Posted in Competition
Screenshots of the deliberations on a Skype session, which was held on July 20th, of the jury of the Korourian Competition 2017.
The members of the jury are:
The winners will be announced officially in the days to come and they will be awarded during a ceremony coming August.
The contest is planned to be held annually with the collaboration of CMR and Yarava Music Group, to venerate Korourian, the only Iranian musician who worked on electronic music.
23 Friday Jun 2017
Posted in video
“In Pulses, in Strokes…” (2011) for flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, and piano. Performance on Thursday, March 2nd 2017, Kobacker Hall, at Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, Ohio, U.S.A.
BGSU New Music Ensemble. Maria Mercedes Diaz Garcia — conductor.
Program Notes
The title of the work is derived from a reply (dated “Grand Hotel, Rome, 4, I, 1941”) by George Santayana to a letter by Ezra Pound (reproduced in Machine Art and Other Writings):
Existence comes in pulses, in strokes. I see no reason for not stopping, or for stropping, anywhere in that flux. Existence has as many centres as it happens to have, as many moments, feelings, assumptions, questions—all in the air and with no power over one another. But if we have time and patience to study a natural world posited as the source and common continuum in all this existence, we assume that it has dynamic unity: otherwise from one point in it we could never justly infer or posit any other point in it. This is my argument for materialism. — GS
from The Letters of George Santayana: 1941-1947
20 Tuesday Jun 2017
Posted in Concerts
Delian Academy for New Music | Concert II | Friday, 16 June 2017 | 19.30 | Grypario Cultural Center, Mykonos, Greece
A visceral performance by Ensemble Oerknal of my Effluénces for flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, and piano in tonight’s concert at the Delian Academy for New Music at the Grypario Cultural Center, Mykonos, Greece.
Oerknal New Music Collective, Gregory Charette — conductor and artistic director, Susanne Peters — flutes, Daniel Boeke — clarinets, Daniel Walden — piano, Mariana Hutchinson Siemers — violin, René van Munster — cello.
The concert also featured excellent works by participants of the Delian Academy: Elvira Garifzyanova, Ashkan Behzadi, Jorge Eduardo Gomez Elizondo, Nemanja Radivojevic, and Tolga Tüzün.
20 Tuesday Jun 2017
Posted in Delian Academy for New Music, Lecture
Delian Academy for New Music | Thursday, 15 June 2017 | 19:00 | Grypario Cultural Center, Mykonos, Greece
My Lecture at the Delian Academy for New Music
Abstract
Memory and identity. Variance and invariance. Iteration and evolution. The present lecture is an introduction to the exploration of the reconstructive nature of memory as a metaphor for the construction of pitch complexes and their dynamic and evolving elaboration in my music. For that purpose, I have invented an interlocking technique, which is a systematic transformation plan that takes some raw material and creates structurally and aurally similar pitch arrays by means of algorithmic manipulations
19 Monday Jun 2017
Posted in Delian Academy for New Music, guest composer
Delian Academy for New Music | 12-19 June 2017 | Grypario Cultural Center, Mykonos, Greece
The first edition of the Delian Academy for New Music took place at the Grypario Cultural Center at the island of Mykonos, Greece.
Honorary President: Georges Aperghis
Composition Faculty: Panayiotis Kokoras, Dimitri Papageorgiou
Artistic Director: Alexandros Spyrou
Ensemble in Residence: Oerknal New Music Collective. Gregory Charette, conductor and artistic director; Susanne Peters, flutes; Daniel Boeke, clarinets; Daniel Walden, piano; Mariana Hutchinson Siemers, violin; René van Munster, cello
Guest Artists: Kanae Mizobuchi, Bera Romairone
Participants (in alphabetic order)
Acoustic and Electronic Composers
Ashkan BEHZADI (Iran)
Alican CAMCI (Turkey)
Stylianos DIMOU (Greece)
Elvira GARIFZYANOVA* (Russia)
Jorge Eduardo GÓMEZ ELIZONDO (Mexico/USA)
Hunjoo JUNG (S. Korea/USA)
Shin MIZUTANI (Japan)
Nemanja RADIVOJEVIC (Serbia/Hungary)
Tolga TUZUN (Turkey)
*The Scholarship in memoriam Iannis Xenakis is awarded to Elvira Garifzyanova.
Composers and Sound Artists
Ivan CHIARELLI (Brazil)
Tyler ENTELISANO (USA)
Pedro FRAGUELA (Argentina)
Marissa HICKMAN (USA)
John Paul LEMPKE (USA)
Emma MARGETSON (United Kingdom)
Bernard SHORT (USA)
Visiting Composers
Hyunjoo KIM (S. Korea)
Nahyun KIM (S. Korea)
Anastasios SAVVOPOULOS (Greece)
Jee SEO (S. Korea)
Mischa SHIMEK (USA)
Jorge Diego VÁSQUEZ SALVAGANO (Argentina)
Jennifer YOO (USA)
You can read the full Delian Academy program
07 Wednesday Jun 2017
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9,58 Cultural Radio, Thessaloniki National Radio|”En Thessaloniki,” Thanassis Gogadis – host | June 8th, 2017 |
Composers Panayiotis Kokoras and Dimitri Papageorgiou together with the artistic director Alexandros Spyrou in an interview with journalist Thanasis Gogadis in his show “En Thessaloniki” at 9,58 Cultural Radio ERT3.
Main subject of their talk is the Delian Academy for New Music, which opens its gates for the first time this Monday, June 12th 2017, at the Grypario Cultural Center of the City of Mykonos and welcomes talented composers and musicians from all over the world.
23 Tuesday May 2017
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Dokzaal, Amsterdam | Friday, 26 May, 2017 – 20:30 & Korzo Theater, The Hague | Saturday, 27 May, 2017 – 20:30
The Dutch new music collective Oerknal is premiering my quintet Efflénces (2011) in the Netherlands, in two concerts that take place in Amsterdam and in The Hague on May 26th and 27th, respectively.
On stage of the Dokzaal, Amsterdam and the Korzo Theater, The Hague the Ensemble Oerknal in collaboration with the vocal quartet Damask will be presenting a concert with the title Sin and Expiation, which is inspired by Bach’s Matthaüs-Passion.
“Themes of loss, sin, betrayal, sacrifice, and redemption weave through various textures, tapestries, and compositional voices, reinventing the traditional passion experience” reads the announcement of the program, which entails works by some of my favourite composers, such as Orlando di Lasso, Hildegard van Bingen, Kaija Saariaho, and Lewis Nielson.
16 Tuesday May 2017
Posted in discography, Recording
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The CD “One Minute” (Sarton Records, Catalogue nr. SARTON024-2) by Polish flutist Iwona Glinka is now available on iTunes, Presto Classical and Naxos Music Library .
The CD features 60 world premiere recordings of One Minute compositions for solo flute(s) by 42 composers from 17 countries: Argentine, Australia, Canada, Cyprus, England, France, Greece, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Israel, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, and U.S.A.
On track nr. 40 you will find my work Etude in Quarter Tones for piccolo flute
01 Monday May 2017
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Guest composer, Institut Neue Musik @ University for Music, Drama and Media Hannover, Germany (HMTMH), invited by Joachim Heintz and Gordon Williamson.
Master classes in composition on April 26 – 28 with students coming from diverse backgrounds and countries such as Germany, Korea, Philippines, Iran, Iceland, Esthonia, Greece, etc. Presentations of my music on Thursday 27/4 and Friday 28/4 afternoon.
Schedule
26/04: Composition master classes (morning and afternoon)
27/04: Composition master classes (morning) and guest composer presentation at FOKUS: “Interlocking technique and the reconstructive nature of memory” (afternoon)
28/04: Composition master classes (morning) and presentation in the class for electronic music on the subject “Interlocking technique – algorithmic routines and applications” (afternoon)
12 Wednesday Apr 2017
Posted in Labor Beethoven 2020
Three mentors and nine young composers from Basel, Tel Aviv, and Thessaloniki. First planning meeting in Akademie der Künste, Berlin for the artistic research project Labor Beethoven 2020.
Photos courtesy of Gerald Zörner.
30 Thursday Mar 2017
Posted in Delian Academy for New Music
The Delian Academy for New Music (delianacademy.com) is pleased to announce the nine composers selected to participate.
In alphabetical order:
Acoustic and Electronic Composers
Ashkan BEHZADI (Iran)
Alican CAMCI (Turkey)
Stylianos DIMOU (Greece)
Elvira GARIFZYANOVA* (Russia)
Jorge Eduardo GÓMEZ ELIZONDO (Mexico/USA)
Hunjoo JUNG (S. Korea/USA)
Shin MIZUTANI (Japan)
Nemanja RADIVOJEVIC (Serbia/Hungary)
Tolga TUZUN (Turkey)
*The Scholarship in memoriam Iannis Xenakis is awarded to Elvira Garifzyanova.
Composers and Sound Artists
Ivan CHIARELLI (Brazil)
Tyler ENTELISANO (USA)
Pedro FRAGUELA (Argentina)
Marissa HICKMAN (USA)
John Paul LEMPKE (USA)
Emma MARGETSON (United Kingdom)
Bernard SHORT (USA)
Visiting Composers
Hyunjoo KIM (S. Korea)
Nahyun KIM (S. Korea)
Anastasios SAVVOPOULOS (Greece)
Jee SEO (S. Korea)
Mischa SHIMEK (USA)
Jorge Diego VÁSQUEZ SALVAGANO (Argentina)
Jennifer YOO (USA)
28 Tuesday Feb 2017
Posted in Concerts
Kobacker Hall, Moore Musical Arts Center | BGSU College of Musical Arts | Thursday, March 2, 2017 8:00 PM |
Conductor Mercedes Diaz conducts my work “In Pulses, in Strokes…” for flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, and piano in a concert that presents works by 
Dimitri Papageorgiou, Tolga Yayalar, Kory Reeder, Dimitris Maronidis, and Zeynep Gedizlioglu, and featuring accordionist soloist and Fulbright Artist Scholar Panagiotis Andreoglou.
If you in the Bowling Green, Ohio, area this coming Thursday, March 2nd, 2017, you can join the BGSU New Music Ensemble and dr. Chris Dietz’s concert at the Kobacker Hall of the BGSU College of Musical Arts.
Featuring performers
Panagiotis Andreoglou, accordion soloist
Piyaphon Asawakarnjanakitm, Henrique Batista, Teresa Bellamy, Johnathan Britt, Erin Cameron, Kenneth Cox, Lydia Dempsey, Gramm Drennen, Brianna Drevlow, La Le Du, Nick Fox, Mercedes Garcia, Robert Garza, Jenica Georgeson, Soren Hamm, Aaron Hynds, Kathryn Kibbe, Garrett Krohn, Kyle McConnell, Emma Mills, Adam O’Dell, Octavian Moldovean, Thomas Morris, Kory Reeder, Vincent Sauer, Jack Smolenski, Tim Young, Yufei Zhang.
13 Monday Feb 2017
Posted in Concerts
This June, together with my friend Panayiotis Kokoras, I will be serving as faculty member of the Delian Academy for New Music (artistic director: Alexandros Spyrou), an international summer academy for composers and sound artists located on the island of Mykonos, Greece. We will be collaborating with the ensemble Oerknal, a collective of young professional musicians based in The Netherlands. Selected composers can submit a new or existing piece to be performed in Grypario Concert Hall in Mykonos.
Curated under the auspices of Georges Aperghis and the Grypario Cultural Center, the Academy derives its name from the nearby island of Delos, the birthplace of god Apollo, and an UNESCO world heritage site.
Unlike top-down organization programs, our Academy is a participant-driven meeting where attendees co-decide and create the agenda for a series of symposia, workshops, and concerts with the guidance of faculty and staff.
The 2017 edition will take place from June 12 to June 19 in Grypario Cultural Center of Mykonos. Participating composers will have the chance to take part in masterclasses, presentations, workshops and have their music performed by our ensemble in residence. The main language of the Academy will be English. Additional languages may be used in private masterclasses.
For more information, news and updates, please, go to our webpage at https://www.delianacademy.com and our page on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/DelianAcademy/
07 Tuesday Feb 2017
Posted in Concerts, distinctions
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From the western art music of the 19th century to postmodernism today | Sunday Feb 12th, 2017 19:00 | Melina Mercuri Hall, State Conservatory of Thessaloniki
During the festival CONSONANCES 2017 (ΣΥΝΗΧΗΣΕΙΣ 2017), violist Athanasios Sourgounis will be performing my work “…anD…” (2012) for viola in a honorary concert, which is organized by the Onassis Scholars’ Association with the support of the Onassis Foundation.
The concert is conceived as “a journey through time and the music history of Thessaloniki, starting with the composers who brought Western art music in the city and continuing with representatives of current compositional trends …
Athanasios Sourgounis, violist
composers who founded the course of Greek art, together in a concert that aims to highlight the Greek music from the 19th century until today.”
The first part entails works by composers born before 1960: Dimitrios Lalas, Emilios Riadis, Dimitris Themelis, Costas Nikitas, Christos Samaras.
In the second part to be heard are works by composers who represent the diversity of today’s musical trends: Michalis Lapidakis, Dimitri Papageorgiou, Costas Siempis, Costas Tsougras, and Leontios Hatzileontiadis.
Program Booklet: programme
PROGRAM
• Dimitrios Lalas (1848-1911). Die Karthause – recording
• Emilios Riadis (1880-1935). Jasmins et minarets
• Dimitrios Themelis (1931). Marsya’s song
• Costas Nikitas (1940-1989). Sonatina for flute
• Christos Samaras (1956). Four songs for mezzo soprano and piano
• Michalis Lapidakis (1960). Ιntermedio (Double flame) for violin and viola
• Costas Siempis (1961). 12 Variations for piano
• Dimitri Papageorgiou (1965). ” …anD…” for viola
• Costas Tsougras (1966). Diatheses for violin and piano
• Leontios Hatzileontiadis (1966). Labirintus for Mezzo Soprano and CD, Op. 78
PARTICIPANTS
ContraTempo Chamber Orchestra, conductor:Vladimiros Symeonidis
mezzo soprano:Angelica Cathariou
The evening will be introduced by the Chairman of the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki Harry Lefakis and musicologists Chardas Costas and George Athanasopoulos.
State Conservatory of Thessaloniki, Fragkon 15, Thessaloniki, GΡ-54625 (google map).
https://www.facebook.com/events/216571998815103/
Entrance is FREE.
“…anD…” (2012) for viola is available by BabelScores
28 Saturday Jan 2017
Posted in Recording
I am thankful to Iwona Glinka for playing my Etude in Quarter Tones for piccolo flute on track nr. 40 of this CD soon to be released by Sarton Records, Poland. Amazing artwork, as well, by graphic designer Beata Czerepak.
The CD features 60 world premiere recordings of One Minute compositions for solo flute(s) by 42 composers from 17 countries: Argentine, Australia, Canada, Cyprus, England, France, Greece, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Israel, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, and U.S.A.
24 Tuesday Jan 2017
Posted in Concerts
I am glad to serve as a mentor in the Women in Music Information Retrieval (WiMIR) Mentoring Program 2017. The WiMIR mentoring program connects women students, postdocs, early-stage researchers, industry employees, and faculty to more senior women and men in MIR who are dedicated to increasing opportunities for women in the field. Mentors will share their experiences and offer guidance to support mentees in achieving and exceeding their goals and aspirations.
By connecting individuals of different backgrounds and expertise, this program strengthens networks within the MIR community, both in academia and industry.
WiMIR is a group of people dedicated to promoting the role of, and increasing opportunities for, women in the MIR field.
More info about the program at https://wimir.wordpress.com/2017/01/20/mentoring-round-2017-is-about-to-start/
21 Saturday Jan 2017
Posted in Concerts
«Dialog» – Dimitrios Polisoidis, Viola | Gare du Nord – Bahnhof für Neue Musik | 20:00 (23:00 PM UTC+01)
“…anD…” (2012) for viola opens the program in Dimitri Polisoidis’s recital in the concert series “Dialog” at Gare du Nord, Basel, Switzerland. “Dialog” is a concert series of the Academy of Music at Basel in co-operation with Gare du Nord.
The full program of the evening entails works by Dimitri Papageorgiou, Klaus Lang, Slobodan Kajkut und Georges Aperghis.
Dimitri Polisoidis, viola; guest appearance Geneviève Strosser, viola. Moderation: Marcus Weiss.
“…anD…” is available by BabelScores http://www.babelscores.com/catalog/instrumental/and
Program booklet: 2017-01-23-dialog-polisoidis
09 Monday Jan 2017
10 Saturday Dec 2016
Posted in Competition
Saturday, December 10, 2016 | Bowling Green University, Ohio | Kobacker Hall
Adjudication of the Final Round of our 50th Annual Competition in Composition and Music Performance of the College of Musical Arts at Bowling Green University, Ohio.
A panel of five judges from outside BGSU sat in the center of the hall. Maybe a few more people, friends and fellow musicians, sat toward the back. The stage was starkly lit, and the only company performers had on stage was an accompanist and maybe a page turner for the accompanist.
The performers themselves had no pages to turn, no sheets of music to hide behind. They and their practicing over the past few months stood exposed.
Every year for the last 50 years, Bowling Green State University undergraduate and graduate students have stepped forward to exhibit their musical mastery.
Judges:
Congratulations to the winners of the 50th Competition in Music Performance!
The four competition winners will perform their pieces with the Bowling Green Philharmonia at a Feb 25 concert in Kobacker.
http://www.bgsu.edu/musical-arts/events/competitions/competitions-in-musical-performance.html
06 Tuesday Dec 2016
Posted in Concerts
Tuesday, December 6, 2016 | 7:30 PM | Rotunda in the IGT Knowledge Cent
An Evening of New Music
Papageorgiou, Perrotte, Caplovi
Performances by: UNR Contemporary Music Ensemble, Eric Fassbender, John Etsell, EEG and Computer.
Free; all are welcome.
