2nd HELIOSPHERIC NETWORK WORKSHOP (HELIOS 2008)

CULTURAL PROGRAM

Ithaca, May 7, 2008, Program

J.S. Bach - Air on the G string

Pablo de Sarasate - Malaguena , Romanza Andaluza

Gerasimos Pylarinos - Three greek dances ( Zonaratos, Tsamikos, Syrtos Kleftikos )

Nikolas Pylarinos violin Panagiotis Giannakakis piano

ITHACA MUSICAL CONCERT: Part-B

Greece songs by “DIMODOKOS” group

Lixouri, May 8, 2008, Program

LIXOURION MUSICAL CONCERT: Part-A

L.V. Beethoven - Sonata V for violin and piano ("Spring")

Arghyris Kounadis - Μusical moments

Nikolas Pylarinos violin Panagiotis Giannakakis piano

LIXOURION MUSICAL CONCERT: Part-B

Eugenia Syriotis' concert

Eugenia Syriotis’ Program:

Folk songs from around the world and contemporary Greek and foreign songs from the fifties, sixties and seventies, as well as well known songs of today.

Accompanying her on the piano is Anna Kounadi.

THE ARTISTS:

Eugenia Syriotis received her piano diploma along with first prize honours, at the athens conservatory under professor Spyros Farandatos (from Lixouri in Kefalonia). She also studied singing at the conservatory, getting her diploma with honours.

She has become known from her TV shows «songs of the world» and «two songs and a fairy tale».

She first sung at the Herod Atticus (Athens Festival) with Manos Hadjidakis, in Aristophanes’ «birds». she has also preformed at Wigmore Hall in London, Town Hall in New York, at the expo 67 in Canada and in many universities in the midwestern states of the U.S.A.. She has also recorded greek island folk songs at the library of congress.

Anna Kounadi’s musical interests have led her so far to different music pathways. She combines a classical piano training to a Greek folk/Greek Folk rock music temperament. In addition, her music idiom has been influenced by worldwide rock/pop music of the 60s and 70s. She is now a music partner of T. Papastefanou and E. Giannakopoulos’ Choirs worldwide and performs regularly with Eugenia Syriotis.
Anna graduated from Conservatory of Athens (tutors: Eugenia Syriotis and Parry Derembey-Papastavrou) with the Soloist’s Piano Diploma graded Excellent & First Prize Unanimously. She continued her studies at Trinity College of Music, London, acquiring two postgraduate titles (PGA - MMus with Yonty Solomon, with Distinction and financial award). She has been awarded several prizes in international piano competitions and has performed solo piano and Chamber Music repertoire in various venues of Europe. She is currently completing a PhD course on Piano Performance at Goldsmiths College University of London, focusing on the comparison of recorded performances of Scriabin 2^nd Sonata-Fantasy. Anna’s studies have been funded by ΙΚΥ and by Central Research Fund, University of London.

Nicolas Pylarinos born in 1988 at Athens. From his childhood started violin studies under Vlatislav Chalapsis. He has given many concerts and takes part in recordings. In 2007 received the violin Diploma as Pantelis Despotidis’s student from “N. Skalkotas” concervatory. Also has join in seminars with famous violinists such as Sergei Kravchenko and Grigori Zhislin. Now he is studying in the department of Theatrical Studies School of Humanities of the University of Patras and continues his violin studies.

Panagiotis Giannakakis