Unknown Dialects: 8 music lectures

Charting a course a million miles from sterile ‘modernism’ and steering clear of the composing-by-numbers he had to embrace as master of ceremonies for the 2004 Athens Olympics, Giorgos Koumendakis (b. 1959) continues to interact with the different types of music that left their mark on him and shaped contemporary Greece.

In Unknown dialects: 8 musical lectures, he explores the boundaries between tradition and the musical idiom of today, while the musicians of the dissonArt ensemble undertake both the musical and theatrical interpretations in a production on the cusp between concert and performance.

Composed and Conducted by

Giorgos Koumendakis

Directed by

Alexandros Efklidis

Set & Costume Design

Petros Touloudis

Dramaturgy Collaborator

Yiannis Svolos

Lighting Design

Melina Mascha

Assistant Set & Costume Designer

En Vit Ekorre

With the dissonArt ensemble

Jannis Anissegos, flute

Alexandros Stavridis, clarinet

Lenio Liatsou, piano

Theodoros Patsalidis, Yorgos Kandylidis, violin

Marios Dapergolas, viola

Vassilis Saitis, cello

Yiannis Chatzis, double bass

And the musicians

Theodoros Milkof, percussion

Martha Mavroidi, lafta (lute)

Angelina Tkatseva, santouri

Konstantinos Raptis, bayan

Performers

Petros Touloudis, En Vit Ekorre

Forget Me for flute (karsilamas and pyrrichios folk dances)

target: none

Jannis Anissegos, flute

Typewriter Tune για μαρίμπα (pyrrichios folk dance)

target: the dream of the waveless lake

Theodoros Milkof, marimba

Typewriter Tune for lafta (lute) (karsilamas and syngathistos folk dances)

target: the dark

Martha Mavroidi, lafta

Typewriter Tune for Tangos a Cuatro, for violin, bayan, piano and double bass

target: five friends in Buenos Aires

Theodoros Patsalidis, violin, Konstantinos Raptis, bayan

Lenio Liatsou, piano, Yiannis Chatzis, double bass

Forget Me Not for clarinet (tsamikos folk dance)

target: the “forget-me-not” flower

Alexandros Stavridis, clarinet

Typewriter Tune for violin (serra the Pontian pyrrichios folk dance)

target: Iannis Xenakis

Theodoros Patsalidis, violin

Typewriter Tune for santouri (karsilamas folk dance)

target: the wind

Angelina Tkatseva, santouri

Point of No Return for string quartet (zeibekiko folk dance and amanes music style)

target: Marika Papagika

Theodoros Patsalidis, first violin, Yorgos Kandylidis, second violin

Marios Dapergolas, viola, Vassilis Saitis, cello

€20; €10 (Students)

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Giorgos Koumendakis & DissonArt Ensemble

​Unknown Dialects: 8 music lectures

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