Classical music

Hakon Austbo, regarded as one of the Norwegian grand masters of the piano, will hold a recital at the Romanian Athenaeum, on May 18, informs a release of the organisers remitted to AGERPRES on Friday.

Photo credit: (c) Constantin DUMA / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

In the final concert of its annual series at New York?s Carnegie Hall this season, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra will be joined by Turkish pianist and composer Faz?l Say for the New York premiere of his new Chamber Symphony, Op. 62, commissioned by Orpheus as part of its American Notes initiative.

BELGRADE - The famous Artis Quartet from Vienna will stage a concert in the Kolarac Endowment on April 22 together with pianist Anika Vavic.

The Artis Quartet have staged a number of successful concerts in famous world concert halls such as Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Centre, Suntory Hall and the Tokyo International Forum.

BELGRADE - The famous Italian fashion designer Renato Balestra will hold his latest fashion show dubbed Opera and Fashion at the National Theatre in Belgrade on April 24.

The 32rd International Ankara Music Festival, organized by the Sevda-Cenap And Music Foundation, will open on April 4. The festival will present more than 500 artists from 16 countries in 19 concerts through April 30. 

A coroner has confirmed that 20-year-old dairy school student Vangelis Giakoumakis, whose body was found in a field in the northwestern city of Ioannina, killed himself.

The coroner?s report said that no other DNA was found on or near Giakoumakis?s body. The Cretan student, who had drunk a small amount of alcohol before his death, slit his right wrist.

BELGRADE - No Borders Orchestra (NBO), a professional symphony orchestra composed of performers from ex-Yugoslavia, has released its first album dubbed "The Opening" for Universal /Deutsche Grammophon, a German classical record label.

Maria Giakoumaki, the woman who flung herself onto her son's white coffin, is a tragic figure in the disappearance and consequent news of Vangelis Giakoumakis' suicide. She told Proto Thema of the difficult times she is going through and the pain of finding out about her son's suffering at the Dairy School of Ioannina. In Crete, her hometown, she feels that her son is near her.

Vangelis Giakoumakis, the soft-spoken young man who was pushed by bullies to take his own life about a month ago, had sent a letter to the Greek parliament, along with several of his college mates, complaining about the miserable conditions at the Dairy School of Ioannina he was attending.

Greek-Australian composer Constantine Koukias will present his new chamber opera "Kimisis" at Verge Gallery in Sydney from March 25-28.

A hit at Tasmania's MONA FOMA Festival in 2010, Kimisis is a gallery-style installation work written and directed by Koukias, a Tasmanian composer and opera director of Greek ancestry based in Amsterdam.