Composers

As part of its Musical Portraits series, the Athens Concert Hall presents a second tribute concert to the late composer and music teacher Theodore Antoniou (1935-2018) on the 85th anniversary of his birth.

With tickets having sold out on the nights announced to date, composer and conductor Stavros Xarchakos has added more to his run of shows focused on laiko composers at Gazarte in downtown Athens. Xarchakos will conduct a seven-member orchestra of top soloists who will also accompany him on vocals.

The Athens State Orchestra conducted by award-winning German maestro Matthias Foremny dedicates an evening to Eastern European music in a concert that will take place at the Athens Concert Hall's Christos Lambrakis Hall.

Ludovico Einaudi, who brings classical music together with the instruments of contemporary genres such as rock and electronic music, is coming to Istanbul as part of his new tour, which has already been sold out all over the world.

Greek pianist Lefki Karpodini pays tribute to Ludwig van Beethoven at the B&M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts & Music on Thursday, January 30. The concert has been organized in honor of 2020 being the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth. Karpodini will perform much loved pieces including the German composer's Sonata No.

The Half Note in downtown Athens presents the Dimitris Kalantzis Quintet in a jazz tribute to Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis. The quintet is made up of Dimitris Kalantzis on the piano, Takis Paterelis on saxophone, Dimitris Papadopoulos on trumpet, Alex-Drakos Ktistakis on drums and Giorgos Georgiadis on bass. Doors open at 8.30 p.m. and the concert starts an hour later.

The Camerata - Friends of Music Orchestra Musicians, conducted by George Petrou, will be at the Christos Lambrakis Hall of the Athens Concert Hall to perform two pieces from 19th century Vienna, Ludwig van Beethoven's Seventh Symphony and Franz Schubert's Second Symphony, on Sunday, January 12. The musicians will play on vintage instruments from the baroque and classical eras.

Soprano Lenia Safiropoulou and pianist Zoe Zeniodi will perform a selection of Beethoven's songs titled "Auf dem Hugel sitz ich spahend" ("On the hill sit I, gazing," a lyric from the composer's song cycle "An die ferne Geliebte," or "To the Distant Beloved") at the Dimitris Mitropoulos Hall of the Athens Megaron Concert Hall on Saturday, January 11.

Mikis Theodorakis, undoubtedly the greatest of living Greek composers, says he was "pained and embittered" by the death of fellow composer Thanos Mikroutsikos.

His comment was posted in a Facebook page called "Page for Mikis Theodorakis' Work," in English and Greek, late Saturday.

Ludovico Einaudi, who brings classical music together with the instruments of contemporary genres such as rock and electronic music, is coming to Istanbul as part of his new tour, which has already been sold out all over the world.