The Music Theatre Hub #2

My "Spindle" piece for harp will be performed on January 28th at The Music Theatre Hub by the lovely harpist  Maria-Christina (and her 7 pedals) along her own works and those from creative technologist Michele Panegrossi! You can find more information and tickets for the event in the links below.

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The Music Theatre Hub is a platform for new works combining music and theatre to be intimately performed, heard, seen and talked over. It's a series of events taking place every three months, a laboratory in which new and work-in-progress pieces investigating musico-theatrical possibilities get presented and discussed. There's no Opera, nor Musical, but a search for new music theatre genres.

We're really excited to launch our second date, 28th January 2015, 7.30pm, featuring electro-acoustic harpist Maria-Christina, composer Andreas Papapetrou and creative technologist Michele Panegrossi. They'll be exploring new forms of music theatre and how different disciplines get together to create new, unique work. Spindles, maypole game, the handsomest room in town, binaural theatre, bowed strings. This event will also feature a ‘headphones only’ piece, so spectators are asked to bring their best headphones along!

Taking place in the intimate and secret Chapel behind The Gallery Cafe (St. Margaret’s House), The Music Theatre Hub will also feature a post-performance talk with Prof. Paul Alan Barker, from Royal Central School of Speech & Drama. The place is small, so you get a good chance to get close to the artists, who are two meters away! See you there! And don’t forget to bring your best set of headphones! 

Artistic Director: Simone Spagnolo: Music

Tickets: 
https://eventbrite.co.uk/event/15154798410/

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Join the Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/400615846764844

Artists' Links:

Maria-Christina and the 7 Pedals Website: http://mariachristinaandthe7pedals.com

Michele Panegrossi Website: http://www.michelepanegrossi.com

songs of love and prozac

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Απόψε στις οκτώ, στο καφενείο Πρόζακ!

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Πληροφορίες εδώ: https://www.facebook.com/events/1575730895993474

Fidelio Trio in concert at Trinity Laban

The virtuosic Fidelio Trio performs music composed specially for it by Trinity Laban composition students: Edward Henderson, Manuel Lopez Jorge, Elliot Galvin, Andreas Papapetrou, Mariam Abounnasr, Matt Hill, Nedyalka Dimitrova and Josh Spear.

photo © Sophie Dennehy

7pm, 25th February 2014

Admission free
Peacock Room, King Charles Court
Old Royal Naval College
Greenwich
London SE10 9JF

Fidelio Trio official website: http://www.fideliotrio.com

http://www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/whats-on/events/music-events.37999.fidelio-trio.aspx

Dear friends,

Join us for an exciting concert of new music performed by the Fidelio Trio this Tuesday at 7pm, at King Charles Court, Trinity Laban. All the pieces have been composed especially for them by composers currently studying at Trinity Laban. Among them, the Trio will also perform my piece, Incantation II. I will be happy to see you there!

TLSO performance of Nephéles coming up this Thursday!

At last! It's happening this Thursday (7.30pm, 31st October) and I am very excited!

My piece Nephéles for symphonic orchestra will be performed by the Trinity Laban Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Howard Williams. The programme includes Britten's Simphonia da Requiem, Delius' Brigg Fair and Elgar's Enigma Variations.

Come if you can make it! I would be delighted to see some familiar faces there - or perhaps meet some new ones! Bring a friend and an appetite for the unusual. I promise that this will be a very interesting performance to experience as the piece I've composed is quite experimental.

It only lasts 5 minutes, during which every single member of the orchestra, including the conductor, is expected to walk in the concert hall and surround the audience while looping a musical phrase. The sound they produce will fade out as all members of the orchestra gradually pass through the unseen "wall" separating them and the audience.

The piece is meant to encourage both audience members and performers to think outside the box, to consider why the theatrical "4th wall" exists to separate audience and performers and what it serves, and to question the culturally acquired modes of social behaviour expected from us when creating or attending events such as a classical music concert.

Sound fun? Here are the details:

• Time & Date: 7.30pm, 31st October 2013
• Venue: Great Hall, Blackheath Halls
• Tickets: £10, £5 concessions

Book your tickets here.

You can find additional information for the event on Trinity Laban's events website:

http://www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/whats-on/events/music-events.25930.trinity-laban-symphony-orchestra.aspx

Nephéles programme note / teaser

It looked like a ghost army marching down from the mountain, a cloud so thick you could almost touch it. The mist would drown the town in a murky silence, our whispers faceless bouncing off hidden walls, waiting for the song of that distant rain. Then, it would leave as quickly as it had come, rising swiftly and vanishing in the horizon, taking with it the sound of the weary footsteps of the unseen traveller who came in the darkness. The light would return, and the world would remain unchanged, save for the hearts of men. You see, for centuries we have watched these passing clouds, longing for the freedom of the endless sky. For when the mist would come we could enter the clouds, but dream as we might, we could never ride them. And so the clouds would go on wandering freely over mountains and valleys, past rivers and oceans, ever ignoring the borders of men, always heading east, always coming, always going... 

source:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Southern_California_Coastal_Range_in_Mist.jpg

New orchestral piece coming!

I have just finished writing this baby for orchestra. No spoilers yet, but I guarantee it's going to be an "unusual"  performance! More information coming soon!

Songs under the stars...

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Songs under the stars

An evening in the garden of the Powerhouse restaurant. A grand piano in the middle of a moonlit garden and a mood for romance in the heart of Nicosia's Old Town. Two long-time friends meet to share songs about old love and new. Pavlina Constantopoulou (voice) and Andreas Papapetrou (piano) will perform a selection of retro and contemporary songs, from the 1940s and up to now, from the great ladies of jazz to flower power, from the troubadours of folk to modern singer-songwriters.

12th September, 9.30pm

Powerhouse Restaurant, Tempon 3, Nicosia.

Entrance free.

For reservations

 call 22432559

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Ραντεβού στον κήπο

Δυο φίλοι από παλιά συναντιούνται για μια βραδιά στον κήπο της Παλιάς Ηλεκτρικής, στις 12 Σεπτεμβρίου, για να μοιραστούν μαζί μας τραγούδια για παλιούς και νέους έρωτες. Η Παυλίνα Κωνσταντοπούλου στο τραγούδι και ο Αντρέας Παπαπέτρου στο πιάνο θα ερμηνεύσουν νοσταλγικά και σύγχρονα ακούσματα από αγγλόφωνο ρεπερτόριο, ξεκινώντας από τη δεκαετία του 1940 και φτάνοντας μέχρι το σήμερα, από τις "μεγάλες κυρίες" της Τζαζ, τα Αγγλικά "Σκαθάρια" και τους λαϊκούς τροβαδούρους της Φόλκ, μέχρι τους σύγχρονους τραγουδοποιούς. Ένα πιάνο με ουρά στη μέση ενός κήπου, τραπεζάκια έξω, φεγγαράδα και χαλαρή ατμόσφαιρα, με ποτό και ρομαντική διάθεση στην καρδιά της παλιάς Λευκωσίας.

12 Σεπτεμβρίου, 9.30μμ

Παλιά Ηλεκτρική (εστιατόριο), Τεμπών 3, Λευκωσία.

Είσοδος δωρεάν.

Για κρατήσεις: τηλ. 22432559

Teaser...

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Θυμάμαι τ' απογεύματα του Μάη στη Νάντη. Τότε που ατενίζαμε μαζί λειβάδια από χρυσό φτιαγμένα και μου χαμογελούσες. Κι ένα βράδυ δίπλα στον Τάμεση, να με προσκαλείς να πετάξουμε στο φεγγάρι. Ναι, μου μιλούσες για τα περιπλανώμενα αστέρια, με μάθαινες για τα μυστήρια της ζωής. Και εκείνο το καλοκαίρι στην Πράγα, που κάθε μέρα, κάθε ώρα έμοιαζε με Κυριακή πρωί. Κι έτσι, όπως ακούγαμε τα κουρασμένα μπλούζ των μουσικών του δρόμου, εκεί, κάπου ανάμεσα στα μέτρα των στροφών και στις γραμμές του τράμ, ένα φιλί. Μού 'λεγες πως είμαι χαζός που σε θέλω αλλά σου απαντούσα πως νοιάζομαι μόνο για 'σένα. "Γιατί" με ρωτούσες γελαστή και απαντούσα "επειδή η γή είναι στρογγυλή και ο ουρανός γαλάζιος". Κανείς ποτέ δεν ξέρει ακριβώς το γιατί συμβαίνει, έτσι; Κι όμως, όλοι γνωρίζουν πως είναι κάτι το απόλυτο, όπως το ηλιοβασίλεμα και η ανατολή. Όσο απόλυτο το να μ' αγαπάς ή να μ' αφήσεις... Εκεί, κάπου πέρα από το ουράνιο τόξο, τα δάκρυα μου σχημάτισαν ένα ποταμό. Τον ακολουθήσαμε χορεύοντας στις όχθες του, μέχρι το τέλος της αγάπης.  

Θα αναρωτιέσαι αν είμαι λυπημένος. Αγάπη μου, από πού να ξεκινήσω; Σ' αγάπησα με ένα δικό μου τρόπο. Εσύ ήσουν το κορίτσι από την Ιπανέμα κι εγώ ο κύριος με το ντέφι. Είχα στην τσέπη μου μόνο διαμάντια και σκουριά να σου προσφέρω. Κάποτε αυτά μας ήταν αρκετά, μα οι καρδιές και οι αγκαλιές μας έμειναν τώρα αδειανές. Σου ζητώ να έρθεις ξανά στον κήπο να με βρείς, για να μετράμε τ' αστέρια μαζί και να ακούμε τον ήχο της σιωπής. Και θα δείς που η αγάπη θα έρθει ξανά, εκεί.

Εις το επανιδείν Ελεονώρα Ρίγκμπυ.

Θα σε περιμένω, στην Παλιά Ηλεκτρική, βράδυ με φεγγαράδα, 12 Σεπτεμβρίου στις εννιά και μισή.

Σε φιλώ,

Ο κύριος με το ντέφι.

ΥΓ. Στο γράμμα μου έχω κρύψει γύρω στα 30 τραγούδια που θα ακούσεις με φωνή και πιάνο αν έρθεις στο ραντεβού. Ψάξε να τα βρείς για να με βρείς.

Caryatid Unplugged at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Dear friends!

If you are lucky enough to find yourselves enjoying the summer in Edinburgh this August, join the lovely Evi Stamatiou, Philippos Philippou and a host of other artsy people in this production of "Caryatid Unplugged", a light-hearted exploration of the boundaries of the modern Greek identity at home and abroad. You will also get to hear some - equally light-hearted - original music from yours truly and a couple of famous song covers for the performance, edited by me.

Performances start from tomorrow and run throughout the festival. More information below.

In the June 2011 debate on whether to return the Ancient Parthenon marbles to Greece, David Cameron tells Parliament that ‘Britain has no intention to lose its marbles’.

In July 2012, he announces to the House of Commons Liaison Committee that contingency plans were being hatched to block Greek citizens from entering the UK.

But what about the Caryatid? In an exploration of art, immigration and the female body, Evi Stamatiou tells the Caryatid story via burlesque, clowning and physical comedy with unplugged traditional Greek music.

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Creatives

Performance Maker: Evi Stamatiou
DIrector: Philippos Philippou
Music Composer: Andreas Papapetrou
Set/Costume Designer: Ariadne Kritonos
Voice Over: Aiden Stricklang
Movement Coach: Danai Pappa
Executive Director: Valentina McKathy
Graphic Design by Nora & Dimitris Stamatiou

Caryatid Unplugged is part of the HILL STREET SOLO THEATRE FESTIVAL at the Hill Street Solo Theatre, the oldest Festival Fringe venue – now in constant operation for the last 34 years. The programme is presented in a new, dynamic collaboration between Scotland’s Universal Arts and the Face to Face Festival of Solo Theatre (London).

www.evistamatiou.com

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2013
Caryatid Unplugged
Hill Street Solo Theatre (Venue 41) 
19 Hill Street EH2 3JP 
2 – 25 August (not 14)
21.45 (22.35) 
Box Office 0131 226 0000 and 0131 226 6522 (from 1 August)
www.universalartsfestival.com
www.edfringe.com

Join the facebook event here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/376194142492496/ 

BAILED OUT Performing Arts Fair @ Vibe Gallery, 8pm, 14th June

Join us at the Vibe Gallery. My piece 'Spindle' for Harp, Dancer & Audience participants will be performed by Maria-Christina!

The event starts at 8pm sharp and will include an exciting assortment of various performances from different solo artists and groups, ranging from music and dance to video art, theatre and performance art.

 'Spindle' programme note: Elsewhere, in some strange faraway place, or maybe outside the realm of time and in the land of dreams, the maypole game is still played as it used to be in ancient times: A sacrifice of the chosen one to bring forth new life after the darkness of winter, an offering to celebrate the coming of Spring and the birth of the new Sun god. The performer sacrifices herself, living the death of the caterpillar, welcoming the cocoon built around her, in hope of new wings.

As this is still a work in progress I will appreciate your feedback! :)

Join the facebook event here.

Have a look at Maria-Christina & the 7 Pedals website  here.