IOANNIS MARONITIS, ELENI FILINI AND COSTAS VENETSANOS WILL PRESENTS THE SONGS OF FREEDOM BY PANAGIOTIS KAROUSOS

 CLUB FOR UNESCO OF PIRAEUS & ISLANDS / INTERNATIONAL ACTION ART

GREECE 1821 – 2021 “We are all one at music concert”

THE SONGS OF FREEDOM BY PANAGIOTIS KAROUSOS

PRESENTATION AND RECITATION OF POEMS BY CLUB FOR UNESCO OF PIRAEUS & ISLANDS / INTERNATIONAL ACTION ART

GREECE 1821 – 2021 “We are all one at music concert”

THE SONGS OF FREEDOM BY PANAGIOTIS KAROUSOS

PRESENTATION AND RECITATION OF POEMS BY ELENI FILINI AND COSTAS VENETSANOS

The Club for UNESCO of Piraeus & Islands & INTERNATIONAL ACTION ART

“We are all one at music concert”

A Concert with art songs of the internationally renowned Greek-Canadian composer

Panagiotis Karousos under the direction of maestro Andreas Prionas 

ZAPPEION MEGARON | COURTYARD 

TUESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2021 AT 8 PM

Mr Ioannis Maronitis, President of Club for UNESCO of Piraeus & Islands and INTERNATIONAL ACTION ART

Vocals: Erofili Tzanou, Dimitris Kanellos,Valia Tsirgioti, Eugenia Zekeri, Theodoros Birakos, Georgina Antonakaki. Musicians: Andreas Prionas (piano), Giannis Lambrakis (bouzouki), Nikos Tsachtsiris (double bass), Andreas Niakaris (percussion) 

MUSICAL DIRECTION OF THE RENOWN MAESTRO ANDREAS PRIONAS

Costas Venetsanos, Eleni Filini

Poems Set to Music by composer Panagiotis Karousos: The Enchanted Fountain (Costas Krystallis), Remembrance (Dionysios Solomos), Approach (Yiannis Ritsos), Wayfarer (Paul Nirvana), How much I love you (Yannis Vilaras), Τhe child in the river (Georgios Vizyinos), Silence (Kostis Palamas), Parthenon (Kostis Palamas), You the sweet (George Drosinis), Caryatids (Ioannis Polemis), Elevation (Nikiforos Vrettakos), In an old church (Miltiadis Malakasis), In the night club (Napoleon Lapathiotis), Learn the pain (Ioannis Gryparis), My world (Karl Marx), You will pull forward (Manolis Anagnostakis) Flowers of the cliff (Georgios Drosinis), Tomorrow Light (Alekos Panagoulis), Arise Greece (Alexander Pushkin), Maid of Athens (Byron)

Traditional folk dances by regions, a tribute to 1821 (Kalavrita, Lidoriki, etc.)  

Monologue: Despina Mirou: Bouboulina & Kolokotronis 1821, the two heroes of the revolution talk

Maronitis, President of the Club for UNESCO Piraeus & Islands and of the INTERNATIONAL ACTION ART 

Eleni Filini 

Panagiotis Karousos is a renowned Greek-Canadian composer who brings to his music the philosophy and spiritualism of the Greek classics. His Symphony No.1 “Liberty”, was presented in Canada and New York with great success with the Astoria Symphony and maestro Silas Nathaniel Huff. He did many concerts in Canada with his Liberty Symphony, and Symphony No.2 “Olympic” with the FACE Symphony Orchestra, the OSJL-L Symphony Orchestra and the Monteregie Symphony Orchestra under the direction of maestros Andre Gauthier, Theodora Stathopoulos and Luc Chaput. The Piano Concerto for Peace was presented with pianist Nathalie Joncas under UNESCO auspices in the Montreal Popular Concerts series in Montreal’s Maurice Richard Arena to an audience of 5000 people. The Suite Montrealaise was commended from the City of Montreal to mark the Millennium. The Olympic Flame choir was presented with the Symphony Orchestra and the Choir of Gunst wat'n Kunst at Hague, Holland, with maestro Rafael Pylarinos. P. Karousos Violin Concerto was presented in New York, under the direction of maestro Grant Gilman. The opera Alexander the Great presented in Montreal at the Montreal Notre Dame Basilica, in Chicago Illinois with the American Symphony Orchestra of Chicago and conducted by David Stech, in North Carolina Theatre with East Coast Philharmonic and soloists under the direction of Grant Gilman, and in Toronto at P.C. Ho Theater Cultural Center of Toronto with the Sneak Peak Symphony Orchestra of Toronto University and soloists under the direction of maestro Victor Cheng. 

Panagiotis Karousos, Eleni Filini 

The opera Prometheus represented in Los Angeles, in New York with the Astoria Symphony and soloists, and in Washington DC with The District of Columbia Symphony Orchestra. In 2013 he did major presentations of Prometheus in Ancient Greek Theaters (Epidaurus, Messina, Ancient Agora), and the National Archeological Meseum of Greece. In 2014 Prometheus presented with bass Vasilis Asimakopoulos in the United Nations and in Mamie Fay auditorium of New York under the auspices of UNESCO. His Symphony No.4 “Earth” premiered in 2014 with City of Athens Symphony Orchestra under the direction of maestro Eleftherios Kalkanis. In 11 December 2014 he presented in Athens Greece his "Tuba Concerto" dedicated to the International Mountain Day Under the Auspices of United Nations.  The lyric tragedy "Prometheus Bound" is the first Greek popular opera presented internationally and always with great success in areas such as the Sorbonne, Place des Arts in Canada, Epidaurus, UN, getting rave reviews.