The
Songs of Freedom Panagiotis Karousos
SPORTS
CULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF VYRONAS
THURSDAY
30 SEPTEMBER 2021 / TIME 21:00
Melina
Mercouri Open Air Theatre
Admission
free by invitation
Information:
Department of Culture of the Municipality of Byron, 210 7609340 - 350
Concert
with new art and folk songs by Panagiotis Karousos
under
the teaching and direction of conductor Andreas Prionas
Vocals:
Eleni Roda, George Kampanellis, Erofili Tzanou, Dimitris Kanellos, Georgia
Siakavara, Theodor Birakos, Tzo Antonakaki, Kyriaki Vlachogianni.
Musicians:
Giannis Lambrakis (bouzouki), Andreas Niakaris (percussion), Nikos Tsachtsiris
(double bass), Andreas Prionas (piano & accordion).
Presentation
& Recitations of poems: Renata Anagnostopoulou, Giota Karahaliou, Spyros Chaintoutis
HAN of
Nikaia Dance Group under the direction of choreographer Rena Vegou
Music
direction: Andreas Prionas
Artistic
direction: Panos Karousos
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 (Lord Byron)
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. 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.
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