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Philharmonia Orchestra
Nicholas Michalakis, conductor.

Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra. Brahms: Symphony No. 4.

Friday 20 March

Royal Festival Hall, South Bank Centre

Tickets £22, £18, £14.50, £10, £5

Box Office 0171 960 4242

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Hellenic Concert Series
Dorian Ensemble. Louis Demetrius Alvanis, piano, Clio Gould, violin, Stephen Higgins, piano, Daniella Ganeva, percussion. Fenella Fielding, narrator. Series Coordinator: Omiros Millas.

Schubert: Quintet in A major, Op.114. Cottakis: Within a White Silence (world premiere).

Thursday 26 March, 7.30pm

The Hellenic Centre

Tickets £10, £7 (members). Conc. £5

Booking enquiries 0171 487 5060

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The London Greek Theatre Group presents
The Greek National Opera

A programme of excerpts from Greek operetta

Friday 24, Saturday 25 April, 8pm

The Arts Theatre

Tickets £15, £10

Box Office 0171 836 3334

 


The Greek Lyre
Composer Elias Andriopoulos and his ensemble present his own settings of poetry by Nobel laureates Seferis and Elytis, together with a selection of settings of contemporary Greek poetry by Theodorakis, Hadjidakis, Markopoulos and Mikroutsikos. (See also 'Lectures and special events')

Saturday 25 April, 5pm

The University of East Anglia, Lecture Theatre

Entrance free

Booking and further information from
01603 592738 or 592518

 

 


Hellenic Concert Series
The City of Oxford Orchestra. Marios Papadopoulos, conductor/piano. Series Coordinator: Omiros Millas.

Pittas: Osper Onar (world premiere). Dello Joio: Choreography (UK premiere). Reich: Duet (UK premiere). Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings.

Thursday 7 May, 7.30pm

The Hellenic Centre

Tickets £10, £7 (members). Concessions £5

Booking enquiries 0171 487 5060

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The Royal College of Music, in association with
The London Greek Theatre Group, presents
A Celebration of Twentieth Century Greek Music
The programme includes works by Manos Hadjidakis, Mikis Theodorakis, Yiannis Constandinidis, Theodoros Antoniou, Periklis Koukos, Nikos Skalkottas and Kostis Kritsotakis.

Monday 11 May, 8pm

The Arts Theatre

Tickets £15, £10

Box Office 0171 836 3334

 


La Camerata - Friends of Music
Orchestra

Alexandros Myrat, conductor. Renato Ripo, cello.

Alexiadis: Concerto in Doric style for string orchestra. Camus: Dedicace for cello and string orchestra. De Falla: Fire dance from El amor brujo, for cello and string orchestra. Paganini: Variations on one string, for cello and string orchestra. Britten: Variations on a theme by Frank Bridge for string orchestra.

Tuesday 19 May, 7.30pm

Purcell Room, South Bank Centre

Tickets £10. Conc. £8

Box Office 0171 960 4242

Organized in cooperation with Megaron, The Athens Concert Hall with the support of The British Council, Greece.

Sponsored by The National Bank of Greece S.A.

 


La Camerata - Friends of Music Orchestra
Alexandros Myrat, conductor. Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute.

Wednesday 20 May, 7.30pm

1998 Bath International Music Festival

The Assembly Rooms, Bath

Tickets £6 £10 £13 £16

Box Office 01225 463362



Tatiana Papageorgiou and Mikis Theodorakis
Astron Photo Studio


Mikis Theodorakis in London
The London Philharmonic Orchestra. Mikis Theodorakis, conductor. Tatiana Papageorgiou, piano.

The concert includes the world premieres of the composer's 12 Melos for piano and Piano Concerto No. 1.

Monday 25 May, 7.45pm

Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre

Tickets £19 £15.50 £11 £6.50

Box Office 0171 960 4242

Sponsored by Olympic Airways and the Cyprus Popular Bank Ltd


East- West, Parallel Paths
Stella Gadedi, flute, Yiorghos Mouloudakis, guitar.

Kypourgos: From Nine Musical Images for Guitar. Bartok: Six Roumanian Folk Dances. Villa-Lobos: Distribucao de Flores. Dyens: Tango en Skai. Ibert: Entr'acte. Koumendakis: From the Grimm Brothers Suite. Debussy: Syrinx. Piazzola: From L'Histoire du Tango. Hadjidakis: From the Suite for Guitar. Ravi Shankar: L'aube enchantee.

Sunday 31 May, 7.30pm

Purcell Room, South Bank Centre

Tickets £10. Conc. £8.

Box Office 0171 960 4242

Organized in cooperation with Megaron, The Athens Concert Hall

Sponsored by The Hellenic Foundation


Orchestra of Corouzs
Miltos Logiadis, conductor. Alexandra Papatziakou, mezzo soprano

The 75-member orchestra, founded by Oscar winning composer Manos Hadjidakis, in a concert of contemporary Greek music dedicated to the memory of its founder on the fourth anniversary of his death.

Works by Manos Hadjidakis, Theodore Antoniou and Yiannis Christou

Monday 15 June, 7.45pm

Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre

Tickets £14, £12, £10, £8, £6 Conc. £2 off

Box Office 0171 960 4242

This concert was made possible by a generous anonymous donation, arranged through the kind offices of Mr J.A.Hadjipateras OBE, Chairman, The Greek Shipping Co-operation Committee.

 


The Composers Ensemble
Peter Wiegold, conductor.

Programme includes: Iannis Xenakis: Charisma. Yiorghos Koumendakis: Petit concerto pour piano et 6 instruments. Nestor Taylor: Voyage with Hesperus (UK premiere).

Friday 19 June, 7.30 pm

Conway Hall

Tickets £5

Box Office 0171 242 8032

 


The City of Oxford Orchestra
Marios Papadopoulos, conductor.

Koumendakis: Voyage in the Night (UK premiere), Koukos: Four Chorika from Aeschylus' The Persians (UK premiere). Elgar: Enigma Variations.

Saturday 20 June, 8pm

The Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford

Tickets £6 to £15

Booking enquiries 01865 744457, 01865 261384

Sponsored by The A.G.Leventis Foundation

 


Hellenic Concert Series
BT Scottish Ensemble. Patricia Rozario, soprano, Cleo Gould, violin. Series Coordinator: Omiros Millas.

Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony, Op.110, Two pieces for Octet. Tavener: Depart in Peace (world premiere)
Mendelssohn: Octet, Op. 20

Thursday 25 June, 7.30pm

The Hellenic Centre

Tickets £10, £7 (members). Conc. £5

Booking enquiries 0171 487 5060

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Recital by Efi Christodoulou, violin
with Alan Brown, piano

Beethoven: Sonata No 3 in E flat, Op. 12 No. 3.

Berkeley: Sonata. Wieniawski: Faust Fantasy Op. 20. Theodore Antoniou: For solo violin (European premiere). Franck: Sonata in A major.

Monday 29 June

The Wigmore Hall

Tickets £13, £11, £9, £6

Box Office 0171 935 2141

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