XV International Music Seminar

16th 25th August 2013 Kozani, Greece

programme design by Anaeresis

directed by
Anaeresis publishing
The year 2013 marks a centennial since the births of Witold Lutoslawski and Benjamin Britten and we are delighted to present pieces by the two composers as well as lectures on their work. More than 15 hours of live music, old and new, as well as music composed specifically for the Seminars by composers present and absent make up for a very exciting Festival programme. Our special guests of honour this year are John Harrington, principal viola with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for more than 25 years and the cellist Leo Winland, a student of both Rostropovich and du Pre, conductor and well-known figure of the Scandinavian classical music scene. The course itself covers a wide range of interests from Early music to new and improvised music, as well as ensemble and orchestral playing; the last three days of the Festival are dedicated to student-based performances of Purcells Dido and Aeneas in a working factory and a final concert of the student Orchestra as well as two concerts of solo performances by the students. We hope to see and host many international participants in the provincial town of Kozani for ten days of intensive music making. For the 2013 Seminar,

hosted/co-directed by
the Dimitris Demopoulos Music School

artistic direction
Panayiotis Demopoulos

executive secretaries
Stella Psarianou, Katerina Demopoulou

public relations /management

Katerina Kyratsou

technical support
Dimitris Andreopoulos, Babis Tsinikosmaouglou, Leonides Demopoulos, Nikos Papaparaskevas, Eri Koubali, Sakis Dovolis, Annie Tzouma, Giorgos Valais, Lefteris Ioannidis, Angeliki Zigra, Eleni Tasopoulou

Panayiotis Demopoulos

the teachers

Philip Bartai

Philip Bartai

was born in Scotland in a Scottish-Hungarian family of musicians and started learning music on the violin and piano. At the age of 10 he earned a place in St. Marys Music School, Edinburgh where he started composing and picked up the viola as his main instrument. He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music on a scholarship and studied viola and composition, was awarded a Masters degree and won the Peter Latham musicology prize. Philip learned with Geoffrey King, Lyell Creswell, Alexander Goehr and Michael Finnissy. His works have been performed in the United Kingdom and abroad. As a viola player he has performed as a soloist and principal viola; he specializes in 20th century and contemporary music. He is actively involved in the alternative London scene playing keyboards with the Windsors. His work with Atsuko Kamura has been broadcast by BBC radio three and in America. Phil teaches the viola and chamber music in London.

analysis

If you dont like music, you dont like Bartai

common saying (Ph. Bartai)

16-25.8 180 Quartet for the end of time works by Benjamin Britten and Witold Lutosawski introduction to analysis daily score reading sessions

Panayiotis Demopoulos

Panayiotis Demopoulos

was born in 1977 into a musical family. He studied music formally in the United Kingdom on scholarships from the Student Awards Agency of Scotland, the Royal Northern College of Music, Robinson College Cambridge and the State Scholarship Foundation of Greece. He was awarded a PhD in composition from the University of York and returned home in 2007. Amongst the many teachers he has learned with he discerns the lasting influence of pianist Murray McLachlan and composer Anthony Gilbert. As a pianist, Panos has issued 6 solo recordings which have received very positive reviews (Gramophone, International Record Review, American Record Review, Tempo, Jazz& et al). He writes about music (Contemporary Music Review. Library of Social Sciences et al) and has composed more than 50 original works to date. His music is characterized by ever changing interests in alternative tunings, free notations, automatic writing and micropolyphony. In his free time he writes words; he has taught in all levels and is currently employed in secondary education.

composition

exceptionally sensitive artistresponds with interior magichauntingly poetic

Bryce Morrison (Gramophone)

16-25.8 180 individual lessons group lessons score reading sessions mini lectures workshop/recording/participation in student concerts

Eleni Liona

Eleni Liona

was born in Kozani and graduated from the New Conservatoire of Thessaloniki, where she studied with Varvara Tsambali. She also learned with D. Kalafatis, V. Gavakos, V. Nikolaidis, K. Paschalis and A. Tomova-Sindov. Her first operatic role was Orestes in Offenbachs La belle Hlne. She has played dozens of importan roles on stage in a wide spectrum of styles from Purcell to Tchaikovsky and Mozart to Bizet. Eleni works with the Thessaloniki and Athens Megaron concert halls and with the Thessaloniki and Athens State Orchestras. She gives recitals frequently both in Greece and broad and her discography includes works by Th. Mikroutsikos and P. Carrer. She works for the National Opera of Greece and teaches at the National Conservatoire and the Anagennisi Conservatoire in Athens.

singing
call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me
Hamlet (Shakespeare)

16-25.8 180 individual lessons participation in concerts and a staged Opera production participation in the Seminar choirs and Chorus working with a co-repetiteur

Valerie Pearson

Valerie Pearson

composes music, plays the violin and improvises. She was awarded the Michael Tippett prize at a young age and earned a place in the Bmus course at Kings College, London, where she studied composition with Sir Harrison Birtwistle and Robert Keeley and violin with Dianna Cummings at the Royal Academy. After a period of work in Palestine, Valerie returned to the U.K. and won the Nonhebel Prize (York) and an AHRC scholarship for a PhD in composition (2009). Valerie is an SPNM composer and her work has been performed at amongst others the Cheltenham, Soundwaves and York Spring Festivals. She performs frequently in a variety of settings from baroque orchestra to new music ensemble. In 2007, she founded Falco Subbuteo together with Gwilly Edmondez. Her work has been broadcast by BBC Radio 3 and American radio stations. She lives in York, where she manages Club Integral Northern Branch, a venue for uncategorizable music and is a sought-after violin teacher: this year her pupils won places in the National Youth Orchestra.

violin/free improvisation

hardocre, interesting stuffon the more edgy side of what we might play
Philip Tagney (BBC Radio 3)

16-25.8 180 (230 for participation in both classes) workshops (improv)/ group lessons (violin) free improvisation concert individual lessons (violin) participation in student concerts and the Seminar orchestra

John Harrington

John Harrington was born in Southampton

and started learning the piano at the age of 6 and the violin at the age of 11. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London and first worked for the BBC Northern in Manchester. During that time he was also a member of the "Ad Solem Ensemble", which was resident at the University of Manchester. John moved to Scotland in 1973 to join the Scottish National Orchestra under Sir Alexander Gibson. In 1977 he became principal viola and held that position to 2012 in what was by then the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. He has recorded and performed with world-renowned conductors such as Sir Alex Gibson, Nemee Jrvi, Alexander Lasarev, Walter Weller, Jos Serebrier and Stphane Denve. He has also performed as a soloist and in works such as Mozarts Sinfonia Concertante, Strausss don Quixote and Berliozs Harold en Italie. Johns viola was made in Wrzburg in 1889 by K. A. Horlien on a design by Hermann Ritter.

viola

superb most eloquent and stylish

Michael Tumelty (Herald Scotland)

16-25.8 180 individual lessons open master-classes participation in student concerts and the Seminar orchestra

Yiotis Kiourtsoglou

Yiotis Kiourtsoglou was born in Kozani in

1965. He studied jazz theory and harmony in Thessaloniki and continued his studies at the Musicians Institute, in Los Angeles (1987-89) on a scholarship and won a number of prizes for most improved student and exceptional musican of the year. In L.A. he learned with Garry Willis, Bob Magnuson, Carl Schoeder, Jeff Berlin and Scot Henderson. As a recording artist, Yiotis has issued a number of CDs with the Electric Jazz Trio (Manny Boyd and Danny Hayes), Exit, Iasis, Tillman Ambient Groove, Lauenen and his own group Human Touch. As a session musician he is in great demand both in Greece and abroad.

jazz improvisation

Yiotis has performed in four continents and international festivals across the world in venues such as the Acropolis and Epidaurus theatres and the Lincoln Center. He composes music for dance, theatre and the cinema and teaches at the Nakas Conservatoire in Athens.

20-25.8 120 combo groups individual lessons jam sessions participation in student concerts

Nicola Harrington

Nicola Harrington

early music/organ

was born in 1981 in Boquhan Scotland and was raised in a musical family. She learned how to play the violin from her father and started taking lessons on the organ at the Douglas Academy and later as the Herrick Bunney Scholar at St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh. She studied music with Michael Harris, Daniel Moult, Philip Sawyer, David Saint Timothy Byram-Wigfield at Napier University, Edinburgh, the Birmingham Conservatoire and the University of York where she earned an MA in music. She has spent more than half her life as a chorister and choral scholar in the Cathedrals of St. Marys, Glasgow, St. Giles, Edinburgh, St. Chad and St. Philips, Birmingham, the Scottish Chamber Choir and the Oratory of Birmingham. Nicola moved to Kozani, Greece in 2007 and established Ricercati, a vocal ensemble that performs a mixture of early, new and folk polyphonic music. She enjoys teaching younger people and introducing them to Western Church Music.

Mummy plays the best organ

Susannah Demopoulou (daughter)

16-25.8 180 individual keyboard and pedalboard lessons Hauptwerk simulation with full natural pedalboard vocal ensemble participation in student concerts and the Seminar choirs

Dimitris Demopoulos

Dimitris Demopoulos studied music with

Tonis Sakellarios and Yiannis Tsanakas at the Larissa State Conservatoire where he graduated from with full honours and distinction. He continued his post-graduate studies at the Royal College of Music, London and the Ferenc Liszt Academy in Budapest, specialising in piano performance, orchestral conducting, chamber music and new music. In the past 25 years, he has performed in a wide range of settings, playing any keyboard music from Frescobaldi to Murail as a soloist or member of an ensemble. He has premiered more than 100 pieces of music and many composers have dedicated their work to him. He has recorded for the Greek, German and Spanish Radio and Television. As a teacher he has taught across Greece at State Conservatoires and Summer Academies. Dimitris founded the Kozani International Music Seminar in 1988. In 1999 he founded his own Music School and took up the post of conductor with the Aristotle University Symphony Orchestra.

piano/chamber music

unequalled interpretation technique

Th. Tamvakos (Jazz&)

16-25.8 180 individual lessons open master-classes chamber music participation in student concerts

Leo Winland

Leo Winland

violoncello

amazing depthastonishing sound

Jakob, Cohn (Svenska Dagbladet)

was born in Moscow in 1953. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Natalia Schahovskaja and Mstislav Rostropovitch, and continued his studies with Jaqueline du Pre in London. He took up the position of principal cellist at the Royal Opera in Copenhagen and was subsequently offered the position of principal cellist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Stockholm. Since 1989 he has been the principal cellist of the New Chamber Music Orchestra of Stockholm (artistic director: Essa-Pekka Sallonen) and, in collaboration with Dmitry Sitkovetsky, he has managed The New European Strings ensemble. In 1990 Leo Winland was appointed principal cellist at the Stockholm Royal Opera and the National Symphonic Orchestra of Gothenburg. As well as a solo cellist, Leo has made many appearances as a conductor with various Scandinavian chamber music ensembles and has given many recitals as a soloist throughout the world. He plays frequently at music festivals in Gotland, Sweden, the Musicades de Lyon and Prades in France, the Schlesving-Holstein in Germany, the Korsholm in Finland, and many others. In 2007, he founded the Koroni Chamber Music Festival in the South of Greece.

16-25.8 180 individual lessons open master-classes participation in student concerts and the Seminar orchestra

Nikolos Demopoulos

Nikolos Demopoulos

was born in 1967 and tooks his first music lessons at the age of 5. He studied the flute at the State Conservatoire of Thessaloniki with T. Takahashi and Ilie Macovei, and graduated cum laude in 1988. He commenced post-graduate studies at the Ferenc Liszt Academy in Budapest under the tutelage of Lrnt Kovcs and Istvn Lng (contemporary music). Nikolos has also learned with William Bennett, Alexandre Magnin, Marc Grawels and Istvn Matusz. He has performed a great number of recitals in Greece and abroad and has appeared as a soloist with the Thessaloniki, Cyprus, Vratza and Larisa Symphony Orchestras. He is an original founder of the Kozani Seminar with a special interest in contemporary music: his CD of new music by Greek composers won a National Critics Award in 2011. Nikolos has held the position of principal flute for the State Orchestra of Thessaloniki since 1996. He taught at the Thessaloniki State Conservatoire for many years and now teaches at the Municipal Conservatoire of Thermi. He is a member of Ensemble Ide fixe.

flute

a unique ability for emotional fluctuations

Th. Tamvakos (Jazz&)

19-25.8 180 individual lessons open master-classes orchestral excerpts participation in student concerts and the Seminar orchestra

Dimitris Leontzakos

Dimitris Leontzakos

was born in Kavala. He taught himself music, playing the recorder, flute and clarinet and decided to devote himself to the study of the clarinet.

clarinet

He graduated from the Synchrono Conservatoire of Thessaloniki where he studied with K. Papadopoulos and continued his studies with Gerd Starke at the Munich Hochschule and with Anton Hollich in Baden-Baden. He also learned with Vincenzo Mariozzi in the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome and Richard Faria in Ithaca College, New York, thanks to a Fullbright Foundation scholarship. Other teachers of his are Charles Neidich, Aurelian Popa, Walter Boeykens and Michel Lethiec. Today he is a member of the Municipal Orchestra of Thessaloniki and performs solo and chamber repertoire as a freelancer. He teaches at the Nakas Conservatoire in Thessaloniki and is a co-founder of contemporary music groups OMAA 3 plus, Ide fixe ensemble and Terra Incognita.

exceptional and placid playing

(Eleftherotypia)

16-25.8 180 individual lessons open master-classes participation in student concerts and the Seminar orchestra

Dionysis Mallouhos

Dionysis Mallouhos

was born in Athens in 1963. He is a graduate of chemical engineering and studied the piano with Thaleia Baha at the National Conservatoire. He graduated from the Athens Conservatoire where he learned with G. Arvanitakis in 1987. On scholarships from The Onassis and Bakala Foundations he continued his studies at the Ferenc Liszt Academy in Budapest, with rta and Istvn Gulys from 1988 to 1991. As a soloist he has performed with the State Orchestra of Athens, the Athens Camerata, the Franz Liszt Orchestra et al. He has recorded for various styles of music and performs frequently with the New Music Group in Greek Composers Union concerts. For many years, he presented TV broadcasts on music for the National Television of Greece (ERT). He has produced a daily radio broadcast for Greek National Radio since 2003 and has taught the piano for more than 20 years across the country. In 2007 he became music tutor for the National Theatre and the artistic director of the Kalamata State Conservatoire.

piano

lyrical confession and elegiac reverie

Lilly Drakou (Eleftheros Typos)

18-25.8 180 individual lessons open master-classes participation in student concerts

Zoi Tsokanou

Zoi Tsokanou

was born in Thessaloniki. She studied at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Zrcher Hochschule der Knste, where she graduate from having studied the piano with Konstantin Scherbakov, and orchestral conducting with Johannes Schlaefli. She also learned with Bernard Haitink, Howard Griffiths, Norbert Baxa, Paul Badura-Skoda, Victor Merzhanov and Peter Feuchtwanger. Zoi has won many international competitions and has conducted amongst others the Orchestras of Bamberg, the Greek National Opera, Regensburg, the Lucerne Festival, Bern, Kollegium Musicum Basel, the Radio Orchestra of Zagreb, the State Orchestra of Thessaloniki and the Greek Radio Orchestra. She is the director of the Symphony Orchestra of Western Bohemia in Marienbad, Czech Republic and the musical director of the Arosa Music Theatre. Zoi maintains a very busy schedule as a pianist.

orchestra

animation and assurance that inspires the orchestra

Jessica Duchen (the Independent)

20-25.8 60 (free for instrumental students of the Seminar) rehearsals participation in the Seminar orchestra

Emy Tsioura

Emy Tsioura was born and raised in Kozani.

She is a graduate pianist (distinction) of the State Conservatoire of Thessaloniki, where she studied with Dimitris Demopoulos. She has studied the piano repertoire with Ruth Gerald, chamber music with Anna Prabucka-Firlej, and choral conducting with K. Konstantaras. She has given many concerts as a soloist and member of ensembles and has prepared, taught and conducted choirs in Greece and abroad. She is a founding member of the Ricercati vocal ensemble and teaches music in the Ptolemaida Music School and the Dimitris Demopoulos Music School.

choir

I raise three children with success

Emy Tsioura (in person)

16-25.8 50 choral training participation in the Seminar choir and chorus

the programme

Friday, August 16 Folklore Museum, 20.30

Saturday, August 17 Folklore Museum, 20.30

piano recital

Chopin soiree

Al. Scarlatti S. Rachmaninov W. A. Mozart A. Ginastera

4 sonatas Sonata n.2 Sonata K.330 Sonata n.1

Piano sonata n.3 Songs (selection)

singing: Eleni Liona piano: Dimitris Demopoulos piano: Panayiotis Demopoulos

Sunday, August 18 Folklore Museum, 20.30

Monday, August 19 Folklore Museum, 20.30

viola recital concert for the end of time

Schumann E. McGuire Schubert Bax E. McGuire Brahms Drei Fantasiestcke Messiaen Quartet for the end of Time Zalongo dance elegy Arpeggione sonata Legend Martyr Sonata op.120, n.1 violin: Valerie Pearson violoncello: Leo Winland clarinet: Dimitris Leontzakos piano: Panayiotis Demopoulos

paintings by Kostas Dios

viola: John Harrington piano: Panayiotis Demopoulos

Tuesday, August 20 Folklore Museum, 20.30

Wednesday, August 21 Folklore Museum, 19.00

new music concert

Lutosawski Ph. Bartai Kurtg V. Kitsos Sciarrino G. Tzoukas V. Pearson Subito New work Hommage Schumann Eulogy Lo spazio inverso Parodos New work

jazz improvisation

Yiotis Kiourtsoglou and friends

Wednesday, August 21 Lefkopigi Karaoulia, 21.30

P. Demopoulos Lernaios

moon poetry night

flute: N. Demopoulos, Th. Tosounidis clarinet: D. Leontzakos violin: Valerie Pearson viola: Phil Bartai violoncello: Leo Winland piano: Antonella Poulouli, D. Demopoulos

students and staff present music about the moon co-organized by the literary journal Paremvasi

Thursday, August 22 St. Christopher Church, 19.30

Friday, August 23 Dimitris Demopoulos Music School, 17.00

music for St. Cecilia

Britten Haendel Britten P. Demopoulos de to the Virgin Ode to St. Cecilia Hymn to St. Cecilia

student concert

the younger students of the Seminar take centre stage Oikos I

Friday, August 23 Folklore Museum, 19.30 Seminar orchestra and choir direction: Emy Tsioura/Dimitris Demopoulos

student concert

Thursday, August 22 Ohliroi theatre, 22.00

free music theatre

the more advanced students of the Seminar present solo and chamber music performances

Valerie Pearson and class + the Ohliroi theatre group

Saturday, August 24 Kikis Factory, 21.00

Sunday, August 25 State Conservatoire of Kozani Gardens, 22.00

Dido and Aeneas

Purcell Dido and Aeneas, Opera in 3 Acts Skalkottas

Student Orchestra
Greek Dances

Vaughan Williams Greensleeves Mozart Dvorak Concerto K.313 Slavonic Dances

stage performance Eleni Liona and class co-rganised by the State-Municipal Theatre of Kozani direction: Yiannis Karahisaridis choir: Emy Tsioura music direction: Dimitris Demopoulos

Seminar Orchestra direction: Zoi Tsokanou flute: Nikolos Demopoulos

useful information

Kozani

How to get there

Kozani is a small town with a very rich past and a very lively atmosphere. It is the capital of the region of Western Macedonia and is situated very close to a number of monuments and sites of great archaeological importance. as well as some stunning nature. The true population of the city is c. 50,000 people and the end of August is a time when most people return from their summer holiday. What to see/visit: the Cathedral of St. Nicholas the Aiani Archaeological Museum the Polyfyto Lake and surrounding area the villages of Velvendo and Vlasti

The easiet ways to get to Kozani from abroad is by plane to Thessaloniki and then by car via the Egnatia motorway (1h15) by plane to Athens and then a connect flight to the Filippos Airport (30) by plane to Corfu, then on the ferry to Igoumenitsa (40) and by car via the Egnatia motorway (2h)

The railway station is currently defunct. For more information please contact us.

Accommodation
The Kozani International Music Seminar offers two options for the accommodation of students hotel (half-board) at a very convenient walking distance from both the Seminar and the city centre at a special price of 2030 Euros a night (depending on number of beds, length of stay etc.) free accommodation with local families. This option is available upon early request and subject to the resident familys agreement to host the applicant.

Money matters
For active participants the cost of participation is written in the Teachers section of the prospectus. The Seminar tutors can teach a limited number of students and it is crucial to apply early to guarantee participation. If a teacher agrees, a pass for an audience only participation may be issued at half-price for late-comers. There are also substitute teachers available when spaces fill up. In exceptional cases, applications for half the duration of the course may be accepted at a 20% discount.

Students may make their own arrangements but are strongly advised to get in touch for their own benefit.

Contact
For any matter concerning the Seminar and your participation please contact us at: The 15th Kozani International Music Seminar c/o Katerina Demopoulou Vogatsikou 6, Kozani, 50100 kdimopoulou@hotmail.com (+30) 24610 40339/6943510661

Health issues
Kozani has its own Hospital and there is an intensive care unit in Ptolemais (20 by car). The end of August is a very volatile time of the year (weather-wise) and so visitors are advised to prepare for temperatures ranging from a wet 10C to a very dry 40C.

Schedule
During the Seminar, a number of lectures, open master-classes, jam sessions and workshops will take place; these are not written into the concert programme. String and woodwind students ought to take advantage of the opportunity to play for the Seminar Orchestra, as this is an invaluable opportunity to share performance time with seasoned professionals. For this reason, it is important to study the concert programme and practice the orchestral parts of the last three concerts in advance. Parts for these can be emailed. The piano and singing students are also advised to consult the programme so that they may choose when they wish to perform. Composition students can get in touch with Panayiotis Demopoulos to discuss work lineups and performance/recording opportunities as well as the structure of the lessons. The Seminar is a meeting point for musicians and chamber music is at the heart of what we do. Students who wish to play as part of a group must notify the secretary as soon as possible in order to make sure that sufficient coaching is on offer.

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