MUSICAL PORTRAITS 

The second tribute concert to composer and music teacher Thodoros Antoniou for the 85th anniversary of his birth (10.02.1935-26.12.2018): the Hellenic Group of Contemporary Music, under the baton of another pupil of Antoniou, Iakovos Konitopoulos, in a compositionally kaleidoscopic programme featuring Οctet (1986), a theme with variations; Three Likes (1973: Like an Introduction, Like a Lament, Like Variations), which forms part of a wider cycle of experimental compositions for solo instruments; and the intercultural work East-West (1993), based on a Taiwanese folk song and the Seikilos Epitaph. In The Frogs, Antoniou follows the text of Aristophanes and Pavlos Matesis’ fine translation (Open Theatre–Festival of Epidaurus, 1990).

Thodoros Antoniou: Octet
                               Three Likes, for solo clarinet
                                East-West, for instrumental ensemble and tape
                                The Frogs, incidental music for narrator, chorus and instrumental ensemble
 
 Yannis Samprovalakis clarinet
 
Telemachus Krevaikas narrator

The Rosarte Children’s Choir
Choirmaster Rosie Mastrosavva
 
The Hellenic Group of Contemporary Music 
Conducted by Iakovos Konitopoulos