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Premiere of Su le forme di Santa Lucia for cello & harpsichord
18.7.2019 - 21:30 - Auditorium Falcone, Montepulciano, Italy
As part of the 8x8 Contemporanee sonore mappe poliziane concert, of the 44th Cantiere Internazionale d'arte in Montepulciano, Italy.
Performers from the ensemble degliIntrigati
Premiere of 4 vocalises for piano and voice
25.6.2019 - 19:30 - Carole Nash Recital Room, Royal Northernc College of Music, Manchester
Voice: Helene Mathiesen
Piano: Celia Denore Lopez
Premiere of EXPOSED for wind quintet
15.6.2019 - 19:30 - Gold Medal Competition, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
Athanasia is excited to have been chosen as one of the finalists for the RNCM Gold Medal Competition 2019.
Her work EXPOSED , will be premiered by Festivo Winds.
https://www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/gold-medal-chromatsas-kontou-taylor/
Premiere of paradoxical sleep for symphony orchestra
2.5.2019 - 19:30 - Concert Hall, Royal Northernc College of Music, Manchester
As part of the Brand New Day conert.
Conductor: Rory Storm
Performance of VI miniatures for solo piano
8.3.2019 - 20:30 - Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki, Greece
As part of a concert with piano works by female Greek composers.
Pianist: Katerina Papazoglou
Premiere of "Adagio and Allegro" for alto saxophone and guitar
5.3.2019 - 19:30 - Carole Nash Recital Room, Royal Northernc College of Music, Manchester
As part of a concert with works by student composers from the RNCM.
Mark Reid: guitar
Tasuku Noguchi: alto saxophone
Performance of "Koda (Hommage to R. Schumann)
for solo piano
25.2.2019 - Quo Vadis, Vienna
Performed by the dedicatee of the work, Fateme Beytollahi
Performance of "Koda (Hommage to R. Schumann)
for solo piano
17.2.2019 - 11:15 - Kaisersaal, Vienna
Performed by the dedicatee of the work, Fateme Beytollahi
Sana live at TOP e.V.
16.2.2019 - 20:30 - TOP e.V. Berlin
Free improvisation night with the improv groups Room338: Stephen Bradshaw (violin), Rob Smith (oboe) & Athanasia Kontou (organ) and a flute and a box/afaab: Lisa Baeyens (flute), Vassilis Theodorou (electronics) in Berlin.
Workshop with the BBC Singers
28.1.2019 - London
Athanasia is delighted to have been selected to participate in a workshop with the BBC Singers, organised by the RNCM. Her new choral piece "lizmonia" was workshopped at a session led by Judith Weir CBE.
Performance of "Another Zorba..." for orchestra
24.1.2019 - Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
Performed by the RNCM's Brand New Day Orchestra.
Premiere of "short etude (on the arduousness of pluralism and the genesis of an echo-chamber)" for solo piano
17.1.2019 - Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
Commissioned and performed by Adam Swayne, for the concert "New Music, New Politics - (speak to me) Album Launch"
Premiere of "primes eternal (some music of the primes)
23.10.2018 - Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
Composed for the event "Music of the primes", organised by PRiSM and Marcus du Sautoy.
Performed by the Marvolo String Quartet
Premiere of "Lines and Circles"
26.8.2018 - Kozani Folklore Museum, Kozani
VIolin: Maria Louisa Geladari Hanicz
Clarinet: Dimitris Leontzakos
Piano: Dimitris Demopoulos
As part of the Lassaneia festival.
Patricia Cunliffe Composition Prize
1.7.2018
Athanasia is delighted to have been awarded with the Patricia Cunliffe Composition Prize.
Premiere of "Odysseus/Penelope"
26.6.2018 - Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
Poetry by Katie Byford
Soprano: Lucy Temby
Piano: Brian Low
Performance of "Lines and circles" for clarinet, violin and piano
24.6.2018 - Landcommanderij Alden Biesen, Belgium
"Lines and circles" (extracts) will be performed at an open workshop by members of the ensemble deCompagnie as part of the AlbaNova 2018 festival.
Premiere of "Six or seven short pieces (a few more Osannas)" for sinfonietta
20.6.2018 - Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
This work was commissioned by the RNCM New Ensemble and will be performed as part of the Gilbert- Gorb festival.
Performance of "Songs with words" for mezzo soprano and string trio
13.8.2018 - LEAF on Portland St, Manchester
Mezzo- Soprano: Avra Haraka
Violin I: Will McGahon
Violin II: Philip Rousiamanis
Cello: Kotryna R. Šiugždinytė
Conductor: Otis Enokido Lineham
As part of the Kinetic #3 night.
Performance of "V of VI miniatures" for solo piano
17.5.2018 - IBZ Saal, Berlin
Pianist: Katerina Papazoglou
SANA - Free improvisation with Room338 and Pod31
12.5.2018, 20:00 - Fuel Cafe Bar, Manchester
Room338 from Manchester meets Pod31 from Berlin for a free improv night. Live painting by Caroline Bordignon
FB event:
Performance of "After Psappha" for chamber ensemble
1.5.2018 - Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
"After Psappha" is a composition based on poetry by the ancient Greek poet Sappho.. It was composed for a workshop with the Manchester-based new music ensemble Psappha.
It will receive its first public perfomance by students from the RNCM.
Premiere of "Antimusical" for chamber ensemble
27.4.2018 - Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
"Antimusical" is a setting of a poem by John-Paul Burns, for reciter, mezzo-soprano, viola and percussion
It will be performed as part of the Rosamund prize concert at the Carole Nash Recital Room at the RNCM.
Reciter: Robert Smith
Mezzo- Soprano: Chelsea Burns
Viola: Peter Hartley
Percussion: Aidan Marsden