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World premiere of  "After the sundown"

12.9.21 - International Anthony Burgess Foundation

Arranged for large ensemble by the  UnHeard Hybrid Orchestra.

Conductor: Omer Shteinhart

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https://www.anthonyburgess.org/event/concert-unheard-hybrid-orchestra-present-unquote/

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Online workshop with ensemble recherche
26.7.21 - 29.7.21 - Freiburg im Breisgau

Second phase of the ensemble's 2020/21 KlassenArbeit Project. ​

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Find out more: 

https://www.ensemble-recherche.de/klassenarbeit

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World premiere of  "systole/diastole (in a heartbeat)" for freebass accordion

27.5.21 - Hallé  at St. Peters, Manchester

Accordion: Miloš Milivojević 

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The work  was composed for Miloš , as part of Psappha Ensemble's Composing for accordion 2020 scheme. This was its first public performance.

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https://www.psappha.com/event/in-focus-music-for-accordion/

Online broadcast of "After the Sundown" for solo piano

18. 3.2020 

As part of RNCM's Play Festival.

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Pianist: Ellada Angelina Pavlou

Zoom workshop with ensemble recherche

08.12.2020-09.12.2020

First phase of the ensemble's 2020/21 KlassenArbeit project.

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Find out more: 

https://www.ensemble-recherche.de/klassenarbeit

YouTube premiere of "systole/diastole (in a heartbeat)" for freebass accordion

2.11.2020 - 20:00 - YouTube Premiere

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Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7I59LUgc2c

Recorded as part of the Composing for Scheme, organised by Psappha Ensemble in association with the PRS Foundation;

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freebass accordion: Miloš Milivojević

Premiere of earworm for solo acapella voice

12.3.2020 - 19:30 - Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds

Commissioned by the Sounds Like THIS festival 2020

Performer: Vanessa Guinadi
 

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Premiere of Music from two sleep onsets for alto saxophone and accordion

18.2.2020 - 19:00 - Akademie für Tonkunst, Darmstadt, Germany

As part of the Zeiströme festival

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Alto-saxophone: Grace Julite

Accordion: Dascha Goldberg

Performance of After Psappha for chamber ensemble

28.11.2019 - 19:30 - Halé at St. Peters, Manchester

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As part of Psappha's 2019-2020 Manchester season.

http://www.psappha.com/event/songs-of-the-world/

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Christopher Brooks Composition Prize

1.11.2019

Athanasia is honoured to be this year's Christopher Brooks Composition Prize recipient, by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in association with The Rushworth Foundation. 

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https://www.liverpoolphil.com/news/press-releases/details/liverpool-philharmonic-announces-winner-of-christopher-brooks-composition-prize-2019-in-association-with-the-rushworth-foundation

Premiere of Uncle Moon for chamber ensemble

1.11.2019 - 19:30 - Concert Hall, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester

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For clarinet, violin, cello & percussion.

Performed by players from Psappha, as part of the New Music Manchester Festival.

Participation in Composing for Freebass accordion Scheme by Psappha Ensemble

13.9.2019

Athanasia is excited to have been selected as one of the participants in Psappha Ensemble's Composing for scheme, with the world-renowned accordionist Miloš Milivojević.

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https://twitter.com/PsapphaEnsemble/status/1176205125100146688

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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.

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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

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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.

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https://www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/gold-medal-chromatsas-kontou-taylor/

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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

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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

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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

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Performance of "Koda (Hommage to R. Schumann) 

for solo piano

25.2.2019 - Quo Vadis, Vienna

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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

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Performed by the dedicatee of the work, Fateme Beytollahi

Sana live at TOP e.V.

16.2.2019 - 20:30 - TOP e.V. Berlin

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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.

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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

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As part of the Lassaneia festival.

Patricia Cunliffe Composition Prize

1.7.2018

Athanasia is delighted to have been awarded with the RNCM 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

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Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2123639934327719/

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.

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Reciter: Robert Smith

Mezzo- Soprano: Chelsea Burns

Viola: Peter Hartley

Percussion: Aidan Marsden