presented by MidAmerica Productions of New York and the Municipality of -Hermoupolis

Named Best Festival of Greater in 2011 JULY 9th to 22nd 2012 HERMOUPOLIS SYROS Peter Tiboris General & Artistic Director ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ ΠΕΡΙΦΕΡΕΙΑ ΝΟΤΙΟΥ ΑΙΓΑΙΟΥ ΔΗΜΟΣ ΣΥΡΟΥ - ΕΡΜΟΥΠΟΛΗΣ

ΓΙΑΝΝΗΣ ΔΕΚΑΒΑΛΛΑΣ ΔΗΜΑΡΧΟΣ ΣΥΡΟΥ - ΕΡΜΟΥΠΟΛΗΣ

Μετά την Τιμητική Διάκριση σε Πολιτιστικό Οργανισμό που δραστηριοποιείται στην Πε- ριφέρεια για το έτος 2011 με την οποία βραβεύτηκε το Διεθνές Φεστιβάλ Αιγαίου από την Ένωση Ελλήνων θεατρικών και μουσικών κριτικών, θα έχουμε την ευκαιρία να το απολαύ- σουμε για 8η συνεχή χρονιά στο νησί μας. Ο Πήτερ Τιμπόρις, ένας αξιόλογος μαέστρος διεθνούς φήμης, από το 2000 έχει προ- σφέρει τα μέγιστα στην πολιτιστική πρόοδο της Ερμούπολης και του νησιού μας γενικό- τερα. Κάθε χρόνο το πρόγραμμα του είναι και μία έκπληξη για το φιλότεχνο κοινό, που κατακλύζει από όλο τον κόσμο το Θέατρο Απόλλων. Ένα ολόκληρο επιτελείο από καλλιτέ- χνες, μουσικούς, χορευτές, χορωδούς και τεχνικούς βρίσκεται σε απόλυτο συντονισμό για την υλοποίηση και την ανάδειξη των παραστάσεων εξαιρετικής ποιότητας που συμβάλ- λουν στην προβολή του νησιού μας, διεθνώς. Επιθυμώ να εκφράσω τα θερμά μου συγχαρητήρια προς τον αγαπητό φίλο και Συρια- νό Πήτερ Τιμπόρις για το σπουδαίο Φεστιβάλ. Είναι ιδιαίτερη τιμή για τη Σύρο να φιλοξενεί κορυφαίους μουσικούς και καλλιτέχνες παγκόσμιας εμβέλειας, ενώ αξίζει επίσης να ση- μειωθεί η οργανωτική προσπάθεια του κ. Τιμπόρις στον οποίο με απόφαση του Δημοτικού Συμβουλίου, θα απονεμηθεί αυτή τη χρονιά, το μετάλλιο της πόλης μας. Παράλληλα θα ήθελα να ευχαριστήσω θερμά τη διοίκηση και το προσωπικό του Ορ- γανισμού Πολιτισμού και Αθλητισμού Σύρου που συνέβαλαν ουσιαστικά στην συνδιοργά- νωση του Φεστιβάλ με την εταιρεία MidAmerica Productions που διευθύνει ο κ. Τιμπόρις, όλους τους χορηγούς καθώς και τα τοπικά και διεθνή ΜΜΕ που συντελούν στην προβολή των δρώμενων του νησιού μας. Τέλος ευχαριστώ θερμά όλους τους Συριανούς και επι- σκέπτες, που με την παρουσία τους συμβάλλουν στη διατήρηση και ανάδειξη του πνευμα- τικού και πολιτισμικού μας επιπέδου και επιβραβεύουν με την παρουσία τους την φιλότιμη προσπάθεια όλων των συντελεστών που εμπλουτίζουν την πολιτισμική κληρονομιά του τόπου μας

Γιάννης Δεκαβάλλας Δήμαρχος Σύρου - Ερμούπολης

Μέγαρο Δημαρχείου Τηλ. 2281 3 61002 Πλατεία Μιαούλη, 841 00 ΣΥΡΟΣ Fax: 2281 0 88232 Dear Friends, Welcome to the Annual International Festival of the Aegean and the Apollo Theater, “La Piccola Scala.” It is now eight years since the first performance in July 2005 of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia (to that time the first at Apollo in 105 years), and the growth and development of the Festival has been, by any measure, extraordinary. Thousands of artists from here and abroad have appeared in the elegant setting of the Apollo Theater, the sacred place of St. Nicholas Church, and the historic Miaoulis Square. My dream for this Festival has been broad in scope, not only to include opera, symphony, chamber, recital, and choral music, but also to grow to include the areas of theater, , folk music, jazz and music & opera education. Over these years, Syros in general and Hermoupolis in particular have become the centerpieces of this Festival. The keystone of this year’s Festival is the presentation of Strauss’ conducted by Wiktor Bockman of St. Gallen, Switzerland, directed by Dirk Schattner of , and starring Eilana Lappalainen in the role of Salome. We also have major works of Beethoven, Schubert, Ravel, Rutter, Euripides’ Herakles, the Ballet, Christos Papageorgiou, the Greek Opera Studio, 19 visiting choirs (from the USA, Canada, France, and Greece), an international cast of world-class soloists, and the first appearance of the Symphony Orchestra of the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet, Tirana, Albania. Most especially on July 15 my dear friend and colleague, composer and conductor John Rutter of Great Britain, makes his Greek debut. How many visiting artists during the two-week period? More than 450! On the piano in the foyer of the Apollo Theater there is a special baton exhibition from my private collection. There you can see the batons of Arturo Toscanini (1950-54 NBC Orchestra), (1980-85 NY Philharmonic), Giuseppe Sinoppoli (Philharmonia of London, early 1980s) and Frederic Chopin (1840's Paris, La Madeleine). Next year’s Festival will be a celebration of Verdi, Wagner, and Britten, all of whom will reach major birth anniversaries. The Festival will open on July 9 with Verdi’s Requiem. My sincerest wish is that you will participate in our events and enjoy the combination of art and setting in the middle of the Cyclades.

Warmest thanks, Peter Tiboris General Director Monday, July 9, 2012, 9 p.m. ΔΕΥΤΕΡΑ 9 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ 2012

Presentation by Mayor Yannis Dekavallas to Peter Tiboris and the people of Syros, of the Festival of the Year Award in Greater Greece for July 2011 Festival of the Aegean, given by the National Music and Theater Critics Association of . The award was first given to Mayor Dekavallas on December 12, 2011, at Megaron Musikis in Athens. Mr Tiboris will also be awarded with the honorary city medallion of Syros - Hermoupolis.

OPENING CONCERT THE EPIC AND HISTORIC GENIUS OF BEETHOVEN Η επική και ιστορική ιδιοφυΐα του Μπετόβεν

Peter Tiboris, Conductor Symphony Orchestra of The National Theatre of Opera and Ballet, Tirana, Albania

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73 (“Emperor”) I.Allegro II. Adagio un poco mosso III. Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo

Dimitris Sgouros, Piano

Intermission

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 (“Choral”) I. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso II. Scherzo: Molto vivace – Presto III. Adagio molto e cantabile IV. Presto; Allegro molto assai (Alla marcia); Andante maestoso; Allegro energico, sempre ben marcato.

Erica Muller, Soprano Maria Ratkova, Mezzo-soprano Keith Ikaia-Purdy, Tenor Dimitri Kavrakos, Bass

Participating Choruses U.S.A.: Towne Singers, La Cañada, CA (Beth Richey, Choral Director); Indian River Charter High 4 School Choir, Vero Beach, FL (Gary Miller, Choral Director, Ray Adams, Artistic Director); Johnson County Chorus, Overland Park, KS (Anita Cyrier, Choral Director); Yellow Rose Singers, San Antonio, TX (Gary L. Mabry, Choral Director) Canada: Canadian College Choral Union, Lacombe, Alberta (Wendolin Pazitka Munroe, Choral Director) Greece: The Choir of The Department of Musicology of The University of Athens (Nikos Maliaras, Choral Director); Choir of Emporiki Bank, Athens (Stavros Beris, Choral Director)

120 minutes with one intermission Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, July 10, 12, 14, 2012, 9 p.m. ΤΡΙΤΗ, ΠΕΜΠΤΗ, ΣΑΒΒΑΤΟ, 10, 12, 14 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ 2012

The December 9, 1905, world premiere in Dresden which was composed and conducted by Richard Strauss changed the course of music in the 20th Century SALOME An opera by Richard Strauss in one act

Symphony Orchestra of the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet, Tirana, Albania Wiktor Bockman, Guest Conductor

Dirk Schattner, Stage Director Jens Hübner, Lighting Design

Salome: ...... Eilana Lappalainen, Soprano Herodes: ...... Peter Svensson, Tenor Herodias: ...... Graciela Araya, Mezzo-soprano Jochanaan: ...... Anooshah Golesorkhi, Baritone Narraboth: ...... Keith Ikaia-Purdy, Tenor Ein Page der Herodias: ...... Maria Ratkova, Mezzo-soprano Juden 1: ...... Riad Ymeri, Tenor Juden 2: ...... Gilmond Miftari, Tenor Juden 3: ...... Klodjan Kacani, Tenor Juden 4: ...... Julian Gjojdeshi, Tenor Juden 5: ...... Edvin Kastrati, Bass Nazarener 1: ...... Dimitri Kavrakos, Bass Nazarener 2: ...... Théo Gavaliatsis, Tenor Soldaten 1: ...... Nikolaos Karagiaouris, Bass Soldaten 2: ...... Augusto García-Vázquez, Bass Ein Cappadocier: ...... Thanos Foskolos, Baritone Ein Sklave: ...... Chen Laks, Soprano 5

Supernumeraries: Percy Raines, Ioannis Toumpas, Panagiotis Katsaras, Stratis Efstratiou, Yiannis Metasoumis, Konstantinos Zervos, George Fylachtos, Giannis Priovolos, Page Lucky, Erica Muller, Kimberley Rose Pefhany, Veroniki Vakondiou

Choreography by Eilana Lappalainen

100 minutes with no intermission No late seating | Οι πόρτες κλείνουν μετά την έναρξη της συναυλίας RICHARD STRAUSS: SALOME Born June 11, 1864, in Munich, Germany Died September 8, 1949, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

Background: Salome by Richard Strauss is based on an 1892 play of the same name by the Irish playwright, Oscar Wilde. Wilde wrote Salome in French because he knew that the play’s celebration of sin and depravity would cause an uproar in the English-speaking world. He was right. When Wilde’s partner translated the opera into English, it was banned from the English stage. The German translation of the play became the libretto for Richard Strauss’ opera Salome. The opera was first produced in Dresden on December 9, 1905. Although widely criticized for its adult themes and imagery, the public embraced the work, which was performed at 50 opera houses within two years of the premiere. The opera, which is in one act, takes place in Judea in 30 A.D. Synopsis: It is evening and a bright moon lights the terrace of King Herod’s palace. Nar- raboth, the captain of the guard, gazes ardently at the Princess Salome who is dining in the banquet hall with her stepfather, King Herod, and his court. A page cautions Nar- raboth that evil will come of his attraction to Salome. The voice of the prophet Jochanaan can be heard coming from deep down in a cistern, where he has been imprisoned by the king. Jochanaan (John the Baptist) foresees the advent of the Messiah, and the soldiers up on the terrace argue, disputing His saintliness. Disgusted by her stepfather’s lecher- ous advances, Salome steps onto the terrace and asks the soldiers to bring the prisoner to her. After the soldiers refuse, Salome enlists Narraboth to do her bidding. Jochanaan is brought to Salome, who is attracted to everything about him. Jochanaan tells Salome to repent, but she wants to touch his flesh, his hair, and kiss his lips. As the intensity of Salome’s desire grows, Narraboth becomes fearful over the situation he has caused and stabs himself to death. Jochanaan screams that Salome is the “daughter of adultery,” curses Salome, and returns to the cistern. Herod and his guests come out onto the terrace. Herod is looking for Salome. Herodias, Herod’s wife and Salome’s mother, accuses her husband of becoming obsessed with her daughter. Herod ignores his wife and offers Salome food and drink. Salome rejects him. Once again, Jochanaan’s warnings rise from the cistern. When Herodias asks Herod to get rid of Jochanaan, he refuses, saying the prophet is a holy man. These words mark the beginning of a heated argument among the five Jews about good and evil. The Nazarenes then talk about the miracles already performed by Christ, saying the Messiah has arrived. Jochanaan curses Herodias, while Herodias screams for him to be quiet. Unexpectedly, Herod asks Salome to dance, and to persuade her, says that if she does she can have anything she wants including half of his kingdom. Salome makes sure that Herod will keep his promise and agrees. Over the objections of her mother, Salome be- gins the “Dance of the Seven Veils,” slowly shedding each of the seven veils she is wear- ing one at a time at Herod’s feet. She falls to the ground before Herod. When Herod asks Salome what she wants, she answers that she wants Jochanaan’s head on a silver platter. Herod tries to offer her other gifts – jewels, white peacocks, veils – but Salome is ada- 6 mant. Herod agrees to her request. Later Salome looks down into the cistern, waiting for the sound of the execution. There is no noise. Then the Executioner’s arm rises from the cistern holding the head of Jo- chanaan. Salome grabs the decapitated head, singing ardently to it and passionately kiss- ing it. Herod orders the soldiers to kill Salome and they crush her beneath their shields.

—NOTE by DALE ZEIDMAN Wednesday, July 11, 2012, 9 p.m. ΤΕΤΑΡΤΗ 11 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ 2012

Voices from Heaven and the Lyric Elegance of Schubert Ουράνιες φωνές και η λυρική κομψότητα του Σούμπερτ

PERGOLESI: Stabat Mater 1. Stabat mater dolorosa (Chorus) 2. Cujus animam gementem (Soprano) 3. O quam tristis et afflicta (Chorus) 4. Quae moerebat et dolebat (Mezzo-soprano) 5. Quis est homo qui non fleret? (Chorus) 6. Vidit suum dulcem natum (Soprano) 7. Eja mater, fons amoris (Mezzo-soprano) 8. Fac ut ardeat cor meum (Chorus) 9. Sancta Mater, istud agas (Soprano & Mezzo-soprano) 10. Fac ut portem Christe mortem (Mezzo-soprano) 11. Inflammatus et accensus (Chorus) 12. Quando corpus morietur (Chorus) 13. Amen (Chorus)

Eleni Panagiotopoulou, Soprano Fotini Athanasaki, Mezzo-soprano

Jérôme Boutillier, keyboard Choeur d’Enfants d’Ile-de-France, Paris, France Francis Bardot, Conductor

Intermission

Schubert: Symphony No. 5 in D-flat major, D. 485 1. Allegro 2. Andante con moto 3. Menuetto. Allegro molto, Trio 4. Allegro vivace 7 Peter Tiboris, Conductor Quintet & Principals from the Symphony Orchestra of The National Theatre of Opera and Ballet, Tirana, Albania

110 minutes with intermission Giovanna Battista Pergolesi: Stabat Mater Born January 3, 1710, at Jesi, Italy Died March 16, 1736, in Pozzuoli, Italy

hen produced in Paris in 1752, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s operaLa serva padrona led to “a quarrel of buffoons,” pitting supporters of French music, such Was Jean Philippe Rameau, against Italian opera supports, led by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. We know that the latter’s opinion prevailed since the French Revolution destroyed choral music by closing the 500 children’s choirs and the only conservatories at the time. Also, the Italians are the ones who brought music back to France. Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater is the work of a young man about to die of tuberculosis, at 26. The pain impregnated in the score is triple: that of a mother whose son is dying, that of the Christ on the cross, and that of the composer who knows he is doomed. In fact, Pergolesi in some way takes the place of Christ before the eyes of Christ’s Mother, according to John’s Gospel: “Woman, here is your son; son, here is your mother.” It is here that the Virgin Mary witnesses the suffering of young John the Baptist. The work remains woeful, and the assumed tempi should not, by their vivacity, transform this tragic score into some opera buffa. It is as well deeply religious and animated by an authentic faith, where sorrow and hope alternate.

—Note by Francis Bardot

FRANZ PETER SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 5 in D-flat major, D. 485 Born January 31, 1797, in Vienna, Austria Died November 19, 1828, in Vienna, Austria

ranz Schubert’s musical inclinations became evident at an early age, and he began his musical studies with his father when he was five years old. At age 11, he entered Fthe Imperial Konvikt, a school that trained students with good voices to sing choral works. During his five years at the Imperial Konvikt, Schubert began taking lessons in composition from composer Antonio Salieri, who recognized his pupil’s talents. The year 1816, when Schubert was 19, was an especially productive one. In that year alone, Schubert composed hundreds of works, among which was the Symphony No. 5 8 in D-flat major. Unlike the scoring in his earlier four symphonies, Schubert eliminated the clarinets, trumpets, a second flute, and drums. The effect was that of a chamber symphony into which Schubert infused his special gift for melody.T he work, which is light and airy, was written in the classical style of which Schubert was a master.

—NOTE by DALE ZEIDMAN Friday, July 13, 2012, 6 p.m. ΠΑΡΑΣΚΕΥΗ 13 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ 2012

St. NICHOLAS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH SACRED MUSIC IN A SACRED PLACE SUNSET CONCERT

St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church A Cappella Sacred Choral Music at Sunset Απογευματινή Συναυλία με θρησκευτική χορωδιακή μουσική

Corfu Island Children’s Choir & Youth Choir, Corfu, Greece Christina Kalliaridou, Choral Director Stefanos Katsaros, accompanist Evita Maniatopoulou, accompanist Yellow Rose Singers, San Antonio, Texas, USA Gary L. Mabry, Choral Director Choeur d’Enfants d’Ile-de-France, Paris, France Francis Bardot, Choral Director Jérôme Boutillier, keyboard Ambitus Choir, Athens, Greece Katerina Vasilikou, Choral Director Michalis Hanos, accompanist

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Special thanks to the Metropolitan of Syros Dorotheos B and to Father Benedictus

100 minutes, no intermission Corfu Island Children’s Choir & Corfu Youth Choir, Greece Christina Kalliaridou, Choral Director

Corfu Children’s Choir Trad. Corfiot chant/Trans. E. Makris Apolytikion for St. Spyridon Leo Delibes (1836-1891) Gloria and Agnus Dei from Missa brevis Lorenzo Perosi (1872-1932) Ave Maria John Rutter(b. 1945) The Lord bless you and keep you

Corfu Youth Choir Napoleon Labelet (1864- 1932) Axion esti John Rutter Look at the world

Yellow Rose Singers, San Antonio, TX Gary Mabry, Choral Director

Legends of St. Nicholas Hymn for St. Nicholas—Intonent hodie Conductus for St. Nicholas—Gaudens in domino Drew Collins (b. 1974) O frondens virga based on a chant by Hildegard von Bingen Javier Busto (b. 1949) Popule meus Gary L. Mabry (b. 1951) The Greatest of These with reference to I Corinthians 13 arr. Joan Szymko (b. 1957) Amazing Grace Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-47) Lift Thine Eyes arr. M. Susan Brown Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho Ernani Aguiar (b. 1950) Salmo 150

Choeur d’Enfants d’Ile-de-France, Paris, France Francis Bardot, Choral Director

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) Ave Maria Camille Saint-Saëns Sub Tuum Praesidium Jean Langlais (1907-1991) Ave Mundi Gloria Joseph-Guy Ropartz (1864-1955) Kyrie from Messe de Sainte Anne Camille Saint-Saëns Ave Verum

Ambitus Choir, Athens, Greece Katerina Vasilikou, Choral Director 10 Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) Vere languores nostros N. Maragos Enite ton Kyrion (1873-1943) Bogoroditsye Dyevo (1899-1963) Seigneur, je vous en prie from Quattre petites prières de Saint François d’Assise John Rutter The Lord bless you and keep you John Rutter Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace Friday, July 13, 2012, 9 p.m. ΠΑΡΑΣΚΕΥΗ 13 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ 2012

Beethoven’s Triple Concerto and the Sweeping Power of Symphony No. 7 Το Τριπλό Κονσέρτο του Μπετόβεν και ο δυναμισμός της Συμφωνίας Αρ. 7

Beethoven: Triple Concerto in C major, Op. 56 1. Allegro 2. Largo 3. Rondo alla polacca

New Zealand Chamber Soloists Lara Hall, Violin James Tennant, Cello Katherine Austin, Piano

Intermission

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 1. Poco sostenuto - Vivace 2. Allegretto 3. Presto - Assai meno presto 4. Allegro con brio 11

Peter Tiboris, Conductor Symphony Orchestra of The National Theatre of Opera and Ballet, Tirana, Albania

115 minutes with one intermission Saturday, July 14, 2012, 6:30-7:30 p.m. ΣΑΒΒΑΤΟ 14 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ 2012

Μανώλης Καλομοίρης (1883 - 1962)

One Hour Family Rush Concert: Getting to Know the New Zealand Chamber Soloists from Down Under Μια ώρα μουσικής με το Τρίο από την Νέα Ζηλανδία

ΜOZART Trio in B-flat major, K.502 1. Allegro 2. Larghetto 3. Allegretto

KalomiriS Violin Sonata (Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of his death)

Psathas Three Island Songs

12 New Zealand Chamber Soloists Lara Hall, Violin James Tennant, Cello Katherine Austin, Piano

60 minutes, no intermission Sunday, July 15, 2012, 10 p.m. ΚΥΡΙΑΚΗ 15 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ 2012

A Concert for Syros

in Miaoulis Square

UNDER THE STARS IN PLATEIA MIAOULI Κάτω από τα αστέρια στην πλατεία Μιαούλη

Symphony Orchestra of The National Theatre of Opera and Ballet, Tirana, Albania Nikola Zoraqi: Festival Overture Thoma Gaqi: Albanian Dance (with tambour) Zhani Ciko, Conductor

John Rutter: Magnificat 1. Magnificat 2. Of a Rose 3. Quia fecit 4. Et misericordia 5. Fecit potentiam 6. Esurientes 7. Gloria Patri John Rutter, Conductor Liliana del Conde, Soprano

Ravel Bolero Maria Kousouni-Fika, Principal Dancer, Greek National Opera Ballet Renato Zanella, Festival Dance Director and Choreographer 13 Beethoven: “Choral Finale” from Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 Erica Muller, Soprano Maria Ratkova, Mezzo-soprano Keith Ikaia-Purdy, Tenor Dimitri Kavrakos, Bass Peter Tiboris, Conductor

Master of Ceremonies Giorgos Roussos Chorus of 320 from the USA, Canada, France, Greece

Participating Choruses U.S.A.: Towne Singers, La Cañada, CA (Beth Richey, Choral Director); Indian River Charter High School Choir, Vero Beach, FL (Gary Miller, Choral Director; Ray Adams, Artistic Director); Johnson County Chorus, Overland Park, KS (Anita Cyrier, Choral Director); Yellow Rose Singers, San Antonio, TX (Gary L. Mabry, Choral Director) Canada: Canadian University College Choral Union, Lacombe, Alberta (Wendolin Pazitka Munroe, Choral Director) France: Choeur d’enfants d’ile-de-France, Paris (Francis Bardot, Choral Director) Greece: Ambitus Choir, Athens (Katerina Vasilikou, Choral Director);The Choir of The Department of Musicology of The University of Athens (Nikos Maliaras, Choral Director); Choir of Emporiki Bank, Athens (Stavros Beris, Choral Director); The “Manolis Kalomoiris” Children’s Choir, Athens (Nikos Maliaras, Choral Director); Mixed Choir of Employees of the Bank of Greece, Athens (Kostas Evangelatos, Choral Director); Scientists’ Choir of Philothei, Athens (Thomas Louziotis, Choral Director); Corfu Island Children’s Choir and Corfu Youth Choir (Christina Kalliaridou, Choral Director); Choir of Filarmoniki Conservatory of Patras (Marina Reskalova, Choir Director); Polyphonic Choir of Patras (Stavros Solomos, Choral Director); Choir (Lina Geronikou, Choral Director); Municipal Choir (Michalis Kalentzis, Choral Director) Sound by Nikos Kontizas Stella Kaltsou, Lighting Designer

120 minutes with one intermission

John Rutter: Magnificat Born September 24,1945, in London

he Magnificat, the canticle of the Virgin Mary, is found in the opening chapter of St. Luke’s Gospel, at the point where Mary visits her cousin Elizabeth, having just learned Tshe is to be the mother of Christ. Traditionally, the words have been ascribed to Mary, though their strong resemblance to the Old Testament Song of Hannah and to various psalms makes it more likely that Luke himself interpolated them to express an appropriate sense of rejoicing and trust in God. Liturgically, the Magnificat belongs to the Office of Vespers (and its Anglican counterpart, Evensong), as well as to feasts of the Virgin Mary, and there are innumerable concise musical settings intended for use in church.E xtended concert settings, however, are quite rare—Bach’s being the most notable (and even his was designed for use in the Lutheran liturgy). In the general layout of its movements and in its scale and dimensions, Bach’s Magnificat provided the obvious precedent for John Rutter’s setting. There is even a parallel to Bach’s Christmas interpolations in the use of a 14 vernacular text on the Virgin Mary, “Of a Rose, a lovely Rose,” which likens Mary and her child to a flower springing from the stem of Jesse.L ike Bach, Rutter uses Gregorian themes associated with the text at various points in the work. But there all comparisons end, since the style and content of Rutter’s Magnificat are not even remotely neo-Bachian, resting rather within an eclectic amalgam of more recent traditions that characterize much of the English composer’s choral writing. This work was given its world premiere in May 1990 by the composer in a concert presented by MidAmerica Productions in .

—Note by Louise Luegner MONday, July 16, 2012, 9 p.m. ΔΕΥΤΕΡΑ 16 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ 2012

Stylistic Variations on a Song by Mikis Theodorakis Στυλιστικές παραλλαγές πάνω σε ένα τραγούδι του Μ. Θεοδωράκη

Christos Papageorgiou, Pianist

From the loudspeakers 1. Intro - Electronic Variation Part 1, "Memories from the Future."

Piano 2. Theme (original and variations) 3. Couperin - the infinite embellishments 4. Atonal 5. Sonata Scarlatti 6. Sandouri (traditional folk instrument) 7. Haydn - of the discrete surprises 8. Lutoslawski 9. Mozart 1 10. Mozart 2 11. Mozart 3 12. Epigram-Crumb 13. Rachmaninoff 14. Beethoven Sonata/slow movement 15. Gospel 16. Liszt 17. Schubert - Impromptu 18. from Schumann to Brahms 19. Stravinsky 20. Chopin 21. Ginastera 22. Debussy 23. Bartók 24. Hatzidakis told me… 25. An American - Musical Ballad for Jenia 26. A strange Rock & Roll in 3/8 27. Jazz 28. Keith Jarrett 29. Abstraction 30. Prelude Overture by Handel 15 31. A Bach Fuga for four voices and for all times

Piano & loudspeakers 32. "Exodus-towards the unknown" Electronic Variation, Part 2

75 minutes, no intermission beloved Greek melody "Denial" or "At the secret shore," with music by Mikis The- odorakis and lyrics by Nobel Prize-winning poet George Seferis, forms the core of A“Variations for piano on a song by Mikis Theodorakis." This work provides a kaleidoscopic synopsis of the history of music. Its intention is to prove that as much as a song or a melody is absorbed or transformed through time and technique, it remains at the core of music of any style or epoch. I selected this theme be- cause of its timeless simplicity — it is so simple that anyone could have written it, no mat- ter in which epoch or style he belonged. "Variations for piano on a song by Mikis Theodorakis" is a 32-part set of variations each referring to the style of a certain composer or epoch starting with Couperin and traveling through the history of music (Mozart, Webern, Debussy, Chopin, etc.) up to our present day and including pop sounds and computer music — a variation that comes out of loud- speakers at the beginning and end of the piece, symbolically representing the future. These variations attempt a musical trip through the path of piano music. They expand from cembalo playing to the sounds of Keith Jarrett while covering most of the promi- nent music styles and composers in between. For the sake of this musical argument, the composers have been resurrected exactly as they were in their own time, and while keep- ing their distinct personalities unaltered, they interact with each other at the same time and in the same space, rotating playing at the piano, trying to make us see the essence and the common thread of their musical thought. My ambition was to gather all these styles in one piece. Although such a piece should be written by only one person, it should also maintain an objective view of all these various personalities. Therefore, I was very happy when Mr. Theodorakis mentioned that some- one "not aware of the primal intention and the styles involved can naturally perceive this piece as a work of only one composer…" This set of variations appears randomly, sometimes coinciding with the timeline of music history and sometimes not. The three basic time zones co-exist and alternate continu- ously: A) The Past – the others (all previously established styles and historic personalities) B) The Present – myself (my own personal comments in these Variations) C) The Future – the new "others," symbolically represented by the work (electronic varia- tions 1 and 2) of two composers (Prof. T. Lotis and A. Mniestris) who created a six-minute simulation of a piano evolution as it could possibly happen in the future with algorithms and other electronic means.

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—Note by CHRISTOS PAPAGEORGIOU TUESDAY, July 17, 2012, 9 p.m. ΤΡΙΤΗ 17 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ 2012

euripides’ HERAKLES hρακλησ μαινομενοσ

Aquila Theatre Company of New York Peter Meineck, Artistic Director EURIPIDES: HERAKLES Ηρακλής Μαινόμενος Translated & Adapted by Peter Meineck

CAST Anphitryon/Messenger Richard Willis Theseus/Ensemble Brian Delate Herakles/Lycus Brent Werzner Child of Herakles Sofia Meineck Madness Desiree Sanchez Megara/Iris Elizabeth Wakehouse And members of the U.S. veteran community

ARTISTIC STAFF Director Desiree Sanchez Cinematographer Miguel Drake-McLaughlin Production Design Peter Meineck & Desiree Sanchez Lighting Designer Peter Meineck 17 Company Manager Lindsay Beecher

Performed in English with Greek Surtitles | Στα Αγγλικά με Ελληνικούς Υπέρτιτλους

75 minutes, no intermission EURIPIDES: HERAKLES A staged workshop performance of Herakles was presented at Bovard Auditorium, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, March 2012. Herakles was first performed in Athens around 416 BCE during the Peloponnesian War against Sparta and its allies. Euripides takes the familiar myth of Herakles and creates a gripping tragedy about the return of a warrior who, instead of saving his own family, turns on them. Euripides created this play for a society traumatized by years of conflict; it shows the effects of war on a family left at home. Herakles presents questions about how a man bloodied by combat might be reincorporated back into peacetime society. Though extreme in its content, Herakles articulates the strain of war, the effects of combat trauma, and the psychology of a man driven to violence. When we came to develop Herakles, we wanted to include the voices of the veteran. Therefore we decided to develop a new way to approach the chorus through film. In Herakles the chorus are Theban veterans: men who had served their country but were too weak to take on the new tyrant, Lycus, and protect Herakles’ family. The ancient chorus was one of the most compelling aspects of an Athenian play in the fifth century BCE, using song, dance, gestures, and movement to propel the narrative action of the play. In keeping with this idea, we decided recruit our chorus from a community of real American veterans – men and women who served in World War II, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. We created a series of questions based the choral songs from Herakles, then flew around the country interviewing people and filming their responses. These were edited into the choral films that we screen as part of Herakles. It is a bold idea for a Greek chorus, but one we hope has truth, emotion, and depth, and reflects this ancient play against modern. We have also been working with masks, created by David Knezz. The masks are not exactly reconstructions, but are inspired by ancient prototypes. We believe that the mask acts as a means of projecting the different emotional states each spectator places on it. Therefore, watching an actor in a mask could be far more compelling than watching a naturalistic performance. Aquila Theatre was founded in London in 1990 and has been based in New York City since 1999. The company brings international artists to America to perform innovative productions of classical drama all over the country in the belief that theatre creates shared emotionality, thought and dialogue.

Synopsis: The play opens at the house of Herakles in the Ancient Thebes. Herakles has been away for well over a year, undergoing his service to the ruler of Argos, Eurytheus. His final labor was to go down into the underworld and recover the guard dog from the gates of Hades. Nobody has heard from Herakles since, and now his Thebean wife Megara believes he is dead. While Herakles is still away, Thebes has been crippled by 18 civil war, and the ruling family, of which Megara belongs, has been overthrown and executed by Lycus, whose own family once ruled Thebes. Lycus has condemned Herakles’ family to death believing that if he does not, the sons of Herakles will grow to exact revenge. Herakles is the son of Zeus, but he also has a mortal father Amphitryon who is desperately trying to buy time believing that his son will return. Thursday, Friday, Sunday, July 19, 20, 22, 2012, 9 p.m. ΠΕΜΠΤΗ, ΠΑΡΑΣΚΕΥΗ, ΚΥΡΙΑΚΗ, 19, 20, 22 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ 2012

Greek National Opera Ballet Εθνικη Λυρικη Σκηνη Renato Zanella, Festival Dance Director and Choreographer Everybody’s Waltzing! Όλοι χορεύουν Βάλς!

Empty Place pas de deux Music by Laurie Anderson/Brian Eno/John Hassel Music by Ludwig Minkus Choreography by Renato Zanella Choreography after Principal Couple: Alexandar Neskov and Stavroula Kaburakis and Anton Koruti Stavroula Kaburakis Couples: Zoi Schinoplokaki and Agapios Everybody’s Waltzing Agapiadis; Christina Makridou and Blendi Music by Johann Strauss and Gustav Mahler Latifi; Komi Kloukina and YannisB enetos; Choreography by Renato Zanella Popi Sakellaropoulou and Vangelis Bikos Principal Couples: Girl in Water: Anna Fragou Maria Kousouni-Fika and Danilo Zeka Evrydiki Issaakidou and Alexendar Neskov Blue Danube pas de deux Emilia Gaspari and Anton Koruti Music by Johann Strauss II Danilo Zeka, Alexandar Neskov, Choreography by Renato Zanella and Anton Koruti Evrydiki Issaakidou and Danilo Zeka Agapios Agapiadis, Fotis Diamantopoulos, Hector Bolano, Blendi Latifi, Vangelis Romeo & Juliet pas de deux Bikos, Yannis Benetos, Elton Dimrochi, Music by Sergei Prokofiev Stavroula Kaburakis, Dimitra Laoudi, Choreography by Renato Zanella Christina Makridou, Komi Kloukina, Popi Maria Kousouni-Fika and Vangelis Bikos Sakellaropoulou, Anna Fragou, Zoi Schinoplokaki

The Company Renato Zanella, Ballet Director Ιο Calochristos, Assistant to Mr. Zanella Erida Melogiannidi, Company Pianist

THE Dancers 19 Principal Dancers: Aimilia Gaspari, Vicky Isaakidou, Maria Koussouni, Alexandar Neskov, Danilo Zeka Soloists: Stavroula Kamburakis, Anton Koruti, Dimitra Laoudi Coryphee: Agapios Agapiadis, Hector Bolano, Fotis Diammandopoulos, Elton Dimrotchi, Bledi Latifi Corps De Ballet: Yiannis Benetos, Vangelis Bikos, Anna Frangou, Komi Kloukina, Christina Makridou, Popi Sakellaropoulou, Zoi Schoinoplokaki SATURDAY, July 21, 2012, 9 p.m. ΣΑΒΒΑΤΟ 21 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ 2012

MADAMA BUTTERFLY PUCCINI LA BOHEME WEST SIDE STORY BERNSTEIN CANDIDE STRAUSS DER ROSENKAVALIER DONIZETTI L’ELISIR D’AMORE MOZART ZAUBERFLÖTE VERDI

THIRD ANNUAL GREEK OPERA STUDIO GALA Θερινή Ακαδημία Όπερας Eilana Lappalainen, Founder and Artistic Director

ARTistic Faculty 2012 Participants Baritone Svetlana Afonia Soprano Nikolaos Karagiaouris Graciella Araya Liliana Del Conde Abbie Furmansky Chen Laks Bass Anooshah Golesorki Athina Liaska Augusto Garcia Eugenia Kollia Erica Müller Keith Ikaia-Purdy Page Lucky Performances Manolis Papasifakis Eleni Panagiotopoulou Childrens Performance Rogelio Riojas-Nolasco Kimberley Rose Pefhany Festival Kick-off Alessandra Salmieri Veroniki Vakondiou Lieder Abend | July 16th Dirk Schattner Ingrid Vetlesen Angeliki Sigourou Mezzo-soprano GOS SPONSORS Daniel Sutton Fotini Athanassaki University of the Aegean Peter Svensson Pia Cruz Secure Agent Software Maria Vassilopoulou EL Artists Peter Tiboris Tenor Blue Star Ferries Carlos Vazquez Yiannis Filias MidAmerica Productions Renato Zanella 20 Theodore Gavaliatsis Friends of the Festival

Syros Pianists: Veroniki Vakondiou, Stella Yialoglou

GOS Syros Chorus: Evi Mpairaktari, Thanos Foskolos, Maria Fragkogianni, George Fylachtos, Zetta Giakoumi, Maria Kakavi, Eleytheria Karamolegkou, Panagiotis Katsaras, Konstantina Kasina, Zoi Koutkalaki, Mikaela Leivadara, Georgia Matsouka, Giannis Priovolos, Agni Roussou, Konstantinos Zervos Peter Tiboris Founder, General and Artistic Director, Conductor, Festival of the Aegean

reek-American music director, conductor, and producer, Ghas enjoyed a worldwide career for more than forty years of which the past thirty have been in New York City as founder and artistic director of MidAmerica Productions, with concerts in Carnegie Hall and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall; and founder of the Manhattan Philharmonic, Elysium Recordings, and the Festival of the Aegean in Syros, Greece. Since 1983 in New York City, he has presented more than 1000 concerts worldwide, including 500 in historic Carnegie Hall, and conducted many of them. He is also Music Director of the Pan-European Philharmonia, in Warsaw, , and Principal Guest Conductor of Collegium Symphonium Veneto in Padua, Italy. He made his European conducting debut on July 1, 1983, in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, with the Moscow Philharmonia as part of the Dubrovnik Festival; and his New York conducting debut on January 7, 1984, with the American Symphony Orchestra at Lincoln Center. He has conducted in 20 countries, among them Mexico; Russia, in St. Petersburg and Moscow at Column Hall, Tchaikovsky Hall, and Shostakovich Hall; Great Britain, in London at the Barbican and Royal Festival Hall; Austria, at Vienna’s Konzerthaus; Poland, in 11 different cities including Warsaw; Czech Republic, in Prague’s Rudolfinium and Smetana Hall with Virtuosi di Praga and the North Czech Philharmonic; Italy, at Teatro di Roma, Teatro Filarmonica di Verona, Regio di Parma, and 20 other locations; Portugal; ; and Egypt, at Cairo’s National Opera House. Among the distinguished orchestras he has conducted are the Royal Philharmonic, London Philharmonia, Oxford’s Philomusica, Niedersächsische Orchester Hannover, the Prague and Brno philharmonics, National Opera Orchestra of Cairo, American Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Société Philharmonique de Montréal, Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon Le-Zion, Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, and Orchestra di Siciliana di Palermo. He has conducted nearly every major choral work as well as countless symphonic works, selected , and ballet. On his Carnegie Hall series, he has showcased over 600 guest conductors and thousands of visiting ensembles who have come from throughout the world. As a conductor on the Carnegie Hall series, he has presented hundreds of works with numerous and significant world and American premieres, including works by Rossini, Mozart, Beethoven/Mahler, Taneyev, Cherubini, and Theodorakis. The concerts have been hailed by The New York Times, New York Daily News, New York Post, and The New Yorker. He is also responsible for the founding and development of Elysium Recordings, which is distributed worldwide by Qualiton Imports International. The catalog has nearly 30 releases of which he can be heard on 10 of the recordings. Most recordings in the Elysium catalog are premiere and first-time commercial releases. Peter Tiboris studied music and received his bachelor and masters Degree from the University of Wisconsin and his from the University of Illinois in 1980, but he credits his move to New York City 30 years ago as the most important event in his musical and professional life.

21 Eilana Lappalainen Soprano, title role, Salome; Associate Artistic Director, Festival of the Aegean; Founder and Artistic Director, GOS innish-Canadian soprano, Eilana Lappalainen, has Fperformed title roles to critical claim in the world’s premier opera venues including Teatro alla Scala, Opera di Roma, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opéra de Montréal, Bellas Artes, Teatro Verdi Trieste, New Israeli Opera, Lithuanian National Opera, Finnish National Opera, Polish National Opera, Opera North, Staatstheater Essen, Prague State Opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, New York City Opera, , San Francisco Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Michigan Opera, Minnesota Opera, Nashville Opera, Kentucky Opera, Portland Opera, Virginia Opera, Opera Hamilton, Opera Ottawa, Marin Opera, Arizona Opera, and Opera San Jose, and in cities such as Wiesbaden, Dessau, Halle, Mannheim, Bremen, Würtzburg, Bielefeld, Liceu, and Winterthur. Her extensive repertoire has grown to include leading roles in works such as Salome, Der Rosenkavalier, Arabella, Der Fliegende Holländer, Lohengrin, Fidelio, Peter Grimes, Wozzeck, Der Freischütz, Jenůfa, Giovanna D’Arco, Un ballo in maschera, I masnadieri, Il trovatore, Pagliacci, Cavalleria rusticana, Medea, Andrea Chénier, Madama Butterfly, Suor Angelica, Il tabarro, La fanciulla del West, Turandot, and Tosca. At Carnegie Hall, she has sung the Verdi’s and Mozart’s Requiems, Zanetto, and a recital in Weill Recital Hall. Others concert performances have taken place in Germany, Mexico, Finland, Israel, Greece, and the UK. Her recording of Zanetto was released by Elysium Recordings in 2008, and a CD of Mahler songs will be released by Elysium Recordings later in 2012.

Renato Zanella Festival Dance Director/Choreographer, GNO, GOS Faculty

native of Verona, Italy, Renato Zanella began ballet Atraining in Verona, and in 1981 went to study with Rosella Hightower in Cannes. His made his professional debut in Basel, Switzerland, working with Heinz Spoerli. In 1985, he joined the Stuttgart Ballet and was appointed house choreographer in 1993 by Marcia Haydée. From 1995 to 2005, he was Ballet Director of the ; in 2001, he added the title of Artistic Director of the Vienna State Opera Ballet School. Since 2005, he has worked as a freelance choreographer. He has choreographed for the Stuttgart Ballet, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Introdans, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Royal Swedish Ballet, Istanbul State Ballet, Hungarian National Ballet, Ballet du Rhin, Vereinigte Bühnen Krefeld/ Mönchengladbach, Teatro San Carlo in Napoli, Croatian National Theatre, Badische Staatstheater, Municipal Ballett ofL ima, National Ballet of Portugal, Ballett Berlin, Balletto dell’Opera di Rome, and San Francisco Ballet. He created solo works for Marcia Haydée, Carla Fracci, Anastasia Volotchkova, Simona Noja, Shoko Nakamura, Polina Semionava, Dorothée Gilbert, Vladimir Malakhov, Manuel Legris, Roberto Bolle, Giuseppe Picone, Alessio Carbone, Alessandro Molin, and Egon Madsen. In 1995 Danza & Danza magazine named him the «Best 22 Italian Choreographer Abroad.» In 2001 he was honored with the Austrian Special Distinction for Arts and . Wiktor Bockman Conductor, Salome

iktor Bockman studied the violin and conducting from W1981 to 1986 at the music academy in Krakow, Poland. After completing his work at the academy, he went to Zurich for work with Nathan Milstein and Munich for studies with Jacob Gilman. He concertized in Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Poland, and Russia) and developed a strong interest in conducting. Since 2000, he has conducted opera and symphonic works in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Romania, Poland, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Russia, Mexico, Venezuela, and South Korea. His love of Italian opera led him to Milan, Italy, to work with such well-known interpreters of opera as Claudio Abbado, Nello Santi, Renato Bruson, Carlos Montane, and Ion Busea. In 1995, he added the role of producer to his resume and has directed opera tours of such works as Rimsky- Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride, Bizet’s , Verdi’s La traviata, Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, and Donizetti’s La favorita to several European countries.

Dirk Schattner Stage Director, Salome, GOS Faculty

irk Schattner was an assistant to directors Johannes DFelsenstein, Gabriele Rech, Dame Gwyneth Jones, Jonathan Eaton, and Michael Schulz for productions of Wagner’s Ring cycle and Der Fliegende Holländer, Verdi’s Giovanna D’Arco, Weill’s Die Bürgschaft, Strauss’ Salome, and several operas by Puccini and Mozart. In recent years he has directed numerous music theater productions in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, and Hungary. His new musical play, The Little Matchmaker, was presented in Vienna’s Ronacher in November 2011. For Akzent Theatre Vienna and Stage Theatre Kehrwieder Hamburg, he directed the German premiere of the musical drama Wenn Rosenblätter Fallen, which was given its world premiere in Amsterdam in 2010. From 2003 to 2007 Schattner directed more than 20 operas, musicals, and plays for Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, including a dramatic version of Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin, a film version of Franz Schmidt’s Das Buch Mit Sieben Siegeln, Offenbach’s Pariser Leben, and Heiner Müller’s Bildbeschreibung with music by Richard Wagner.

John Rutter Composer and Conductor, Magnificat

ohn Rutter was born in London in 1945 and received his first musical education as a chorister at Highgate School. He J 23 went on to study music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he wrote his first published compositions and conducted his first recording while still a student. His compositional career has embraced both large- and small-scale choral works, orchestral and instrumental pieces, a piano concerto, two children’s operas, music for television, and specialist writing for such groups as the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble and the King’s Singers. His larger choral works, Gloria (1974), Requiem (1985), Magnificat (1990), Psalmfest (1993), and Mass of the Children (2003) have been performed many times in Britain, North America, and a growing number of other countries. He co-edited four volumes in the Carols for Choirs series with Sir David Willcocks, and, more recently, has edited the first two volumes in the new Oxford Choral Classics series, Opera Choruses (1995) and European Sacred Music (1996). From 1975 to 1979 he was director of music at Clare College, whose choir he directed in a number of broadcasts and recordings. After giving up the Clare post to allow more time for composition, he formed the Cambridge Singers as a professional chamber choir primarily dedicated to recording, and he now divides his time between composition and conducting. He has guest-conducted or lectured at many concert halls, , churches, music festivals, and conferences in Europe, Africa, North and Central America, Australia, and Asia. In 1980 he was made an honorary fellow of Westminster Choir College, Princeton, and in 1988 a fellow of the Guild of Church Musicians. In 1996 the Archbishop of Canterbury conferred a Lambeth Doctorate of Music upon him in recognition of his contribution to church music. He was honored in the 2007 Queen’s New Year Honors List, being awarded a CBE for services to music. On April 29, 2011, the anthem, This Is the Day, commissioned by Westminster Abbey, was performed at the Royal Wedding of Catherine Middleton and HRH Prince William. Mr. Rutter’s music is published by Oxford University Press, Hinshaw Music Inc., and Collegium Music Publications. Maestro Rutter has made more than a 100 appearences in Carnegie Hall and on the MidAmerica Productions Series.

Dimitris Sgouros Pianist, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5

imitris Sgouros was born in Athens, Greece, in 1969, Dbegan his musical studies at age 7 at the Athens Conservatory of Music, and gave his first piano recital in the Public Theatre of Piraeus in 1977, performing two of his own compositions. He continued his studies at the University of Maryland, and then at the Royal Music Academy in London, graduating with honors. Sgouros began his orchestral career at the age of 11, performing a Mozart concerto with the Chamber Orchestra of Cannes. In 1982 at the age of 12, he made his Carnegie Hall debut performing with the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D.C., under the direction of . Also that year, he made his debut under the baton of . Dimitris Sgouros has performed in major concert halls throughout the world including Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Royal Festival Hall (London), Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Salle Pleyel de Paris, Vienna Musikverein, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory. Festival appearances have taken place throughout the world. He has recorded more than a dozen albums which are sold in many countries. Combining education and art, he has given lectures at the University of Athens; Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo; Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey; the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas; and the New Conservatory in , Greece. He has been honored with the International Leonardo Da Vinci Award and Melvin Jones Award along with many other Greek and International prizes. In 1988 a Festival was founded in his name in , Slovenia. Since then, Sgouros Festivals have been organized in cities as far apart as Hamburg and Singapore. Recent highlights include his debut with the Kiev Philharmonic Orchestra in the Ukraine, at Ivan Fischer’s Beethoven Marathon Festival in Budapest, and his appointment to the Chopin 24 2010 celebrations committee. In 2011 he returned to the Newport Music Festival in Rhode Island and he was selected to appear on a double CD set entitled Essential Liszt in homage to the 200th anniversary of ’s birth. Later this year, he will inaugurate the Mannheim Philharmonic’s 2012-13 season. Ray Adams (Artistic Fotini Athanasaki Director, Indian River (GOS Mezzo-soprano, Charter High School Soloist Stabat Mater) Choir, Vero Beach, has performed as FL), in 2002 became soloist in Charpentier’s the founding Artistic “Messe de Minuit pour Director for the Indian Noel,” Rossini’s “Petite River Charter High Messe Sollenelle,” School, Schumann School for the Visual and Verdi’s Requiem, and Mozart’s Requiem Performing Arts (VAPA). For this festival he with Ambitus Choir. As a chorister, she has is filling in for Gary Miller who is the Director performed in productions of Blacher’s Die of Choral Activities. Together at the school Flut; Verdi’s Il trovatore, La traviata, and they share the directorship of the Choral Nabucco; Gounod’s Faust; Mascagni’s Union, a community-based chorus comprised Cavalleria rusticana; and Leoncavallo’s of alumni and other adults interested in Pagliacci with Greek National Opera in such supporting choral music. Adams earned a venues as Odeion Herodus Atticus, Athens Bachelor of Sacred Music from Wittenberg Concert Hall, and Athens Polyphonia. Other University, and a Master of Arts, Master works she has performed include Beethoven’s of Fine Arts, and Doctor of Music from the Symphony No. 9, Mahler’s Symphony No. University of Iowa. He served as Director of 3, Dvořák’s Te Deum, Bob Chilcott’s “A Music/Organist at the Community Church Little Jazz Mass,” and three works by Mikis of Vero Beach from 1983-2002. While there Theodorakis, “Axion Esti,” “Zorba,” and he became the founding Director for the “Kapodistrias.” Academy of the Performing Arts and the Vero Beach Choral Society. VAPA specializes in (Guest dance, drama, music, and the visual Arts. Francis Bardot Conductor, Stabat Mater; Choral Director, Graciela Araya (Mezzo- Choeur d’Enfants d’Ile soprano, Herodias, de France, Paris) was Salome; GOS Faculty), born in 1946. He began a native of Chile, made singing at the age of 8. her debut at age 19 as By 18, he was a tenor Maria in West Side Story soloist who had performed in over 200 and at 20 performed concerts in France and around the world. At Henriquetta di Francia in age 24, he became a teacher at the Institut at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago. Supérieur de Pédagogie of the Institut She studied singing with Marta Duran and Catholique de Paris and started his first Tomas Demolitsas and music pedagogy at the children’s choir school. He then devoted his University of Santiago with Ivonne Herbos. time to choir and orchestra conducting and In 1984 she was awarded a scholarship to founded, among others, a choir called “Petits study and perform at the Deutsche Oper Chanteurs du Monde.” He also conducted Berlin where she created the role of the the children’s choirs of the Opéra de Paris Gedankenstimme in Siegfried Matthus’ for 23 years developing a vocal technique Cornet. She spent two years in Aachen specifically for children. For several years, and three in Düsseldorf before becoming he has been the Director of Cultural Affairs a member of the Vienna State Opera for 12 for the city of Levallois and has headed the years. Since 1995 Ms Araya has worked as a Conservatoire Maurice Ravel in Levallois guest artist, appearing with opera companies (2000 students). He conducts the Chœur in Amsterdam, Brussels (La Monaie), d’Enfants d’Ile de France, the Jeune Chœur Antwerp, Venice, Rome, Genoa, Torino, d’Ile de France, the Ensemble Vocal d’Ile Paris (La Bastille), New York (Metropolitan de France, and the Chœur Polyphonique Opera), London (Covent Garden), Seattle, Los Maurice-Ravel. Angeles, Tokyo, Vienna, and Monte Carlo. 25 Vangelis Bikos (Dancer, abroad. In the late 80s, he helped develop GNO) was born in the Young Virtuosos of Tirana, which, under Thessaloniki. From 2004- his direction, won competitions in Albania, 07 he studied at the Austria, Italy, Greece, Spain, France, Slovenia, Royal Ballet School of Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Hungary, and Birmingham, England, Belgium. The orchestra also appears on three from which he graduated CDs. As conductor of the orchestra, Maestro with a professional Ciko has worked with soloists in Albania, dancer’s diploma. During 2006-07 he danced Italy, and Austria, and choral ensembles in with the Royal Ballet of Birmingham in Austria, Spain, and France. various productions, such as , Romeo and Juliet, Sleeping Beauty, La (Actor, Bayadère, Cinderella and the Firebird. Since Brian Delate Theseus, Herakles, 2008 he has been a member of the GNO Aquila) will appear with Company. Al Pacino in the soon-to- be released documentary Ιο Calochristos Wild Salome, starring (Assistant Ballet Director, and directed by Mr. Soloist, GNO) studied at Pacino. Currently, he Grigoriadou Professional combines his experience as a decorated Dance School in Athens, non-commissioned officer of the Vietnam under Gech Mihov, War with theater experience, performing his from which she received original one-man show Memorial Day (when her teacher’s diploma. remembering makes you want to forget… and She started her career dancing with Vienna being forgotten makes you want to die…), Festival Ballet (1987-89) and Munich Ballet soon to be presented at the Public Theater Theater (1989-90). Since 1990 she has been in New York. He also wrote and directed the a member of GNO, first in the corps de ballet, independent feature, Soldier’s Heart, which then as coryphée, and since 1997 as a soloist. won “Best Narrative Feature Award” at The She has danced in many productions such G.I. Film Festival. His other films are Nice as , Bayadera, Four Last Songs (Van Guy Johnny, The Brave One, Buffalo Soldiers, Danzig), Les Sylphides,The Birds, Sleeping The Truman Show, and The Shawshank Beauty, Don Quixote, Pinocchio, Snow Redemption, among others. Brian is a lifetime Queen, , , and Romeo and member of The Actors Studio, where he also Juliet. Since 2007 she has been a member serves on the Board of Directors. of juries for various dance competitions in Greece and Cyprus and also she has (GOS organized various productions. In September Liliana Del Conde Soprano, Soloist Rutter 2011 she became Assistant to the Ballet Magnificat) grew up in Director of GNO. México City, performing on national radio and Zhani Ciko (Artistic television programs Director, Conductor, with a children’s vocal Symphony Orchestra of ensemble. She studied the National Theatre of classical voice with Howard Vandenburg at Opera and Ballet, Tirana, Dortmund Music School in Germany. There, Albania) graduated in she was a member of Schola Piccola vocal violin from the State quintet, singing madrigals, baroque, and Conservatory of Tirana, sacred music. After three years of teaching Albania, in 1967, and began working as and performing in Portugal, she returned a soloist and concertmaster of the OBT to Mexico in 2001, where she is currently a Orchestra. At the same time, he became a teacher of vocal technique at the Cultural 26 professor of violin at the Academy of Arts Center in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. She is in Tirana. From 1970-73, he was Artistic the founder of the Patapan vocal quartet as Director of the OBT Orchestra and professor well as Quartet Amici. Ms. Del Conde has of violin at Tirana’s Academy of Arts. He concertized live and on radio and television has been artistic director of the orchestra programs in Germany, Portugal, France, since 1988. In addition to his work with the Russia, and Mexico. She has released three orchestra, he has led master classes in Italy, solo CDs as well as a recording with the France, and Hungary and is a member of Philharmonic Orchestra of Puebla. several international juries in Albania and Constantine Th. Abbie Furmansky Evangelatos (Choral (Vocal Teacher, GOS) Director, Mixed Choir came to prominence in of Employees of the Europe where she was Bank of Greece, Athens) an ensemble member is a native of Athens, at the Deutsche Oper Greece. A composer Berlin. Since then, she and choirmaster, he has appeared throughout has served as the Artistic Director of several Europe and the U.S. with opera companies conservatories and music schools, a professor including New York City Opera, Canadian of composition, a choirmaster of several choral Opera Company, Washington National Opera, ensembles, and the founder and conductor Los Angeles Opera, the opera companies of of the orchestra Chorus Instrumentalis. He Munich and Frankfurt, and at the Baden- is a member of the Pan-Hellenic Association Baden Festival. Recent concert performances of Choral and Instrumental Ensembles’ have taken her to the Philharmonie in Berlin, Conductors, the Greek Composers Union, Lucerne Festival, and to Potsdam, Singapore, the Hellenic Choirs Association, and the and Novi Sad, Serbia. An international voice International Federation of Choral Music. His teacher, Ms. Furmansky maintains a private compositions for piano, choir, chamber music, vocal studio and is a faculty member of the and orchestra have been performed in Greece IVAI summer program in Tel Aviv. She also and abroad by Greek and foreign instrumental teaches vocal technique in workshops to the and choral ensembles. He has also written and singers of the Berlin Staatsoper Oper Studio. translated several books about music. Emilia Gaspari (Dancer, Thanos Foskolos (Bass, GNO) was born in Ein Cappadocier, Salome; Athens, Greece. She GOS Syros Chorus) was started dancing at the born in Aachen, Germany, age of 6. She studied in 1979. At the age of at the English National five, his family returned Ballet School (London) to Trikala, Greece, after with a scholarship from which he was raised and Peter Schaufuss. Later she studied at the educated in Hermoupolis, Syros. He studied Greek State School of Art and Dance, from civil engineering in Manchester, U.K., at Salford where she received her Teachers’ Diploma University; and completed his master’s degree Certificate. Since 1992 she has been a in structural engineering at the University member of GNO, and in 2001 she became a of Manchester’s Insitution of Science and principal. Her repertoire includes Goddess . Although he works full time as a Isida in Aida, Kitri in Don Quixote, Lilac civil engineer in Hermoupolis, he joined the Fairy and Aurora in Sleeping Beauty, Juliet Theatrical and Cultural Club of Syros in 2003 in Romeo and Juliet, Myrta in Giselle, Rose and has performed acting roles in “The Lady in the Snow Queen, Wife of Zapata in Canto Vanishes” by Ethel White, “Lifelong Comedy” General, and Vou Tsing Xoa in Nixon in China. by Arkas, “Red Lights” by Alekos Galanos, and “Santa Claus-Red Riding Hood” by Maria Kitra. (GOS Since 2006, he has been a member of the St. Théo Gavaliatsis Tenor, Nazarener 2, Nicholas Church Choir and the Syros Musical Salome) was born in Club. Athens in 1988. He began taking voice lessons in 2006 at the National Conservatory of Greece with the Greek baritone Vassilis Dimas-Tsirigotis, and after five years of training as a baritone, he transitioned into 27 the tenor repertoire in 2011. His studies so far encompass a wide variety of music including Baroque, German, Italian, and French opera, Lieder, 20th-century works, and Italian songs. He will be completing his studies in the summer of 2013. Lina Geronikou (Choral Bayreuth, Sächsische Landesbühnen Director, University of and Bayreuther Festspiele, Caspari Film Patras Choir), a native of Productions Düsseldorf, and Studio Berlin Patras, has studied piano, Babelsberg. He created designs for Der advanced theoretical Wildschütz, The Fairy Queen, Carmen, Hello music, baroque chamber Dolly, My Fair Lady, and On The Town. Jens music, and singing. She Hübner is founder and director of Jens has attended numerous Hübner Stage Design. His international clients seminars in these areas in Greece and abroad, include Siemens and Deutsche Bank for whom including a “Lied, Oratorio, Opera” seminar he develops and creates designs for film and with Rudolf Knoll, professor in Mozarteum in theater events. Salzburg; a Zoltan Kodály seminar in Hungary; and a master class in Baroque singing with

Romina Basso. Ms. Geronikou has a music Keith Ikaia-Purdy (Tenor, Narraboth, degree in harmony, counterpoint, and the Salome; Soloist fugue; a diploma in singing; and a degree Beethoven’s 9th, GOS in physics from Patras University. She has Faculty), from Hawaii, participated in numerous concerts as a choral has performed leading and solo singer. Ms. Geronikou teaches roles at opera houses advanced theoretical music, singing, and throughout the world, junior music courses in local conservatories. including the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Since 2010 she has been the artistic director Garden, La Scala, Teatro Colon, Deutsche of Patras University Choir. Opera Berlin, Linden Opera Berlin, Bavarian State Opera, and the Royal Operas of Sweden, Anooshah Golesorkhi Denmark, and Norway. In 16 seasons with the (Baritone, Jochanaan, Vienna State Opera, he has performed more Salome; GOS Faculty) than 270 times. He has been featured in live is a regular guest of telecasts, including La bohème with Deutsche leading opera companies Opera Berlin, Der Rosenkavalier in Vienna, throughout Europe and and Mefistofele from the Ravenna Festival. North America, including Symphonic appearances include concerts with the Metropolitan Opera the Israel Philharmonic (Beethoven’s Missa whose roster he joined for the title role Solemnis), the Concertgebouw Orchestra Nabucco. Also at the Met, he has performed (Verdi’s Requiem), and the Vienna Symphony Scarpia in Tosca, the title role of Rigoletto, (Das Lied von der Erde). His recording of The Count of Westmoreland in Sly, Iago in the Berlioz Requiem with the Dresdner Otello, Monforte in I vespri Siciliani, and Alfio Staatskapelle under Sir Colin Davis received in Cavalleria rusticana. During the 2011-12 the 2007 ECHO Classics Award in Germany season, he performed Simone Boccanegra for Best Performance of the Year. in Los Angeles, Agamemnon in Iphigenie in Aulis in Leipzig, the Count in The Marriage of

Figaro in Taiwan, Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci Evrydiki Issaakidou (Dancer, GNO) was born in Dusseldorf, and Iago in Otello in Norway. in Athens. She graduated He also appeared as Scarpia in Tosca in with honors from the Copenhagen, Alfio in Cavalleria rusticana and Professional Ballet Tonio in Pagliacci in Italy (Pisa and Lucca), and School, “N. Kontaxaki.” the Celebrant in Bernstein’s Mass in Norway. She also received diplomas in classical Jens Hübner (Lighting) dance and as a teacher of the Vaganova studied stage and School. Ms. Issaakidou has performed with costume design in several contemporary dance companies in Dresden. He worked as Athens and China. In 1996, she joined the 28 designer and technical ballet company of the Greek National Opera supervisor for more under the direction of Lynn Seymour, Renato than 40 theater, film, Zanella, and Irek Mukhamedov. She became and TV productions a Principal dancer in 2008. Her repertoire in Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, includes principal roles in Don Quixote, Swan and Greece, among others. He has worked Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Snow Queen, Giselle, for Anhaltisches Theater Dessau, Stage Eugene Onegin, Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Musical Theatre Berlin, Stadttheater St. Corsair, La fille mal gardé, and many others. Gallen, Metropoltheater Berlin, Studiobühne Stavroula Kaburakis Nikolaos Karagiaouris, (Dancer, GNO) was born (GOS Baritone, Soldaten in New York and studied 1, Salome) is a native at the School of American of Patras, Greece. From Ballet. She continued her 2000-07, he studied studies at the School of theater and voice at the Performing Arts (FAME), National Conservatory in Royal Academy of Dance Athens, and from 1999- in London, Adelphi University, and New York 2005, he taught architecture and drawing University on scholarship. She was awarded in Piraeus. Between 2004 and 2010, he won the National Arts Prize for her expertise in several prizes and scholarships, including Martha Graham’s technique. She has appeared third place in an operetta competition in with the New York City Ballet, Dance National Athens, third prize in a competition in Institute, Adelphi Dance Theater, and Eglevsky Thessaloniki, second prize in a contest held Ballet. She taught at the National State School by the National Symphony Orchestra of of Dance in Athens, and since 1996, she has Salonica, and a scholarship from “Karras been a member of the GNO Company, dancing Athena” of the Greek Union to participate principal roles in Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, in a program in Bayreuth, Germany, next Eugene Onegin, Four Last Songs, Genzano month. His roles include Zeus in Offenbach’s Flower Festival, Pavanne, Romeo and Juliet, Orfeo aux enfers, the priest in Mozart’s Die and many others. Zauberflöte, the monk in Verdi’s Don Carlos, Frank in Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, Escamillo in Bizet’s Carmen, Germont in Verdi’s La traviata, Christina Kalliaridou and Conte Robinson in Humperdinck’s Hansel (Choral Director, Corfu Is- und Gretel. land Children’s Choir and Corfu Youth Choir) stud- ied musicology and music Dimitri Kavrakos (Bass, education at the Aristotle Nazarener 1, Salome; University of Thessaloniki Soloist Beethoven’s graduating in 1990; piano 9th) appears regularly at the Macedonian Conservatory of Thessalon- on the stages of iki, receiving a diploma in 1987; and bassoon at the Metropolitan the New Conservatory of Thessaloniki, receiv- Opera, Lyric Opera of ing a diploma in 1995. She also studied at the Chicago, Royal Opera Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Covent Garden, the Paris Opera, La Scala in Vienna from 1990-93. Since 1996 she has in Milan, Teatro Comunale in Florence, worked as a music teacher at the primary level. Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, and in Bologna, She has also worked as an orchestra bassoon- Bordeaux, Marseilles, Genova, and Cologne. ist in Thessaloniki and Athens. Ms. Kalliaridou As a concert artist, he has performed with has made her home in Corfu since 2006. The the symphony orchestras of Chicago, following year she founded the Potamos Chil- Cleveland, Minnesota, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, dren’s Choir, followed by Corfu Children’s Choir Montreal, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, and in 2010. At the same time she became the con- Paris, under the batons of Daniel Barenboim, ductor of the Corfu (Men’s) Choir. James Conlon, Charles Dutoit, Edo de Waart, Bernard Haitink, James Levine, Giuseppe Patane, Helmut Rilling, Sir Georg Solti, and (Lighting Stella Kaltsou . Noteworthy engagements Designer) was born in include leading roles in Luisa Miller, Nabucco, Thessaloniki and studied Simon Boccanegra, Ernani, Aida, Il trovatore, stage and lighting design La Juive, and Lucia di Lammermoor at the in the theater department Met; Don Giovanni, Rigoletto, and La vestale of the School of Fine Arts at La Scala; I Puritani, , Don Carlo, of the Aristotle University and Turandot with Grand Opera of Paris; 29 of Thessaloniki. She has and Anna Bolena, Le nozze di Figaro, Boris worked as a lighting designer for the National Godunov, and La donna del Lago at Covent Theatre of North Greece, theatre Epi Kolono Garden. and in a great number of theatrical, musical, and dance performances at the Athens Con- cert Hall, Onassis Cultural Centre, Badminton Theatre, Cacoyannis Foundation, and Thessalo- niki Concert Hall. Since 2011, she has also col- laborated with George Tellos and Lighting Art. Fledermaus at the Academy of Music and Anton Koruti (Dancer, Dance in Jerusalem, and Gluck’s Orfeo ed GNO) was born in Euridice at the Academy of Music and Dance Albania. He graduated in Jerusalem. In 2011, she appeared in the from the Gordan Misyia Crescendo Summer Festival in Hungary, Academy in Tirana. He was a soloist with the Jerusalem Symphony attended classes at the Orchestra performing Liù in Turandot and Dutch National Opera Musetta in La bohème, and performed the (Amsterdam) and at Maurice Bejart’s studio. First Lady in Die Zauberflöte in a production He has been a soloist at the GNO since 1997 by Mozart Co-opera in London. and has danced in productions of Giselle, Zorba the Greek, Sleeping Beauty, Snow Thomas Louziotis Queen, Corsaire, Swan Lake, La Bayadère, (Choral Director, The Nutcracker, and Canto General. He has Scientists’ Choir of also performed in many operas and operettas Philothei, Athens) was at GNO, including The Rise and Fall of born in Athens, Greece, Mahogany. He has danced many principal in 1952. He studied roles at the Megaron and Herodus Atticus economics and music at Theater. the Athens University. He is President of the Choir Friends of Maria Kousouni-Fika Modern Music and conductor of the (Dancer, GNO) was born Scientists’ Choir of Philothei and the Choir of in Athens. She trained the Artistic Society of Nea Makri. He studied at the Grigoriadou choral conducting in Greece and abroad, and professional dance arranged Greek and international songs for school where she studied mixed choir and children’s choir, as well as the Vaganova System. religious hymns for male and mixed choir. He From 1999-2004 she was a member of the has also composed religious music for mixed Vienna State Opera Ballet, and in 2004 John choir. He is member of the Board of Directors Neumeier invited her to join the Hamburg of the Hellenic Choirs Association and holds Ballet. In 2006, she returned to Greece and the position as its Executive Secretary, became a Principal Dancer of the Greek responsible for public and international National Ballet. Her large repertoire includes relations. leading roles such as Juliet in Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet, Phrygia in Spartacus, Zanella’s Gary L. Mabry (Choral Bolero, Nijinska in Nijnsky, and Audrey in Director, Yellow Rose ’s As You Like It and Requiem. Singers, San Antonio, She has also performed in works by Natalya TX) joined the University Makarova, Lorca Massine, Irek Mukhamedov, of Texas-San Antonio and , among others. Past faculty in 1991. He performances at the Festival of the Aegean conducts both the include William Forsythe’s Slingerland Women’s Choir and the and the title role of Medea with music by UTSA Jazz Choir, both of which he founded. Theodorakis, created for her by Renato Also a member of the voice faculty, he has Zanella. served as president of the South Texas and Montana chapters of the National Chen Laks (GOS Association of Teachers of Singing. He is Soprano, Ein Sklave, an active member of the American Choral Salome) born in 1983, Directors Association and the Texas Choral studied piano and voice Directors Association, having served as the at the Arts Center in latter’s Repertoire and Standards Chair for Women’s Choirs and as a TCDA conducting 30 Jesarel Valley, Israel. She received her B.A. mentor for the Student Conductors in performing arts in Symposium. Currently, he serves Music 2010 at the Rubin Academy of Music and Director of Travis Park United Methodist Dance in Jerusalem. She has performed Church. He earned a doctor of musical arts in various choirs and vocal ensembles degree from the University of Colorado, and has been a soloist with Be’er-Sheva Boulder. He also holds a master’s degree from Symphoniette Orchestra and Ensemble 21st Hardin-Simmons University and a bachelor’s Century in Jerusalem. She has performed degree from Abilene Christian University. in Le nozze di Figaro in northern Israel, Die Nikos Maliaras (Choral Erica Muller (GOS Sopra- Director, The Choir of the no, Soloist Beethoven’s Department of Musicol- 9th) received her bache- ogy of the University of lor’s and master’s degrees Athens) was born in Ath- from the University of ens. He studied literature Illinois, and her doctoral and piano in Athens and degree from Indiana Uni- musicology and music ed- versity in 2008. She is the ucation in Munich, were he earned his master’s recipient of several scholarships and awards degree and doctorate. He serves as Associate since 2002, including Indiana University Music Professor of Musicology at the Athens Univer- Merit Award; Semi-Finalist, Elardo Competition; sity, where he gives lectures on music history, Semi-Finalist, Bel Canto Competition; Met- musical instruments, and music analysis, and ropolitan Opera National Council Auditions; guides related seminars. Since September 2011 Finalist, Opera North Auditions; Dean’s Music he has been the chair of the department. His Merit Award, Indiana University; Graduate artistic activity is focused on teaching and con- Scholarship, University of Illinois; Saint Louis ducting children’s, youth, and student choirs, University Madrid Summer of Spanish Song and orchestral groups. He is the permanent con- Scholarship; Indiana University Scuola Italia ductor of the Students Choir of the Department Scholarship; and as a Finalist, National Teach- of Musicology and of the Manolis Kalomiris ers of Singing Competition. Since 2009, her Children’s Choir, which has a permanent col- performances have included Donna Anna in laboration with the Greek National Opera, the Don Giovanni with Lyric Opera Studio Weimar, Athens Festival, and the Athens Concert Hall. Marguerite in Faust with Brussels Light Opera He is chairman of the Athens Youth Symphony Company, Countess in Le nozze di Figaro with Orchestra, Secretary of the Manolis Kalomiris the Intermezzo Foundation, and Marguerite Society, and a member of the Friends of The with Regina Opera Company. Greek Music Library Association Wendolin Pazitka Mun- Peter Meineck (Artistic roe (Choral Director, Ca- Director, Aquila) studied at nadian University College University College London Choral Union, Alberta) (BA, Ancient World Stud- is chair of the Music ies) and the University of Department at Canadian Nottingham (PhD, Clas- University College. She sics) and founded Aquila holds a master of music in 1991. He has worked degree in choral conducting with distinction extensively in London and New York theater and from Indiana University School of Music in directed and/or produced over 50 professional Bloomington. She also holds a doctorate of mu- productions of Classical drama in New York, sic education degree in choral/vocal methodol- London, Holland, Germany, Greece, Scotland, ogy from the same institution. Besides directing Canada, Bermuda, and the United States in ven- the Choral Union, she directs the CUC Chamber ues as diverse as Carnegie Hall, the ancient Sta- Singers, the Hand bell Choir, and teaches voice, dium at Delphi, Lincoln Center, and the White music education, and conducting. House. He has published several volumes of translations of Greek plays as well as scholarly articles on Greek drama and Shakespeare. He Alexandar Neskov (Dancer, GNO) was born is a regular performing arts contributor to the in Novi Sad, Serbia, where humanities Journal Arion. In 2010 he was the re- he was trained at the cipient of the American Philological Association State Ballet Academy Award for Outreach and has received significant from the age of 8. At the grants from the National Endowment for the Hu- age of 16, he joined the manities for devising and directing groundbreak- Serbian National Bal- ing public programs. He was also the recipient 31 let Company as as an apprentice, where he of the “Golden Dozen” teaching award from the remained until 1990. From 1991-96, he was a College of Arts and Science at New York Univer- principal dancer with the Hungarian National sity in 2009. Currently, he is Clinical Associate Ballet and guest artist at the Budapest Opera. Professor of Classics and Ancient Studies at In 1998, he joined the Ballet of Greek National New York University. Previous teaching posts Opera, where he dances in all of the company’s were at Princeton and USC and as a fellow at productions. In 2003, the Greek Ministry of the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies. He is Culture gave him an award as best male dancer. currently completing a new book on the visual dimension of Greek drama, entitled Opsis. New Zealand Chamber Christos Papageorgiou Soloists (Lara Hall, (Pianist, Composer) is violin; James Tennant, a pianist, conductor, cello; Katherine Austin, composer, lecturer, piano) was founded teacher, and producer, in 2006, with the goal who is widely known in of bringing together his native Greece. Among New Zealand’s leading his awards is First Prize soloists and contemporary composers. They at the Fifth International Competition for perform full range of classical repertoire and Composition in Italy for his Electric Guitar represent the new music of New Zealand Concerto. He was the recipient of the «Young locally and internationally. The NZCS trio Artist of the Year» award for 1998 given works within the music program at the by the Greek National Society of Critics University of Waikato. Since its formation, for music and drama. As a solo pianist and the ensemble has maintained an active composer, he has performed widely in Europe performance schedule around New Zealand, and Japan. Christos Papageorgiou graduated including concerts for Chamber Music New in piano and composition from the Athens Zealand, and engagements with the New State Conservatory and the Royal Academy Zealand Symphony Orchestra and Opus of Music in London, and received his master’s Chamber Orchestra. In 2009 and 2010 they degree in music from the University of toured in the USA, UK, France, and Colombia. London. Since 2002 he has broadcast weekly Also in 2010, the New Zealand music label, from National Radio 3, playing and analyzing Atoll, released their first CD, Elegy, which every style of music in order to make it held the number one position on the classical accessible to the broad public. He teaches at music chart of radio station RNZ Concert for the in Corfu. a record six weeks – an unusual feat for a first CD.T he triple concerto, Convergence, written for them by Michael F Williams, Manolis Papasifakis (Pianist, GOS Faculty) has been described as a landmark in New was born in Athens, Zealand music. The NZCS will perform it in Greece, but his musical 2014 at Konzerthaus in Vienna. They would training began in the like to acknowledge and are grateful for the U.S. near Philadelphia, generous funding and support that enables Pennsylvania, where such extensive participation in this art form. his family had relocated and remained through his early school years. Eleni Panagiotopoulou Back in Greece, he studied at the Athens (GOS Soprano, Soloist Conservatory, then returned to the U.S. to Stabat Mater) is a study at the Oberlin College Conservatory of native of Athens. She Music, from which he received his bachelor studied the piano, music of music degree in piano performance. Over theory, and harmony the next 10 years, he served on the piano at the Greek National faculty at the Brooklyn School of Music and Conservatory. She also as assistant conductor for the Henry Street read philosophy and music at University Settlement Opera Studio and the Lubo Opera of Reading in the UK, and completed her of New Jersey. Currently based in Greece, he master’s degree in musical performance works as a teacher, accompanist, and coach, at the same university. Her teachers in and is affiliated with Greece’s leading musical England included Annette Thompson of the institutions and concert venues, including Guildhall College of Music and Drama, Robin the Athens Megaron, Athens Conservatory, Bowman, Henry Herford, Richard Jackson, the Athenaeum, and the Greek National Brian McKay, Gregory Rose, Neil Jenkins, and Opera. He has performed widely throughout Jonathan Hinden. In England she recently the country as a solo pianist and as recital 32 performed songs of Liszt and Mahler in partner to singers and instrumentalists, and several lieder recitals and sacred works by as a vocal coach and accompanist. Beethoven and Elgar. Her performances in Athens include Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater at the Arsakeion School with the Athenian Symphony Youth Orchestra, the role of Leonora in Verdi’s Il trovatore, and premier performances of portions of Theodoros Haridis’ opera Odyssey. Maria Ratkova, (Mezzo- Lavapiés in a production by Calixto Bieto. soprano, Ein Page der Also as a guest conductor, he appeared Herodias, Salome; Soloist with the Compañia Nacional de Ópera de Beethoven’s 9th) was Bellas Artes and the Orquesta Filarmonica de born in St. Petersburg, Sonora in Mexico. Russia. She attended the Nanyang Academy of

Fine Arts in Singapore Desiree Sanchez (Director and Production and the National Academy of Music Rimsky- Designer, Herakles, Korsakov in St. Petersburg from which Aquila) has been on she graduated in 2005. While a student in Aquila’s creative team for Russia, she sang leading roles, including Olga the past six years. She in Eugene Onegin, Duenna in Prokofiev’s Il directed this season’s Fidanzamento nel monastero, Dorabella in Herakles, Macbeth, Così fan tutti, and Jocasta in Stravinsky’s and The Importance of Being Earnest; last Oedipus Rex. She made her Italian debut season’s Six Characters in Search of an at the Mediterranean Easter Music Festival Author; created movement for Aquila’s A Very performing the Pergolesi Stabat Mater, Naughty Greek Play (Aristophanes’ Wasps), followed by Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater in Rome Catch-22, Julius Caesar, The Iliad: Book One, with the Rome Sinfonietta Orchestra, and and The Comedy of Errors; performed in The Rossini’s Requiem and Handel’s Messiah with Iliad: Book One at the Festival of the Aegean the Rome Symphony Orchestra. Since 2008 in Syros, Greece; and was lead teaching artist she has concertized in Venezuela, Ecuador, for Aquila’s Shakespeare Leaders program Columbia, and Mexico.. in Harlem. Prior to joining Aquila, she was a principal dancer for the Metropolitan Marina Reskalova Opera Ballet for 23 years. She has taught at (Choral Director, Choir of Long Island University as visiting associate Filarmoniki Conservatory professor of dance, Elliot Feld’s Ballet Tech, of Patras), born in and has a Certificate of MovementT herapy Russia, studied piano from The New School. She is currently and choral conducting directing The Taming of the Shrew and at the art school of Cyrano. Irbit. She continued her musical studies at the College of Asbest from which she received a diploma in choir Angeliki Sigourou (Movement, GOS conducting, ensemble, and teaching. She also Faculty), a native of received a diploma from Gnesins Russian Athens, graduated from Academy in Moscow. Ms. Rechkalova has the University of Athens won competitions in conducting for choirs. and received training Her diverse career has included work with from the drama school church, children’s and student choirs; as of “Archi” in Athens a teacher of music; and as a professor of and the school of dance of Aliki Goussa. theory and musical ensembles. She founded As a choreographer, she has directed and and directs the Vocal Ensemble of the choreographed works for Akropoditi, a Philharmonic Society Conservatory of Patras. nonprofit company located in Syros; created “Ekklisiazouses” by Aristophanes for the Rogelio Riojas-Nolasco Apollon Theater, also in Syros; and recently (Pianist, Conductor, GOS created “Nourmania-First Letter,” based on Faculty) began his career one of her poems with musc composed by as a conductor with Da Nikos Panagiotakis for the Goethe Institute Corneto Opera Chicago, in Athens. She also works as a teacher, poet, where he conducted and translator. 33 Mignon and La favorita. He was invited to conduct Il barbiere di Siviglia with the Izmir State Opera and the Shaker Mountain Festival, New York. He also conducted Rigoletto, Norma, Faust, Così fan tutte, and Don Giovanni. At the Teatro Lirico Andaluz, he conducted the zarzuela Katiuska, and at the Stuttgart State Opera, El Barberillo de Stavros Solomos (Cho- Mexico City, to name a few cities. In 2011, ral Director, Polyphonic after a three-year break, he returned to the Choir of Patras, Greece), stage to sing the title role of Siegfried, ap- a native of Patras born peared in Lohengrin in Paraguay, and debuted in 1952, studied music in Peter Grimes in Las Palmas. A prizewinner theory and piano at the at the Richard Tauber Competition in London Hellenic and Achaiko 1991, he received a stipend from the Richard Conservatoire. In 1984 Wagner Society in 1992, and a nomination for he studied conducting at the Zoltan Kodály his interpretation of Pedro in Tiefland for the workshops in Kecksemet, Hungary, with Peter prestigious Czech National Culture Award, Erdei; and attended workshops with Antonio Thalie. Future projects include performances Kontogeorgiou and Istvan Parkai. In 29 years, until 2015 at the Metropolitan Opera, La he has conducted more than 1000 concerts Scala Milan, Vienna State Opera, and Teatro in Bulgaria, England, Yugoslavia, Italy, Spain, Colon-Buenos Aires. Hungary, Poland, Germany, Belgium, Wales, Austria, Sweden, Japan, U.S.A., Bosnia,

Serbia, and France. With his choirs, he has Katerina Vassilikou (Choral Director, Ambi- participated in 32 national and international tus Choir, Athens) a na- competitions including the 1993 International tive of Athens, is a grad- Competition in Takarazuka, Japan, and the uate of the Athens Early first Choir Olympics in Linz, Austria in 2000. Childhood Education Faculty of the Univer- Daniel Sutton (Pianist, sity of Athens. She has GOS Faculty) has writ- studied piano and classical singing, attended ten more than 30 sym- choir conducting and piano seminars, took phonic, chamber, solo, courses in the Carl Orff system and stud- and vocal works. Also, a ied music and dance education. From 1991 pianist, he performs his to 2010 she taught piano in the Kentrikon own piano works as well Conservatory of Athens. Since 1992 she has as works of the standard taught music and conducting the Youth Choir repertoire. He has won prizes in the Joanna of Lycée Léonin Nea Smyrn, and since 2007, Hodges International Piano Competition in she has led the Children’s Youth Choir of the Palm Springs and the Magues Piano Competi- Municipality of Agia Paraskevi. She has con- tion in Cincinnati. He made his debut at Weill ducted the award-winning Ambitus Choir of Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in 1996 and has Lycée Léonin Nea Smyrni since its founding performed extensively as a soloist, chamber in 2002. musician, vocal accompanist, and soloist with various orchestras. He attended The Juilliard (Pia- School as a scholarship student of Josef Carlos Vazquez nist, Conductor, GOS Raieff. During his years at Juilliard he made Faculty), between 1999 his debut as a composer with performances and 2005, studied piano of his chamber works Homage to Machaut, in his native Mexico at The Magic Theatre, and Golden Pears of the Puebla’s Conservatory of Earth. In 1995 he received his doctorate from Music, and took lessons the Manhattan School of Music. in opera repertoire from Enrique Jaso, Tito Capobianco, and Danielle Peter Svensson (Hel- Orlando. He began his career at the National dentenor, Herodes, Sa- Conservatory of Music. Since then, he has lome; GOS Faculty) is a served as an accompanist for opera, orato- native of Vienna, Austria. rio, master classes, and solo performances He began his career as in Chihuahua, Oaxaca, Monterrey, Torreón, a soprano soloist in the Piedras Negras, Zacatecas, Durango, San Luís 34 Vienna Boys Choir and Potosí, and Guanajuato, México. He has been graduated cum laude pianist in master classes for such artists as from the Vienna Music Academy, studying Susan Graham, Renee Fleming, and Catherine with James King and Réne Kollo. He was Malfitano. In 2004, he began a long associa- hired to sing at the Vienna State Opera in tion with the National Opera Company of 1989 by Claudio Abbado. Since then, he has Mexico. His current and future plans include performed all over the world, from La Scala a conducting workshop with Ivan Anguélov in in Milan to Paris, Buenos Aires, Athens, Dres- Berlin, an operatic concert in Bremen, and an den, Osaka, Seoul, Madrid, Tokyo, Taipei, and operatic concert in Freiburg, all in Germany. Elizabeth Wakehouse Stella Yialoglou (Pianist, (Actor, Megara/Iris, GOS Syros Chorus) Herakles, Aquila), has born in Hermoupolis, credits including Get Syros, received a piano Your War On, 101 Plays diploma and a degree about Vladimir Putin in music theory in (Rude Mechanicals); 1999, and a diploma in Philomel Project, Ameri- music harmony in 2010. can Arcana, Orange (Refraction Arts Project); Between 1996 and 2011, she has participated Vaudeville Vanya, Mineola Twins, Lacuna (St. in Gkyzi Music School and Attikon Music Idiot Collective); Medea Stories, Playing for School’s concerts, performed in a theatrical Time, Equus, Love’s Fire, One Flew Over the plays at the Apollo Theater, and given Cuckoo’s Nest (Mary Moody Northern The- solo piano concerts at the Apollo Theater, atre); and Wickets (3 Legged Dog). Hermes Music Hall, and Parnassos Music Hall in Athens. She has served as a piano teacher at Gkyzi Music School in Athens Brent Werzner (Actor, and the Attikon Music School, as a music Herakles/Lycus, Herakles, teacher at the Recreational Center of Ano Aquila) has performed Syros municipality, and, most recently as a Poseidon in The Trojan music teacher at the Recreational Center for Women, Lysander/Flute/ children with special needs. Cobweb/Thisbe in A Mid- summer Night’s Dream, R.P. McMurphy in One Danilo Zeka (Dancer, Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Dinky Dau in GNO), a native of Tracers, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, The Tirana, Albania, began Prosecutor in The Medea Stories, Earl Tod/Jer- studying at the National emiah/Tommy Jackson in The Kentucky Cycle, Dance Academy of Antonio in Twelfth Night (The State Theatre), Tirana, from which he Big Harpe in Americamisfit (Salvage Vanguard received his diploma Theatre), Josh in Static (Salvage Vanguard The- in 1995. Between 1995 atre), and Ensemble/Self in Mika at The United and 1997, he was a member of the National Nations. His voiceover credits include Jubeii Ballet of Tirana. He continued his studies Kakeii in Get Backers 1-7 and Nam in Birth. On at National Theatre of Geneva, Switzerland, TV, he has appeared in Friday Night Lights. and in 2001 he joined the Greek National Ballet as a soloist. In 2008 he became a principal dancer. His roles have included Richard Willis (Actor, Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake, the Lover in Anphitryon/Messenger, Canto Generale, Kai in Snow Queen, Lensky Herakles, Aquila) trained in Eugene Onegin, and Albrecht in Giselle. at the Royal Academy of He has also danced in Bolero choreographed Dramatic Arts. In Cana- by Renato Zanella and Medea with music by da, he performed as Rag- Theodorakis at the Festival of the Aegean in nor in The Master Builder 2010. In 2002 he received the Best Dancer (Peter Hall Productions, award from the Ministry of Culture. Royal Alexander Theatre), among other roles. Among his U.K. credits are Arnold in Torch Song Trilogy (Albery Theatre, London), Jean in Miss Julie, (BAC, London) Hedda Gabler (Le- icester Haymarket), A Woman of No Impor- tance (Leicester Haymarket), Into the Woods (Leicester Haymarket), and George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (New Vic). In the U.S. he has performed many roles with Aquila 35 Theatre, including Jack in The Importance of Being Earnest, Bottom in Midsummer Night’s Dream, Prospero in The Tempest, Claudius in Hamlet, Brutus in Julius Caesar, and Catch 22. TV appearances include Dr. Who, Flesh & Blood, Rebecca, Diary of a Nobody (BBC), Soldier & Me (Granada), Doombolt Chase (HTV), The Feathered Serpent (Thames TV), Law & Order (NBC), and Flashpoint (CBS). DOUBLE BASS Symphony Orchestra Kujtim Vorpsi Gezim Hysi of the National Theatre Teuta Krypçi Marsela Tiko of Opera and Ballet, Mario Guralumi

Tirana, Albania FLUTE Zhani Ciko, General Director Enalda Gjoni Dorela ujkani Orieta Gjyshi Symphony Orchestra of the National Theater of Opera and Ballet, Tirana, Albania was founded in 1950 along with the State OBOE Philharmonic. The orchestra became a part of Erik Tauzi the National Opera and Ballet Theatre in 1953. Ilir Gjoka From 1992 on, the orchestra made a series of Ermir Gruda tours in China, Italy, France, Turkey, Greece, , and Kosovo. In addition to works by Albanian composers such as Zadeja, Zoraqi, CLARINET Daija, Harapi, Ibrahimi, Dizdari, Peçi, and Laro, Elton Katroshi the orchestra has performed many works by Petrika Backa the world’s greatest symphony, opera, and ballet composers. The Orchestra, on tour to BASSOON Syros, consists of 50 Albanian musicians. Orges Malaj Sadik Meniku VIOLIN Lisen Malaj Gezim Bulçari, Concertmaster Anduena Sula HORN Hilda Çekani Vildan Mumajezi Mimoza Kolpeja Briken Burgia Fatos Bardulla Andrea Canaj Rina Lazri Dashamir Rroca Edlira Shkurti Edmea Krasniqi TRUMPET Roland Llupo VIOLIN II Xhino Daja Shkelqim Arizi Edlira Prosi TROMBONE Genti Jazexhiu Romeo Mano Jatvina Hoxha Dorian Llanga Alma Koruti Emela Banaj TUBA Devis Cacani VIOLA Alkena Ruzi PERCUSSION Fatbardha Gezdari Gridi Kraja Adrian Prosi Andi Grizhja 36 Edmond Lalazi GUEST ARTISTS CELLO Alice LaBarche, Tenor Saxophone Kujtim Vorpsi Ursula Straitfeld, Soprano Saxophone Gezim Hysi Dimitri Agathos, Trumpet Teuta Krypçi Yannis Arvanitakis, Trombone Marsela Tiko Stefanos Larentzakis, Percussion Mario Guralumi Georgia Xagara, Harp Participating Choirs from the U.S.A. Towne Singers, La Cañada, CA Beth Richey, Choral Director Allen Clason, Richard Counsil, Katie Evans, Mary Flatlie, Charles Hains, Richard Halverstadt, Ruth Halverstadt, Sylvia Holmes, Karen Arlette Kline, Ginny Mole, Helen Moses, Robert Moses, Lina Palomo, Sherree Schrager, Pauline Tso, Dori Wong

Indian River Charter High School Choir, Vero Beach, FL Gary Miller, Choral Director; Ray Adams, Artistic Director Emma Nicole Cochran, Barbara Carlton Cundiff, Shannon Samantha Edwards, Danya Marie Etter, Shannon Eileen Fallon , Halle Keller Horn, Mariah Alexis Jacobs, Courtney Lynn Von Kohorn, Jernie Rebekah Talles Millan, Roger Clinton Miller, Jillian Candace Rabuck, Taylor Quay Williams

Johnson County Chorus, Overland Park, KS Anita Cyrier, Choral Director Debra Sue Allen

Yellow Rose Singers, San Antonio, TX Gary L. Mabry, Choral Director Roxanne Acosta, Janice Brockman, John Brockerman, Aleta Caraway, Marla Coker, Jennifer Hart, Linda Henny, Bethany Hirota-Mabry, Susan Lauderdale, Olivia Lerwick, DiAnne L’Roy , Maeryl Mantione, Camille Monzingo, Melissa Orta, Mary Etta Hobbs, Catherine Shelton, Amber Shodrok, Hailey Smith from CANADA Canadian University College Choral Union, Lacombe, Alberta Wendolin Pazitka Munroe, Choral Director Angela Luanne Barritt, Liseberthe Gabriela Edmond, Annina Susara Egelbrecht, Joy Anne Fehr, Cornelius Peter Fehr, Shalisa Fraser, Nisha Maria Johny, Chad Kelloway, Mervyn Dennis Kozachenko, Desire Jewel Lenhardt, Alixandra Leigh McKay, Kayleigh Jacquelyn McMann, Nelyssa Connie Maxine Mendoza, Melina Ruth Potts, Lemuel Antonio Sanchez-Aldana, Marjorie Paes Souza, Nicole Kathleen Wold from FRANCE Choeur d’ Enfants d’ Ile-de-France, Paris Francis Bardot, Choral Director

Louis Ambach, Jeanne Behrend, Théophile Besnard, Paul Buquet, Bastien Cannamela, 37 Alexane Chassaing, Cyrielle Chassaing, Sosthène Chevignard-Pras, Quentin Cremel, William Cros, Margaux De Belsunce, Thibault De Fontenay, Calène Durand, Nicolas Gaume, Sarah-Charlotte Gru, Antoine Haynez, Victor Lachenait, Théo Laplanche, Jean Larbodiere, Matthis Larbodiere, Laurine Le, Benjamin Leray, Nina Llinares, Maeva Lu- Chi-Vang, Anton Martin-Johner, Victor Mirabel, Zoé N’diaye, Emma Nouvellon, Mathilde Nuttens, Astrid Paelinck, Aymeric Pascal, Laura Peltre, Justine Persouyre, Anna Porcari- Anthime, Line Rondard, Anne Rosius, Louis Sacareau, Gabriel Sauvage, Antonin Scelles, Lyla Sultan, Thomas Tabor, Louis Timal, Aymeric Tonnel, Julie Trochon, Arié Vaisbrot, Sophie Villie, Clara Volcouve, Lou Salomé Wang-Nougier, Martin Zakoian from Greece Ambitus Choir, Athens Katerina Vasilikou, Choral Director Michalis Hanos, Piano Christos Anyfantis, Alkis Andrianos, Natassa Archontaki, Angela Bantoussin, Vasilis Bouzegregos, Christos Delizonas, Antonia Despouli, Klairi Gaspari, Sergios Giotis, Katerina Grigoriadi, Michalis Hanos, Giannis Kalantzis, Giorgos Kokkinis, Dimitra Kollia, Anna Kounadi, Louisa Lagopoulou, Vassia Loi, Eleni Michailou, Naya Paschali, Marilena Peridi, Michalis Platanias, Alexandra Politi, Giannis Papadopoulos, Giannis Stathakopoulos, Katerina Theodosiou, Nikos Tsahalinas, Laura Vovoni, Alexandra Claire Zerva, Eleni Zouganeli

The Choir of The Department of Musicology of The University of Athens Nikos Maliaras, Choral Director Andreas Karaoulis, Charalampos Karras, Tilemachos Kotsis, Eirini Kytonaki, Maria Mallatou, Stamatis Manoussakis, Katerina Papadopoulou, Jannis Papageorgiou, Zoi Papamalama, Vassilis Politis, Myrto Rammopoulou, Christos Rammopoulos, Ioanna Sophouli, Errikos Troumoulis, Filio Tsalafouta, Anna Tsolakoglou

Choir of Emporiki Bank, Athens Stavros Beris, Choral Director Katerina Karabatsa, Pianist, Assistant Director Nikos Aivaliotis, Vingos Alexandros, Periklis Assonitis, Antonis Bargiotakis, Tassos Bargiotakis, Manos Bourikas, Alexandros Dimitripoulos, Antonis Dimou, Kostas Florakis, Kostas Georgalis, Thedoros Goumas, Themistoklis Kalpaktsoglou, Triantafyllos Karakassis, Giannis Kavouras, Vassilis Kerellas, Giannis Koletsos, Kostas Kondylis, Iasson Konstantzos, Giorgos Kouros, Christos Koutsonikas, Spyros Masmanidis, Nikos Mavroidis, Simos Michalakis, Tassos Michalis, Giorgos Nakis, Sotiris Nakis, Alexandros Panagopoulos, , Stamatis Pakakis, Romanos Papadimitriou, Lambros Papageorgiou, Spyros Papapanos, Dimitris Psychogiopoulos, Apostolos Raptis, Giannis Sfiris, Vangelis Sitos, Giannikos Stavrou, Pantelis Stoupas, Lefteris Tsiliakos, Thanassis Vassiliou, Christos Vingos, Achilleas Vlachonatsios, Stelios Zambetakis

The “Manolis Kalomoiris” Children’s Choir, Athens Nikos Maliaras, Choral Director Artemis Ampazi, Myrto Androni, Eleni Avgerinou Natasa Chalkodaemon, Vassiliki Chatzimichali, Mariza Christophi, Marieva Darema, Marina Epitropaki, Angeliki Frangou, Panajota Gaspari, Myrto Georgiadi, Anthi Georgopoulou, Elli Gerakiti, Helena Hopper, Zoi Iliopoulou, Katerina Kalligerou, Marianna Karatza, Lyria Karra, Jannis Kolovos, Foteini Komi, Katerina Komi, Amalia Kontokosta, Natalia Kouliatsa, Christina Koutsomali, Marianna Kyriou, Evelina Lamprinidi, Achilleas Laskaratos, Elli Laskaratou, Sol Lazaridou, Dimitra Mastoridi, Danai Mballa, Niki Mbatouli, Alkisti Nikolaidi, Alkisti Ntarzanou, Konstantina Pandi, Elisavet Philippidou, Eleni Polykrati, Sophia Sakellariou, 38 Maria Sambani, Viky Sambani, Eutychia Thanoukou, Panos Theodorakopoulos, Anna Thymi, Christos Tsironis, Vassiliki Tsochla, Leontios Tsokas, Eleni Tsonga, Aristotelis Vaidomarkakis, Katerina Vlyssidou, Penny Vourlakou, Aspasia Vozikian, Eleni Xenaki, Katerina Xynogala, Niki Zaravinou

Mixed Choir of Employees of the Bank Of Greece, Athens Kostas Evangelatos, Choral Director Eleni Agiomirgianaki, Karatza Anda, Euphemia Antonatou, Mantha Christou, Chrisanthi Dendri, Dimitra Despotopoulou, Spiros Dimoulis, Alexandros Farris, Leonidas Galanopoulos, Roza Garofalaki, Christos Georgalas, Chrisanthi Kakiousi, Ioanna Karagiorgou, Penny Karmi, Ioannis Kontos, Stella Lessi, Grigoris Lourotos, Tatiana Maggina, Konstantinos Magginas, Sophia Malama, Alexandros Masmanidis, Marianthi Miliou, Athena Moschovi, Aggelili Papadema, Katerina Papageorgiou, Katerina Papaliveriou, Lora Petropoulou, Manolis Sarbanis, Eva Sirakopoulou, Ioannis Stefanou, Yioula Eleftheropoulou Syriou, Nikos Taraviras, Dimitris Triantafillou, Lolita Vretta

Scientists’ Choir of Philothei, Athens Thomas Louziotis, Choral Director Christina Alexiou, Betty Antoniou, Theodora Karvela, Maria Kontaratou, Eleftheria Kourouni, Eirini Kytonaki, Christina Louzioti, Vassilis Louziotis, Alexandros Louziotis, Kalliopi Mitsea, Giannis Papadimitriou, George Pavlidis, Eleni Petrou, Panos Samoilis, Pauline Tafani

Corfu Island Children’s Choir and Corfu Youth Choir Christina Kalliaridou, Choral Director Children’s Choir: Ariadne Antonopoulou Bassiliki, Angelliki Argyrou, Ismine Bassiliadou, Sophia Bassiliadou, Odysseas Bratos, Margarita Fagogeni, Glykeria Falierou, Panagiota Georgatou, Angelliki Gianniou, Nikos Gitonas, Dimitra Gixana, Eva Ioakimidou, Fay Kakarougka, Angela Kaloudi, Maria Kaloudi, Maria Kefalloniti, Levon Kolsouzian, Dora Kousta, Spyros Lampros, Evita Maniatopoulou, Stavroula Metallinou, Maria Monopoly, Angelliki Panagiotou, Dimitra Panagiotou, Alexander Pilfold, Aliki Pitsinigkou, Georgios Seferis, Nikoletta Skordili, Efterpe Statiri, Niki Tsiminou, Athinaiou Vanda Stefanos Katsaros, piano accompanist Youth Choir: Ariadne Antonoroulou Bassiliki Margarita Fagogeni, Panagiota Georgatou, Angelliki Gianniou, Fay Kakarougka, Angela Kaloudi, Maria Kaloudi, Stefanos Katsaros, Maria Kefalloniti, Cheirdaris Konstantinos,Spyros Lampros, Thalia Lamprou, Georgios Makris, Stavros Makris, Dimitrios Metallinos, Angellos Mitsios, Dimitra Panagiotou, Emmanouela Papadopoulou, Elli Tsagaropoulou, Niki Tsiminou, Athinaiou Vanda Evita Maniatopoulou, piano accompanist

Choir of Filarmoniki Conservatory of Patras Marina Reskalova, Choir Director Goulnor Botini, Elissavet Geka, Katerina Koukoulommati, Christina Zikou

Polyphonic Choir of Patras Stavros Solomos, Choral Director Lucy Christodoulou, Maria Chrysanthakopoulou, Xenia Daskalopoulou, Elena Droukopoulou, Magda Ktenopoulou, Eva Moraiti, Martha Ntakou, Irini Spatha, Mina Tentourou, Dimitra Tsatsou, Adamantia Tsoumpeli

University of Patras Choir Lina Geronikou, Choral Director Georgia Aleksopoulou, Vlassi Anthi, Anastasia Despotopoulou, Eleftheria Geronikou, Lina Geronikou, Eirinandia Kassotaki, Constantinos Kokkinopoulos, Aleksandros 39 Kokkosis, Maria Vassiliki Papaioannou. Eleni Papaprokopiou, Marilena Souri, Katia Tsiliboti, Petros Tziotis

Rhodes Municipal Choir Michalis Kalentzis, Choral Director Eleni Makesta, Depy Michailidi Sophia Pachou, Founded in 1983 our 30th Season

n 1983 conductor Peter Tiboris organized his first concert in New York, leading the American Symphony Orchestra, soloists, the Louisiana Chorale of Acadiana, Camerata ISingers of Baton Rouge, and Collegiate Chorale of New York in works by Rossini and Dinos Constantinides in Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center. Little did Mr.T iboris realize then that the first concert, which took place on January 7, 1984, would become the template for MidAmerica Productions, Inc., the country’s foremost independent producer of classical concerts in New York. Over the course of 30 seasons, MidAmerica has presented soloists and choral and instrumental ensembles from the U.S. and abroad in New York’s Stern Auditorium, Weill Recital Hall, and Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall; and Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall, both at Lincoln Center. Additional to its New York series, MidAmerica Productions has presented concerts in numerous U.S. cities, and in countries such as Greece, United Kingdom, Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Italy, and Russia. Concert opportunities for ensembles coming to New York have included performing choral works with orchestra, led by an array of talented conductors; or appearing as part of MidAmerica’s Ensemble Spotlight Series, which has featured solo orchestra and choral concerts, Madrigal Festivals, Vocal Jazz Festivals, National Wind Ensemble, National Festival Youth Orchestra, and Sweet Adelines. Among the renowned guest conductors who have led MidAmerica’s concerts are Sherrill Milnes, Lukas Foss, Helmuth Rilling, H. Robert Reynolds, John Rutter, JoAnne Falletta, Michael Morgan, and Jonathan Willcocks. More than 700 conductors have conducted on MidAmerica’s series in New York, sharing the stage with 1000 solo artists from the world’s greatest opera companies and concert stages, and 3500 ensembles from the U.S. and abroad. MidAmerica has commissioned new works and presented numerous premieres in Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall. World premieres have included Dinos Constantinides’ Byron’s Greece, Hymn to the Human Spirit, and Midnight Fantasy II for wind ensemble; John Rutter’sCantate Domino, Distant Land, Magnificat, and Mass of the Children; and John Leavitt’s A Christmas Garland. U.S. premieres have included Mozart’s Die Schüldigkeit des Ersten Gebots, Reimann’s Concerto for Violin and Cello, Tchaikovsky’s Ode to Joy, Mikis Theodorakis’ Electra and Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra, and René Clausen’s Hellas: In the Name of Freedom. A strong component of MidAmerica’s identity has been its chamber music concerts in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Inaugurated in 1989, the series has comprised over 350 performances featuring world-class soloists, chamber ensembles, and members of orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Another enterprise created by MidAmerica Productions is a recording label, Elysium Recordings, Inc. Since 1995, Elysium has released nearly 30 CDs in a wide range of styles, from jazz, to cabaret, to operas, oratorios, and symphonies, and solo recitals. For these recordings, MidAmerica has gathered some of the finest talent on the scene today, including Stanley Drucker, who was a clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic for more than 60 years; David Chan and Rafael Figueroa, concertmaster and principal cellist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; and the late Lukas Foss, eminent composer, pianist, and 40 conductor. In 2005, MidAmerica created the Festival of the Aegean in Syros, Greece. Artists from the worlds of theater, jazz, folk, classical music, and ballet have appeared at the two-week festival, which takes place in July. In 2011, the Festival was given the “Festival of the Year Award in Greater Greece” by the National Music and Theater Critics Association of Athens. This year marks the eighth festival. In 30 seasons, MidAmerica has achieved many milestones, including 1150 concerts worldwide, 950 in New York, and 500 concerts in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium! FESTIVAL HISTORY First International Festival of the Aegean | July 14 – 16, 2005 Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia Second International Festival of the Aegean | July 6 – 13, 2006 Mozart: Don Giovanni | All-Mozart Program: Overture to Le nozze di Figaro, K.492; Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K.467; Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K.550 | “Broadway Comes to Syros”: Selections from West Side Story, Oklahoma!, My Fair Lady, Candide, South Pacific, Carousel, The King and I, Porgyand Bess Third International Festival of the Aegean | July 11 – 22, 2007 Gala Opening: Verdi: Overture to La forza del destino; Beethoven: “Ah, Perfido!”; Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 | Mascagni: Zanetto | Opera highlights by Verdi, Ponchielli, Bellini, Cilèa, Rossini, Donizetti | “Vienna Night in Syros”: Selections by Johann Strauss, Lehár, Stolz, Kálmán | Gala Recital for Voice and Piano | “Shakespeare at the Apollo”: Romeo and Juliet | Stratos Vougas Jazz Quartet | Taximi | Rebetika from Sweden | Human Touch Fourth International Festival of the Aegean | July 9 – 19, 2008 Mozart: Concerto for Flute and Harp in C major, K.299; Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana (concertante) | Haydn: Te Deum; Handel: Overture to Royal Fireworks; Rimsky-Korsakov: Procession of the Nobles from Mlada Suite; Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 («Italian»), Finale; Smetana: Dance of the Comedians from The Bartered Bride; John Rutter: Feel the Spirit (selections); Concerti movements by Bruch, Haydn, Telemann, Vivaldi, Weber | Mozart: Requiem; Vivaldi: Gloria | Opera Gala: Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana (concertante); Mozart: Concerto for Flute and Harp in C major | Aquila Theatre of New York: The Iliad, Book 1 | Taximi, Rebetika from Sweden Fifth International Festival of the Aegean | July 1 – 11, 2009 Puccini: Tosca | Schubert: Mass in G major, No. 2, D.167; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64; Mozart: Overture to La clemenza di Tito, K.621 | Shakespeare: As You Like It | Stars of Vienna State Opera Ballet: Zorba world premiere Sixth International Festival of the Aegean | July 14 – 25, 2010 Bizet: Carmen | Fauré: Requiem; Works by Ariaga, von Weber, Krommer | Sunset Concert at St. Nicholas Church | Greek Opera Studio Gala Performance | Maria Farantouri: “Songs without Borders” | “Mythos and Pathos in Dance” 41 Seventh International Festival of the Aegean | July 12 – 25 , 2011 Verdi: La traviata | Choral Gala: Music for Women’s Chorus; John Rutter: Requiem | Sunset Concert at St. Nicholas Church | Schubert: Symphony No. 8; Mahler: | Orff: Carmina Burana “Under the Stars”; Theodorakis: Selections from Zorba Suite; Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man | Sherman: Rose | Two Films about Mikis Theodorakis | Theodorakis: Medea’s Choice ballet (World Premiere) | Greek Opera Studio Gala Performance SINCE 2000

Brent Davis, Baritone, 2011 Damian Davis, Actor, 2009 ARTISTS Benjamin Dawkins, Bass, 2011 Kenneth De Boer, Choral Director, 2011 Sharon DeBoer, Accompanist, 2011 at Festival Brian Delate, Actor, 2012 Josephine Delledera, Soprano, 2011 since 2000 Mimi Denissi, Actress, 2011 Shannon DeVine, Baritone, 2009 Carla Dirlikov, Mezzo-soprano, 2010 Ray Adams, Choral Director, 2012 Nicolas Di Virgilio, Master Teacher and Marina Alexander, Choral Director, 2011 Coach, 2000 Giada Amparan, Mezzo-soprano, 2006 Naomi Drucker, Clarinetist, 2010 Stefano Anselmi, Baritone, 2006 Miguel Drake-McLaughlin, Tassos Apostolou, Bass-baritone, 2009, Cinematographer, 2012 2010 Stanley Drucker, Clarinetist, 2010 Graciela Araya, Mezzo-soprano, 2012 Olympia Dukakis, Actress, 2011 Leandra Ashton, Actor, 2009 Norman Dunfee, Pianist, 2007 Richard Aslanian, Artistic Staff, 2002 Fotini Athanasaki, Mezzo-soprano, 2012 Reda El Wakil, Bass-baritone, 2010 Katherine Austin, Pianist, 2012 Olga Esina, Dancer, 2010 Francis Bardot, Guest Conductor, 2010, Constantine Th. Evangelatos, Choral 2012 Director, 2011 Stavros Beris, Choral Director, 2012 Kostas Evangelatos, Choral Director, 2012 Esteban Berlanga, Dancer, 2010 Simona Bertini, Soprano, 2006 Maria Farantouri, Folk Singer, 2010 Linda Mack Berven, Choral Director, 2011 Jakub Fiebig, Orchestra Executive Vangelis Bikos, Dancer, 2012 Manager, 2009, 2010, 2011 Maria Bildea, Harpist, 2008 Giannis Filias, Tenor, 2010 James Bingham, Choral Director, 2008 W. Patrick Flannagan, Choral Director, Lucy Black, Actor, 2009 2010 Richard Block, Bass-baritone, 2011 Stephen Fox, Conductor, 2011 Wiktor Bockman, Conductor, 2012 Carroll Freeman, Teacher GOS, 2002, 2011 Joseph Brent, Tenor, 2011 Abbie Furmansky, Voice Teacher GOS, 2011 Margaret Brown, Choral Director, 2010 Frederick Burchinal, Baritone, 2011 Janet Galván, Guest Conductor, 2011 Emilia Gaspari, Dancer, 2012 Carol Castel, Staging Director, 2000, 2001, Théo Gavaliatsis, Tenor, 2012 2007 Todd Geer, Tenor, 2007 Rosario Castro, Dancer, 2010 Filli Georgiadou, Soprano, 2010 Ricardo Castro, Dancer, 2010 Lina Geronikou, Choral Director, 2012 Anais Chalendard, Dancer, 2010 Christina Giannapoulou, Teacher GOS, 2011 42 Lena Chatzigrigoriou, Production Manager, 2010 to 2012 Julian Gjojdeshi, Tenor, 2012 Vinicio Chieli, Lighting Designer, 2010, 2011 Anooshah Golesorki, Baritone, 2012 Zhani Ciko, Conductor, 2012 Liliana Del Conde, Soprano, 2012 Lara Hall, Violinist, 2012 Philip Copeland, Choral Director, 2010 Michael Hayden, Choral Director, 2010 Raffaele Costantini, Bass-baritone, 2005 Tina Johns Heidrich, Choral Director, 2011 Stanley Curtis, Choral Director, 2011 Takako Horaguchi, Mezzo-soprano, 2005 Anita Cyrier, Choral Director, 2012 Jens Hübner, Lighting, 2012 Raymond Hughes, Conductor and Pianist, Nikos Maliaras, Choral Director, 2011, 2012 2007, 2009 Jenia Manoussaki, Pianist, 2006 Maria Emma Meligopoulou, Choral Keith Ikaia-Purdy, Tenor, 2012 Director, 2011 Antonino Interisano, Tenor, 2009 Myrsini Margariti, Soprano, 2010, 2011 Evrydiki Issaakidou, Dancer, 2012 Pietro Masi, Baritone, 2005 Anthony Ivanov, Choral Director, 2011 Maria Francesca Mazzara, Soprano, 2005 Nancy Meckler, Director, 2011 Louise Jardine, Choral Director, 2011 Peter Meineck, Artistic Director Aquila, Terre Johnson, Guest Conductor, 2010 2009, 2012 Sofia Meineck, Actor, 2012 Stavroula Kaburakis, Dancer, 2012 Raul Melo, Tenor, 2010 Klodjan Kacani, Tenor, 2012 Irene Messoloras, Conductor, 2011 Christina Kalliaridou, Choral Director, 2012 Gilmond Miftari, Tenor, 2012 Stella Kaltsou, Lighting Designer, 2012 Giorgio Aristo Mikroutsikos, Tenor, 2006, Nikolaos Karagiaouris, Bass, 2012 2007 Edvin Kastrati, Bass, 2012 Gary Miller, Choral Director, 2012 Dimitri Kavrakos, Bass, 2012 Sherrill Milnes, Artistic Director, 2000 Richard Kidd, Actor, 2009 Igor Milos, Dancer, 2010 Melody Kielisch, Soprano, 2006, 2007 Ann Moeller, Conductor, 2011 Sergej Kiselev, Tenor, 2006 Carmine Monaco, Bass, 2005 Spyros Klapsis, Choral Director, 2010, 2011 Konstantinos Klironomos, Tenor, 2009 Armando Mora, Baritone, 2006 Beatrice Knop, Dancer, 2010 Theodore Moraitis, Bass, 2011 Giorgos Kolios, Set Design Concept, 2010 Amedeo Moretti, Tenor, 2005 Nikos Kontizas, Sound, 2012 Erica Müller, Soprano, 2012 Anton Koruti, Dancer, 2012 Wendolin Pazitka Munroe, Choral Director, Kirill Kourlaev, Dancer, 2009 2012 Maria Kousouni-Fika, Dancer, 2010, 2011, 2012 Alexander Neskov, Dancer, 2012 Zafiris Koutelieris, Bass, 2010 Russi Nikoff, Bass, 2010 Rainer Krenstetter, Dancer, 2010 Lloyd Notice, Actor, 2009 Edyta Kulczak, Mezzo-soprano, 2008 Jiří Novak, Assistant Stage Director, 2010, Asteris Kutulas, Filmmaker, 2011 2011

Chen Laks, Soprano, 2012 Michael O’Neal, Choral Director, 2010 Akis Lalousis, Baritone, 2009 Pier Paolo Pacini, Director GOS, 2011 Iris Lamanna, Guest Conductor, 2011 Giovanni Battista Palmieri,Tenor , 2008 Robert E. Lamb, Conductor, 2011 Eleni Panagiotopoulou, Soprano, 2012 David Lander, Lighting Design, 2011 Tania Panayanopoulou, Pianist, 2005 Eilana Lappalainen, Soprano, Artistic Sergio Panajia, Tenor, 2005 Director GOS, 2005-2012 Christos Papageorgiou, Pianist, 2012 43 Jennifer Larmore, Mezzo-soprano, 2007 Marissia Papalexiou, Mezzo-soprano, James Lavender, Actor, 2009 2010, 2011 Thomas Louziotis, Choral Director, 2011, Manolis Papasifakis, Coach & Accompanist, 2012 2000, 2011, 2012 Israel Lozano, Tenor, 2011 Alessandra Pasquali, Assistant David Lynch with Human Touch, 2007 Choreographer, 2011 Eno Peci, Dancer, 2009, 2010, 2011 Gary L. Mabry, Choral Director, 2012 Galen Dean Peiskee, Accompanist, 2011 Sofia Pintzou, Dancer, 2011 Augusto Garcia Vazquez, Bass, 2012 Rosa Poulimenou, Soprano and Choral Carlos Vazquez, Pianist, GOS, 2012 Director, 2008, 2010 Stefano Viti, Baritone, 2005, 2006 William Powers, Bass-baritone, 2007 Stratos Vougas Jazz Quartet, 2007

Ellen Rabiner, Contralto, 2008 Elizabeth Wakehouse, Actor, 2012 Kostas Rassidakis, Baritone, 2010 Franziska Wallner-Hollinek, Dancer, 2011 Maria Ratkova, Mezzo-soprano, 2012 Brent Werzner, Actor, 2012 Marina Retskaklova, Choral Director, 2012 Nadine Whitney, Choral Director, 2011 Beth Richey, Choral Director, 2012 Richard Sheridan Willis, Actor, 2012 Rogelio Riojas-Nolasco, Assistant Conductor, 2011, 2012 Yannis Xylas, Pianist & Cembalist, 2005, Virginia-Gene Rittenhouse, Conductor, 2006, 2011 2008 Earl Rivers, Guest Conductor, 2011 Maria Yakovleva, Dancer, 2009 Gianni Romangiolli, Director, 2005, 2006 Theresa Russell, Choir Director, 2009 Paul Zachariades, Male mezzo-soprano, John Rutter,Composer , 2012 2011 Renato Zanella, Festival Dance Director, Klaus Salge, Filmmaker, 2011 2009 to 2012 Desiree Sanchez, Director & Production Danilo Zeka, Dancer, 2011, 2012 Designer Aquila, 2009, 2012 Maria Zouves, Artist-in-Residence, 2000 Karina Sarkissova, Dancer, 2009 Alicia Saunders, Flutist, 2008 Dirk Schattner,Stage Director, 2012 Arkady Serper, Accompanist, 2011 Laura Kakis Serper, Guest Conductor, 2011 ENSEMBLES Dimitris Sgouros, Pianist, 2012 Vaishnavi Sharma, Actor, 2009 Tim Sharp, Principal Guest Conductor, 2011 at Festival Martin Sherman, Playwright, 2011 Angeliki Sigourou, Choreographer GOS, since 2000 2011, 2012 Karina Skreszewska-Trapezanidou, Soprano, 2009 Stavros Solomos, Choral Director, 2012 Canada Mikhail Sosnovsky, Dancer, 2009 Canadian University College Choral Union, Antonio Stragapede, Bass, 2006, 2008 Alberta, 2012 Lena Sourmeli, Conductor, 2011 Kamloops Choristers, British Columbia, Mark Stamper, Conductor, 2011 2010 Valentin Stefanov, Conductor, 2011 Etobicoke Youth Choir, Ontario, 2011 Daniel Sutton, Pianist GOS, 2011, 2012 Peter Svensson, Tenor, 2012 France Choeur d’Enfants d’Ile-de-France, Paris, Aliya Tanikpaev, Dancer, 2009 2010, 2012 Taximi, 2007, 2008 Foskolos Tchanos, Bass, 2012 Greece James Tennant, Cellist, 2012 Ambitus Choir, Athens, 2012 44 Mikis Theodorakis, Composer, 2011 Choir of Emporiki Bank, Athens, 2012 Bradley Trammel, Tenor, 2011 Choir of the Employees Union of the Bank Irini Tsirakidi, Soprano, 2007 of Greece, Athens, 2011, 2012 Chorus of the Department of Musical Natalia Ushakova, Soprano, 2011 Studies, University of Athens, 2011, 2012 “Manolis Kalomoiris” Children’s Choir, Nicky Vanoppen, Dancer, 2011 Athens, 2011, 2012 Katerina Vasilikou, Choral Director, 2012 Members of National Conservatory’s Choir Maria Vassilopoulou, Translator GOS, 2011 (Ethnikon Odeio), Athens, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 The Knox Choir of Presbyterian Church, Members from the Athens Singers and Cincinnati, OH, 2011 Nakas Conservatory, Athens, 2006, 2009 Tulsa Oratorio Chorus, OK, 2011 Scientists’ Choir of Philothei, Athens, 2011, King College Symphonic Choir, TN, 2010 2012 Gethsemane Lutheran Church, Austin, TX Camerata Vocalis, Corfu, 2010 The Singing Girls of Texas, Fort Worth, TX, Corfu Island Children’s Choir, 2012 2011 Corfu Mixed Choir, 2012 Yellow Rose Singers, San Antonio, TX, 2012 Ionian University Department of Musical Studies, Corfu, 2009 Municipal Choir of Kerkyra, Corfu, 2011 Women’s Chorus of Corfu, 2011 Choir of the Filarmoniki Foundation ORCHESTRAS Conservatory of Patras, 2012 Mixed Choir of Eptanisii of Patras, 2011 Polyphonic Choir of Patras, 2012 at Festival University of Patras Choir, 2012 Choir “Armonia” of Preveza, 2011 St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church of since 2000 Syros Men’s Chorus, Syros, 2010 Syros Opera Chorus, Syros, 2006 2005: The Rome Philharmonic 2006: New England Symphonic Orchestra Poland (USA) The Choir of the Podlasie Opera and 2007: Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic, Philharmonic, Bialystok, 2008 (Czech Republic) 2008: Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic, United States (Czech Republic) Birmingham Concert Chorale, AL, 2010 2009: Pan-European Philharmonia Kairos Youth Choir, Berkeley, CA, 2011 (Warsaw, Poland) Southwestern College Concert Choir, Chula 2010: Pan-European Philharmonia Vista, CA, 2009 (Warsaw, Poland) Nova Voce, Los Angeles, CA, 2011 2011: Pan-European Philharmonia (Warsaw, Towne Singers, La Cañada, CA, 2012 Poland) Vocal Ensemble of Mira Costa High School, 2012: Symphony Orchestra of the National Manhattan Beach, CA, 2010 Theatre of Opera and Ballet, Tirana, Albania Contra Costa Children’s Choir, Walnut Creek, CA, 2011 Durango Choral Society, CO, 2011 Connecticut Master Chorale, Danbury, CT 2011 Brevard Community College, Cocoa, FL, 2011 Indian River Charter High School Choir, Vero Beach, FL, 2012 Wesleyan College Concert Chorus, Macon, GA, 2011 The Michael O’Neal Singers, GA, 2010 Johnson County Chorus, Overland Park, KS, 2012 45 Columbia Collegiate Chorale of Maryland, MD, 2008 The Arcadian Chorale, Matawan, NJ, 2011 Richmond Choral Society, Matawan, NJ Warwick Valley Chorale, NY, 2011 Taghkanic Chorale, Yorktown Heights, NY Sardis Presbyterian Church Sanctuary Choir, Charlotte, NC, 2011 FRIENDS OF THE FESTIVAL

Dear Friends, 2012 marks our second year for our friends of the Festival organisation. We proudly announce our great success presenting opera lectures to 450 children last February on the island of Syros, a performance for children of Zauberflöte scenes performed by GOS participants on June 29th, as well as our first Festival kick-off and wine tasting event on June 30th. With the growth of the Festival we encourage you to continue your support of our or- ganisation and spread the word to your friends and family. Pamphlets can be found near the ticket counter of the Apollo Theater or contact us at [email protected]. We are thankful for the vision of our founding members Kalliopi Yatrakis, Nancy Whit- ney, Petros Metaxas, Marylin Pomerank, Anna Kagani, Nicholas Moore, Malcolm Raines, Giorgos Kritsinis, Ioannis Toumbas, Maxine Ipiotis, Eleni Armakola, Stavros Kois, Ioannis Rotas, Ioannis Makroulakis, Dimitris Tsitouras, Hara Kalomiri, Alexandros Filaktopoulos, Liliane Rigouzzo, Maria Rota and Eilana Lappalainen. We are looking forward to future seasons and the support of our Festival and this new Arts Organisation. ART NEEDS FRIENDS! Sincerely, Eilana Lappalainen President, Friends of the Festival

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS & CREDITS

Yiannis Keranis, Yannis Pitaoulis and the Valentini Potamianou Cultural Council of the Municipality of Syros- Kostas Bougiouris Hermoupolis "OPAS" Stelios Niotis Yiannis Rotas & Letta Roussou Stamatis and Apostolis Zablakos Aria & George Paris The Festival Hotels Hermes, Faros Village, Tassos Afentioulides and Yannis Dikeos, Nissaki Hotel, Villa Eleni, Kosmos Apartments, Ulysses Travel Cochili, Dias, François Hotel, Hotel Ploes, Pia Cruz Metropolitan Hotel of Athens Michael Blevins The following Syros Restaurants for their generous cooperation and assistance: Petrino, The staff at the Apollo Theater Ta Yiannena, Peri... Tinos, Oniro, Alexandros Maria Rota Silivanis, Alfavito, Maritsa, Amvix, Pizza Scherzosa, Ithaki tou Ai, Inopnevmata Eva Seferiadou & Poppy Mertzani 46 Thank you to the University of the Aegean, Mariza Kountouri, Make-up Artist Department of Product & Systems Design Blue Star Ferries Engineering for the usage of their facilities. Special thanks to the Professors Florentia Moraitis Winery Iconomidou & Elsa Charalambous and the Sigalas Winery students Alexandridou Alexandra, Kampoureli Angeliki, Chatziantoniou Elie, Sachpazidou N. Hadjakis Winery Smaro, Feleki Vera, Tampakis Dimitris, Kostoglou Claire, Dana Anna & Kazeli Aspasia, for assisting Our Travel agents in Syros and Athens in the set design for the production of Salome. Friends of the Festival sponsors Peter Tiboris General & Music Director ZEUS SPONSOR Eilana and Peter Tiboris Eilana Lappalainen City of Hermoupolis Associate Artistic Director Agela & Dimitris Tsitouras Eleni Tsitouras Nicky & John Conti Renato Zanella Eleni & Yiannis Rotas Dance Director Renos Freris Hotel Ploes Betsy Stein ATHENA SPONSOR Festival Coordinator Kostas Bougiouris Reinhard Saifert HERMES SPONSOR Technical Director Stavros Kois Lena Chatzigrigoriou Stage Manager/Production Associate

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www.stegi-chorus.gr e.mail: [email protected] announcing 9th Annual International Festival of the Aegean JULY 8 to 29, 2013

Apollo Theater 149th year

The "VIVA" VERDI Gala Syros Celebrates the 200th birthday of Italy’s Greatest Opera Composer

Opening Concert Verdi’s MESSA DA REQUIEM The Verdi Gala featuring arias, duets, scenes and dance

Andrew Lloyd Webber's JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto #1 Gershwin’s PORGY AND BESS Choral Suite Dvořák’s Cello Concerto John Rutter’s GLORIA Chopin’s Piano concerto #1 Lauridsen’s LUX AETERNA Mozart’s Solemn Vespers Brahms’ REQUIEM Joseph Julian Gonzalez’s Misa Azteca Vaughan Williams’ DONA NOBIS PACEM Schubert’s Mass in G Thompson’s FROSTIANA Beethoven’s Symphony #3 "Eroica" Mozart’s CORONATION MASS Bach’s Magnificat Grieg’s PEER GYNT Mozart’s COSÌ FAN TUTTE

Shakespeare's TWELFTH NIGHT Aquila Theatre of New York

Plus Chamber Music, Greek Folk Music, Jazz, Theater, Ballet, Greek Opera Studio

The above is a partial listing of events and all events are subject to change without notice