9th Tinos World Music Festival

Tinos 3, 4, 5 November 2023

Transformations II

The Tinos World Music Festival presents the second edition of its cycle of musical creation with the title “Transformations”, which aims to explore the relationship between the various manifestations of folk musical culture and contemporary artistic creation.

The Tinos World Music Festival was inaugurated in 2013 on the island of Tinos and is co-organised by the Cultural Foundation of Tinos and Creative Musical Island. It has hosted over 100 musicians from Greece and abroad and has been attended by hundreds of spectators from all over the world. Artistic director of the festival is Martha Mavroidi.

With the “Transformations” cycle of events, the festival aims to showcase a new musical community growing around the traditional music of Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean, that seeks new ways of artistic expression. Virtuosi of folk instruments who further develop the techniques of their instruments, transform the traditional musical idioms and create new musical genres, each one marking the result with their own particular artistic identity. Musicians from this community rarely have the opportunity to present their work at an institution dedicated to such genres. The “Transformations” cycle consists of three different versions of the festival (Transformations I, II, III), in three consecutive years (2022, 2023, 2024) and will include concerts and educational activities in various locations of Tinos. The goal of the three-year cycle is to provide a platform where new musical trends will interact with one another through musical partnerships and educational activities, but will also meet with a wide audience, creating a musical network to include both the local community of Tinos and the nearby islands, as well as an ever-growing audience from other regions of Greece and abroad.

For the third year, the Tinos World Music Festival organises two educational programmes with two musicians that participate in the festival. A workshop on bouzouki with Fotis Vergopoulos, one of the most important musicians of his generation, and a workshop on Armenian song with Shushan Kerovpyan, an exceptional musician from an Armenian musical family. The workshops will take place at the Cultural Foundation of Tinos on Saturday, 4 November at 12:30 – 14:30.

The participation in the workshops is free of charge. 

Registration: [email protected]

Sunday, 5 November, at 18:00

Museum of Marble Crafts, Pirgos, Tinos

The third day of the festival is organised for the third year in collaboration with the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation’s Museum of Marble Crafts in Pirgos, Tinos.

Giorgos Papaioannou | Nikos Papaioannou 

Giorgos Papaioannou (violin, viola and lafta) and Nikos Papaioannou (cello and lafta) will present a programme of mainly their own compositions but also works by other composers that have inspired them, based on the modal music traditions of the Mediterranean region.

Giorgos Papaioannou: violin, viola, lafta 

Nikos Papaioannou: cello, lafta

Fotis Vergopoulos | Shushan Kerovpyan | “From Greece to Armenia” 

A six-string bouzouki, one double bass and two voices take us on a journey between Greece and Armenia, with some interesting detours to other latitudes and longitudes. The minimal instrumentation of the ensemble contributes to an authentic approach to these repertoires, always from a contemporary perspective.

Fotis Vergopoulos: bouzouki, vocals

Shushan Kerovpyan: double bass, vocals

Admission for the public is free.

Organisation Cultural Foundation of Tinos, Creative Musical Island

Co-organisation Region of South Aegean, Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation

With the financial support and under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and Sports

Donation AEGEAS Non-Profit Civil Company

TWMF

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