9^th 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 organizes two educational programs 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]

Friday, 3 November, at 20:00

Cultural Foundation of Tinos

Musafirat

Eleftheria Daoultzi | Giannis Rizopoulos | Kostas Tsarouchis

Musafirat presents a musical journey to Eastern Mediterranean countries and new compositions based on these ancient musical traditions with new approaches and an improvisational mood. Their name is inspired by the title of a book written by Vasileios Ladas, an author from Patras, and in Farsi it means “journey”. Musafiri are the travellers, the visitors.

Eleftheria Daoultzi: qanun
Giannis Rizopoulos: percussion
Kostas Tsarouchis: oud

Manos Achalinotopoulos | Martha Mavroidi

Leading clarinet virtuoso Manos Achalinotopoulos shares the stage of the Tinos World Music Festival with Martha Mavroidi, Yiannis Papadopoulos, Giorgos Ventouris and Vangelis Karipis, in a concert with compositions from the album “Hyacinth” –which this year marks the 25^th anniversary since its release– and new compositions that explore the place of folk traditions in the music of today.

Manos Achalinotopoulos: clarinet

Martha Mavroidi: electric lafta, vocals

Yiannis Papadopoulos: piano

Giorgos Ventouris: double bass

Vangelis Karipis: percussion

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