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The Fall of the House of Commons

Opera

03, 04, 08, 10, 11 May 2025

National opera of Greece, alternative stage

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Archive

Saphir und Haut

Lini Gong (soprano) and Ya-ou Xie (piano) perform the premiere of Heterotopies (2024), on the texts by Elisavet Labropoulou

15/10/24 at 20:00

BKA Theater, Berlin

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Weidenzweige Grünen Konzert

Lini Gong (soprano) and Ya-ou Xie (piano) perform the premiere of Heterotopies (2024), on the texts by Elisavet Labropoulou

26/10/24 at 19:30

Kammersaal der Deutsch-Türkischen Musikakademie

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Essen NOW! Festival 

Studio Musikfabrik plays dream|breathe (2020) for ensemble. With pieces of Ioannis Mitsialis, Zeynep Toraman, and Zeynep Gedizlioglu

02/11/2024

Essen Philharmonie

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OutHear New Music Week

Workshop and performance of Die Jagd (2024), for baritone, viola, and tenor saxophone. On the text by Elisavet Labropoulou

Klangforum Wien

02-10/11/2024

Larissa Conservatory, Greece

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Humanity Test

Music Theatre on the libretto by Alekos Lountzis

20 & 21/07/2024

Ancient Theater of New Pleuron, Greece

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Glyka Koutoula piano recital

02/06/2024

30 chairs, Kozani Greece

Aprés l’adieu, for piano

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Eunmi Ko piano recital

21/04/2024

University of South Florida Steinway Series recital

Aprés l’adieu, for piano

Eunmi Ko online concert

31/12/2023

Tampa, FL @CAMPGround

Aprés l’adieu, for piano

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Sonus novus, alta radix

03/12/23 at 20:00, 04/12/23 at 21:00

Theatre Aneton Thessaloniki

Voci Contra Tempo | Greek premiere of noland, for female choir on the text by Kiriakos Haritos

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Lecture at the FU Berlin

07/07/2023

‘Hybrid voice in composition’

Free University of Berlin, Institute of Greek and Latin Languages and Literatures

Toolbox Percussion in Tianjin Juilliard School

14/07/2023

Tianjin Juilliard School

Premiere of cork on the ocean (2023), for two percussionists and tape | As an artistic collaborator with Toolbox Percussion (Hong Kong).

The Fall of the House of Commons

Chamber Opera

29 & 30/06/2023 at 21:00

Athens Epidaurus Festival, Peiraios 260

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Composer-fellow of Toolbox Percussion, Hong Kong

2023-

Toolbox International Creative Academy, TICA, is financially supported by the Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. TICA provides an assortment of programs aiming to achieve professional apprenticeship and avail deep-learning occasions for practicing musicians with industrial veterans. Exploring innovative techniques on strings and percussion set the tone of this series, forging incubation and professional furtherance, as well as connecting every you and me in the name of music.

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Composition lecture in Hong Kong

21/04/2023

As an artistic collaborator of Toolbox Percussion and TICA festival.

BlackBox Theatre, Kwai Tsing Theatre Hong Kong

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Accademia Corale Italiana

03, 04 & 05/03/2023

Arezzo, Italy

Sofia Gioldasi with the lab choir Insieme Vocale Vox Chordis will give a masterclass on choir direction. Amongst the selected pieces is noland (2022) on the text by Kiriakos Haritos.

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Heimat

12/02/23 at 11:00

Philharmonie Berlin, Kammermusiksaal

Voci Contra Tempo | noland, for female choir on the text by Kiriakos Haritos

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Project Patrida

2022-2023

Voci Contra Tempo, a female vocal ensemble in Greece, in collaboration with the Department of Music Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, is undertaking Project Patrida, which will support young Greek composers in creating new musical choral works.

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AUFKLÄRUNGSMASCHINE

15/02/2023 22:30

THALIA GAUSS

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ALBUM release

March 2023

Dog Trio, Universum | Urban Songs, for soprano, piano, and multimedia

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THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

Chamber Opera

04 & 05/11/2022 19:30

FORUM HfMT

Composition: Orestis Papaioannou | Concept, libretto, dramaturgy: Alekos Lountzis | Libretto (Co-author in English): Orfeas Apergis | Direction: Lea Theus | Set Design: Jakob Boeckh | Costume design: Pia Preuß

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AUFKLÄRUNGSMASCHINE

17 & 19/06/2022 22:00

THALIA GAUSS

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Dog Trio in FAKTOR Hamburg

19/06/2022, 16:00

Performance of “Urban Songs”, on poetry by Fernando Pessoa.

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CUBICLE#3 (Installation)

10 & 12/05/2022, 17:00-18:00

Günter Grass Haus, Lübeck

Orestis Papaioannou: Composition, texts, sound design | Jan Wegmann: Multimedia

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LIEDER: NAGELNEU

27/02/2022, 20:00

Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg

Não sou nada (on poetry by Fernando Pessoa) for soprano, violin, and cello

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hier im stillen bin ich dein

26 & 28/11/2021

Theaterakademie Hamburg

Text, direction: Lucia Wunsch | Dramaturgy: Johannes Schürmann | Music: Orestis Papaioannou

CUBICLE#2 (Installation)

26 & 27/02/2022

26/02: 18:00-22:00, 27/02: 12:00-21:00

Petersburg Art Space Berlin

Orestis Papaioannou: Concept, texts, sound design | Jan Wegmann: Multimedia | Suzy Riffel: Set design

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Ad libitum

20/11/2021

Athens State Orchestra (online concert)

Performance of dream|breathe at the national Transgender Day of Remembrance

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CD release

12/2021

Fani Karagianni, contemporary Greek music for solo piano | Rhythmology, for piano

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Research on Contemporary Composition Conference 2021, University of North Georgia

30-31/10/2021

The conference will feature music performances and research focused on music composed within the past 15 years.

Presentation and performance of dream|breathe

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The Cornelian Secret: Love poems by Lord Byron

April-December 2021

Greek National Opera (online concert)

Tribute to the 2021 bicentennial of the Greek Revolution | Cycle “Odes to Byron” | Curator Alexandros Mouzas

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Possehl competition for new performative concepts

08/07/2021

Musikhochschule Lübeck, Großer Saal

Sketches of the House of Commons, music theatre in three scenes (Premium Prize)

Libretto by Alekos Lountzis and Orfeas Apergis, Direction by Constantin Mende and Lisa Scheffler, Multimedia by Jan Wegmann

Abschlusskonzert Vasiliki Apostolopoulou

30/06/2021

Musikhochschule Lübeck, Kammermusiksaal

Nocturne, for piano

Miró und Musik

20/06/2021

Schuppen 6, Lübeck (online concert)

Two Dances on Juan Miró, for ensemble

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Over the Rainbow: Compositions for Human Rights

06/06/2021

Konzertsaal, Future Art Lab/mdw (online concert)

dream|breathe, for ensemble

ensembleN, Jon Svinghammer conductor

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TICA digital library

April-June 2021

Toolbox percussion studio, Hong Kong (online concert)

One-Two-Three…GO!, for three percussionists

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Kulturfunke* Lübeck – 3 Auftragswerke für Ludique et Sérieux Trio d’anches und Sprecher

24/04/2021

Kulturfunke studio (online concert)

Trio Ludique et Sérieux, Jürgen Tamchina

Totentanz, for ensemble and narrator

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WE PRESENT #17

05 & 06/02/2021

Lichthof Theater Hamburg (online concert)

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TOHUWABOHU

24/10/2020

HfMT Hamburg, Multifunktion Studio (online concert)

Cubicle, an interactive installation by Orestis Papaioannou and Irini Aravidou

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