PANAGIOTIS KAROUSOS CONCERT AT ZAPPEION SUMMER 2022
The Wednesday June 29th 2022, at the ZAPPEION – Courtyard, the Club for UNESCO of Piraeus & Islands & INTERNATIONAL ACTION ART, proudly presented a concert with art songs of the internationally renowned Greek-Canadian composer Panagiotis Karousos under the direction of maestro Andreas Prionas.
Featuring Singing Stars: Eleni Roda, Despina Mirou, Erofili Tzanou, Dimitris Kanellos, Tzo Antonakaki, Tasos Keferian, Neophytos Kournazidis.
Fine musicians were: Andreas Prionas (piano), Giannis Lambrakis (bouzouki), Nikos Tsachtsiris (double bass), Andreas Niakaris (percussion).
Musical direction was by the renowned maestro Andreas Prionas.
Choir "Con Anima" directed by Julia Tzanetoulakou
Dance group "The Orchard of Love" choreographed by Anneta Chalkia & Niki Apostolidou
Poems they read the actress Despina Mirou, and the actor Spyros Bibilas the President of the Hellenic Actors Union.
The presentation was made by Nikos Paraskevas, Journalist at Channel One 90.4 FM, Piraeus Municipal Radio.
Artistic direction was by the composer Panagiotis Karousos
Organized by Mr Ioannis Maronitis, president of Club for UNESCO of Piraeus & Islands and INTERNATIONAL ACTION ART.A crowd of people attended and applauded the artists and the composer, among others the well-known singer Nadia Karagianni, Antonis Giambrias, ex-coordinator of the Ensembles of the National Symphony Orchestra of the Hellenic Radio ERT, the music teacher Kaiti Karatza, mother of the internationally renowned conductor Teodor Currentzis.
Poems Set to Music by composer Panagiotis Karousos: The Enchanted Fountain (Costas Krystallis), Remembrance (Dionysios Solomos), Approach (Yiannis Ritsos), Wayfarer (Paul Nirvana), How much I love you (Yannis Vilaras), Τhe child in the river (Georgios Vizyinos), Silence (Kostis Palamas), Parthenon (Kostis Palamas), You the sweet (George Drosinis), Caryatids (Ioannis Polemis), Elevation (Nikiforos Vrettakos), In an old church (Miltiadis Malakasis), In the night club (Napoleon Lapathiotis), Learn the pain (Ioannis Gryparis), My world (Karl Marx), You will pull forward (Manolis Anagnostakis) Flowers of the cliff (Georgios Drosinis), Tomorrow Light (Alekos Panagoulis), Maid of Athens (Lord Byron), and more new songs.
Panagiotis Karousos is a renowned Greek-Canadian composer who brings to his music the philosophy and spiritualism of the Greek classics. His Symphony No.1 “Liberty”, was presented in Canada and New York with great success with the Astoria Symphony and maestro Silas Nathaniel Huff. He did many concerts in Canada with his Liberty Symphony, and Symphony No.2 “Olympic” with the FACE Symphony Orchestra, the OSJL-L Symphony Orchestra and the Monteregie Symphony Orchestra under the direction of maestros Andre Gauthier, Theodora Stathopoulos and Luc Chaput. The Piano Concerto for Peace was presented with pianist Nathalie Joncas under UNESCO auspices in the Montreal Popular Concerts series in Montreal’s Maurice Richard Arena to an audience of 5000 people. The Suite Montrealaise was commended from the City of Montreal to mark the Millennium. The Olympic Flame choir was presented with the Symphony Orchestra and the Choir of Gunst wat'n Kunst at Hague, Holland, with maestro Rafael Pylarinos. P. Karousos Violin Concerto was presented in New York, under the direction of maestro Grant Gilman. The opera Alexander the Great presented in Montreal at the Montreal Notre Dame Basilica, in Chicago Illinois with the American Symphony Orchestra of Chicago and conducted by David Stech, in North Carolina Theatre with East Coast Philharmonic and soloists under the direction of Grant Gilman, and in Toronto at P.C. Ho Theater Cultural Center of Toronto with the Sneak Peak Symphony Orchestra of Toronto University and soloists under the direction of maestro Victor Cheng. The opera Prometheus represented in Los Angeles, in New York with the Astoria Symphony and soloists, and in Washington DC with The District of Columbia Symphony Orchestra. In 2013 he did major presentations of Prometheus in Ancient Greek Theaters (Epidaurus, Messina, Ancient Agora), and the National Archeological Meseum of Greece. In 2014 Prometheus presented with bass Vasilis Asimakopoulos in the United Nations and in Mamie Fay auditorium of New York under the auspices of UNESCO. His Symphony No.4 “Earth” premiered in 2014 with City of Athens Symphony Orchestra under the direction of maestro Eleftherios Kalkanis. In 11 December 2014 he presented in Athens Greece his "Tuba Concerto" dedicated to the International Mountain Day Under the Auspices of United Nations. The lyric tragedy "Prometheus Bound" is the first Greek popular opera presented internationally and always with great success in areas such as the Sorbonne, Place des Arts in Canada, Epidaurus, UN, getting rave reviews.
