PANAGIOTIS KAROUSOS – CONCERT 2022 // Theater of Palaia Fokaia - Municipality of Saronikos

 

Thursday, September 8, 2022. The concert with poetry set to music by the music composer Panagiotis Karousos was successfully held by the Aristodikos Municipality of Saronikos under the auspices of the Club for UNESCO Piraeus & Islands and the support of the international organization International Action Art, at the Open Air Theater of Palaia Fokaia.

In the excellent concert of classical music, poems by Greek and foreign poets and choral works from the operas Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus and Iliad by Homer were performed. Participants: Rhea Voudouris, Panagiotis Diplaros, Kleopatra Eleftheriadou, Yiannis Darreios, Pantelis Laledakis, Georgia-Evangelia Kourbelis (piano), Panagiotis Karousos (composer).

Honorary participation by Nadia Karagianni with Andreas Prionas on the piano in the songs: The child in the river (Georgios Vizyinos), Tomorrow light (Alekos Panagoulis), Karyatides (Ioannis Polemis), Now you are missing (Telos Agras), In the night club (Napoleon Lapathiotis) ), Ballad of Escape (Dimitris Iatropoulos), How Much I Love You (Yiannis Velaras).

The concert was prefaced and presented by Petros Filippou, Mayor of Saronikos Attica, Ioannis Maronitis, President of the Club for UNESCO Piraeus & Islands, and Dimitra Rapti, President of the Board of Directors & President of Aristodikos Saronikos Municipality. Among the elite audience were the protagonist of the National Opera, mezzo-soprano Maria Marketou, the writer Maria Kakavoianni, etc. who praised and applauded the composer and the artists.

The "Cycle of artistic and popular songs" by Panagiotis Karousos was presented in the program: Karyatides (Ioannis Polemis) - Choir, 

Parthenon (Kostis Palamas) - Diplaros Panagiotis & Choir, 

In an old Church (Miltiadis Malakasis) - Darreios Yiannis, 

Esy i Glykia (Georgios Drosinis) – Voudouri Rea, 

The Child in the River (Georgios Vizyinos) – Eleftheriadou Kleopatra & Diplaros Panagiotis, 

My King (Annita Tsapalou) – Darreios Yiannis & Voudouri Rea, 

Traveller (Paul Nirvanas) – Laledakis Pantelis, 

Approach (Yiannis Ritsos) – Voudouri Rea, 

Tomorrow Light (Alekos Panagoulis) – Diplaros Panagiotis & Voudouri Rea, 

The Enchanted Fountain (Kostas Krystallis) – Voudouri Rea, 

Love is Life - War and Peace (Leon Tolstoy) – Eleftheriadou Cleopatra, 

Sonnet 109 (William Shakespeare) – Voudouri Rhea, 

Daughter of Athens (Lord Byron) – Diplaros Panagiotis, 

Prometheus Bound – Chorus (Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus), 

The Shield of Achilles – Chorus (Homer's Iliad).

PANAGIOTIS KAROUSOS – CONCERT 2022

 

CLUB FOR UNESCO OF PIRAEUS & ISLANDS INTERNATIONAL ACTION ART GALATSI MUNICIPALITY

PANAGIOTIS KAROUSOS – CONCERT 2022
“με τη μουσική γινόμαστε ένα” We are all one at music concert”
A concert dedicated to the great bouzouki master Giorgos Zampetas
Concert with songs by Panagiotis Karousos under the direction of Maestro Andreas Prionas
Alsos Veikou Open Air Theatre
Thursday, September 1, 2022 at 8:30 p.m
NANTIA KARAGIANNI, DIMITRIS KANELLOS, GIORGOS ZAMPETAS
EROFILI TZANOU, JO ANTONAKAKIS, THEODOROS BIRAKOS
YIANNIS LAMBRAKIS (BOUZOUKI) ANDREAS NIAKARIS (PERCUSSION) NIKOS TSAHTSIRIS (BASS)
MUSIC DIRECTOR: ANDREAS PRIONAS (PIANO) | ART DIRECTOR: PANAGIOTIS KAROUSOS
DANCE GROUP "THE GARDEN OF LOVE" IN CHOREOGRAPHY OF ANNETA HALKIA AND NIKI APOSTOLIDOUS
CULTURAL & SPORTS ORGANIZATION "VASILIS PAPADIONYSIOU" OF GALATSI MUNICIPALITY
IOANNIS MARONITIS PRESIDENT OF THE GROUP FOR UNESCO PIRAEUS & ISLANDS & INTERNATIONAL ACTION ART
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.