Mikis Theodorakis/Mini Biography
Mikis
Theodorakis was born in the Greek island of Chios, in 1925. The exact same year
that the other great composer of Greece was born in Xanthi, Manos Hatzidakis.
He fought during the 2nd World War, and he was captured at the city of Tripoli.
He was tortured, but when he was set free, he joined the partisan army of
Greece named EAM, which means National Liberating Movement. He took part in the
civil war in Greece which occurred during 1945-1949, always with the left
parties of Greece. He was exiled for the first time in the island of Ikaria in
1947, he was transferred to the island of Makronisos in 1948.
He marries
Myrto Altinoglou, five years later in 1953, and one year later he moved in
Paris in order to continue his studies in music. He composed continuously
during the following years using some of the most wonderful poems in order to
express the people of Greece. After Lamprakis, a Parliamentary representative
was murdered, Theodorakis becomes himself a member of the Parliament and the
number one enemy of the Right parties of Greece.
The great
composer doesn't not stop expressing his need and hope for democracy even when
military dictator Georgios Papadopoulos takes power in Greece in 1967. Some
months later the military dictatorship decides that he is not 'welcome' in his
own country, he is exiled for one more time. Great personalities express their
support to this great composer, like Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Miller etc.
He became
internationally famous when he composed the music for the film Alexis Zorbas
(1964), directed by Mihalis Kakogiannis and starring Anthony Quinn. But he was
becoming very popular even before that film, when he was composing music for
the Jules Dassinfilm Phaedra (1962) starring Melina Mercouri, Anthony Perkins,
Raf Vallone, and Kakogiannis' Ηλέκτρα
(1962/I) starring Irene Papas, Aleka Katselli. He even composed music for such
acclaimed films like Z (1969) by Costa-Gavras starring Yves Montand and Papas,
and Serpico (1973) by Sidney Lumet starring Al Pacino. He came back in 1974,
but he stayed only for 6 years. Theodorakis was dissatisfied and went back in
Paris and finished his third big work, Canto General, which together with the
music from the film Alexis Zorbas (1964) and "Axion Esti", a piece of
work based on the poems of the Nobel winner poet Odysseas Elitis.
During the 80s
he became for one more time member of the Parliament and issue of controversy
in the beginning of the 90s, when he collaborated with the right party's prime
minister Konstantin Mitsotakis. In 1992 he composed the Canto Olympico for the
Olympic Games of Barcelona.
His opera
Ilektra gained very good reviews, in Luxemburg, the Capital City Of Europe in
1995. He composed also another opera of Lysistrati for the Olympic Games of
Athens in 2004. Although, he created controversies with his actions during the
last decades, 1980-1990, Mikis Theodorakis is one of the greatest composers of
Greece and he created the modern music of Greece together with Manos
Hadjidakis.
Saurce: IMDb
Tatiana Papageorgiou plays Theodorakis
«A Hostage»
or «Suite for piano and orchestra», as presented in the Athens Concert Hall
with «March of the Spirit» and «Canto
General».
Here Tatiana
Papageorgiou (piano) and the Symphony Orchestra of Athens. Conductor: Loukas Karytinos.
«Ένας
όμηρος» ή «Σουίτα για πιάνο και ορχήστρα», όπως παρουσιάστηκε στο Μέγαρο
Μουσικής Αθηνών, μαζί με το «Πνευματικό Εμβατήριο» και το «Canto General».
Εδώ
η Tatiana Papageorgiou (πιάνο) και η Συμφωνική Ορχήστρα του Δήμου Αθηναίων.
Διευθύνει ο Λουκάς Καρυτινός.
Tatiana Papageorgiou
Tatiana
Papageorgiou has been established as a Greek pianist with international
artistic activity among the new generation. Born in Athens, she began playing
the piano at the age of five and received her concert piano diploma at the age
of eighteen with ‘excellent unanimously, first prize and a gold medal’. At
fourteen she was a prize winner at the XVII Greek Piano Competition, and a few
years later a recipient of prestigious awards-scholarships by the British
Council, the London Royal College of Music, the International Jeneusses
Musicales, and the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY). In 1990, she
settled in London where she engaged in postgraduate studies in piano and
conducting at the Royal College and the Royal Academy of Music (both awarded
her their highest distinctions during entrance and final examinations). During
her eight-year stay in London, she maintained an active performing career and
won several distinctions (RCM Schumann Prize, PLG Competition for a Purcell
Room Recital of c-20th music, BC Fellowship).
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Τατιάνα Παπαγεωργίου
Γεννήθηκε
στην Αθήνα. Η Τατιάνα Παπαγεωργίου σπούδασε πιάνο με τον καθηγητή Τώνη Γεωργίου
(Εθνικό Ωδείο) και έλαβε το Δίπλωμα Πιάνου με 'Αριστα παμψηφεί και της
απονεμήθηκε Πρώτο Βραβείο Χρυσό Μετάλλιο. Επιπλέον σπούδασε Ανώτερα Θεωρητικά
(Αρμονία, Αντίστιξη, Φούγκα, Ενορχήστρωση) με τους συνθέτες Μιχάλη Τραυλό, John
Wilkinson και Περικλή Κούκο. Συνέχισε ανώτερες σπουδές πιάνου στο Βασιλικό
Κολέγιο και στη Βασιλική
Κατά
την οκταετή παραμονή της στο Λονδίνο και παράλληλα με τις σπουδές της, ανέπτυξε
έντονη μουσική δραστηριότητα αποσπώντας σημαντικές διακρίσεις (RCM Schumann
Prize, Park Lane Group Competittion, BC Fellowship, RCM Concerto Trial). Από το
1988 έως το 1991 συμμετείχε στα σεμινάρια πιάνου της Θερινής Ακαδημίας
Mozarteam του Ζάλτσμπουργκ, της Α.Δ. Ακαδημίας της Βιέννης και στο Θερινό Φεστιβάλ
της Βαρκελώνης με υποτροφία των Jeunesses Musicales. Το 1991 έκανε το ντεμπούτο
της στο Λονδίνο με το Δεύτερο Κονσέρτο για Πιάνο και Ορχήστρα του Rachmaniofott
με την ορχήστρα του Βασιλικού Κολεγίου Μουσικής του Λονδίνου. Το 1994 φοίτησε
στο Πανεπιστήμιο Ιντιάνα (Μπλούμινγκτον) των ΗΠΑ, όπου έγινε δεκτή στο Artist's
Diploma, ενώ το 1995 ολοκλήρωσε σπουδές Μάστερ με διάκριση στο Πανεπιστήμιο
Ρέντινγκ της Αγγλίας με ερευνητικό θέμα το πιανιστικό έργο του Heitro
Villa-Lobos. Στο ίδιο πανεπιστήμιο υπήρξε μέλος του διδακτικού προσωπικού, ενώ
σήμερα ολοκληρώνει διδακτορική διατριβή με θέμα το πιανιστικό έργο του Μίκη
Θεοδωράκη.
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