Wyrd/ Άτροπος Μοίρα

We con­tin­ue our activ­i­ties con­nect­ed to the 2025 guid­ing theme at the Lab: that is, meet­ings in an inter­na­tion­al spir­it. This time we turn our atten­tion to what is hap­pen­ing in con­tem­po­rary music in Greece.

The Greek female Pythia Trio cre­ates a polypho­ny of sto­ries about fate, begin­nings and the chaos that pre­cedes order. Play­ing on a spe­cial­ly pre­pared piano, the artists cre­ate a musi­cal space in which mythol­o­gy and sound inter­pen­e­trate, draw­ing on the ancient fig­ures of the Moirai, the Norns and Wyrd — guardians of fate from var­i­ous traditions.

The pro­gram fea­tures pre­miere com­po­si­tions by Alexan­dros Markeas, Danai Belosi­nof, Fil­ip­pos Raskovic and Gior­gos Chanos — four indi­vid­ual musi­cal lan­guages, four per­spec­tives on the ungras­pable, woven into a dra­matur­gi­cal whole under the direc­tion of Georgina Daliani. The nar­ra­tive is com­ple­ment­ed by an elec­troa­coustic lay­er of pre­vi­ous­ly record­ed mate­r­i­al, becom­ing the com­mon thread run­ning through the entire concert.

This is an evening full of ten­sion and sym­bol­ism, a rit­u­al of sound and form — equal­ly root­ed in myth and in the intu­ition of con­tem­po­rary listening.

Pro­gram:

George Chanos CLAT (2024)Alexandros Markeas Nima­ta (2024)George Chanos pléxi (2024)Danai Belosi­nof Nyx (2024)Filippos Raskovic Numb­ness Under­neath (2024)Andys Sko­rdis Da…REM (2021)George Chanos KNOT

Per­form­ers:

Pythia Trio:

Myr­to AkrivouIro Mene­gouThalia Papadopoulou

Pro­duc­tion:

Artis­tic direc­tor: Giorgina Dalia­niartis­tic con­cept, text: Pythia Tri­o­pro­duc­tion: Lil­ian­na Krychvi­su­al iden­ti­ty: Alek­san­dra Œdak­Sound engi­neer­ing: Kos­ma Stander­a­co-orga­ni­za­tion: Pythia Trio, Artivistas

The Hash­tag Lab Con­tem­po­rary Music Space is co-financed by the Cap­i­tal City of War­saw. The media patron of the Hash­tag Lab Con­tem­po­rary Music Space is Dwój­ka Pol­skie Radio and POLMIC​.PL.

More about the artists:

Pythia Trio — com­pris­ing Myr­to Akrivou, Iro Mene­gou and Thalia Papadopoulou — is an ensem­ble of three Greek pianists, gain­ing increas­ing recog­ni­tion on the con­tem­po­rary music scene in Greece. The trio aims to pro­mote new piano music, pre­sent­ing works by both young and estab­lished com­posers from Greece and abroad.

In their artis­tic activ­i­ty, Pythia Trio goes far beyond tra­di­tion­al per­for­mance frame­works, explor­ing space, light, move­ment and nar­ra­tive. Music becomes for them a mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary medi­um — a meet­ing ground of dif­fer­ent gen­res and artis­tic fields, where sound inter­pen­e­trates with visu­al­i­ty and performance.

The ensem­ble was formed as a nat­ur­al exten­sion of the “Piano in the 20th and 21st Cen­tu­ry” work­shops led by Loren­da Ramou at the Athens Con­ser­va­to­ry. The artists began their col­lab­o­ra­tion in 2020 after par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Énuméra­tions work­shops orga­nized by Gior­gos Aperghis, under the direc­tion of com­pos­er Nico­las Tzortzis (Ste­gi Onas­sis / Athens Conservatory).

In 2021 the trio pre­sent­ed its first project, “The Hip­po­crat­ic Oath,” in Athens, Thes­sa­loni­ki and Kala­ma­ta, com­mis­sion­ing sev­en young com­posers to cre­ate new works — with the sup­port of the Greek Min­istry of Cul­ture. The fol­low­ing year, with the project “TANANTIA TOUTEOON,” the ensem­ble per­formed in Cyprus, Roma­nia, Bel­gium, Aus­tria, Switzer­land, the Nether­lands and France. In 2023 the trio pre­sent­ed its most recent project “Three Lears” in Ger­many, the Nether­lands, Roma­nia and Cyprus.

Pythia Trio has per­formed at, among oth­er events, the Expres­sions d’elles fes­ti­val orga­nized by Hanat­su Mir­ror Ensem­ble in Stras­bourg, at the Nation­al Muse­um of Con­tem­po­rary Art in Athens, and at the MoMus Muse­um of Con­tem­po­rary Art in Thessaloniki.

Myr­to Akrivou — Greek pianist spe­cial­iz­ing in con­tem­po­rary music. She trained at the Nation­al Con­ser­va­to­ry in Athens and at the Lon­don Col­lege of Music. For years she has focused on new music of the 20th and 21st cen­turies, col­lab­o­rat­ing with com­posers and per­form­ing numer­ous pre­mieres in Greece and abroad. She is a mem­ber of Pythia Trio, with which she real­izes inter­dis­ci­pli­nary con­cert projects sup­port­ed by the Greek Min­istry of Cul­ture, and she co-cre­ates a piano duo with Thalia Papadopoulou. Since 2008 she has per­formed in a duo with flautist Amalia Koun­touri, and as pianist of the cham­ber orches­tra Nuo­varte she has giv­en over a hun­dred concerts.

Her album Beau­ty and Hope in the 21st Cen­tu­ry (Musi­ca Fer­rum, 2015) fea­tures works by con­tem­po­rary com­posers from around the world. She has per­formed in projects at Onas­sis Ste­gi and on the 3rd pro­gramme of Greek Radio.

Iro Mene­gou — pianist, per­former, cura­tor and edu­ca­tor, deeply com­mit­ted to con­tem­po­rary music. As a soloist and ensem­ble mem­ber — includ­ing in Pythia Trio, Methex­is Ensem­ble and the film ensem­ble Bouche Fer­mée — she col­lab­o­rates with com­posers on real­iz­ing new music, often engag­ing also in edu­ca­tion­al and cura­to­r­i­al activities.

She has per­formed in Greece and across Europe, includ­ing in Aus­tria, Bel­gium, Ger­many, France, Italy, the Nether­lands and Cyprus. She was a mem­ber of the Enu­mer­a­tions work­shop ensem­ble inspired by the work of Georges Aperghis. She has long been active in the devel­op­ment of music edu­ca­tion and inter­na­tion­al artis­tic exchange — she is, among oth­er things, co-cre­ator of the fes­ti­val “Women Com­pos­ing in the Balka­ns,” nom­i­nat­ed for the Clas­si­cal NEXT Inno­va­tion Award (2019), and artis­tic direc­tor of the Cypri­ot Toy­ful Music Festival.

Mene­gou grad­u­at­ed with dis­tinc­tion from the Athens Con­ser­va­to­ry in the piano class of Eleni Alakiozi­dou; she also has train­ing in music the­o­ry, dou­ble bass, musi­col­o­gy and eco­nom­ics. She cur­rent­ly teach­es and coor­di­nates inter­na­tion­al projects at the Pyla­ia-Hor­ti­atis Munic­i­pal Con­ser­va­to­ry and serves as artis­tic direc­tor of the Col­lege De La Salle Con­ser­va­to­ry in Thessaloniki.

Thalia Papadopoulou — pianist, cham­ber musi­cian and edu­ca­tor from Athens, spe­cial­iz­ing in con­tem­po­rary music. As a soloist and ensem­ble mem­ber she per­forms pre­mieres of new works, records con­tem­po­rary music and col­lab­o­rates with com­posers from Greece and abroad. She is co-founder of Pythia Trio, forms a piano duo with Myr­to Akrivou and col­lab­o­rates with flautist Eva Stavrou, focus­ing on 20th and 21st cen­tu­ry repertoire.

She has co-cre­at­ed projects real­ized with the sup­port of, among oth­ers, the Onas­sis Foun­da­tion and the i‑Portunus pro­gram (Cre­ative Europe), work­ing with com­posers in Paris, Bucharest and Munich. In 2023 she began a col­lab­o­ra­tion with Sofia Kamayian­ni, per­form­ing in her chil­dren’s opera “I Am a Tree That Speaks,” pre­sent­ed in the­atres and schools in Greece, Ger­many and Bel­gium. She is the founder of the cul­tur­al orga­ni­za­tion Artivis­tas. She stud­ied in Maas­tricht, Athens and Lyon, and holds diplo­mas in piano, har­mo­ny and coun­ter­point from Greek con­ser­va­to­ries. She reg­u­lar­ly attends mas­ter­class­es and work­shops in con­tem­po­rary music per­for­mance, includ­ing those led by Loren­da Ramou and Nico­las Tzortzis. As accom­pa­nist and musi­cal direc­tor she col­lab­o­rates with the­atres, foun­da­tions and edu­ca­tion­al projects. She teach­es piano and works as an accom­pa­nist at Athens conservatories.

Com­posers:

Danai Belosi­nof (b. 1993, GR/BG) — com­pos­er com­bin­ing con­tem­po­rary music with ele­ments of the­atre, video art and per­for­mance. Her son­ic lan­guage draws on Kar­natak rhythm and game­lan music. She is inter­est­ed in the sub­jec­tive per­cep­tion of time and space and in the role of the human voice. She is also a cura­tor, com­pos­er of the­atre and film music, and co-cre­ator of inter­dis­ci­pli­nary artis­tic projects.

George Chanos (b. 1990, Athens) — com­pos­er, design­er and sound engi­neer, cre­at­ing instru­men­tal, elec­troa­coustic and the­atre music. His works have been per­formed at, among oth­er venues, the Greek Nation­al Opera and the Nation­al The­atre of Greece. He is also active in film music, and his work has been pre­sent­ed at inter­na­tion­al fes­ti­vals. He also works in sound design for the per­form­ing arts.

Alexan­dros Markeas — French-Greek com­pos­er and pianist, grad­u­ate of the Paris Con­ser­va­to­ry and IRCAM. He cre­ates instru­men­tal, elec­troa­coustic and stage music, often com­bin­ing it with the­atre, text and visu­al arts. He is val­ued for works fea­tur­ing ele­ments of impro­vi­sa­tion and inspi­ra­tion from tra­di­tion­al music. He teach­es impro­vi­sa­tion at CNSMDP, and his work has received mul­ti­ple awards, includ­ing from SACEM and SACD.

Fil­ip­pos Raskovic — com­pos­er and impro­vis­er from Athens, liv­ing in Vil­nius. His works often have an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary and site-spe­cif­ic char­ac­ter, and he treats sound as a tool for explor­ing space and mat­ter. He col­lab­o­rates with visu­al artists and artis­tic col­lec­tives. He is co-founder of the col­lec­tive KRAMA, the trio illu­cid, and host of a pro­gramme on the inde­pen­dent Radio Vilnius.

Andys Sko­rdis (b. 1983, Cyprus) — con­tem­po­rary music com­pos­er, author of operas, orches­tral works and site-spe­cif­ic sound instal­la­tions. He stud­ied at Berklee, in Ams­ter­dam and in Bali. His work draws on the musi­cal tra­di­tions of var­i­ous cul­tures and has received numer­ous awards, includ­ing BUMA Toonzetters and the Berlin Opera Prize. He is the founder of the ensem­ble PATSIAOURA and an active impro­vis­ing musician.

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