Samos Young Artist Festival 2022: The young artist festival returns to Samos

This year, twenty-two young Greek and foreign up-and-coming musicians and accomplished artists, travel from all over the world and meet in Samos, rehearse, exchange thoughts on music and performance and share the stage of the ancient Pythagorean theater. For the 12th time, the Samos Young Artists Festival invites musicians to Samos and presents a weekly program of live music that ranges from the baroque repertoire to classical and romantic music, chamber music, fado music and bossa nova.

Masha Ilyashov and Alexis Karaiskakis – Nastos maintain the artistic direction of the festival and curate a program of seven concerts in the ancient theater of Pythagoras, overlooking the sea and the coasts of neighboring Turkey from August 7 to 13.

The program of this year’s events

Sunday, August 7
Traverssia – Bossa nova meets fado music
Nani Medeiros, voice
João Pita, seven-string guitar
Rui Poço, Portuguese guitar

Monday, August 8
Total Odeon
Michael Nodel, violin, viola
Louis Vandory, viola, violin
Amrei Bohn, cello
Luisa Wehrmann, violin
Valentin Lutter, cello
Carla Usberti, viola

Works of P.I. Tchaikovsky, Franz Schubert

Tuesday, August 9
Masters of Trumpet and Piano
Sergei Nakariakov, trumpet
Maria Meerovitch, piano

Works by B. A. Mozart, Robert Schumann, Erwin Schulhoff, Frédéric Chopin, Gia Cancelli, Jean-Baptiste Urban

Wednesday, August 10
Frédéric Chopin – Auguste Fransom
A friendship with musical fruits
Phaedon Miliadis, violin
Fani Vovoni, violin
Ilias Sdoukos, viola,
Kristína Chalmovská, cello
Yannis Babaloukas, double bass
Alexandra Papastephanou, piano
Timotheus Gavrielidis-Petrin, cello

Works by Auguste Fransom and Frédéric Chopin

Thursday, August 11
Chamber music concert
Phaedon Miliadis, violin
Fani Vovoni, violin
Panagiotis Charalambidis, violin
Ilias Sdoukos, viola
Alexis Karaiskakis-Nastos, cello
Timotheus Gavrielidis-Petrin, cello
Yannis Babaloukas, double bass

Works by Richard Strauss and Antonin Dvorak

Friday, August 12
Baroque music concert
Address: Markellos Chrysikopoulos
Soloist: Tassis Christogiannopoulos

Marcellos Chrysikopoulos, harpsichord
Fani Vovoni, violin
Panagiotis Charalambidis, violin – baroque violin
Alkistis Misouli, baroque viola
Kristína Chalmovská, baroque cello
Yiannis Babaloukas, baroque double bass
Tassis Christogiannopoulos, voice

Moving for this evening between the dipole of folk and spoken art, the Samos festival pays a very small tribute to M. Theodorakis who passed away less than a year ago having marked the music of modern Greece with his work. In the same spirit, one of the most popular late baroque composers, G. FR. Heindel.

Saturday, August 13
Closing concert of the festival
Phaedon Miliadis, violin
Panagiotis Charalambidis, violin
Alkistis Misouli, viola
Michael Nodel, violin,
Louis Vandory, violin
Amrei Bohn, cello
Valentin Lutter, cello
Carla Usberti, viola
Luisa Wehrmann, violin
Yannis Babaloukas, double bass

Works by Felix Mendelssohn, Nikos Skalkotas

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