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The music journeys of Marco Polo

Kyriakos Kalaitzidis - En Chordais

Dates

Prices

5 — 28 €

Location

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Thursday
Time
20:30
Venue
Main Stage

Information

Tickets

15, 18, 28 €
Concs 10, 12, 15 €
Unemployed 5 €

What would we be listening to today if Marco Polo had recorded the sounds and music he encountered on his travels?

What would we be listening to today if Marco Polo had recorded the sounds and music he encountered on his travels? Joined on stage by musicians from Italy, China, Iran and Mongolia, Kyriakos Kalaitzidis and the award-winning En Chordais ensemble invite us to recreate the journeys of Marco Polo in our minds.

A mosaic of world musical traditions will unfold before us in their performances: classical Chinese music, Uzbek songs, Indian forms, courtly Persian music, Byzantine melos, mediaeval music from Venice and compositions inspired by the various esoteric journeys of the Venetian traveler which Kalaitzidis composed especially for this concert.

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Credits

  • Concept - Artistic direction

    Kyriakos Kalaitzidis

  • Texts - Reading

    Vasiliki Nevrokopli

  • Projections

    Nikos Terpsiadis

  • Sound engineering

    Leonidas Palaskas

  • With

    Maria Farantouri

En Chordais ensemble

  • Violin

    Kyriakos Petras

  • Oud

    Kyriakos Kalaitzidis

  • Song

    Drosos Koutsokostas

  • Kanonaki

    Alkis Zopoglou

  • Toubeleki, bedir

    Petros Papageorgiou

Guest musicians from Italy, Iran, China, Mongolia

  • Setar, song

    Kiya Tabassian

  • Tombak, daf

    Ziya Tabassian

  • Pipa

    Changwei Chen

  • Baroque flute

    Marco Rosa Salva

  • Viola da gamba

    Pierre-Yves Martel

  • Song, tobshuur

    Amartuvshin Baasandorj

Biography

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