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Mystery 20 P. A. Initiator – Narrative Archaeology | The Screening
First Public Screening of the Documentary on the Pioneering Performance – An On-Site Research Dialogue with the emblematic Archaeological Site of Elefsina , at Cine Eleusis directed by Konstantinos Arvanitakis and Michail Marmarinos,
CONTRIBUTORS
Direction: Konstantinos Arvanitakis, Michail Marmarinos
Editing: Konstantinos Arvanitakis
Documentary: Maria Gaitanidi, Pantelis Ladas, Giorgos Bougioukos, Daphne Toli, Vangelis Tsoumanis
Original Music Composition: Dimitris Kamarotos, Giannis Dermitzakis
Sound Mixing: Kostas Bokos
Production Coordination & Execution: MENTOR
Mystery 20 Performing Arts Initiator – Narrative Archaeology is organized by 2023 Eleusis.
INFORMATION
Date: Friday 22 November
Time: 20.00
Location: Cine Eleusis
Republished from 2023 Ελευσίς
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Horos tou nou
Original compositions and tunes of the Eastern Mediterranean
Concert with older original compositions of modal music and newer ones from the album of Giannis Dermitzakis entitled "Horos tou nou" released in May 2024 in collaboration with Aerakis K.M.E. Systron. With a strong element of improvisation, the connection between these contemporary compositions and older tunes from the Eastern Mediterranean will be attempted.
Giannis Dermitzakis: oud
Dimitris Kampolis: lyre
Simos Papaspyrou: ney
Lambros Papanikolaou: double bass
Friday 29/11/2024 at 9:00pm
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CONCERT OF EAST MEDITERRANEAN SONGS AND TUNES
Simos Papaspyrou: Ney and vocals
Maria Terzaki: Vocals and percussion
Giannis Dermitzakis: Ud
Saturday 25/5/2024 | Time 21:00 Ananda Unity 10 Sfittion Street, Athens
Door close at 21:30
☆Entrance: 10 euros


GIANNIS DERMITZAKIS | STAVROS MARANGOUDAKIS | MARIA TERZAKI

GIANNIS DERMITZAKIS | GIORGOS PAPAIOANNOU | MARIA PLOUMI | MARIA TERZAKI
GIANNIS DERMITZAKIS | GIORGOS PAPAIOANNOU | MARIA PLOUMI | MARIA TERZAKI

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GIANNIS DERMITZAKIS | MALAMA PATRELI | MANOLIS KANAKAKIS | ANTHI FOURKI
On Saturday 21/10/2023, Giannis Dermitzakis, Malama Patreli, Manolis Kanakakis and Anthi Fourki live at Teke in Nea Alatsata, Heraklion at 19:00

Workshop on Greek repertoire and development of modal improvisation
This workshop will focus on the performance and analysis of repertoire from the Greek musical tradition, and more specifically from Asia Minor, the Smyrna school of Rebetiko, the Aegean islands, Pontus, Thrace, Macedonia, and compositions by Greek composers of Istanbul.
Through the modal and rhythmic analysis of the pieces, ways of developing improvisation (taksim) will be decoded.
Participants will have the opportunity to come in contact with repertoire from many different musical traditions of Greece, thus discovering the different styles and the abundance of rhythmic patterns that govern them, while at the same time they will attempt to develop a structured improvisation by observing the oral rules that characterize the modal music system of the makam.
The workshop is open to all musical instruments and voices.
The reading of simple (monophonic) music scores is desirable.
Schedule::
Saturday 2.12.
10.00 - 13.00 and 14.00-17.00
Sunday 3.12.
11.00-14.00 and 15.00- 18.00
Fee: 160 euro,
early bird (until 10.11.) 140 euro
students & unemployed: 125 euro
Infos: contact@kanarini.de, 0178 3143174


Giannis Dermitzakis | Dimitis Kampolis at Ploumi
On Saturday, August 26 2023, Giannis Dermitzakis and Dimitris Kampolis will present a program of modern and old musical compositions for oud and lyre at the Plumi Cooperative Cafe in Archanes at 21:00
Giannis Dermitzakis | Ilias Markantonis at Ploumi (Archanes)
On Sunday July 30 2023 Giannis Dermitzakis meets Ilias Markantonis, in a musical performance with two lutes and a clarinet. A presentation of tunes and songs about forms of the Eastern musical tradition, their personal compositions and compositions of contemporary performers
Plumi Cooperative Cafe in Archanes at 21:00


Giannis Dermitzakis | Malama Patreli | Themis Polyzoakis | Anthi Fourki at Ploumi (Archanes)
On Friday March 30 | 2023 Giannis Dermitzakis, Malama Patreli, Themis Polyzoakis and Anthi Fourki live at the Plumi Cooperative Cafe in Archanes at 21:00

Mediterra Sound & Soul: Oud Voice Percussion
New live concert at Triptyco with the trio Giannis Dermitzakis, Malama Patreli & Anthe Fourki
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Where the sounds of Turkey and Greece are never separate but unite in the making of people.
Songs in both languages will be interpreted by the young and talented Malama Patreli reminding us the parallel roads in the creative forms that both civilisations have drawn in the East Mediterranean.
Wednesday 26 April at 9pm
Booking open www.triptyco.org
Reservations between 1-7pm over the phone 6944909720

Kanarini Berlin seminars
On May 6 & 7, 2023 Giannis Dermitzakis will give a seminar on the development of free improvisation (taximi) at the music school Kanarini - Greek Music School Berlin in Berlin, while at the same time Glafkos Smarianakis on the theme of Aegean music.
Thanks to Kanarini: Griechische Musikschule Berlin / Greek Music School Berlin and Aspa Anogiati for the invitation.
Concerts will be held on those days and will be announced soon.
For more details | registrations on the website:

Support event for earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria at the Heraklion Cultural Conference Center
On Thursday 23/03/2023, the event of solidarity with the earthquake victims of Turkey and Syria "If half my heart" was held, co-organized by the educational unions together with the Deputy Mayor of Volunteering & Youth of the Municipality of Heraklion and the beneficiaries of the program of the University of Crete " The art of rhythm in education" implemented in collaboration with DI.KE.H.
The musicians collaborated on stage:
Giannis Papatzanis, Isidoros Vardaros, Giannis Dermitzakis, Malama Patreli, Anthi Fourki, Irini Amanaki and the beneficiaries of the program "The art of rhythm in education".

Mediterra Sound & Soul: Giannis Dermitzakis & Manolis Kanakakis
The Triptyco space for creators opens its doors in Heraklion, in Crete, in the world, with collaborations, music, new, unexpected experiments.
This first semester until August 2023 we will host creators with the theme of Root/Drying from the self, the generation, the history, the place, the familiar. How do we respond as artists of all forms of expression to the search for new roots, to the loss and denial of roots, to the reconstruction of what we think we are.
Gannis Dermitzakis | oud
Manolis Kanakakis | kanun
Concert Duration: 9-10.30pm
Ticket Presale: Triptyco 1st floor, 11am - 1pm
Presale online: www.triptyco.org


Giannis Dermitzakis | Nektarios Pachiadakis | Kyveli Sergiou in Plumi
Saturday, March 4
Nektarios Pachiadakis and Kyveli Sergiou (Eran music group) will collaborate with Giannis Dermitzakis at the Ploumi Cooperative Cafe in Archanes at 21:00
Nektarios Pachiadakis | Cretan lyra
Kyveli Sergiou | Percussion and Cretan lute
Gannis Dermitzakis | Oud
Giannis Dermitzakis | Manolis Kanakakis at the PouKouVou Cafe
Manolis Kanakakis: Kanun and vocals | Giannis Dermitzakis: Oud
Eastern Mediterranean tunes & songs
Sunday 15/01/23 | Time 21:00
PouKouVou Cooperative Cafe


Musical theater performance "Micrasia Haire"
On the occasion of the completion of the commemorative year for the 100th anniversary of the Asia Minor Disaster, the Region of Crete-Regional Unit of Chania presents the musical theater performance entitled "Mikrasia Haire" by the Theater Group and Choir of the Brotherhood of Asia Minor "Agios Polykarpos", on Wednesday, December 21, 2022, at 21:00, at the Spiritual Center of Chania.
Manolis Kanakakis (piano-kanun)
Michalis Kotis (lute-guitar)
Giannis Dermitzakis (oud)
Nina Papafragou (percussion)
Kostis Makakis (violin)
Presentation of the Triptyco Mediterranean School of Dramatic Art
Many thanks to Triptyco for the hospitality, we wish you a good start on this trip. The musical part of the evening consisted exclusively of personal compositions by Giannis Dermitzakis.
Giannis Dermitzakis - Oud & compositions
Vasiliki Schoina - Ney
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Giannis Dermitzakis - Manolis Kanakakis - Kostis Makakis
On Sunday 13/11/2022 at Ploumi project at 20:30 p.m.
Giannis Dermitzakis - Oud
Manolis Kanakakis - Kanun & vocals
Kostis Makakis - Violin and vocals
Συνέδριο 100 χρόνια Μικρασιάτες στην Κρήτη στο Θέατρο Μίκης Θεοδωράκης στα Χανιά



Choir of Asia Minor Agios Polykarpos
Concert with the Choir of Asia Minor of Chania "Agios Polykarpos" held at the Firka fortress in the old port of Chania on 31/07/2022
Conductor of orchestra and choir: Georgia Rakopoulou
Isidoros Vardaros - Violin
Fanis Kousiunelos - Kanun
Gannis Dermitzakis - Oud
Nina Rakopoulou - Bendir

Dimitris Kampolis and Giannis Dermitzakis on Wednesday 20/07/22 at Halikouti, Rethymno
Dimitris Kampolis - Kemence
Giannis Dermitzakis - Oud
Instrumental tunes of Classical Ottoman music & contemporary modal compositions

Giannis Dermitzakis, Glafkos Smarianakis, Thimios Bardamaskos and Fanis Karousos at Ploumi in Archanes
Giannis Dermitzakis - Oud
Glafkos Smarianakis - Violin & vocals
Thimios Bardamaskos - Bouzouki & vocals
Fanis Karousos - Santouri

Giannis Dermitzakis, Glafkos Smarianakis, Thimios Bardamaskos and Giorgos Stavrakis at Mousiko kelari
Tunes from Asia Minor, rebetiko and the Aegean islands
Giannis Dermitzakis - Oud
Glafkos Smarianakis - Violin & vocals
Thimios Bardamaskos - Bouzouki & vocals
Giorgos Stavrakis - Guitar & vocals

Giannis Dermitzakis, Thymios Bardamaskos & Akis Pitsanis
On Friday 22/06/22 at Ploumi, in Archanes, on 20:30 p.m.

The positive effect of music on mental and emotional health
Event on the occasion of Pan-European Music Day
Tuesday 21/06/2022 in the central Kapi of the Municipality of Rethymno.
With the power of Speech and Music, the Municipality of Rethymno - the Elderly Department and the Community Center of its Social Service in honor of the Pan-European Music Day in collaboration with the Music Cinema Theater Laboratory of the Department of Philology of the University of Crete.
The event, which includes two short speeches and a musical performance, seeks to connect music with the mental and intellectual health of people of all ages, making it experientially visible to participants. Speakers at the event are Ms. Patousi Athanasia / Neurologist, on "Music and Dementia" and Mr. Kastrinakis Konstantinos / General Practitioner, on "The Impact of Music on Depression".
The event will be accompanied by music from the beneficiaries participating in the program "The art of rhythm in education", which has been co-organized by the Region of Crete and the University of Crete.
The following musicians collaborate with them on stage:
George Zacharioudakis (wind instruments)
Dimitris Sideris (lute)
Giannis Dermitzakis (oud)
Isidoros Vardaros (violin)
Fanis Karousos (santouri)
Aliki Atsalaki (vocals)
Eftychia Tsoukala (vocals)
Katerina Zacharopoulou (vocals)
Anthi Fourki (percussion)
Giannis Papatzanis (percussion)
The entrance is free.
The organizers invite their fellow citizens and visitors to enjoy the experience of intimacy, peace and mental empowerment offered by music and harmonious human coexistence.
Republished from Rethemniotika nea
(https://rethnea.gr/quot-i-thetiki-epidrasi-tis-moysikis-stin-noitiki-psychiki/?fbclid=IwAR1xTF3P8ogJdGgD_BZuG72BFRPxj08T969ko5HGO3eIMO5XUrnDoToCUu0)

Giannis Dermitzakis, Kostis Makakis and Manolis Tzanakis at Oropediou Gefseis in Tzermiado, Lassithi.
On Sunday, June 12, at 15:00, Giannis Dermitzakis, Kostis Makakis and Manolis Tzanakis at Oropediou Gefseis in Tzermiado, Lassithi.
Songs and tunes from Polis, Smyrna, Crete and the islands.

Giannis Dermitzakis, Vangelis Fanourakis and the band Eran
On Friday, June 10, 2020 at 21:30 in Ierapetra at Aperitton Cafe with Vangelis Fanourakis and the band Eran (Nektarios Pachiadakis and Kyveli Sergiou)
Nektarios Pachiadakis - Cretan lyre and song
Kyveli Sergiou - Song and percussion
Vangelis Fanourakis - Cretan lute & Bulgari
Giannis Dermitzakis - Oud

Giannis Dermitzakis - Manolis Kanakakis - Kostis Makakis
On Friday 3/36/2022 at Ploumi project at 20:30 p.m.
Giannis Dermitzakis - Oud
Manolis Kanakakis - Kanun & vocals
Kostis Makakis - Violin, vocals and Cretan lyre

Presentations of the workshops of DIPETHE Crete
Experimental Amateur Stage (director Maria Gaitanidi) "Study in Chekhov in 3 acts" Sunday 29 and Monday 30 May, Villa Koundourou at 20:00
"..I believe that everything will gradually change on earth - they have already begun to change before our eyes. After two hundred, three hundred or even a thousand years - it does not matter - there will be a new, happy life. We, of course, do not manage to make her happy, but for her we live, work and toil, we try to create her. " Versinin, Act II."
The Experimental Amateur Scene opens the doors to a process that explores the possibility of artistic creation in the now, with the spontaneity of the diversity of human nature. A. Chekhov's Three Sisters offer the thematic basis of the research through the dream, the unfulfilled desires and the personal work that each and every one of us is called to do in order to come perhaps one day closer to completion.
Participants: Sotiria Konta, Despina Giannaraki, Anna Hachopoulou, Angeliki Zoumbekli, Nikos Haritakis, George Manogiannakis, Giannis Hatzidakis
Music Composition - Oud: Giannis Dermitzakis
