Transformations I

Tinos World Music Festival launches a three-year cycle of music creation entitled “Transformations”, which aims to explore the relationship between the various manifestations of popular music culture and contemporary artistic creation.

The Tinos World Music Festival was launched in 2013 on the island of Tinos and is organised by the Tinian Culture Foundation and Creative Music Island. It has hosted over 100 musicians from Greece and abroad and has been attended by hundreds of spectators from different parts of the world. The artistic director of the festival is Martha Mavroidis.

With the cycle of events “Transformations” the festival aims to highlight the new musical community that is developing around the traditional music of Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean, seeking new ways of artistic expression. Traditional instrument virtuosos who evolve the techniques of their instruments, transforming traditional musical idioms creating new musical genres, each one stamping the result with their own particular artistic identity. Musicians from this community rarely have the opportunity to present their work at an institution dedicated to these genres.

The “Transformations” cycle will consist of three different editions of the festival (Transformations I, II, III), in three consecutive years (2022, 2023, 2024) and will include concerts and educational activities at various locations in Tinos. The aim of the three-year cycle is to provide a platform on which new musical trends will interact with each other through musical partnerships and educational activities, but also to meet with a wide audience, creating a musical network that includes both the local community of Tinos and the nearby islands and an ever-growing audience from other parts of Greece and abroad.

Tinos World Music Festival organizes for the second year two educational programmes. This year, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Asia Minor catastrophe, a workshop of traditional singing for children and adults is planned on the theme “From Asia Minor to the Aegean” with songs that travelled from Asia Minor and became part of the repertoire of island music (teaching: Dionysia Papouli), as well as a workshop to get acquainted with the lute (teaching: Maria Plumi). The workshops will be held at the Tinian Culture Foundation on Saturday 2 July, time: 11:00 – 13:00.

PROGRAMME

Friday 1 July, 21:00 | Tinian Culture Foundation

“Echoes of Asia Minor”

The Tinos World Music Festival launches its collaboration with the Tinos Festival, in a concert dedicated to the 100 years of the Asia Minor Catastrophe. The first day of the festival is dedicated to instruments that played an important role in the musical traditions of Asia Minor. Through the eyes of young creators, these instruments find their place in contemporary musical creation.

Naseem Trio

Dimitris Mikelis – Uti

Andrea Romani – Nay, flute

Apostolos Sideris – Double Bass

Naseem Trio is a newly formed collaboration of three musicians with a common tendency to influences regardless of direction and geographical orientation and with a strong inclination for musical dialogues and improvisation in the context of original compositions. Dimitris Mikelis plays oud and piano. As a musician, he has been immersed in both performance and composition, as well as teaching throughout his professional career. His choice of instruments suggests the dual identity of his education and later career, where influences from Western and Eastern musical idioms ultimately act as a catalyst in shaping his aesthetic and personality as a performer and creator. After 15 years abroad, first in the USA and then in Palestine, where he taught piano and oud at the Al Kamandjati Association, Dimitris Mikelis returns to the Greek scene and, together with Andrea Romani and Apostolos Sideris, presents compositions with roots in Mediterranean and Arabic music.

Tasos Poulios Quartet: The Vitraux Project

Tasos Poulios – Gunnery, composition, editing

Yannis Pulios – Violin

Dimitris Tasoudis – Drums, electronics

Apostolos Sideris – Double Bass

“We don’t play traditional, we don’t play jazz, but we have taken “yeast” from tradition, and freedom from jazz. Perhaps we belong to an improvised category that I would call Aegean World Jazz, as musically we let ourselves go to the currents of the Aegean Sea that take us sometimes to the Bosphorus, sometimes to the Libyan Sea and sometimes to the Atlantic”, says composer and founder of the quartet Tasos Poulios. A member of a dynamic new generation of musicians who are steeped and deepened in traditional music, but who seek and discover new musical extensions without altering the original style and ethos. Tasos Poulios, a master of the cannon, through his compositions, bridges the musical worlds of film music, world jazz and the tradition of the East, while wondering, together with the listeners, where one genre stops and the other begins. The quartet stands behind this blur of the musical landscape, similar to the blur of a vitraux, behind which everything can be seen, but the strict contours give way to smooth curves.

“From Asia Minor to the Aegean”

Spyros Balios – Violin

Dionysia Papouli – Voice

Maria Plumi – Lute

Songs and tunes from the Cyclades and the Dodecanese, but also melodies that travelled from Asia Minor and were incorporated into the repertoire of the Aegean.

Saturday 2 July, 21:00 | Foundation of Tinian Culture

“With a Balkan air”

People of the Wind

James Wylie – Saxophone

Fausto Sierakowski – Saxophone

Alexandros Rizopoulos – Dulcimer

An explosive trio with music inspired by the art of the zourna and the ecstatic melodies of Macedonia and old Balkan folk traditions. Saxophonists Fausto Sierakowski (France) and James Wylie (New Zealand) together with Alexandros Rizopoulos on the dulcimer formed the trio People of the Wind, in 2016 in Thessaloniki, to perform the melodies of Macedonia and the Balkans with the saxophone as their main instrument. The performance of Balkan musicians with a western instrument like the saxophone is a challenge that aims to enrich and renew this very special musical tradition.

Balkan Bridges: Petar Ralchev – Thanos Stavridis

Petar Ralchev – Accordion

Thanos Stavridis – Accordion

Christos Tasios – Percussion

Two leading musicians and soloists who not only deal with the musical traditions of their country, but also open new horizons, as they combine the past with the present through musical creation, meet in a journey through the music of the Balkans. Petar Ralchev, one of the greatest musicians on the contemporary Balkan music scene, creator of a unique style of performance with virtuosity, harmony-rich melody and improvisation as key characteristics, is an inspiration for many young accordionists around the world. Thanos Stavridis, on the other hand, one of the most recognized musicians in the field of accordion, is considered a pioneer of the Balkan scene in Greece. With them on percussion, Christos Tasios.

Sunday 3 July, 21:00 | Museum of Marble Crafts PIOP

“In the Tower”

The third day of the festival takes place for the second year in collaboration with the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation’s Marble Craft Museum at the Tower of Tinos.

Kelly Mayu Duet

Kelly Thomas – Lyra

Mayu Shviro – Cello

The bows of the lyre and the cello are interwoven in a magical dance of melodies and rhythms through the exceptional virtuosity and musicality of two important musicians. Kelly Thomas and Mayu Shviro met at the music workshop “Labyrinthos” in Crete and have been together for seven years. In their concerts they present a repertoire of contemporary modal compositions by Kelly Thomas, played on cello and lyre, influenced by various musical traditions of the world, emphasizing both improvisation and the creative approach to ancient sounds. A gifted musician and composer, Kelly Thomas has earned her own place on the world music scene and has collaborated with leading musicians from many different directions. Mayu Shviro, a cello virtuoso with studies in European classical music and Azerbaijani mugam, shapes a unique sound through her improvisations and impressive technique.

Vassilis Triantis Quartet

Vassilis Triantis – Lute, guitar

Vangelis Karipis – Percussion

Antonis Kaliouris – Wind instruments

George Ventouris – Double Bass

Vassilis Triantis, presents a journey with music from his album “Portolanos” and the new track “Seitan Pazar” which was recently released. A luthier of traditional music but at the same time a contemporary musician, with influences from various musical genres, he captures in his compositions the coexistence of his musical experiences. He is accompanied by an excellent group of musicians, while his pieces are accompanied by traditional songs from Greece and other countries of the world, as well as pieces by composers who “defined” the artist to a certain extent and are part of the wider field of the World Music scene.

Admission for the public is free.

Organized by Tinian Culture Foundation, Creative Music Island

Co-organized by South Aegean Region, Tinos Festival, Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation

Donation AIGEAS AMKE

Transport sponsor Fast Ferries

Artistic direction Martha Mavroidis

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