What does it mean to create and to listen in a time of constant output, speed and noise?<\/p>
At the centre is Charles Uzor, whose work approaches music as a space shaped by time, memory and perception, moving across cultures and traditions while remaining grounded in a personal approach to composition.<\/p>
Bringing together perspectives from different creative fields, the session moves between sound, image and meaning. How do ideas take shape today? What does it mean to listen, rather than simply consume? And how can creative practice hold its depth in an environment defined by immediacy?<\/p>
Let’s take a step back to the deeper processes behind creation, recognising music as output while also considering it as a way of thinking and experiencing the world.<\/p>
Powered by the Goethe Institute<\/p>
Moderated by Chris Yonas<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What does it mean to create and to listen in a time of constant output, speed and noise? At the centre is Charles Uzor, whose work approaches music as a space shaped by time, memory and perception, moving across cultures and traditions while remaining grounded in a personal approach to composition. Bringing together perspectives from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"event-cat":[86,103],"nationality":[],"music-genre":[],"destination":[764],"topic":[],"language":[79],"class_list":["post-32069","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry","event-cat-conference-el","event-cat-panels-el-2","destination-2004-el","language-english-el"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"","ams_acf":[{"key":"performers","label":"Performers","value":[{"ID":27688,"post_author":"1900","post_date":"2025-04-23 17:30:11","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-23 14:30:11","post_content":"\n
Chris Yonas is a distinguished Greek-Australian pianist and composer, celebrated for his refined pianism and distinctive artistic voice. He is a co-founder of YRIART, a cultural non-profit dedicated to supporting artists, contemporary music, composers, and interdisciplinary artistic creation. His international studies span institutions such as the University of Melbourne, the Mozarteum University in Austria, and Stanford University, where he explored interdisciplinary fields including philosophy and mathematics alongside music. As a soloist, Chris has received distinctions in national and international competitions and performed in prestigious venues such as the Athens Concert Hall (Megaron), the Greek National Opera\u2019s Alternative Stage, the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, the \u201cParnassos\u201d Literary Society, Mozarteum University, Victoria College of the Arts (Melbourne), Branner Hall (San Francisco), and V\u00e5rdklockan Church in Gotland, Sweden.\u00a0\u00a0 Born 1961 in Nigeria he came to Switzerland during the Biafra War. Recital Diploma at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Master's degree (with Hans Werner Henze) and dissertation on melody and inner time awareness at Goldsmiths. His oeuvre includes operas, dance, orchestral, and choral works, main interest in works for ensemble and voice: Canto I, Ricercare, Akhenaten's Hymnos, Notre Vie, Go, Zimzum, a chantar\u2026, qui plus aime\u2026 Most pieces explore identity and deception in connection with electronics. Nri\/mimicri deepens birdsong by 8 octaves imitated by the Ondes Martenot. Pieces 2016-2023: Ave Maria, sweet amygdala, qui ainsi me refait\u2026., Mothertongue, sephardic lilt.mimicri, spleen.mimicri, George Floyd trilogy, merrusch, Parmenides Prooimion and Breaking of the Vessels. Performasnces by OENM, ICE, Ekmeles, Amaltea, DLW, Duo Aventure, London Sinfonietta, BBC SSO, LFCO, the SWR Vocal Ensemble and the Bavarian Radio Choir. Recent works: The Great Wall, nids et territoires, ORIRI, Qualia II and 6 songs for low voice (after William Blake). Uzor is a fellow of the Civitella Ranieri Foundation and member of the Akademie der K\u00fcnste Berlin. Since 2021 he directs the Swiss forum contrapunkt.new art music<\/p>\n","post_title":"Charles Uzor (CH)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"charles-uzor-ch","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-26 10:06:27","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-26 07:06:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.athensmusicweek.gr\/?post_type=speaker&p=31961","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":32301,"post_author":"2133","post_date":"2026-04-27 16:27:50","post_date_gmt":"2026-04-27 13:27:50","post_content":"\n Sami Vasileios Amiris, F.L.C.M., M.Mus., B.Sc. He was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. He was a scholarship student in Anatolia College for all years of middle and high school. He studied music, first with Panagiotis Moralis, whom he sites as an influence in listening and playing by ear, and later in Contemporary Conservatory of Thessaloniki. At Anatolia, he studied music with Prof. William Gladd, whom he sites as a great influence in all aspects of his musical growth. He studied Mathematics at the University of Crete, Heraklion and University of Athens, jazz studies at London College of Music, classical piano with Prof. Dimitri Toufexis, a concert pianist and conductor of international stature and a Julliard Alumnus and Professor and composition with Dr. Ath. Zervas, Profs. Th. Antoniou, Fabio D\u2019Andrea.. Very important for his musical development were the long-time association and friendship with the master drummer Zach Pinakoulakis, and the brief encounter he had with the great Mal Waldron. Central in his musical life have been the collaborations with Yiannis Stavropoulos and Periklis Trivolis in the power Jazz piano trio \u201cNukeleus\u201d (\u201cMasterpieces Revisited\u201d two-CD album released in 2009) and with Antonis Ladopoulos in the highly interactive and critically acclaimed saxophone \u2013 piano duo \u201cPhos\u201d (\u201cPhos\u201d released 2012, \u201cExpanded Matrix\u201d released 2016, many more albums available on Soundcloud). He has been the pianist of the Big Band of the Municipality of Athens since 2000 and also serves as its current musical director. He teaches at Deree, the American College of Greece. He has appeared in countless jazz festivals and venues both inside and outside Greece, both as a leader and sideman. He has shared the stage with people like Bobby Shew, Ralph Peterson, Nils Lundgren, Rex Richardson, Markus Stockhausen, Arild Andersen, Patrice Heral, Craig Bailey, Chico Freeman, Ron McClure, Sean McGowan, Reiner Witzel, David Garibaldi, Dom Famularo, Walfredo Reyes Jr, Marko Djordjevic, Manuel Orza, Veronica Mortensen, Takis Paterelis, Giotis Kiourtsoglou, Vasilis Rakopoulos, the Athens State Symphony Orchestra etc. He has lectured in various seminars in various institutions and festivals, like the Pannonian Bridge Project (Novi Sad, Serbia), 6th Summer Jazz Academy (Corfu), Ioannina Jazz Festival, University of Macedonia, Deree, etc. As a teacher, he has had many success stories. Students of his have enrolled in many of the world\u2019s most prestigious music institutions, both at the undergraduate and graduate level. He is considered one of the best-known jazz pianists in Greece. His style encompasses many influences, from classical and contemporary music to jazz and blues and all related styles, to the music of Central and South America, Cuba, as well as Africa, India, Arabia, Maori and Ancient Greek music. He puts great emphasis on the use of complex rhythmic techniques in music, and how to create new sonic landscapes using them. He is also very fond of the rhythmic and melodic possibilities inherent in the Eastern and Ancient Traditions. He is a firm believer that mathematics is one of the greatest tools to open new worlds in every field of music. Also, he believes that creative musicians should have a good knowledge of the physics of sound to better understand their craft, and be competent in music technology, as the possibilities are endless. Currently, he lives in Athens, Greece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","post_title":"Sami Vasileios Amiris (GR)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"sami-vasileios-amiris-gr","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-28 10:05:25","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-28 07:05:25","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.athensmusicweek.gr\/?post_type=speaker&p=32301","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":32475,"post_author":"2128","post_date":"2026-04-28 12:10:27","post_date_gmt":"2026-04-28 09:10:27","post_content":"\n \u200bBorn in the capital of Greece, Athens, Rene Nikolaou began her music studies at the age of seven. She studied piano with Sophia Garoufalis and gained the Bachelor and Diploma. After that she has attended master classes in Greece and Switzerland with internationally renowned pianists such as Aris Garoufalis, Martino Tirimo and Paul Badura Skoda. She also completes her studies in Music Theory, Harmony and Composition with Christos Anastassiou. \u200b She teaches piano, chamber music and music theory at many conservatoires of Athens, as well as, in Primary and Secondary Education (Music High Schools). She has composed many works for piano solo (Studies, Valse Lente, Nocturnes, etc.), chamber music, and the work Metachorisis written for symphonic orchestra and choir. \u200b She has also composed a children's operetta called The fox became a nun, based on a poem of the significant greek poet George Drosinis, and a collection of \u201cChildren's songs\u201d part of which was presented in the ''School\u2019s Choral Festival'' at the Cathedral of Ekatontapiliani at the island of Paros (May 2009). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Her works for piano solo Two small canons and Etude No.2 have been awarded with the ''Finalist of the International Music Prize for Excellence in Composition 2010'' and ''Honorable Mention Citation'' respectively at the contest organised by the National Academy of Music, State of Colorado, USA. Additionally, at the same contest, she gained the title \u201cWinner of the International Music Prize for Excellence in Composition 2011\u201d and \u201c International Music Prize for Excellence in Composition 2011\u201d with the works Unconditional and Little Tangos for Little Pianists. Her works have been presented at the Athens Concert Hall and other theaters of Greece, such as in television and radio. Her book and cd titled Synaesthesia is a collection of works for piano solo and duets for piano and cello published by Cambia Publications. She's engaged with the film scoring of the movies The Day After, in NIFF \u200b(International Film Festival of Naoussa, Greece) in September of 2014 and the film \"The Face Of The Ash\"of the Kurdish director Shakawan Mohammed. She also composes music for theater shows in Athens. With her work Miriam for alto flute, she participates in the cd Gimel (2018) by Phasma Music Foundation and soloist Iwona Glinka.\u200b <\/p>\n\n\n\n The work YRIA - Suite for two guitars, commissioned by ALEA III, is released by the Papagrigoriou-Nakas Editions and was presented at the Faliro Guitar Festival in February 2019 by Alexandra Christodimou and Yiannis Petridis and later at the ALEA III festival, on the island of Naxos (August 2019). In November 2019, Rene Nikolaou participates in the Greek Composers' Workshop organised by the Aristotle University of Greece in collaboration with Thessaloniki's Concert Hall and she presents the trio Into The Deep, a work commissioned by the Organisation for alto saxophone - violin and piano. In September 2020 she participates in the CD of the Phasma Music Foundation \"Lament for Theodore Antoniou\" which is a collection of works for flute written in memory of the professor and distinguished composer Theodoros Antoniou with soloist Iwona Glinka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In May 2022 she participated with the project \"Steps - The Iron Project\" in the OPEN ART program organized by the Ionian University in collaboration with the 18th Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF), in which they were presented works of electroacoustic music, composed for the program \"The Art of Listening\" and \"Sound Environments\" with the common theme \"PHYSICAL HISTORY\". In the same year (2022) she participated in the CD \"SQ , String - Saxophone, Quartet - Quintet\" (2022), with the string quartet no. 1 \"Stones\", performed by the string quartet Ex Quartet and released by Phasma Music Foundation. Her work Miniature for solo piano was chosen by the \"Friends of Music\" Association to celebrate its 70th anniversary and will be presented at the anniversary concert at the Athens Concert Hall in November 2023 as well as at the Department of Music Studies of the University of Ioannina . \u200bShe is a member of the Greek Composer's Union \u200band Artistic Director of Piraeus Conservatory.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Rene Nikolaou (GR)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"rene-nikolaou-gr","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-28 12:12:50","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-28 09:12:50","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.athensmusicweek.gr\/?post_type=speaker&p=32475","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":32692,"post_author":"2128","post_date":"2026-04-29 12:25:15","post_date_gmt":"2026-04-29 09:25:15","post_content":"\n Sofia Kamayianni is a composer, musician, and educator. She studied piano, classical percussion, contemporary and theatre\/film composition, and mathematics (MMus, University of London and MEd, University of Leeds). She has worked extensively as a composer, writing concert and musical theatre works, incidental music for theatre, film, dance and video art as well as installation pieces, working with numerous ensembles and soloists from Greece and abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Blending recorded with acoustic sound is a notable characteristic of her musical work. She has also performed widely in concerts and festivals, both individually and as member of an ensemble. Her special interest in musical theatre can be found in many of her works. Her debut opera, The Cloud in Love, featured a unique use of a children's and youth choir which captivated audiences. The opera enjoyed two sold-out runs at the Alternative Stage of the Greek National Opera in 2022 and 2023. Another standout music theater piece is \u201cI Went Through\u2026\u201d, a collaboration with the celebrated Greek poet Kiki Dimoula She has collaborated with many organizations on creative educational programs.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Sofia Kamayianni (GR)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"sofia-kamayianni-gr","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-29 12:36:22","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-29 09:36:22","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.athensmusicweek.gr\/?post_type=speaker&p=32692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},{"key":"date","label":"Date","value":"6 \u039c\u03b1\u0390\u03bf\u03c5 2026"},{"key":"launch_time","label":"Launch Time","value":"15:15"},{"key":"end_time","label":"End Time","value":"16:15"},{"key":"hero_image","label":"Hero Image","value":30111}],"yoast_head":"\n
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