Paxos Festival

Event Category: Festival 2023

Competing to steal, Bruce Clark

The distinguished international author and journalist, Bruce Clark, has recently been awarded the Golden Cross of the Order of Phoenix for services to Greek culture and history and on Thursday 31st August he will be giving a talk in Loggos on the story of the Parthenon sculptures. Furious rivalry between Britain and France for control […]

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Buried Treasure

Buried Treasure: The Avant Garde Chamber Music of Mikis Theodorakis This evening’s lecture – concert wishes to depict a tiny part of Mikis Theodorakis’s incredible personality as a composer and especially as a classical music composer. Gail Holst-Warhaft, pianist in his band in the heroic times of the ‘70s and his loyal friend until his […]

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Songs and Dances of the villages of Lefkimmi

(Villages of Lefkimmi, Kritika, Paleohori, Neohori, Dragontina, Spartera) Kostas Petridis: lute, voice Christos Zahos: lute, mandolin, voice Kostas Kostoulas: violin Lefkimmi, always had a special local history and life style, tightly linked with agriculture, the sea and travelling. Its music tradition stands right next to the main body of Greek songs and has influenced all […]

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Guitar recital with M. Kontaxakis

Two works by Greek composers in a dialogue with some of the most popular compositions in the International Guitar Repertoir. In the first part we will listen to the “Hadjidakis’ Suite” by Leonidas Kanaris right next to the emblematic Chaconne by J.S. Bach. In the 2nd part Periklis Koukos’ guitar suite, based on the ballet […]

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“We are dancing over here…”

1st Modern Dance Evening Participating: Danae Vellianiti Guest professional dancers Eva Papaefthymiou and Rea Theodorakopoulou Students of “Eorisis” School of Classical and Modern Dance of Paxos Our audience will enjoy the performance of 8 original choreographies presenting various techniques of modern dance (Release, Limon and improvisation techniques; Danae Vellianiti will present seven of her own […]

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Four French Sonatas for Violin and Piano

Four French Sonatas for Violin and Piano Jason Keramidis, violin soloist, concertino at the Philharmonic Orchestra of Munich and Apostolos Palios, a piano soloist, professor of Music Interpretation and Piano Performance at the University of Athens Department of Music Studies, will present four masterpieces of the international repertoire for violin and piano. We will be […]

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Kadinelia

Kadinelia, the world acoustic duo of Thanasis Zikas and Evi Seitanidou, who came together in 2014, provide a trip into music all the way from Greek traditional music to World music. Through this trip, listeners realize how enriching blues and rock elements can be to the traditional music ways of different corners of Greece. Their […]

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Irish Wings

Every summer a different group of Irish artists descends on the beautiful Ionian Island of Paxos in Greece. They come for Irish Wings, a musical event dedicated tocultural dialogue between Ireland and Greece and an integral part of the annual Paxos Music Festival. This year it will feature Hellas Ensemble, a stellar cast of musicians […]

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Concert with the guitarist, Florian Palier

The concert introducing the 2023 Paxos Festival is part of the Austrian – Greek Summer Music Events taking place in more than 30 venues all over Greece. Paxos Festival is honored to host young, talented guitarist, Florian Palier participating in the Austrian- Greek Summer Music Events series for the 3rd time. Austrian – Greek Music […]

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