![]() The first fruit of this work of his was the release, in 2017, of the studio album entitled “Staurodromi” (Crossroads) with songs interpreted by several well-known Greek singers. In his songwriting he has been working in depth on bringing together the, inherent in him, Greek and, more broadly, Mediterranean melodic tradition, with the harmonic vocabulary and structure of the Western European music (both classical and jazz). In 2012 he started focusing on setting poetry and lyrics to music and in December 2013 he won the 2nd prize at the most prestigious Greek songwriting competition. Throughout the years he has composed music for documentaries, theater, short films, important public events, corporate videos, TV spots, audio theater CDs, CDs accompanying children’s books, works for piano and more. Nikos Papadogiorgos is an awarded Greek composer, orchestrator and pianist currently living and working in Athens, Greece. Nikos Papadogiorgos |composer, orchestrator, pianist Nikos Papadogiorgos: Singing for the sea | Poetry by Anthi Mitropetrou Nikos Papadogiorgos: The seed-shop | Poetry by Muriel Stuart (1885-1967) Nikos Papadogiorgos: Love and the butterfly | Poetry by Alice Dunbar Nelson (1875-1935) Nikos Papadogiorgos: Crossroad | Lyrics by Giorgos Gkonias Nikos Papadogiorgos: Just for a moment | Poetry by Anthi Mitropetrou Nikos Papadogiorgos: Alexandria | Lyrics by Giorgos Gkonias Nikos Papadogiorgos: The sad mother | Poetry by Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) Nikos Papadogiorgos: The dove descending | Poetry by Tomas Sterns Eliot (1888-1965) Nikos Papadogiorgos: Psalm 133 | From the Book of Psalms. Composed in Hebrew by King David, translated into French (in poetic form) by Théodore de Bèze (1519-1605) and rendered into modern French by Marc-François Gonin (1921-2004) Nikos Papadogiorgos: The other side of the mirror | Poetry by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907) Nikos Papadogiorgos: The fairytale of light | Lyrics by Stavros Stavridis ![]() ![]() Nikos Papadogiorgos: Callisto | Lyrics by Ariadne Lada ![]() Vaggelis Katsarelis | trumpet & flufelhorn You can get your ticket here.Ĭomposition-Orchestration: Nikos Papadogiorgos On the stage of the “Andreas and Maria Kalokairinou” Hall of the Cultural and Conference Center of Heraklion, CCCC, Nikos Papadogiorgos performs alongside with the exceptional singers Nefeli Fasouli and Annie Fassea, as well as Michalis Katachanas (viola), Dimitra Chanialaki (trumpet and flugelhorn), Zach Tarpagos (flute & alto flute) and Yorgos Danis (contrabass). «Aiming to describe the aforementioned compositional material, the term “vocal chamber music” would stand rather characteristic and accurate» describes the composer. In his concert “The Art of Song”, Nikos Papadogiorgos collaborates with an ensemble of charismatic musicians, researching on stage the multifaceted creative process of setting Greek poetry into music, combining the idiosyncratic character of the Greek and the Mediterranean music traditions to the harmonic depth of the Western-European music (classic music, Jazz). In addition, the composer sets into music a selection of English poetry of the period 1850-1950, achieving therefore a coalescence of diverse elements and influences forming the personal aesthetics of the Greek artist. Prominent, bright and highly prolific, the Greek composer, orchestrator and pianist Nikos Papadogiorgos presents selected songs of his latest compositional period that expands over the past eight years and focuses on the musical form of art song. Artists Events 2020/21 Nikos Papadogiorgos: The Art of Song
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