European summer tour 2015 | Between East and West | Vassilis Tsabropoulos & Nektaria Karantzi

European summer tour 2015 | Between East and West | Vassilis Tsabropoulos & Nektaria Karantzi

Between East and West
European summer tour 2015
Classical Music & Jazz meets
the Byzantine Musical Heritage
with Eastern Mediterranean Musical Traditions
 
Vassilis Tsabropoulos & Nektaria Karantzi
 
It is not just a musical piano and voice duo.
It is the combination of an internationally recognized virtuoso pianist and a unique female voice of Byzantine Chant that ideally link the music of West and East…
 
Two years have passed since their first cooperation at Megaron Athens Concert Hall in an unpredictable musical marriage of West and East with the Byzantine Hymns as the solid core of it that impressed and caused a great sensation. Since then until today, the internationally renowned pianist, composer and conductor Vassilis Tsabropoulos and the most ideal performer of Byzantine Music Nektaria Karantzi with an even more mature and enriched repertoire, travelled across Europe presenting their musical cooperation winning with their combination of musical intelligence audiences and critics who talked about one of the most inspiring collaborations that highlights the Religious / Byzantine Melos [Chanting]
 
Having as a core the piano and voice duo, both artists are preparing for another year of their new summer destinations in Europe presenting a new music circle based on musical routes of West and East. In their repertoire the Byzantine Chants are combined with imaginative improvisations by Vassilis Tsabropoulos on traditional melodies of the Mediterranean and great works of classical composers meet the musical compositions of the virtuoso pianist, mainly through his long ECM discography.
 
West meets East unfolding each of them their own musical treasures with an imaginative dialogue on stage, in the most original summer collaboration that will travel across Europe.
 
Production Organization: Thomas Bäcker & Heino Sonnleithner