Seminars

July 16 – September 15, 2011

Tsagarada - Zagora,  East Pelion, Middle Greece

The seminars/workshops

The seminars and master classes comprise the main part of the Festival. They attract crowds, professors, students and friends of  all kinds of  music as well as those who choose alternative tourism.

Talented children, from very young ages as well as professional musicians, have the opportunity to come together and  speculate on musical matters with each other, their professors and the wider public in an atmosphere of collaboration and reciprocity.

During the day, the program includes lessons, practice and rehearsals, in solo instruments and in small and large ensembles, which are created on the spot. There is also a short break for lunch. In the evening concerts and lectures are held, as well as various other events.

This year the seminars will be held in 4  periods, according to the following program :

First period  :  16-23.7.2011, Tsangarada

Ulrich Voss, violoncello

Second period : 20-27.7.2011, Tsangarada

Dimitris Gouzios, violoncello

Panagiotis Drakos, flute

Giannis Karambetsos, trompet

Giorgos Mastrogiannopoulos, guitar

Spyros Mourikis, clarinet

Zoe Samsarelou, piano

Dimitris Semsis, violin

Vangelis Skouras,  horn

Kostas Christodoulou,electronical organ

Third  period  : 19-26.8.2011, Zagora

A seminar-workshop on the improvisational form “Taksim”

 with Markos Skoulios and Giorgos Psaltis

 A presentation-analysis of the prevalent performance generated genre in the modal traditions of Northeastern Mediterranea. The narrative structure of Taksim, Makams and melodic modulation, the specific melismatic styles and the pulsation of development of taksims in different idioms, idiolectic melodic phrases.  The seminar part of the presentation is accompanied by a workshop part during which all the above will be applied on instruments. This workshop part can be attended by all instrumentalists able to perform non equal tempered intervals (Violin, Ney, Oud, Kanun, Lavta, Turkish Baglama, types of Lyras and Kemences, Clarinet, Tanbur

 Fourth  period  : 8-15.9.2011, Tsangarada

Helge Slaatto,violin