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Picture: live performance at Hotel Imaret (Kavala, Greece) -> A collaboration of:
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BIO
This project by Alkis and Marina is a creation that vindicates the value of music as an aesthetic experience and as a vector of dialogue between East and West, between femininity and masculinity and between generations.
The dramatic history of Asia Minor, with the Great Catastrophe as a turning point in the Greek-Turkish rift, had radical consequences for music. Instruments considered oriental, such as the qanun and the oud, were banned in Greece for decades. This ushered in the modern rebetiko era, with the bouzouki as the predominant instrument. But centuries of cultural exchange cannot be erased. Join us in tying the thread of music, over time, over borders.
ABOUT MARINA LIONTOU MOCHAMENT
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ABOUT ALKIS ZOPOGLOU |
| Marina Liontou Mochament (b. 1984, Athens) studied Folk and Traditional Music (Ipirus University, Arta, Greece) and Ottoman Music and Improvisation with Kudsi Erguner at Codarts, University of the Arts (Rotterdam, The Netherlands), where she obtained her Master’s with a focus on metric improvisation in makam genres under a grant of the Onassis Scholars Association (Greece), as well as Computer Science (Athens Economic University, Athens).
As an ud player and improviser, she has participated in several seminars on ud, makam and improvisation with Yurdal Tokcan, Evgenios Voulgaris, Sokratis Sinopoulos, Harris Lambrakis in Labyrinth Musical Workshop. Currently, her main research interest is improvisation and composition in contemporary modal music. She is living and working as a performing musician in Istanbul. |
Alkis Zopoglou actively begins his pursuit of music from a very early age. For eight years he systematically takes lessons in Istanbul. There, he studies and meets the styles of performance of various important kanun players of Istanbul, such as Ahmet Meter, Halil Karaduman, Goksel Kartal and Goksel Baktagir.
He is a licensee in Byzantine music. Till today, he has developed an intense artistic activity. He takes part in several cultural events and in discography, with a significant number of prominent composers and bands of Greece, (Chronis Aidonidis, Nikos Saragoudas, Stamatis Kraounakis, Haig Yazdjian, Nikos Filippidis, Theo Kapilidis, En Chordais, and others). He is also co-operating with many foreign musicians like Theodossi Spassov, Sellahadin Maraqa, Ara Digjian, Kudsi Erguner, Suleiman Erguner, Imane Homsy, Charbel Rouhana, Samir Siblini, Fahrettin Yarkin, Necip Gulses, Hossein Omouni, Kiya and Ziya Tabassian, Ghada Shbeir, Rima Khcheich and others. He has travelled for concerts in many foreign countries (Germany, France, USA, Canada, Australia, Tasmania, Netherlands, Egypt, Italy, Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Mexico, China, Seoul, UAE, Israel, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Kuwait, Hong Kong, Oman, Romania, Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom, Ukraine and others). He has represented Greece as a musician and has taught qanun in international qanun meetings in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon Cyprus and Romania. He is a founding member of the musical ensemble Kontrabando, artistic director of mediterranean music festival in Zurich-Switzerland (mmfestival.ch) and Cosmopolis festival in Kavala-Greece (cosmopolisfestival.gr). |
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LINE-UP
The basic line up is the duo with Alkis Zopoglou in the qanun and Marina Liontou Mochament in the oud and some vocal compositions.
According to the event, the line up can include also James Basdanis (guitar and loops) and/or a percussionist.
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WORKSHOPS & LECTURES
- Each of the artists can provide a workshop of their instruments: qanun and oud. If including James Basdanis, he can provide a workshop on how to use the technology to enhance your music
- They can provide a lecture about the instruments forgotten during more than 50 years in Greece. Now there is a new Greek style of the instruments. And how they make the music together.
- They are also open to other ideas, like a Q&A with the public after the concert.
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BOOKING QUERY
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