2000 Santorini International Music Festival

For 22 years, the beautiful Greek island of Santorini (Thira) has enjoyed a magnificent music festival featuring both Greek and international artists. Admission is just 5000 drachmas per concert, and the concert series runs between September 3rd and September 17th.

Tickets and accommodations in Santorini can be ontained through all main tourist offices.

All concerts are held at the "Petros M. Nomikos Conference Centre" in Fira. Phone (in Greece) (0286) 23 166 and 22 622, Fax 23645.

The "Petros M. Nomikos Conference Centre" is a magnificent complex of buildings dominating the town of Fira and the caldera. It was inagurated in September 1989. The main hall is built in the style of a previous neoclassical mansion on the same site, which dated from the late 1800s.

Program

1st Concert - Sunday 3rd September

"Candia Trio"
Patricia Arenas (piano) - Venezuela
Dionysis Vervitsiotis (violin) - Greece Vitaly Maltsev (cello) - Ukraine
Trios by Mendelssohn Nr 1, Op. 49 - Sahostakovitch Nr 2, Op.67

2nd Concert - Tuesday 5th September

The Greek Byzantine Choir
"An Evening of Byzantine Music"
Director: Lycourgos Angelopoulos

3rd Concert - Friday 8th September

Piano Recital
Pascal Godart - France
Winner of the "International Piano Competition" Grand Prix - Maria Callas, Athens 1996
Works by: Chopin - Ravel - Liszt

4th Concert - Sunday 10th September

Julita Perez (soprano) - Brazil
Spyros Mourikis (clarinet) - Greece
Athena Capodistria (piano) - Greece
Works by: Spohr - Rossini - Debussy
Spanish and Latin Composers

5th Concert - Friday 15th September

"Sonoris" String Quartet - Poland
Radoslaw Pujanek (violin)
Piotr Pujanek (violin)
Lukasz Kieronszyk (viola)
Maria Pstrokonska-Navratil (cello)
Dionysis Annios (guitar) - Greece
Spyros Mourikis (clarinet) - Greece
Giuliani - Guitar Quintet Op.65
Mozart - Clarinet quintet K. 581
Borodin - String Quartet Nr 2 D maj.

6th Concert - Sunday 17th September

"Sonoris" String Quartet - Poland
Athena Capdistria (piano) - Greece
String quartets by; Mozart K. 421 - Beethoven Op.18 Nr 1 - Shostakovitch Piano Quintet Op. 57

Special thanks to the "Dio Mekales" and Santorini Today for providing this information.