Chaos
12-19 August 2025
CHAOS is a state of disorder and unpredictability that precedes creation and structure and can be a source of potential as well as destruction. It challenges the human desire for order, highlighting the tension between randomness and meaning in the universe.
This year, let us explore and evoke the raw energy of disorder through music, while also showcasing the potential for resolution and harmony, reflecting the delicate balance between chaos and order in both music and life.
Programme
PANDEMONIUM
UPPER CASTLE OF MYTILENE
12.08 > 20:15
Admission free
- DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Five Pieces for Two Violins and Piano
ELEFTHERIOS PAPASTAVROU
Macedonian for Violin and Piano
MANUEL DE FALLA
La Vida Breve: Spanish Dance No. 1
Arrangement for violin and piano: Fritz Kreisler
HENRYK WIENIAWSKI
Légende for Violin and Piano, Op. 17
Polonaise Brillante for Violin and Piano No. 1
in D Major, Op. 4
PABLO DE SARASATE
Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy airs) for Violin and Piano, Op. 20 -
Nikolia Garoufalidou violin
Kirill Troussov violin
Danae Dörken piano
Kiveli Dörken piano
PAIN
AMBELIKO
Curated by Tanja Tetzlaff and Florian Donderer
13.08 > 20:30
Admission free
- JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Partita for Solo Violin in D Minor, BWV 1004
V. Chaconne
LILI BOULANGER
Deux Pièces en Trio (Two pieces in trio)
I. D’un soir triste (Of a sad evening)
II. D’un matin de printemps (Of a spring morning)
IANNIS XENAKIS
Kottos for Solo Cello
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
Trio Élégiaque No. 1 in G Minor -
Florian Donderer violin
Tanja Tetzlaff cello
Danae Dörken piano
Kiveli Dörken piano
OPPORTUNITY
ROMAN AQUEDUCT OF MORIA
In dialogue with the Choir of the Cultural Association
of the Moria Women and the RAD Μusic Ιnternational
16.08 > 20:15
Admission free
- LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 5 in F Major,
Op. 24, “Spring”
I. Allegro
FRITZ KREISLER
Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen (Old Viennese dances)
for Violin and Piano
I. Liebesfreud (Love’s joy)
II. Liebesleid (Love’s sorrow)BÉLA BARTÓK
Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56
Arrangement for violin and piano: Zoltán SzékelyCÉSAR FRANCK
Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major
IV. Allegretto poco mosso - Antje Weithaas violin
Danae Dörken piano
Kiveli Dörken piano
Esther Jacea Maswanga voice
(member of the RAD Μusic Ιnternational)
Choir of the Cultural Association
of the Moria Women of Lesbos
- MIKIS THEODORAKIS
Ena to Chelidoni (Lone is the swallow) - MIMF musicians
- MIKIS THEODORAKIS
String Quartet No. 4, “Mass” - Florian Donderer violin
Katerina Chatzinikolau violin
Georgy Kovalev viola
Christian-Pierre La Marca cello
- ERRIKOS VAIOS
New work – Commissioned by MIMF
World premiere - Katerina Chatzinikolau violin
Tanja Tetzlaff cello
Danae Dörken piano
- ERNEST BLOCH
Baal Shem (Three Pictures for Chassidic Life), Suite for Violin and Piano
II. Nigun (Improvisation) - Katerina Chatzinikolau violin
Danae Dörken piano
- BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ
Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola, H. 313
Ι. Poco allegro - Katerina Chatzinikolau violin
Sindy Mohamed viola
- FELIX MENDELSSOHN
String Quartet No. 6 in F Minor, Op. 80 - Antje Weithaas violin
Florian Donderer violin
Georgy Kovalev viola
Christian-Pierre La Marca cello
YOUNG PEOPLE’S CONCERT
DELFINIA HOTEL / SEAFRONT PARK
18.08 > 19:00
Admission free
- ROBERT SCHUMANN
Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44 - Florian Donderer violin
Hyeyoon Park violin
Sindy Mohamed viola
Christian-Pierre La Marca cello
Danae Dörken piano
- BÉLA BARTÓK
Forty-four Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98
Selection - Hyeyoon Park violin
Florian Donderer violin
- ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK
Piano Quartet No 2 in E-flat Major, Op. 87, B. 162 - Hyeyoon Park violin
Georgy Kovalev viola
Tanja Tetzlaff cello
Kiveli Dörken piano
- FRANZ SCHUBERT
String Trio in B-flat Major, D. 471 - Hyeyoon Park violin
Georgy Kovalev viola
Tanja Tetzlaff cello
- FRANZ SCHUBERT
Symphony No 8 in B Minor, D. 759, “Unfinished”
String quartet version - Antje Weithaas violin
Hyeyoon Park violin
Sindy Mohamed viola
Tanja Tetzlaff cello
- IGOR STRAVINSKY
Le Sacre du Printemps (The rite of spring)
Original version for piano four hands - Danae Dörken piano
Kiveli Dörken piano
Workshop
18 & 19 August, 10:30 - 14:30
IMAGINATIVE MEMORY: Booklet Design Workshop (in English)
HISTORICAL PUBLIC LIBRARY OF MITHYMNA “ARGYRIS EFTALIOTIS”
Number of participants: 15
Admission fee: 80€
The concept of “imaginative memory” is derived from the terms “urban palimpsests” and “urban imaginary”. A child, or visitor who ignores about the past might reveal a memory by looking to the photography of a place or visiting that place which conceals memories of a community. This imagined memory might seem a fictive story; however, any person is a part of our «globally connected» collective memory. Therefore, any fiction about the visit to a historical site might reveal pieces from the place’s memory even after a traumatic and silencing period.
Dr. Hasan Işıklı, graphic designer, social anthropologist, researcher
Katerina Chatzinikolau
Violin

Katerina Chatzinikolau
Violin
Katerina Chatzinikolau was hailed by the Rheinische Post as a musician with “sparkling vitality and virtuosity”. Since 2023 she holds the concertmaster position of the Athens State Orchestra. She has served as concertmaster in the Duisburger Philharmoniker Deutsche Oper am Rhein and Bergische Symphoniker. As a soloist she made her debut with conductor Christoph Eschenbach in 2022. She has performed at the Cologne Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall, Tonhalle Düsseldorf and rbb-Rundfunksaal Berlin. She has worked with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Bremerhaven Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonie Südwestfalen, State Symphony Orchestra of Thessaloniki etc. She is a winner of the Golden Classical Music Awards, International London Music Competition, eMuse Ιnternational Music Competition, Thöne Violin Competition and the Panhellenic Competition for Young Soloists. Katerina started her musical studies in Goumenissa (Greece) and continued her studies at the Pre-College at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf with Alexander Kramarov. She holds a master’s degree in music and musicology from the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne, where she studied with Ariadne Daskalakis. Since January 2025 Katerina is guest professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in the Department of Musical Studies. Since January 2025 Katerina is Youth Ambassador of the Hellenic Institute of Cultural Diplomacy.
Florian Donderer
Violin

Florian Donderer
Violin
© Giorgia Bertazzi
Violinist Florian Donderer is highly valued as chamber musician, soloist, concertmaster and conductor, collaborating with distinguished musicians such as Christian Tetzlaff, Antje Weithaas, Viktoria Mullova, Tanja Tetzlaff, Julian Steckel, Kiveli Dörken, Alexander Lonquich, Sharon Kam, Matthias Görne and Paavo Järvi. Florian Donderer is frequent guest at major festivals such as Bergen Festspielen, Beethovenfest Bonn, Festwochen Berlin, Schwetzinger Festspiele and is core member at Spannungen Music Festival, founded by the late pianist Lars Vogt. He is artistic director of Rottweil Musikfestival, one of Germany’s longest standing chamber music festivals, and first violin of Signum Quartet, one of the most adventurous and outstanding string quartets of today. Florian Donderer is especially renowned as an artistic leader, directing orchestras from the concertmaster’s desk. He was longstanding concertmaster of Germany’ s leading chamber orchestra The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Top orchestras such as the Irish Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Estonian National Orchestra, Kammerorchester Basel, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonietta Riga, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra invite him as director and soloist. He made his debut as conductor with Ensemble Oriol and Christiane Oelze at Berlin Philharmonic Hall, followed by a CD recording with Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Tanja Tetzlaff. He has conducted among others the Kammerakademie Neuss, the Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim and Festival Strings Lucerne. He was a professor at Hanzehogeschool Groningen and regularly gives masterclasses teaching violin, chamber music and orchestra playing. He plays a violin built by German violinmaker Peter Greiner in 2003 and bows by Nico Plog from Antwerp.
Danae Dörken
Piano

“Is the young pianist the discovery of the year?” asked the classical music magazine Crescendo – and answered in the affirmative. The reviewers of the magazine Concerti also consider her to be “on her way right to the top”. The German-Greek pianist Danae Dörken belongs to the elite of a new generation of internationally sought-after artists and captivates audiences and fellow musicians alike with her breathtaking technique, exceptional stage presence and musical depth.
Danae Dörken was already supported by Yehudi Menuhin when she was seven years old and caught the attention of audiences in leading European concert halls early on with “her sparkling joy of playing” (Kölner Stadt- Anzeiger). After studying with the internationally revered piano pedagogue Karl-Heinz Kämmerling and with the renowned soloist and teacher Lars Vogt, she is now a regular guest with leading orchestras such as the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester, the Münster Symphony Orchestra, the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin, the Philharmonie Baden-Baden, the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Nordic Chamber Orchestra, the Royal Northern Sinfonia, the Estonian National Symphony
Orchestra, the Norrlandsoperan Symphony, the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg and the Staatskapelle Weimar.
Danae Dörken has performed at London’s Wigmore Hall, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Mozarteum Salzburg, the Tonhalle Zurich, the Bozar in Brussels, the Megaron in Athens, the Brucknerhaus Linz, the Philharmonie Köln, the Gasteig Munich, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, the Alte Oper Frankfurt and the Beethoven-Haus Bonn. She regularly performs at important festivals such as the Kissinger Sommer, the Schwetzinger Festspiele, LuganoMusica, the Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival, the Dresdner Musikfestspiele, the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the GAIA Music Festival, the Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker and the prestigious chamber music festival “Spannungen” in Heimbach.
The 2024/25 season is full of highlights for Danae Dörken. She will appear at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York with her long-time chamber music partner Sebastian Manz. As a piano soloist, she will perform Gershwin’s Piano Concerto and de Falla’s Nights in Spanish Gardens in concert with the Kiel Philharmonic Orchestra, Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto with the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz and Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto with the Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic Orchestra. She has also been invited to return to the orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin, where she will perform the piano part in Scriabin’s Prometheus under the baton of James Gaffigan.
As part of a piano duo with her sister Kiveli, she will be performing at numerous concerts, including some at the Festspielfrühling Rügen, the spring festival forming part of the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where in addition she will also be performing with percussionist Alexei Gerassimez.
The album GLASS TWO, a joint project with the Luxembourg vibraphonist and composer Pascal Schumacher, will be released at the end of 2024. This programme of works by Philip Glass and Schumacher will be performed at the Elbphilharmonie and other venues.
On the occasion of the 100th birthday of the Greek national composer Mikis Theodorakis in 2025, a very personal album by Danae Dörken will be released on the Berlin Classics / EDEL label. It will include Theodorakis’ Piano Concerto Helikon and his First Suite for Piano and Orchestra, recorded with the Staatskapelle Weimar conducted by Kornilios Michailidis.
Last year, Danae Dörken released the duo CD Apollo & Dionysus (Berlin Classics) with her sister Kiveli and three albums with the French oboist Philippe Tondre on the Klarthe label. Her landmark CD recording of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 and Mendelssohn’s rarely heard Second Piano Concerto with the Royal Northern Sinfonia under Lars Vogt received glowing reviews. In 2012, Danae Dörken released her debut album of works by Leoš Janáček. Her solo CD with Fantasies by Schumann, Schubert and C.P.E. Bach (ARS Production) won the ICMA Award. Her latest album Odyssee (Berlin Classics) was received with critical acclaim and nominated for several international music awards.
Danae and Kiveli Dörken founded the Molyvos International Music Festival on the Greek island of Lesbos in 2015. In addition to the large annual summer festival, they organize benefit concerts and events throughout Germany in which the festival’s artists (including Sebastian Manz, Marlis Petersen, Linus Roth and Maximilian Hornung) participate. Danae Dörken’s commitment to Greece, to supporting refugees and to strengthening the musical connections between Greece and Germany have repeatedly been the subject of reports on the TV programmes tttand 3sat kulturzeit, as well as on the broadcasting station WDR and in numerous other media.
Kiveli Dörken
Piano

Kiveli Dörken’s temperament, passion and dedication to music is palpable in every one of her concerts. With her infectious enthusiasm and captivating presence, she values a close contact with her audience, often addressing the listeners first, before sitting down at the piano and pushing the boundaries of sound diversity and artistic expression. Kiveli Dörken (b. 1995) began her musical path as a seven-year old student of the renowned piano pedagogue Professor Karl-Heinz Kämmerling. She continued her musical education with Professor Lars Vogt at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hanover where she is studying until today. She is a member of the TONAListen agency, and has received scholarships and support from various foundations, such as the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, the renowned Spannungen Festival, the International Musikadamie in Liechtenstein and the Werner Richard-Dr. Carl Dörken Stiftung (no relation). At the age of eight she gave her orchestral debut. She has since performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the Hamburger Camerata, the Camerata Bern and the Athens State Orchestra. In 2019 Kiveli Dörken gave her debut with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen playing César Franck’s Variations Symphoniques under the direction of conductor Alondra de la Parra. She has performed in most European countries, China and the United States of America, in some of the most famous halls, the Elbphilarmonie, the Mariinsky-Theatre in St. Petersburg, the Gewandhaus Leipzig, the Konzerthaus Berlin and the Alte Oper Frankfurt, to name just a few, and is a regular guest at many prestigious festivals, like the Kissinger Sommer, the Schwetzingen Festival, the Spannungen Festival in Heimbach and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. Highlights of her early career were performances for the Dalai Lama in 2007 and for the German chancellor Angela Merkel in Washington, D.C., in 2009. Kiveli Dörken dedicates a considerable amount of her time to playing chamber music. She performs regularly with artists such as Christian Tetzlaff, Sharon Kam, Maximilian Hornung and Tanja Tetzlaff. Together with her sister Danae Dörken, she has been playing as a piano duo since the age of five. In 2015, she founded the Molyvos International Music Festival (MIMF) on the Greek island of Lesbos, of which she is also the artistic director. The MIMF does not only bring the tradition of classical music to Lesbos, but it has also become a symbol of hope for the entire region. In 2022, Kiveli Dörken released her debut CD with the label ARS Produktion featuring solo and chamber music works by Josef Suk. Together with her sister Danae they have recorded a new album, Appolo & Dionysus, released by Berlin Classics, featuring works of Ravel, Debussy, Brahms, De Falla, Theodorakis et al
Nikolia Garoufalidou
Violin

Nikolia Garoufalidou
Violin
Hasan Işıklı
Graphic designer, κοινωνικός ανθρωπολόγος, ερευνητής

Hasan Işıklı
Graphic designer, κοινωνικός ανθρωπολόγος, ερευνητής
Hasan Işıklı was born in Izmir, Turkey in 1982. He received his bachelor’s degree from Bilkent University, Department of Graphic Design in Ankara. Following the master’s degree of graphic design specialised in colour theory at Jean Jaurès University in Montauban, he returned to Izmir and created the Hillustration Studio brand focusing on graphic design projects for cultural events. He earned his PhD of arts from Ghent University, Department of Art, Music and Theatre Studies. While moving between Ghent and Izmir he visited and wrote on various festivals for the website of European Festivals Association (EFA) and taught theoretical and practical courses at Yaşar University. Currently he positions himself at the intersection of graphic design and social anthropology in memory studies. He teaches comics and illustration workshops for children, he makes illustrations on nostalgia, gender, dreams and desire and he organises creative urban events in Hi Journey Art and Education Studio of which he is the founder.
Georgy Kovalev
Viola

Georgy Kovalev
Viola
© Andreas Malkmus
Georgy Kovalev, born in 1990 in Tiflis (Georgia), studied at the Kronberg Academy with Nobuko Imai and later with Tabea Zimmermann at Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. He is a prizewinner of prestigious competitions, including the Yuri Bashmet International Competition in Moscow and the Tokyo International Viola Competition, and received the 2011 Neva Foundation Prize awarded by the Verbier Festival. As a soloist, Georgy has performed with renowned orchestras such as Kremerata Baltica, Munich Chamber Orchestra, and New Japan Philharmonic. His chamber music partners include Martha Argerich, Gidon Kremer, Christian Tetzlaff, and Steven Isserlis at major festivals like Schubertiade, Verbier, and Ravinia. Since 2020, he has been the principal violist of the Amsterdam Sinfonietta. His recordings include The Art of the Fugue with the Delian Quartett, nominated for an Opus Klassik award, and a viola concerto by Sperger with the Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim for the CPO label. Georgy plays a 1650 viola by Antonio Mariani.
Christian-Pierre La Marca
Cello

Christian-Pierre La Marca
Cello
©Marco Borggreve
Christian-Pierre La Marca has distinguished himself by his radiant presence in the world’s leading concert halls and his award-winning recordings. After making his debut in Aix-en-Provence, he studied in Paris with Jean-Marie Gamard, Philippe Muller and Gary Hoffman before continuing with Frans Helmerson in Cologne and Steven Isserlis in London. His trajectory was crowned with success at international competitions in Osaka, Frankfurt, London (Philharmonia), New-York (YCA) and Vienna (Haydn). Christian-Pierre has performed in prestigious venues across the world and plays with leading orchestras: Philharmonia Orchestra, London Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, musicians from Orchestre de Paris, Brussels Philharmonic, Münchener Kammerorchester, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg to name few. Christian-Pierre has appeared in major festivals (Verbier, Ravinia, Santander, Schleswig-Holstein, Bad Kissingen, Mecklenburg, Schwetzingen, Trondheim, Oxford, Pablo Casals de Prades, Aix-en-Provence). He actively collaborates with composers including Jörg Widmann, Pēteris Vasks, György Kurtág, Thierry Escaich. Equally at ease on the chamber music platform, he plays regularly with prestigious artists: Itzhak Perlman, Veronica Eberle, Vilde Frang, Renaud Capuçon, Augustin Dumay, Kit Armstrong, Milos and Quatuors Ébène a.o. Christian-Pierre La Marca records exclusively for naïve. He initiated in 2018 the Concert for the Planet with the GoodPlanet Foundation and photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand, a solidarity event intended to raise funds for the environment. He has a class at the Conservatoire Paul Dukas, Paris XIIe for advanced students. Christian-Pierre La Marca is a Larsen Strings Official Artist and an Ambassador for Gewa and Henle Verlag. He plays a unique Neapolitan cello (ca 1830) with a rare Jacob Eury cello bow (thanks to Vocation Foundation) and a F.L. Lamy cello bow from the legendary André Navarra (thanks to Anima Foundation).
Esther Jacea Maswanga
Voice
member of the RAD Μusic Ιnternational

Esther Jacea Maswanga
Voice
member of the RAD Μusic Ιnternational
Born in Congo (DRC), Esther is a passionate artist, songwriter, actress, and screenwriter. Music has been central to her life since the age of six, serving to express, connect, and explore emotions. Trained in classical and traditional instruments, she blends poetry and melody to inspire and awaken souls.
Sindy Mohamed
Viola

Sindy Mohamed
Viola
© Nikolaj Lund
The French-Egyptian violist Sindy Mohamed is one of the most promising young musicians of her generation. As a soloist and chamber musician, Sindy Mohamed is a regular guest at major festivals such as the Moritzburg Festival, the Schubertiade Hohenems, the Kronberg Festival, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and the Heidelberger Frühling. Her chamber music partners include artists such as Renaud Capuçon, Isabelle Faust, Lawrence Power, Tabea Zimmermann, Jan Vogler, Elena Bashkirova, Kian Soltani, Michael Barenboim and Julien Quentin. Highlights of the 2025 season as well as previous seasons include her debut in the Pierre Boulez Saal Berlin, her debut with the Neubrandenburg Philharmonic Orchestra under Simon Crawford−Phillips, touring with the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss under Isabelle van Keulen as conductor and violinist. It included her debut as well with the Cottbus Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Golo Berg, her debut with the Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Johannes Klumpp at the Heidelberger Frühling, her debut at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival and her der debut with the Cairo Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Ahmed El Saedi. Other concerts have taken her to the Mannheim Palace Concerts and the Berlioz Festival with the Orchestre des Pays de la Loire under Pascal Rophé. Sindy regularly performs with the Boulez Ensemble as Viola-Solo under renowned conductors such as François-Xavier Roth, Zubin Mehta, Matthias Pintscher, Antonio Pappano and Antonello Manacorda. She has been a member of the West Eastern Divan Orchestra under the direction of maestro Daniel Barenboim since 2013. Sindy Mohamed plays a viola by Matteo Goffriller, which was kindly made available to her by the Miller-Porter collection through Beare’s International Violin Society.
Hyeyoon Park
Violin

Hyeyoon Park
Violin
This 24/25 season sees Hyeyoon debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Kristian Sallinen. She also makes her City of Birmingham Symphony debut conducted by Alexander Shelley with Price’s Violin Concerto No. 2, and debuts with Cape Town Philharmonic performing Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1. She returns to the London Philharmonic Orchestra for two performances of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, a chamber version of which she also play-directs on tour with Sinfonia Cymru. With pianist Juho Pohjonen, she tours China performing a varied programme that includes Debussy’s Violin Sonata. Hyeyoon also makes a return to the award-winning Multi-Story Orchestra at the Southbank Centre for a performance of Verified, composed by Young Creatives and Kate Whitely. A passionate chamber musician, Park continues touring Europe with her long-standing Piano Quartet partners − Kian Soltani, Timothy Ridout, and Benjamin Grosvenor − with performances at Elizabeth Hall, Philharmonie Luxembourg, and Palau de la Música Catalana. Park and Grosvenor participate in a series of chamber recitals in Norway at the Risør Chamber Music Festival. Recent highlights of Park’s career include performances with the Hallé Orchestra and Royal Northern Sinfonia in Beethoven’s Triple Concerto alongside Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Benjamin Grosvenor. Her concerto appearances also include engagements with Stuttgart Philharmonic, Orchester Mainz, Poznań Philharmonic, Hitzacker Festival, Cologne Philharmonie, Zuger Sinfonietta, Iasi Philharmonic at the Classix Festival, and performances of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with orchestras such as the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, and Mariinsky Orchestra in St Petersburg, among many others.
Tanja Tetzlaff
Violoncello

Tanja Tetzlaff
Violoncello
© Giorgia Bertazzi
Cellist Tanja Tetzlaff has been one of the most influential musicians of her generation. Her playing is characterised by a powerful and nuanced sound, and her special trademark is her extraordinarily broad repertoire. Tanja Tetzlaff is particularly interested in going beyond the presentation of classical music to include other art forms and to engage with contemporary events. For her special commitment to bringing the issues of nature conservation and climate change into the concert hall, she was appointed a lifetime ambassador by the German orchestra association “Orchester des Wandels”. In September 2024, Tanja Tetzlaff received the Duisburger Musikpreis for extraordinary achievements in the field of music and musical theatre. Tanja Tetzlaff has performed with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Philharmonia Orchestra in London, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra as well as Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and NHK Symphony Orchestra. She has worked with renowned conductors including Alan Gilbert, Daniel Harding, Philippe Herreweghe, Karina Canellakis, Paavo Järvi, Sir Roger Norrington, and Robin Ticciati. She is a founding member of the Tetzlaff Quartett, formed in 1994 with Christian Tetzlaff, Elisabeth Kufferath and Hanna Weinmeister. She has numerous chamber music and solo recordings that have been praised worldwide and received distinctions, such as the solo recording with Bach suites and works by Thorsten Encke, which was released in October 2019. Tanja Tetzlaff studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg and at the Mozarteum Salzburg. Since the winter semester 2021/22, she has holds a professorship in the cello department at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. Since April 2024 she is serving as professor of cello and chamber music at the University of the Arts in Bremen. She plays on a cello by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini from 1776.
Kirill Troussov
Violin

“One of the most gifted violinists of his generation” (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Harald Eggebrecht). Supported and guided by Sir Yehudi Menuhin at a young age, Kirill Troussov is meanwhile widely recognised as one of the leading violinists of his generation. He works with renowned orchestras and is a regular guest at prestigious festivals and in famous concert halls of the world. Kirill Troussov regularly gives master classes at the Mozarteum Salzburg, Colburn School Los Angeles, Beijing and Nanjing Central Conservatory, European Music Institute Vienna, in Cremona, Milan, Madrid, Dublin, Berlin, Munich, Oslo, Budapest, USA, Hong Kong and Japan. Since 2021 he is Chairman and Artistic Director of the Hong Kong International Young Musicians Competition and Vice President and Artistic director of the Carl Flesch Competition in Hungary. Since 2023 the label Orchid Classics releases the series Kirill Troussov Live, where over fourty of his celebrated live concert performances will be available on all audio-streaming platforms. Meanwhile this series reached two million five hundred thousand streams. In 2024 Kirill Troussov founds Sarasate Academy in Madrid, Spain and the Engers Academy near Frankfurt. Furthermore, he takes over the position of Artistic Advisor of the International Music Festival Kaposfest in Hungary as well as the position of Artistic Director of the Festival International de Música Clásica “Pago de la Jaraba” in Spain and of the Music Festival AMMERSEErenade near Munich. Kirill Troussov plays the Antonio Stradivari violin “Brodsky” of 1702, on which violinist Adolph Brodsky performed the world premiere of Tchaikovsky’s Violin concerto on the 4th of December 1881.
Errikos Vaios

Errikos Vaios
Born and raised in Athens, Errikos Vaios studied piano and theory at the National Conservatory before leaving for Australia, where he studied composition, electroacoustic music, and conducting. After having worked as a professional in Australia, he returned to Europe and was awarded a MPhil in Music Composition at the University of Sussex under the supervision of Professor Martin Butler. He has attended many master classes with noted international composers, such as Jonathan Harvey, Paul Lansky, Gunther Schuller, Zygmunt Krauze, Arne Mellnäs, among many others. Ηe is among the most internationally performed Greek composers of his generation, and his works have been presented frequently in many cities and festivals around the world, including: Athens, London, Budapest, Brasov, Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Louisiana, Busan, Heyfield, Syros, Mani (Sonnenlink), etc., in prestigious halls such as: Liszt Academy Concert Centre, City Recital Hall – Angel Place, Megaron the Athens Concert Hall, Parnassos Concert Hall, Dallas Brooks Hall, Great Hall of the University of Sydney, Enmore Theatre, Pottle Hall, etc., as well as in international broadcasts on the National Classical Radio 3 of Greece. He has composed works for orchestra, chamber, instrumental, and vocal music, several electroacoustic works, and works for theatre and TV. He has collaborated with artists of international renown, such as Theodore Kerkezos, Duo Contemporain, Tiberiu Soare, Brasov Philharmonic Orchestra, Angelica Kathariou, Vasiliki Karayanni, Yannis Christopoulos, Christos Papageorgiou, Alex Poulton, and Matheson Bayley, among others. He was one of the official composers and artistic advisors for the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, and has received various honours and prizes for his compositions. He has taught several music subjects in Higher Education and has worked as Producer/Broadcaster for the National Classical Radio 3 of Greece (ERT). Vaios now serves as Vice President of the Hellenic Composers Association.
Antje Weithaas
Violin

Antje Weithaas
Violin
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With captivating energy and a fine sense for nuances, Antje Weithaas gives her audience a “stellar hour of music” (FAZ) time and again. Blessed with impressive technical mastery and an enormous gamut of sound, she manages the feat of finding very individual readings of the great masterpieces and yet unpretentiously placing herself at the service of the composer. She has an extensive repertoire that includes the great concertos by Mozart, Beethoven and Schumann, new works such as Jörg Widmann’s Violin Concerto, modern classics by Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Ligeti and Gubaidulina, and lesser performed concertos by Hartmann and Schoeck. As a soloist, Antje Weithaas has worked with most of Germany’s leading orchestras, including the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Bamberg Symphony and the major German radio orchestras, numerous major international orchestras such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra and the BBC Symphony, as well as the leading orchestras of the Netherlands, Scandinavia, and Asia. She has collaborated with the illustrious conductors Vladimir Ashkenazy, Dmitri Kitayenko, Sir Neville Marriner, Marc Albrecht, Yakov Kreizberg, Sakari Oramo and Carlos Kalmar. Last season, Antje Weithaas completed the recording of Ludwig van Beethoven’s sonatas for violin and piano with Dénes Várjon as her piano partner on CAvi-music, digitally distributed by Deutsche Grammophon which was honoured with the German Record Critics’ Award 2024. In May 2025 she and Dénes Várjon performed the complete cycle at the Pierre Boulez Saal. In 2004 Antje Weithaas started as a professor at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music. Since then, she has become a world-class violin teacher. She plays on a 2001 Peter Greiner violin.
Choir of the Cultural Association of the Moria Women of Lesbos

Choir of the Cultural Association of the Moria Women of Lesbos
The Choir of the Cultural Association of the Moria Women of Lesbos was founded in 2014. Its members −eighteen women and men− share the same love for musical culture and choral singing, leaving their own mark on every musical activity. The Choir’s repertoire includes artistic songs by Greek lyricists and poets as well as traditional Greek songs. It has participated in many cultural events organised in Moria, especially at the monumental multiple-arch water bridge of the Roman Aqueduct. Today, in collaboration with the National Conservatory − Mytilene Branch, the Choir is conducted by maestro Pelopidas Pinellis, with pianist and coordinator Ourania Prassinou.
Retrospective
2024
Friendship
2023
Symbiosis
2022
Odysseia
2021
Liberty
2020
Synchronicity
2019
Dia-Logos
2018
Genesis
2017
Catharsis
2016
Crossroads
2015
Metamorphoses