Participants

                                                Chryssi Dimitriou, fl

                                      Christina Pantelidou, ob

                                                Spyros Tzekos, cl

                                      Kostas Tzekos, cl

                                      Dimitris Dakovanos, bs

                   .., hn

                             Spyros Laskaridis, trumpet

                             Rolandos Theodorou, tb

                             Theodore Vazakas, perc

                             Babis Taliadouros, perc

                                      Marios Nikolaou, perc

                                                Ai Motohashi, pi

                                      Christos Sakellaridis, pi

                             Kostas Panagiotidis, vl

                             Panagioris Tziotis, vl

                             Giorgos Panagiotidis, vl

                             Ali Basekmezler, vla

                                      Dimitris Travlos, vc

                                      Antonis Pratsinakis, vc

                                      Nikos Tsoukalas, db

Concert

Sunday 19.06.2011

Council Meeting Hall, Gaios, 20.30

ΙΕΜΑ

Program

Anthony Cheung: Roundabouts (2009) for piano solo

Ueli Wiget

Alexander Wustin: two pieces for trumpet solo

Sava Stoianov

Cathy Milliken: Round Robin (2001) for flute solo

Dietmar Wiesner

Giacinto Scelsi: from "Quattro pezzi" for trumpet movement 1 and 2 (1956)

Sava Stoianov

Leos Janácek: Sonate for violin and piano (1914/21)

Rafal Zambryzcki-Payne, Ueli Wiget

Concert

Monday 20.06.2011

Council Meeting Hall, Gaios, 20.30

ERGON ENSEMBLE

20^th century Italian Music

Niccolo Castiglioni: Tropi (1960) (8')

Luigi Dallapiccola: Piccola musica notturna (1961) (7')

Luca Francesconi: Da capo (1985/86) (12')

Luciano Berio: Ricorrenze (1985-87) (15') for wood quintet

Luciano Berio: Sequenza V for trombone (1966) (8')

conductor: Hartmut Keil

Concert

Thursday 23.06.2011

Council Meeting Hall, Gaios, 20.30

ERGON ENSEMBLE

Minimal Music

Terry Riley: in C (1964)

Michael Gordon: ACDC (1996) (fl, cl, vl, vc, pi) (9')

Philipp Glass: String Quartet No. 3 (Mishima) (1985) (18')

John Adams: Road Movies (1995) (16') (vl, pi)

Frederic Rzewski: Coming together (1971) (18')

Short History of Paxos Music Festival

The Paxos Music Festival was the creation of John Gough, resident of Paxos and music lover.

In 1986 John Gough initiated the concept of inviting young musicians to Paxos to be given intensive coaching in a broad repertoire of chamber music and to demonstrate the results in open rehearsals and performances before Paxiots and visitors of all ages. Over the years he gave the opportunity to many musicians to study intensively and perform in the course of their development. 

The success of the first season led to the formation of the Paxos Festival Trust in 1987 as a registered charity with the object of advancement of education in music and the promotion of the understanding of music to a wider public. The charity is non-profit, with a board of English and Greek directors, giving their time and resources for free.

By 2004 John Gough decided that the festival could extend in a new direction, which led to the initiation of a Paxos Spring Festival. I.E.M.A (International Ensemble Modern Academy) came to train outstanding Greek musicians in a broad range of 20th century and new music, beginning with daily master classes on the island, followed by concerts in Paxos and Corfu. Since 2006 a series of winter concerts are performed at the Megaron in Athens. The majority of the players is invited to return every year and is forming the core of Ergon Ensemble which follows the operative principles and ethos of the Ensemble Modern, furthering its aim to become Greece's modern music flagship by providing performances and workshops throughout Greece and beyond. Alexander Mouzas is responsible for the Ergon Ensemble.

This concept won the Greek Union of Music and Drama Critics award last year.

After the death of John Gough the Paxos Festival Trust along with the Municipality and the Poseidon Cultural Institute in Paxos, as well as the Megaron of Athens and the Prometheus Cultural Company took over the organization and the funding of the Festival.    

The coordination of all these factors is carried out by Nada Geroulanos.

In September the autumn Festival continues under the guide lines of the Guildhall school of music.

ERGON ENSEMBLE

Ergon Ensemble has been performing as an unofficial ensemble of Paxos Spring Festival since 2004. In 2008 it was founded as a non-profit ensemble.

Its members are some of the most talented young musicians, all participants of the International Ensemble Modern Academy, which takes place every year in Paxos. The musicians of Ergon come from a wide variety of academic and professional backgrounds, but share a love for contemporary music performing and a commitment to excellence in performance.

Ergon Ensemble works in close collaboration with Ensemble Modern, and is supported and guided by the knowledge and the valuable experience of the world-leading ensemble of new music.

Since 2004 Ergon Ensemble has collaboration with the Music Department of the Ionian University at Corfu and since 2005 a series of winter concerts are performed at the Megaron in Athens.

Ergon Ensemble has devoted itself to attracting more attention to contemporary music and to bringing the treasures of new music to a wider audience, producing real benefits to society. Its efforts are dedicated to exploring and releasing the expressive possibilities of the music of our times, through achieving the highest standards of musical performance and accurate interpretation of the demanding 20th and 21st century repertoire.

This summer Ergon has participated in two important Festivals. In the beginning of June 2011 in Herrenhausen, Germany, with works by the Austrian Arnold Schoenberg, the French Tristan Murail, the German Nikolaus Huber, the Greek Iannis Xenakis, the Japanese Dai Fujikura and by the renowned Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti. Later in June Ergon Ensemble participated in the Athens Festival, in a concert honoring the memory of Iannis Xenakis, the leading Greek composer who left a mark on the second half of the 20th century with his work. A multifaceted personality of international standing and radiance, the architect, mathematician and foremost the thinker Iannis Xenakis became known around the world as the composer who first introduced scientific thought to the process of musical composition.