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Orestis Tsekouras

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Performer Information

Orestis Tsekouras

Ορέστης Τσεκούρας

Guitarist

Orestis Tsekouras was born in Patras, Greece. His artistic interest focuses on contemporary music and improvisation. He strives to create sounds that are on the borders of instrumental and electronic sounds, experimenting with the role of a plucked instrument in the context of chamber music. He took his first music lessons at the Municipal Conservatory of Patras and is getting his diploma from Athenaeum Conservatory with Haris Kanellidis. He attends theory courses with A. Koumenteris, while for several years he has been a member of Y. Mouloudakis’ guitar seminars. He attended the summer courses at Darmstadt, Electronic Music Composition (KSYME) and masterclasses with R. Aussel, M. Dylla, R. Dyens, K. Anastasiadis. He records for the Greek National Opera and the dotGuitar label. A member of àktapha ensemble for contemporary music, at the moment, he’s conducting a music workshop in Ikaria island and teaching in Athens.

Source: Aktapha.com

Performances
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1
December 15, 2013
Greek National Opera - Olympia Theatre Foyer
Athens
Greece
Evenings at the Foyer
Greek National Opera
Reni Pittaki (woman in black), Maria Marketou-Voudouri (mezzo-soprano), Aris Papadopoulos (young man), Ilias Kountis (narrator & director), Yiannis Romanos (viola), Orestis Tsekouras (guitar), Giannis Sambrovalakis (clarinet), Nicolas Vassiliou (conductor)
N/A
The Lady in the Moonlight Op. 41
2
March 8, 2014
Piraeus Municipal Theatre Foyer
Piraeus
Greece
Evenings at the Foyer
Greek National Opera
Reni Pittaki (woman in black), Maria Marketou-Voudouri (mezzo-soprano), Aris Papadopoulos (young man), Ilias Kountis (narrator & director), Yiannis Romanos (viola), Orestis Tsekouras (guitar), Giannis Sambrovalakis (clarinet), Nicolas Vassiliou (conductor)
N/A
The Lady in the Moonlight Op. 41
3
March 9, 2014
Piraeus Municipal Theatre Foyer
Piraeus
Greece
Evenings at the Foyer
Greek National Opera
Reni Pittaki (woman in black), Maria Marketou-Voudouri (mezzo-soprano), Aris Papadopoulos (young man), Ilias Kountis (narrator & director), Yiannis Romanos (viola), Orestis Tsekouras (guitar), Giannis Sambrovalakis (clarinet), Nicolas Vassiliou (conductor)
N/A
The Lady in the Moonlight Op. 41
Works
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Work Page
1
YSC83
The Lady in the Moonlight

for Mezzo-Soprano, Narrator, Clarinet, Viola and Guitar. On the poem "The Moonlight Sonata" by Yannis Ritsos

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Mezzo-Soprano, Narrator, Clarinet, Viola, Guitar

References
  1. Orestis Tsekouras. “Bio.” Akta Music Management, https://www.aktapha.com/copy-of-george-kokkinaris. Accessed 18 December 2024.
  2. National Opera of Greece, “Η Κυρία του Σεληνόφωτος (1977),” Αρχείο Παραστάσεων ΠΕ: Καλλιτεχνική Περίοδος 2013-2014, accessed December 18, 2024, https://www.nationalopera.gr/arxeio/arxeio-parastaseon-pe/kalitexniki-periodos-2013-2014/item/579-h-kuria-tou-selinofotos-1977.
  3. Kostas Chardas, Giorgos Demertzis, Charis Dimaras, Nikos Maliaras, Giorgos Sakallieros, Nikos B. Tsouchlos, Markos Tsetsos, and Panos Vlagopoulos. Yorgos Sicilianos 1920-2005 - Anniversary Tribute [Γιωργος Σισιλιανος 1920-2005 Επετειακο αφιερωμα]. Edited by Stephania Merakos and Valia Vraka. (Athens: Friends of Music Association, 2016) , 123