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DCV 316 – Tsoupaki: Skia

DCV 316

Calliope Tsoupaki

Skia

Erik Bosgraaf

Like no other, the Greek-Dutch composer Calliope Tsoupaki knows how to stop time. She touches people straight in the heart with her breathtaking music that spans centuries. During November Music 2019, she was allowed to realise a dream project. With her penetrating Bosch Requiem Liknon, she glued the listeners to their seats.
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Calliope Tsoupaki makes music that has a mood of timelessness. Her objective is expressing the essence as simply and clearly as possible. In her compositions she uses elements of early and contemporary music as well as the music of Greece and the Middle East. Combing these aspects, she skillfully creates a completely personal style.

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Ensemble Black Pencil has commissioned Calliope Tsoupaki and Yannis Kyriakides to write new works.
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The Floriade has started under the nose of Kunstlinie. Black Pencil plays a program about nature and the landscape with music by composers through the ages who have found inspiration in nature. Landscapes, the sea or the sound of birds form the basis of some of the most beautiful works in music history.
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As in previous editions of the National Cello Competition, Round 1 participants will be performing one of Boccherini’s thirty-two sonatas for cello and basso continuo. Perfect pieces to allow them to let their virtuosity shine and their natural musicality resonate.
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The Dutch orchestral landscape is enriched with female conductors. Yes, that is still special and worth mentioning. Do they conduct differently than their male colleagues? Do they put different accents? Discover it for yourself with a new work by Calliope Tsoupaki, former Composer Laureate, a fiery violin concerto and a very personal symphony by Tchaikovsky.
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Scorpio for contrabass solo by Calliope Tsoupaki special written for a young Dutch musician Sasha Witteveen is on tour of Dutch Classical Talent. Sasha Witteveen takes the listener from the darkness to the light.
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Scorpio for contrabass solo by Calliope Tsoupaki special written for a young Dutch musician Sasha Witteveen is on tour of Dutch Classical Talent. Sasha Witteveen takes the listener from the darkness to the light.
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Scorpio for contrabass solo by Calliope Tsoupaki special written for a young Dutch musician Sasha Witteveen is on tour of Dutch Classical Talent. Sasha Witteveen takes the listener from the darkness to the light.
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Scorpio for contrabass solo by Calliope Tsoupaki special written for a young Dutch musician Sasha Witteveen is on tour of Dutch Classical Talent. Sasha Witteveen takes the listener from the darkness to the light.
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Many composers find inspiration in fairy tales and heroic stories. These imaginative places can allow their creativity to flourish. The Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the Groot Omroepkoor are collaborating to bring these fairytale worlds to life through music. The upcoming performance of Rachmaninov’s choral symphony, “The Clocks,” promises to be a spectacular event.
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Project choir Gabriel Fauré will give two concerts on 2 and 4 June, which are also the farewell concerts. There is also a special program this time, including a new piece by Bart Visman, which he wrote for the occasion on behalf of the choir: ‘Love song’.
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STORM is a unique collaboration between former Composer Laureate Calliope Tsoupaki and choreographers Andrea Leine and Harijono Roebana. Between a composer who dares to think in terms of movement and choreographers who shape sound. Vital emotions and order, dance and music meet in a stormy performance with six dancers and three musicians.
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The concert will begin with the world premiere of Falling, a work by Greek-Dutch composer Calliope Tsoupaki. After studying in Athens, she went to The Hague to study with Louis Andriessen. Her extensive oeuvre includes operas, oratorios, choral works and chamber music and is frequently performed at home and abroad.
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We couldn’t have imagined it better: the already mythical Lucie Horsch and hard rock star Olga Pashchenko as a chamber music duo! Both combine musical naturalness with a deep respect for the musical notes and a temperamental performance style that makes every score tingle and every concert extremely exciting.
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Revolts against the established order were a key factor in shaping modern Europe between the 16th and 18th centuries. Music itself was also subject to these powers (religious, monarchic, bourgeois) and reflected their influence. By the 20th century, the revolt was directed towards some of the conventions of music, by composers such as Ligeti.
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Amsterdam has been harbouring outside influences for 750 years. Amsterdam is a city of many voices, a polyphony that is echoed in its music. In Theo Verbey’s Notturno, a world of music resonates in an Amsterdam stairwell.
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New Amsterdams Peil with “Narcissus: play for music + scent”; Narcissus is a music drama by composer Calliope Tsoupaki for 5 scent layers and 6 musicians. Music and scents trigger a deeply sensory experience. Greek-Dutch composer Calliope Tsoupaki writes sensuous music that seduces and entices ears, eyes and even our noses.
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On the occasion of the 750th anniversary of the city of Amsterdam, Calliope Tsoupaki presents her latest orchestral work Another Day. The work, specially composed for the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, will have its world premiere at Het Concertgebouw on 6 March, at 20:15.
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"Creativity is an unconscious act of insanity, in a burst of which the truth is born. No matter how beautiful or disgusting it may seem to people far from madness, its value is beyond doubt, both for the author and for those able to sense its invisible beauty. After all, gratitude for endless trials and suffering brings joy and blissful emptiness… Being shocked by music is about pain turning into beauty and getting under your skin, taking away your breath; about everything stopping to move. I want to be scratched inside by sound and experience the fleeting, invisible beauty." - Maxim Shalygin

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