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Camerata of the Friends of Music

One of the most important concerts in the context of the Cultural Year of Greece in China took place on November 17, 2007, in the Beijing Conservatory of Music.

The Megaron Orchestra of Greece, Camerata of the Friends of Music concert, under the baton of Nikos Tsouchlos, featured contemporary Greek musical works by some of the most important Greek composers of our times: Thanos Mikroutsikos, Christos Hatzis, Giorgos Kouroupos, Dimitris Terzakis and Giorgos Tsontakis. Two acclaimed soloists collaborated with the orchestra: soprano Maria Mitsopoulou and violonist Sergiu Nastasa.

Contemporary Greek musical compositions spring from at least two important sources: a particularly wealthy tradition of monophonic church and folk music which has grown separately from any western influences over at least ten centuries, an open dialog with a vast range of musical idioms and compositional techniques from around the contemporary world. All the four works presented in this programme offered examples of the integration of musical elements based in these two sources. In fact, one can say that all four composers represented explored, in one way or another, the particulars of a typically Greek vernacular, while offering distinctly different solutions to common aesthetic problems.