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DIMITRA MANTZOURATOU & DIMITRIS SEMSIS- Violin & Piano Duo play

Schnittke-Mozart-Pärt-Constantinidis-Darlas-Wieniawski

Pianist Dimitra Mantzouratou started her studies at the Hellenic
Conservatory in Athens and obtained her piano diploma with the highest
distinction. During that time she followed theoretical studies and
obtained the harmony, counterpoint and finally the fugue degree with
distinction. For three years she studied piano at the Royal Flemish
Conservatory of Brussels (class of Daniel Blumenthal) with a scholarship
of the State Scholarships Foundation of Greece (I.K.Y.) and received the
Master’s degree. She holds a degree and a PhD in Musicology from the
National University of Athens. She teaches piano at the Ilion Music School
of Athens. She has premiered many solo and chamber music works by Greek
composers.
Dimitri Semsis was born in Munich in 1959. Since the beginning of the 19th
century, there has been a tradition in his family to mark out talented
violinists in every generation. He continued with advanced violin studies
in the classes of Tibor Varga and Otto Buechner in Detmold and Munich
Music Academies as well as in the Belgrade University of Music near
Alexander Pavlovic.
He is holding a performer’s diploma from “Athineon” conservatory of Athens
and he is Associate of the Royal College of Music of London (ARCM). He has
performed in many concert halls all over Greece as well as abroad (France,
Swiss, Italy, Turkey, Ukraine, Serbia, Great Britain, Germany, Bulgaria,
Austria, USA and Rumania) both as a soloist and as a principal musician
participating in different chamber ensembles. He is a founder member of
the “OPUS I” piano trio with which he concretizes often all over Greece.
As a concertmaster he has led the “Camerata Hellenica Orchestra” for over
ten years. Furthermore for six years he has been the principal leader of
the “Camerata, Friends of Music Orchestra”, the permanent in-house chamber
orchestra of the Athens Megaron, concertmaster for four years of the
National Symphony Orchestra of the Greek Radio and Television and since
October 2003 he is the concertmaster of the Athens State Orchestra, the
country’s oldest and most prominent symphonic institution.

Dimitri Semsis plays a violin by Lorenzo Storioni - Cremona 1794

Program:

Program

Alfred Schnittke: Suite in the old style
•    Pastorale
•    Ballet
•    Minuet
•    Fugue
•    Pantomime

Mozart: Sonata in f major, KV 376
•    Allegro
•    Andante
•    Rondeau – Allegretto grazioso

Yannis Constantinidis: Little Suite of Greek Dances (1948)
•    Andante lento
•    Allegretto scherzando
•    Con moto e quasi parlando - Allegretto semplice
•    L’ istesso tempo
•    Andante mesto
•    Andante lento – Allegro vivo ma non troppo

Intermission

Arvo Pärt: Fratres

Yannis Constantinidis: 6 piano studies in traditional Greek rhythms
(1956-1958)
•    Preludio
•    Basso ostinato
•    Capriccio
•    Intermezzo
•    Ballabile
•    Toccata

Apostolos Darlas: Circe, op. 105 (2011 – World Premiere)

Wieniawski: Polonaise Brillante, op. 21

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