Every second year the Archadia Choir from Norway gives concerts in Greece. This year the choir will perform at the Choir festival in Litohoro and Athens.
Litohoro: 15th May, 2nd Elementary school at 19:00.
Athens: 18th May. Museum of Greek folk music instruments (Foivos Anogianakis, 1-3 Diogenous street, Aerides square, Plaka) at 20:00
The choir was founded in 1981 in Oslo, with the objective to work on Greek choir music, as a result of the love and interest for Greek music and culture.
As of now, they have given concerts in Livadia, Molyvos, Petra and Plomari in Lesvos, in Lefkada, Arta, Jiannena in Ipiros, Rethymno Adele and Paleohora in Crete, Athytos (Halkidiki) and Thessaloniki in 1997, as a part of the Cultural Capital programme. And in 2002 and 2006 they were invited by the municipality of Rhodes.
The choir has had TV and radio appearances, numerous concerts in Oslo and other towns of Norway, and in 1999 they presented the CD Greek Choir Music from the Antiquity to Today.
Since 1988, the choir has been led by Marilena Zlatanou, Greek classical singer and conductor from Thessaloniki. Zlatanou is a very active performer both as a singer and a conductor, with a wide variety of musical activity and appearances in operas, and oratorios, but mostly in chamber music concerts, radio and TV appearances, CD recordings, research and presentation of early music, tours and numerous concerts all over Norway as well as England Holland..
Programme:
1. A HYMNE TO APOLLO (2nd cent. B.C)
Voice and choir a cappella
FRANGISKOS LEONTARITIS (1518-1572?)
2. Cosi va va chi ha ventura
3. Trenta capilli da castell’ amare
4. Gresk-norsk Quodlibet Arr.: M. Zlatanou
5. BRURESLÅTT FRA ØRE (Wedding March from Øre)
arr.: Henning Sommerro
MIKIS THEODORAKIS (1925-) (from Axion esti) Poetry: O. Elytis
Solo voice, choir and piano
6. Ta themelia mou sta vouna
7. Tis agapis emata
8. HRISTOS LEONTIS: O AKATHISTOS YMNOS (2000)
Poetry by Romanos o Melodos. For solo voices, mixed choir
and piano
MARILENA ZLATANOU: 5 KAVAFIS POEMS (2006)
Poetry by K. Kavafis. For mixed choir and piano
9. Ithaca
10. I polis (The City)
11. Instrumental intermezzo
12. Tihi (Walls)
13. Ta parathira (The windows)
14. Oso boris (as much as you can)
15. SPYROS SAMARAS (1861-1917): The Olympic Hymn
For mixed choir and piano
Participants: The Norwegian choir ARKADIAKORET
Soloist and conductor Marilena Zlatanou
Pianist: Stefan Ibsen Zlatanos