Saturday 26/9
"Sky time"
"Sky time"
Planetarium On The Go and Accordion Festival “Reedblocks” invite
young and older friends to meet the starry sky through a unique audiovisual experience.
With the help of a telescope and live projection, we will wander through the planets and the moon.
original music: Suite Yedi Ensemble
Maria Dafka, accordion
Artemis Vavatsika, accordion
James Wylie, saxophone
Dine Doneff, d.bass/guitar/percussion
Yedi Kule
time: 20:30 and 22.30
free entrance (booking is required)
* The concert will be presented at the same time (and even exclusively if needed) in live streaming.
In case of cloud cover or rain, the material will be projected prerecorded.
RESERVATIONS HERE
BIOGRAPHIES
Artemis Vavatsika
Artemis Vavatsika was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. She started playing the accordion at a young age. Iraklis Vavatsikas, Jasmina Dimitrievic, and Larysha Zhychareva were her first teachers. She graduated from the Athenaeum Conservatory in 2012 (Classical Accordion Diploma, with honors). In 2018 she graduated from the Department of Music Science and Art, University of Macedonia, specialized in the Accordion (class of Konstantinos Raptis). She has performed in notable stages in Greece and abroad. She has collaborated with the Municipality of Athens Symphony Orchestra, Sofia Sinfonietta, Symphony Orchestra of the Dpt of MSA, the National Theatre of Northern Greece, the National Theatre of Greece, Ergon Ensemble and the National Opera of Greece. She has also collaborated with musicians and composers Georges Pilali, Nikos Kypourgos, and Dimitris Papadimitriou. Since 2018 she has been performing alongside composer and oud player Thomas Meleteas, having recorded for his albums Nestinari (2019) and Shapeshifting Wizards (2020, to be released). She is participating in the Italian Accordion Academy 2019-2020 series of masterclasses with Claudio Jacomucci and Kathleen Delaney, experimenting with the accordion, composition, transcription, improvisation, and Alexander Technique. She has broadly performed contemporary classical works by Greek composers such as Kostas Tsougkras, Filippos Tsalachouris, Tassos Rossopoulos, Periklis Liakakis. She has been teaching the accordion to students of all age.
Maria Dafka
Was born in 1998 in Ptolemaida. Since 2006 student in the class of Alexandar Tchuev (accordion-bayan). Since 2016 student in the University for Music and Theater in Munich, in the class of the Professor Krassimir Sterev, where she graduated (accordion solist) in June 2020. She has the following achievements:
2007 Kozani (Greece). 2nd national Competition. 1st Prize
2008 Novi Pazar (Bulgaria). International Competition “Dancing keys”. 1st Prize
2008 Trieste (Italy). International Competition “Fisa...armonie”. 1st Prize
2009 Sofia (Bulgaria). International Competition “Young Virtuosos”. 1st Prize
2009 Kragujevac (Serbia). International Competition “Star Ways”. 1st Prize
2009 Kozani (Greece). 3rd national Competition. 1st Prize
2009 Przemysl (Poland). International Accordion Competition. 2nd Prize
2010 Kozani (Greece). International Accordion Competition. 1st Prize
2010 Klingenthal (Germany). International Accordion Competition. 2nd Prize
2010 Castelfidardo (Italy). International Competition “Citta di Castelfidardo). 1st Prize
2011 Donetsk (Ukraine). International Accordion Competition. 1st Prize
2012 Ptolemaida (Greece). National Accordion Competition. 1st Prize
2014 Solist Diploma
2014 Braunschweig (Germany). International Competition “Jugend musiziert”.
1st Prize Kategorie Chambermusic (Duett)
2015 Sarajevo (Bosnia-Erzegowina). International Competition “Accordeon Art”. 1st Prize
2015 Harmonie Degree
2018 RUTH World Music Award to the Dafka-Doneff Duo, for their “innovative original compositions and improvisations, based on balkan tradition”.
Except for the studies in classical accordion, she is occupied with Balkan music. She has taken part in Festivals (Greece and abroad) as solist and as member of different music groups. Since March 2018 member of the LMN organization (Live Music Now) in Munich.
James Wylie
Saxophonist, clarinetist and composer James Wylie (b.1986), currently based in Thessaloniki, Greece, grew up in Wellington, New Zealand and was introduced to music through classical repertoire at a young age. After experience with piano and violin he settled on the saxophone in his teens serving as his introduction to jazz and improvised music.
James studied at the New Zealand School of Music in Wellington where he received his Bachelor of Music. During this time he was active both locally and internationally and was the recipient of prestigious awards such as grants from both the NRW KULTURsekretariats, Aotea Performing Arts Trust and the Woolf Fisher Trust. The latter of these two awards allowed him to continue formal study at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, MA. He graduated in 2010 with a Masters of Music (Honours) in Jazz Performance. Whilst in Boston he studied privately with many renowned musicians, both in Boston and abroad, such as Hayden Chisholm, Frank Gratkowski, Anthony Coleman, Jerry Bergonzi, Allan Chase, Dominique Eade, John McNeil, Cecil McBee, Bill McHenry, Tony Malaby and Chris Cheek. In 2011, James reclocated to Berlin involving himself in a wide variety of musical activities and collaborations with dance and theatre.
He has also performed or recorded in more than twenty countries internationally with musicians such as Gunther Schuller, Sokratis Sinopoulos, Harris Lambrakis, Giannis Aggelakas, Hayden Chisholm, Max Andrzjewski, Thimios Atzakas, Antonis Anissegos, Michalis Siganidis, Elias Stemeseder, Sam Rivers, Wayne Shorter, Jonathan Crayford, Kostas Anastasiadis, Bob Moses, Cecil McBee and has created music for Boston-based, Company1.
His musical interests include the investigation of microtonality and its application to the saxophone. James is also involved in study of overtones and non-tempered intonation systems and developing an improvisational language for solo saxophone performance. Other areas of interest are the music of Greece, Iran, Armenia, Turkey, and the near east and continuing instrumental studies with Sina Danesh on the Iranian kamanche and persian radif.
Dine Doneff
Born in West Germany and raised in the Northern Greek prefecture of Edessa, Dine Doneff has been active as a musician and composer since the midlle 80’s. Faced with choice between school and music, left his home village and fled to Thessaloniki. Educated his inner soul by exploring life through music, he became a self taught musician.
By the 90’s he was working as an arranger, ensemble director and producer on studio recordings. Alternating between touring abroad, he joined the group Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico in 2001, with four albums released by ECM; from 2002 to 2006 he taught at the Technical Education Institute of Epirus and the University of Macedonia. Later, under the fictional auspices of ‘no bizz productions’, he became the pivot, and inspiration, of ninety nine (99) improvised public rehearsal performances in a small underground theatre in Thessaloniki from 2005 to 2011 involving onstage encounters between Doneff and musicians, dancers, actors, poets and visual artists. Interludes of composing for the theatre and silver screen interspersed with forays into theatre direction and, under the name of Tome Rapovina, directing and editing short films. From 2014 to 2016, he worked as a composer and actor with the Kammerpiele in Munich and the Thalia Theater in Hamburg.
His first album “Nostos” came out in 1999 with the music label LYRA in Athens. Then, in 2010 with the help of a friend and a book publisher in Thessaloniki, he released a limited edition of Rousilvo, the second part of a trilogy after Nostos.
As a result of his appearance as an ECM artist, Doneff together with painter & photographer Fotini Potamia, proceeds to building up the label “neRED music” following a suggestion of Manfred Eicher, ECM’s founder and producer. The label’s first edition is the album Rousilvo which is marketed in cooperation with ECM Records.
www.dinedoneff.com www.ecmrecords.com www.neredmusic.eu
Planetarium on the go
A unique in its kind digital portable planetarium with a 6m semi-permanent fixed dome structure with chairs for the spectators. It's main feature is the high quality projection surface, with a total area of 57 square meters. In operation since 2016 it has organized astronomy events all over Greece consisting of planetarium shows along with telescope observations. By showing the fascinating discoveries in space exploration, it both inspires and educates people of all ages about our surroundings, the Earth itself and our place in the Universe.
www.planetariumotg.com
® Dine Doneff's photo credits to Fotini Potamia
young and older friends to meet the starry sky through a unique audiovisual experience.
With the help of a telescope and live projection, we will wander through the planets and the moon.
original music: Suite Yedi Ensemble
Maria Dafka, accordion
Artemis Vavatsika, accordion
James Wylie, saxophone
Dine Doneff, d.bass/guitar/percussion
Yedi Kule
time: 20:30 and 22.30
free entrance (booking is required)
* The concert will be presented at the same time (and even exclusively if needed) in live streaming.
In case of cloud cover or rain, the material will be projected prerecorded.
RESERVATIONS HERE
BIOGRAPHIES
Artemis Vavatsika
Artemis Vavatsika was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. She started playing the accordion at a young age. Iraklis Vavatsikas, Jasmina Dimitrievic, and Larysha Zhychareva were her first teachers. She graduated from the Athenaeum Conservatory in 2012 (Classical Accordion Diploma, with honors). In 2018 she graduated from the Department of Music Science and Art, University of Macedonia, specialized in the Accordion (class of Konstantinos Raptis). She has performed in notable stages in Greece and abroad. She has collaborated with the Municipality of Athens Symphony Orchestra, Sofia Sinfonietta, Symphony Orchestra of the Dpt of MSA, the National Theatre of Northern Greece, the National Theatre of Greece, Ergon Ensemble and the National Opera of Greece. She has also collaborated with musicians and composers Georges Pilali, Nikos Kypourgos, and Dimitris Papadimitriou. Since 2018 she has been performing alongside composer and oud player Thomas Meleteas, having recorded for his albums Nestinari (2019) and Shapeshifting Wizards (2020, to be released). She is participating in the Italian Accordion Academy 2019-2020 series of masterclasses with Claudio Jacomucci and Kathleen Delaney, experimenting with the accordion, composition, transcription, improvisation, and Alexander Technique. She has broadly performed contemporary classical works by Greek composers such as Kostas Tsougkras, Filippos Tsalachouris, Tassos Rossopoulos, Periklis Liakakis. She has been teaching the accordion to students of all age.
Maria Dafka
Was born in 1998 in Ptolemaida. Since 2006 student in the class of Alexandar Tchuev (accordion-bayan). Since 2016 student in the University for Music and Theater in Munich, in the class of the Professor Krassimir Sterev, where she graduated (accordion solist) in June 2020. She has the following achievements:
2007 Kozani (Greece). 2nd national Competition. 1st Prize
2008 Novi Pazar (Bulgaria). International Competition “Dancing keys”. 1st Prize
2008 Trieste (Italy). International Competition “Fisa...armonie”. 1st Prize
2009 Sofia (Bulgaria). International Competition “Young Virtuosos”. 1st Prize
2009 Kragujevac (Serbia). International Competition “Star Ways”. 1st Prize
2009 Kozani (Greece). 3rd national Competition. 1st Prize
2009 Przemysl (Poland). International Accordion Competition. 2nd Prize
2010 Kozani (Greece). International Accordion Competition. 1st Prize
2010 Klingenthal (Germany). International Accordion Competition. 2nd Prize
2010 Castelfidardo (Italy). International Competition “Citta di Castelfidardo). 1st Prize
2011 Donetsk (Ukraine). International Accordion Competition. 1st Prize
2012 Ptolemaida (Greece). National Accordion Competition. 1st Prize
2014 Solist Diploma
2014 Braunschweig (Germany). International Competition “Jugend musiziert”.
1st Prize Kategorie Chambermusic (Duett)
2015 Sarajevo (Bosnia-Erzegowina). International Competition “Accordeon Art”. 1st Prize
2015 Harmonie Degree
2018 RUTH World Music Award to the Dafka-Doneff Duo, for their “innovative original compositions and improvisations, based on balkan tradition”.
Except for the studies in classical accordion, she is occupied with Balkan music. She has taken part in Festivals (Greece and abroad) as solist and as member of different music groups. Since March 2018 member of the LMN organization (Live Music Now) in Munich.
James Wylie
Saxophonist, clarinetist and composer James Wylie (b.1986), currently based in Thessaloniki, Greece, grew up in Wellington, New Zealand and was introduced to music through classical repertoire at a young age. After experience with piano and violin he settled on the saxophone in his teens serving as his introduction to jazz and improvised music.
James studied at the New Zealand School of Music in Wellington where he received his Bachelor of Music. During this time he was active both locally and internationally and was the recipient of prestigious awards such as grants from both the NRW KULTURsekretariats, Aotea Performing Arts Trust and the Woolf Fisher Trust. The latter of these two awards allowed him to continue formal study at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, MA. He graduated in 2010 with a Masters of Music (Honours) in Jazz Performance. Whilst in Boston he studied privately with many renowned musicians, both in Boston and abroad, such as Hayden Chisholm, Frank Gratkowski, Anthony Coleman, Jerry Bergonzi, Allan Chase, Dominique Eade, John McNeil, Cecil McBee, Bill McHenry, Tony Malaby and Chris Cheek. In 2011, James reclocated to Berlin involving himself in a wide variety of musical activities and collaborations with dance and theatre.
He has also performed or recorded in more than twenty countries internationally with musicians such as Gunther Schuller, Sokratis Sinopoulos, Harris Lambrakis, Giannis Aggelakas, Hayden Chisholm, Max Andrzjewski, Thimios Atzakas, Antonis Anissegos, Michalis Siganidis, Elias Stemeseder, Sam Rivers, Wayne Shorter, Jonathan Crayford, Kostas Anastasiadis, Bob Moses, Cecil McBee and has created music for Boston-based, Company1.
His musical interests include the investigation of microtonality and its application to the saxophone. James is also involved in study of overtones and non-tempered intonation systems and developing an improvisational language for solo saxophone performance. Other areas of interest are the music of Greece, Iran, Armenia, Turkey, and the near east and continuing instrumental studies with Sina Danesh on the Iranian kamanche and persian radif.
Dine Doneff
Born in West Germany and raised in the Northern Greek prefecture of Edessa, Dine Doneff has been active as a musician and composer since the midlle 80’s. Faced with choice between school and music, left his home village and fled to Thessaloniki. Educated his inner soul by exploring life through music, he became a self taught musician.
By the 90’s he was working as an arranger, ensemble director and producer on studio recordings. Alternating between touring abroad, he joined the group Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico in 2001, with four albums released by ECM; from 2002 to 2006 he taught at the Technical Education Institute of Epirus and the University of Macedonia. Later, under the fictional auspices of ‘no bizz productions’, he became the pivot, and inspiration, of ninety nine (99) improvised public rehearsal performances in a small underground theatre in Thessaloniki from 2005 to 2011 involving onstage encounters between Doneff and musicians, dancers, actors, poets and visual artists. Interludes of composing for the theatre and silver screen interspersed with forays into theatre direction and, under the name of Tome Rapovina, directing and editing short films. From 2014 to 2016, he worked as a composer and actor with the Kammerpiele in Munich and the Thalia Theater in Hamburg.
His first album “Nostos” came out in 1999 with the music label LYRA in Athens. Then, in 2010 with the help of a friend and a book publisher in Thessaloniki, he released a limited edition of Rousilvo, the second part of a trilogy after Nostos.
As a result of his appearance as an ECM artist, Doneff together with painter & photographer Fotini Potamia, proceeds to building up the label “neRED music” following a suggestion of Manfred Eicher, ECM’s founder and producer. The label’s first edition is the album Rousilvo which is marketed in cooperation with ECM Records.
www.dinedoneff.com www.ecmrecords.com www.neredmusic.eu
Planetarium on the go
A unique in its kind digital portable planetarium with a 6m semi-permanent fixed dome structure with chairs for the spectators. It's main feature is the high quality projection surface, with a total area of 57 square meters. In operation since 2016 it has organized astronomy events all over Greece consisting of planetarium shows along with telescope observations. By showing the fascinating discoveries in space exploration, it both inspires and educates people of all ages about our surroundings, the Earth itself and our place in the Universe.
www.planetariumotg.com
® Dine Doneff's photo credits to Fotini Potamia