Scarlatti and contemporary music for accordion and electronics. A recital by Panagiotis Andreoglou.
Scarlatti and contemporary music for accordion and electronics
Nexus, a bond or a connection, is the central axis of this recital: a connection between different eras, different aesthetics and different ways of creating sound.
Four sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti meet four twenty-first-century works for accordion, in a programme that moves constantly between past and present. The Scarlatti sonatas act as a first “bond”, building bridges between eighteenth-century music and contemporary creation.
In the works with electronics, Nexus also refers to the meeting of two different sound worlds: the natural, live sound of the accordion and electronically processed sound. Instrument and technology do not act as two separate entities; together they shape a single sound world.
Along the way, the Scarlatti sonatas take on one further role. Placed among the denser and more demanding contemporary works, they act as breathing spaces: moments of return to melody, to clarity and to the immediacy of sound.
Nexus is, in the end, a programme about relationships: between old and new, acoustic and electronic, tension and calm, memory and contemporary creation.
Performer:
Panagiotis Andreoglou, accordion
Date: Friday 27 November
Time: 21:00
Venue: Refugee Museum, Sykies Cultural Neighbourhood (49 Evrou St, Sykies) – Map
Admission: €10 / €7 reduced (students, unemployed, disabled persons). Pass for the concerts of all three days: €20 / €15 reduced.
By bus: line 28B, stop “Astynomia”, opposite the VAO ground.
Advance tickets: www.ticketmaster.gr
Biographies
Panagiotis Andreoglou
Panagiotis Andreoglou is a classical accordionist, based in Greece. He was born in Kavala, in 1980. He has given the world premieres of more than 30 new works for accordion – solo and chamber music – often dedicated to him. His repertoire ranges from transcriptions of baroque music and typical accordion repertoire to his own arrangements and transcriptions and improvisation. He has composed music for theatre and dance in collaboration with the National Theatre of Northern Greece and the theatrical team Kunst and he is member of the music group Grikanta where he plays traditional music from South Italy.
As an accordionist he has been invited by many international music festivals and he has given lectures on contemporary accordion performance techniques in universities and festivals in Europe and in the United States. In 2017, as a recipient of the Fulbright Artist scholarship, he implemented research on works combine accordion and electronics at Bowling Green State University, in Ohio.
He studied the accordion at the Municipal Conservatory of Kavala, at the University of Macedonia and the Royal Danish Academy of Music, where he completed his master’s studies with distinction. He also studied musicology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the University of Helsinki and he holds a diploma on the piano from the Municipal Conservatory of Kavala.
He is a permanent music teacher at the Music School of Veria, where he teaches the accordion, the piano and conducts the European Music Orchestra.
