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Upcoming concerts “When I was 27”
“When I was 27” For viola and double bass viola: Heleen Hulst Double bass: Dario Calderone I wrote “When I…
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“THE STATE OF DUTCH NEW MUSIC” at Gaudeamus opening 2024
The State of Dutch New Music is being spoken every year at the opening of the prestigious festival Gaudeamus by…
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Tour – STORM
April 13 to May 23
Tour in the Netherlands
STORM is a unique collaboration between Calliope Tsoupaki and choreographers Andrea Leine and Harijono Roebana; between a composer who dares to think from movement and choreographers who give shape to sound.
World premiere : A Song for You
April 13 – 20:00
Kraakhuis, Gent
Song is the most direct way to make music, the most giving one and for me making a song is a profound procedure, as if I am telling a secret.
World Premiere : Falling
March 8 2024
Falling is specially composed for Phion with conducter Alexei Ogrintchouk. Falling is full of contrasts…. It’s falling in love. Falling apart. Falling for something. It is: I give up, I go with it, I offer no more resistance. Or the night is falling. The silence falls…
Calliope Tsoupaki on Falling, her commissioned composition for Phion
Calliope Tsoupaki was commissioned by Phion to write a new 13-minute compact orchestral work. Falling is a work full of contrasts. About uncertain, lonely times when nothing can be taken for granted anymore and new ideas take shape.
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Read more“Monteverdi of the 20th century”.
the Dutch magazine TM (about theatre, music and dance)
“dizzyingly beautiful”
Alex Ross
The New York Times
About
Calliope Tsoupaki (Piraeus, Greece, 1963) makes music that has a mood of timelessness. Her objective is expressing the essence as simply and clearly as possible. In her compositions she uses elements of early and contemporary music as well as the music of Greece and the Middle East.
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