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“When I was 27” For viola and double bass viola: Heleen Hulst Double bass: Dario Calderone I wrote “When I Was 27” exactly as the title implies—when I was 27 years old, living on a houseboat during my first years in Amsterdam while studying composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. At that point… Read more

The State of Dutch New Music is being spoken every year at the opening of the prestigious festival Gaudeamus by selected composers, in order to reflect on the state of music, society, current politics and art. This year Calliope Tsoupaki gave the opening speech. She gave a philosophical reflection on the power of counterpoint, a… Read more

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.

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.

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 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.

“MEMENTO NOSTRI” will sound in a U.S /NEW YORK premiere.
With the amazing Cantori New York conducted by Mark Shapiro also featuring Parthenia Viol Consort and Farallon Recorder Quartet

Daring compositions for a Daring New Land. Bringing together newcomers from all corners of the world, with an openness to experimentation and a wonderfully unexpected mix of old and new; these three elements apply to both to the province of Flevoland and to ensemble Black Pencil.

Attracted by the progressive musical climate, countless aspiring composers found their way to one of the Dutch conservatoires. Among them the Greek Calliope Tsoupaki (Piraeus in 1963)…

Specially composed for the grand opening of Het Grote Raam “The light of Freedom”. The 23 meters high and 6 meters wide stained glass Large window created by the artist Fiona Tan & the world-famous Van Hagerbeer/Schnitger organ…

For The Netherlands Radio Choir and The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and chef conductor Karina Canellakis…

To me it rather gave the impression of primal music, in a slow, sometimes extremely slow rite, in which the so essential field of tension is created by the melos…