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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…

EOTHINON in Korzo during (UN)Heard Music Festival
Performed by Matangi Quartet

Speciaal voor het Residentie Orkest heeft Calliope Tsoupaki, tot 2021 de Componist des Vaderlands, het nieuwe werk  Perasma geschreven.

the passing of time the passing of life
steps in time
a continuous transition from moment to moment

A Thrilling double bass solo.
Scorpio is especially written for the amazing Sasha Witteveen and her Dutch classical talent finalist tour.

“Beautiful were the downward gliding tones, with shivery extinction at the end”

“I didn’t write it as yet another piece for a competition, no! Rather, I have been looking for how to add something substantial to the existing repertoire for solo cello”

The participants of the lectures will have the chance to connect with some of the most significant living composers of choral music, most of whom have immense choral experience….

The music company from Almere has asked composer Calliope Tsoupaki to create a composition especially for this special work of landscape art.

STORM is a unique collaboration between former “Composer Laureate of the Netherlands” 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. Vital emotions and order, dance and music meet in a storm-like performance with six dancers and three musicians. LeineRoebana… Read more

Coming Wednesday 9 of February I will be giving a lecture @ Brussels Arts Platform and Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel about my composing approach focusing on the creation of “ODYSSEUS” a half hour of audiovisual journey, specially composed for Asko|Schönberg ensemble. During the performance the a breathtaking image by Awoiska van der Molen is projected slowly… Read more

Music by Calliope Tsoupaki Asko|Schönberg Ensemble Awoiska van der Molen Image, photography, projections Jurjen Alkema projections Composed for the Asko|Schönberg, with the financial support of Performing Arts Fund NL. Premiére & concerts: 10 November Verkadefabriek 19.00 , November Music Festival , Den Bosch 11 November Muziekgebouw 20.15 , Amsterdam 17 November Tivoli|Vredenburg Hertz Hall 20.00… Read more