Synaxari: Theofilos, Halepas, Papadiamantis

Synaxari consists of three "hagiographies" of artists who remained in the collective memory not only for their work but also for the way they lived their lives. These are Theofilos Hatzimichael, the most famous popular painter originally from Lesbos, the great sculptor Yannoulis Halepas from Tinos and the "saint of Greek letters" Alexander Papadiamantis from Skiathos.

Three musical and poetic portraits in texts by Pantelis Boukalas interact with traditional verses from the places of origin of the three artists. The conception and the music composition is by Martha Mavroidi. 

BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Martha Mavroidi

She graduated from Pallini Music High School. She studied musicology in Athens, ethnomusicology in London and Los Angeles, and contemporary music in Amsterdam. With her Quartet she has toured Europe and America. She is a member of the music group "Smari" and the vocal ensemble "Jasemi". She has composed music for dance and theatre performances, which have been presented at the Greek National Opera, National Theatre of Greece, Athens Festival, Onassis Stegi, Théâtre de Nîmes, SIDance Seoul, etc. She coordinates polyphonic singing workshops and she conducts the traditional music chorus “I rodia” (“The Pomegranate”). She has published five personal records and a book with compositions for vocal ensemble.

Pantelis Boukalas

Pantelis Boukalas was born in Lesini, Missolonghi, in 1957. He has published the poetry books Algorythmos, I Ekdromi tis Evdokias, O Mesa Panthiras, Simata Lygra, O Mantis, Opotan Platanos, Rimata (2010 State Poetry Award), Milia Mou Amiliti and Christos Sta Hionia: Efta Hronia Ston Kosmo Tou Andrei Tarkovsky, as well as the plays To Magoulo tis Panagias: Aftoviografiki Ikasia tou Georgiou Karaiskaki and O Petros Tis Manis Kai To Fasma Ton Fatrion. He has also published four volumes on folk singing, in the series Piano Grafi Na Grapso…Dokimia Gia To Dimotiko Tragoudi (the first of which received the State Essay Award in 2017). He has translated the poems of Sappho, Bion the Smyrnaean’s Epitaph of Adonis, the poems of the volume  Epitaph – Ancient Greek Funerary Epigrams and Symposiastic Epigrams of Anthologia Palatina. He has also translated into modern Greek The Acharnians, Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae and Birds, Aeschylus’ Oresteia, Euripides’ The Trojan Women, Cyclops, Iphigenia in Aulis and Helen, as well as Theocritus’ idyll Cyclops. He holds a PhD in Modern Greek Literature from the University of Cyprus.