Phasma New Music Days

The first edition of the Phasma New Music Days is starting on July 9-11, organized by the award-winning  Phasma-Music foundation,  the Hellenic Music Center and the Greek National Opera Alternative Stage - Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, during which the audience will be able to participate in a musical journey for three days.

By creating Phasma New Music Days, the organizers  focuses on a new quality and an event that fits into the city's landscape, while creating a completely new meeting place for residents with music at the highest, world-class artistic level.

Seventeen award-winning and renowned artists will present contemporary works by Greek  and foreign composers. The organizers try to present an offer rich in various musical styles, but combined with a high level of performance, excellent preparation and attention to detail, both artistic and organizational. The concert programs will include works created nowadays of worldwide musical culture. Moreover, the aim of the concerts is to interest and create a cultural offer for people who are not regular visitors to contemporary music concerts.

The detailed programme of the Phasma New Music Days is as follows:

1st day • Tuesday, 9 July  2024 / Starts at: 20.30

Phasma-Music Artists
Ivona Glinka flute, alto flute, bass flute, piccolo
Yannis Sambrovalakis clarinet, bass clarinet
Giorgos Rarakos, Konstantinos Aslanidis tuba
Yiannis Efstathopoulos guitar
Vicky Stylianou piano
Asterios Pouftis cello

Sound recording Grzegorz Stec

Panagiotis Apostolou (Greece)
Impromptu for flute and tuba
Nikos Athanassakis (Greece)
Brass on Wood for flute and tuba
Jay Batzner USA)
Firesprites for flute and tuba
Scott Brickman (USA)
Etude for flute and tuba
Jerome de Bromhead (Ireland)
Hyper and Hypo for flute and tuba
Aris Carastathis (Canada / Greece)
Chase for flute and tuba
George Chlitsios (Greece)
Minute(-ure) Tanz for flute and tuba
Michael Coleman (USA)
Flautuba #1 for flute and tuba
Maria Dagalaki (Greece)
One Minute Duet for flute and tuba
Brian Field (USA)
Étude pour deux for flute and tuba
Vassiliki Filippeou (Greece)
Passacaglia for flute and tuba
Frederic Glesser (USA)
Sonata for cello and piano
Aaron Alter (USA)
Trio of Jade for tuba, cello and piano
Nathan Froebe (USA)
Bullfrogs and Fireflies for flute and tuba
Thanos Gatzios (Greece)
Paset for flute and tuba
Jackson Gearing (USA)
The Dance of Two Sprites for flute and tuba
Paolo Geminiani (Italy)
Sigtings for flute and tuba
Alessandro Giannotti (Italy)
Tubangofor flute and tuba
Piotr Grella-Mozejko (Poland / Canada)
Yvgl for flute and tuba
Nickos Harizanos (Greece)
Knock Knock Knocking for flute and tuba
Jarmo Herkman (Finland)
LOVELY! for flute and tuba
Robert Herschbach (USA)
Cavatina for flute and tuba
Divertimento for flute and tuba
Lisa Hogan (USA)
A Cup of Coffee for flute and tuba
Jerome de Bromhead (Ireland)
Three Tonal Tropes for solo guitar
Ssu-Yu Huang (USA)
Fluba for flute and tuba
Satoru Ikeda (Japan)
Tree-Lined Path for flute and tuba
Yorgos Karagiannis (Greece)
My Little Dance for flute and tuba
Iakovos Konitopoulos (Greece)
Three Poetic Images for flute and tuba
1. The Bird and the Honey Wolf 
2. A Lament for a Flower's  Death
3. When the Birds Dance
George Kontogiorgos (Greece / Canada)
Working Together for flute and tuba
Michael Todd Kovell (USA)
Fife Music for flute and tuba
Maria K. Lazaridou (Greece)
Callisto Op.38 for flute and tuba
Martin Lennartz (Germany)
Die Wahrheit über Sancho Pansa Invention, k.M.op. 70 for flute and tuba
Sotirios Melissis (USA)
Little Duet for flute and tuba
Neil Stipp (USA)
Four Pieces for flute, clarinet and cello

2nd day • Wednesday 10 July 2024 / Start at: 20.30

Ivona Glinka flute, alto flute, bass flute, piccolo
Yannis Sambrovalakis clarinet, bass clarinet
Giorgos Rarakos, Konstantinos Aslanidis tuba
Yiannis Efstathopoulos guitar
Alexandros Makris piano
Asterios Pouftis cello

Sound recording Grzegorz Stec

Charalampos Navrozidis (Greece)
Paz eterna for flute and tuba
Héctor Oltra García (Spain)
Polarization for flute and tuba
Manos Panayiotakis (Greece)
Duet Micrography for flute and tuba
Athina Pavlaki-Pirounia (Greece)
Of the Edges for flute and tuba
Jackson Poling (Canada)
Dahkum for flute and tuba
Ethan Prado (USA)
Scramble for flute and tuba
Richard Pressley (USA)
Resis for flute and tuba
David W. Pyke (USA)
Anticipationfor flute and tuba
Rafael de Rioja (Spain)
23 Measures for a January Sunset for flute and tuba
Night Fell on That January Day for flute and tuba
Louis Sauter (France)
Ensemble sur un chemin désolé for flute and tuba
Satoru Ikeda (Japan)
Sonata for solo cello
Ege Sayar (Turkey)
Waves: Part I for flute and tuba
Volker Ignaz Schmidt (Germany)
Painting Nr. 2 for flute and tuba
Natasa Souka-Simou (Greece)
A Season in Hell for flute and tuba
Randall Snyder (USA)
Mango Street for flute and tuba
José Jesus de Azevedo Souza (Portugal)
Proton for flute and tuba
Greg A Steinke (USA)
Ramblin' On for flute and tuba
Yair Gómez Szmulewicz (Chile)
Rivka for flute and tuba
Jason A. Taurins (USA)
Silver for flute and tuba
Alan Terricciano (USA)
Four from the Memory Jarfor flute and tuba
1. Spring Game
2. Summer Night
3. Hallowe'en Hay Ride
4. Navidad en Santa Ana
Michail Travlos (Greece)
A Short Statement I for solo guitar
A Short Statement II for solo guitar
Three Pictures for solo guitar
Far Apart for flute and tuba
Michael Tsaoussis (Greece)
The Lean & the Chubby for flute and tuba
Spyridon Tsilimparis (Greece)
Short Meeting for flute and tuba
Yiola Voutsina-Papagiannidi (Greece)
The Lion and the Fly for flute and tuba
Elpiniki Vrasmata (Greece)
One Minute for flute and tuba
Yingshu Wang (China)
Earth Rotation for flute and tuba
Rodney Waschka II (USA)
A Note for Joe Alexander for flute and tuba
Bruce Watters (United Kingdom)
Constituents for flute and tuba
Lyuming Xu (China)
Snow Train for flute and tuba
Man-Ching Donald Yu (Hong Kong)
Sitting Alone at Mount Jingting for flute and tuba
Alan Terricciano (USA)
Three Meditations for clarinet, cello and piano

3rd day • Thursday 11 July 2024 / Start at: 20.30

Phasma - Music Artists
Ivona Glinka flute, alto flute, bass flute, piccolo
Yannis Sambrovalakis clarinet, bass clarinet
Υiannis Efstathopoulos guitar
Vicky Stylianou piano
Iakovos Konitopoulos conductor

Wind Quintet Aeolos
Vangelis Stathoulopoulos flute
Yannis Tselikas oboe
Angelos Politis clarinet
Angelos Sioras horn
Giorgos Farougias bassoon

Brass Quintet Pindaros
Dionysis Agalianos, Alexandros Mavropoulos trumpets
Nikolas Kaloudis horn
Dimitris Petsas trombone
Konstantinos Aslanidis tuba

Sound recording Grzegorz Stec

Betty Wishart (USA)
Fanfares for brass quartet
Erico Yamaki (USA / Japan)
Morning in New York for solo piano
Michael Boyd (USA)
Industrial for piano 4 hands
Michail Travlos (Greece)
Promenade musicale d’un musicien for solo clarinet
Submergence for solo bass clarinetο
Three Fragments for solo flute
In blue mood, Modulus for solo guitar
José Jesus de Azevedo Souza (Portugal)
The Trumpet Sounds for solo flute
Whitman Brown (USA)
Brass Trio no.1 for trumpet, horn and trombone
Michael Boyd (USA)
and everything in between for brass quintet
David Lipten (USA)
Waits and Measures for brass quintet
Lars Michael Fetzek (USA)
Rondo for woodwind sextet
Neil Stipp (USA)
Quintet for woodwind quintet