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* This workshop has reached the maximum number of participants and it is now full.
Lesson timetable (total of 12 hours)
21/2 and 22/2 16:00 - 20:00
23/2 10:00 - 14:00
The Urban Smyrnaean Song functions as an umbrella, under which many different genres, styles and cultures in music coexist, from the literary and popular Ottoman song, the folk song, the Western lyrical song, but also the post-war-modern folk song, as recorded by the leading singers of the interwar period.
Thus, in this seminar, we will initially study some of the very rich modal (commonly known as "oriental") and harmonic songs, in relation to the dipole "western-lyrical" and "ala turka" (turkish style), which were recorded in the period between 1920 and 1931. Such as the case of the well-known song Kardiokleftra and other slow 7:8 compositions of Panagiotis Tountas (e.g. Ta matia tis Smyrnias, Pagratiotissa etc.).
Then, the well known Smyrnaean amanes will be introduced.
The repertoire helps us seige the occasion to work on issues of singing technique and basic principles of makam theory. The seminar is addressed to all voices, female and male, and all levels. Knowledge of sheet music is not necessary.
This seminar will primarily be taught in Greek. Full interpratation will not be provided.
To register in the waiting list, please send an e-mail with you name and phone number at musicalyards@gmail.com
Lesson timetable (total of 12 hours)
21/2 and 22/2 16:00 - 20:00
23/2 10:00 - 14:00
The Urban Smyrnaean Song functions as an umbrella, under which many different genres, styles and cultures in music coexist, from the literary and popular Ottoman song, the folk song, the Western lyrical song, but also the post-war-modern folk song, as recorded by the leading singers of the interwar period.
Thus, in this seminar, we will initially study some of the very rich modal (commonly known as "oriental") and harmonic songs, in relation to the dipole "western-lyrical" and "ala turka" (turkish style), which were recorded in the period between 1920 and 1931. Such as the case of the well-known song Kardiokleftra and other slow 7:8 compositions of Panagiotis Tountas (e.g. Ta matia tis Smyrnias, Pagratiotissa etc.).
Then, the well known Smyrnaean amanes will be introduced.
The repertoire helps us seige the occasion to work on issues of singing technique and basic principles of makam theory. The seminar is addressed to all voices, female and male, and all levels. Knowledge of sheet music is not necessary.
This seminar will primarily be taught in Greek. Full interpratation will not be provided.
Biography
Panagiotis Panagakis was born in Samos in 1995.
He became acquainted with the folk music of his place and in general with the urban folk and traditional repertoire of the Greek area from a young age. At the age of 17, he began playing the oud and the Klasik kemençe (Lyre from Istanbul). His first teacher was Evgenios Voulgaris.
He then attended classical singing lessons with sopranos Dimitra Tsakania and Tzina Poulou, while today he is studying alongside Fotini Kostopoulou and tenor Angelos Samartzis. He has attended melodrama lessons with the director Panagiotis Adam at the Athenaeum Conservatory in Athens, while he occasionally works as an actor. He is a graduate of the Department of Folk and Traditional Music of the TEI of Epirus in Arta (now named Department of Music Studies of the University of Ioannina). While studying there, he was introduced to the lyrical music of Constantinople, the musicians of Central Asia and the Arab world, as well as with the theory of the Turkish Makam and the ney, with professors Markos Skoulios, Nikos Andrikos and Kyriakos Kalaitzidis. In 2022, he participated in the events of the "Greek Plan" with Dimitris Papadimitriou, where he performed unreleased songs by Panagiotis Tountas for the first time, orchestrated by Manolis Pappos, while he has collaborated with Giorgos Psaltis, Giannis Zevgolis, Avgerini Gatsi, Charoula Tsalpara, Clearchos Korkovelos, Nikos Andrikos, Fotis Vergopoulos, Kostis Kostakis, etc. At the same time, he has been involved in the vocal art of classical music in Istanbul with teachers Nikos Andrikos, Münip Utandı and Ömer Erdoğdular, while he studied the oud with Evgenios Voulgaris in Samos and Ikaria, Markos Skoulios in Arta and Gürsel Torun in Istanbul.
He became acquainted with the folk music of his place and in general with the urban folk and traditional repertoire of the Greek area from a young age. At the age of 17, he began playing the oud and the Klasik kemençe (Lyre from Istanbul). His first teacher was Evgenios Voulgaris.
He then attended classical singing lessons with sopranos Dimitra Tsakania and Tzina Poulou, while today he is studying alongside Fotini Kostopoulou and tenor Angelos Samartzis. He has attended melodrama lessons with the director Panagiotis Adam at the Athenaeum Conservatory in Athens, while he occasionally works as an actor. He is a graduate of the Department of Folk and Traditional Music of the TEI of Epirus in Arta (now named Department of Music Studies of the University of Ioannina). While studying there, he was introduced to the lyrical music of Constantinople, the musicians of Central Asia and the Arab world, as well as with the theory of the Turkish Makam and the ney, with professors Markos Skoulios, Nikos Andrikos and Kyriakos Kalaitzidis. In 2022, he participated in the events of the "Greek Plan" with Dimitris Papadimitriou, where he performed unreleased songs by Panagiotis Tountas for the first time, orchestrated by Manolis Pappos, while he has collaborated with Giorgos Psaltis, Giannis Zevgolis, Avgerini Gatsi, Charoula Tsalpara, Clearchos Korkovelos, Nikos Andrikos, Fotis Vergopoulos, Kostis Kostakis, etc. At the same time, he has been involved in the vocal art of classical music in Istanbul with teachers Nikos Andrikos, Münip Utandı and Ömer Erdoğdular, while he studied the oud with Evgenios Voulgaris in Samos and Ikaria, Markos Skoulios in Arta and Gürsel Torun in Istanbul.