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Eleni Efthymiou was born in Exeter, England in 1986. She works as a director, actor and singer. As a director she has worked with organisations such as the National Theatre, the Onassis Cultural Centre, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the Alternative Stage of the National Opera, the National Theatre of Northern Greece, the Municipal and Regional Theatre of Ioannina, the Thessalian Theatre,

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Orestis Goumenos was born in Athens in 1984 and his mother was from Chios. He studied French horn, piano and theory of music in Greece and continued in the Netherlands where he received a Master’s degree and a Bachelor in composition at the Utrechts Conservatorium. He composes contemporary music for orchestras, ensembles, and theatrical performances. He draws inspiration from the Greek tradition, pop

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Athina Alexopoulou studied acting at the School of Drama of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and at the School of Arts of the University of Kent. She has been working as an actor since 2003. She has collaborated, among others with the National Theatre of Northern Greece, Theatre Epi Kolono, “Proskinio” theatre, the Contemporary Theatre of Athens, Athens Festival, Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, Onassis

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The dissonArt ensemble was founded in early 2005 in Thessaloniki aiming to the spreading of avant-garde music. In its artistic course so far, the dissonArt ensemble has appeared at festivals such as Mixtur (Barcelona), KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen (Hannover), KLANG (Copenhagen), Salzburg Biennale, Klangspuren (Innsbruck), MICO Festival (Bologna), Milano incontra la Grecia (Milan), 4020.Mehr als Musik (Leeds), Forum Wallis (Leuk, Switzerland), the Athens Festival

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He was born in 1956. He is a composer, drummer and installation artist, and one of the most important representatives of experimental music theatre. His compositions are internationally acclaimed and have been performed at several renowned festivals and theatres. In 2009 he was appointed professor of composition at the “Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden”, and, in the same year,

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Junko Fujii was born in Tokyo, Japan. In 2002 she met a future teacher who invited her to study in Moscow, Russia. She entered the Pre-college of “Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory” and later the “Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory”, where she studied with the legendary Professor Natalia Shakhovskaya and from where she graduated with distinction. In 2013 she moved to Germany to continue her studies in

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Dilhan Kantas was born in Bursa, Turkey. She started playing the violin at the age of ten and switched to the viola at the age of twelve when she started her studies at “Uludag University States Conservatory Bursa” where she continued until the year 2005. She received her bachelor degree in 2008 from “Hacettepe University States Conservatory” in Ankara, followed by a

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Artiom Ordiyants was born in 1983 in Turkmenistan. At the age of six he started playing the violin. When he was ten he and his parents moved to Moscow where he studied music at the highly renowned “Piotr Tschaikowsky” music school for the next 8 years. In 2001 he moved to Germany where he successfully graduated from “Universität der Künste” (UdK, Berlin) and

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She is the daughter of Chios urban designer, architect and author Stella Holdorff-Myriangou and German architect and painter Burkhard Holdorff. She had her first courses of violin at the age of 5, while at the age of 14 she received the national scholarship for preparatory studies Studienvorbereitende Ausbildung (SVA). She received her diploma in violin as an educator and an orchestra musician

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Ventus Ensemble was originally formed as a quintet (2005) by a group of musicians who have been friends since childhood, having the philharmonic marching bands of Corfu as a reference point. The members of the group are distinguished musicians, working side by side in Greece’s most important orchestras. In order to expand their repertoire they decided in 2012 to enrich the ensemble,

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