SIBiLIMA
The musical ensemble SIBiLIMA presents a program with the Cretan lyre and the classical string quartet. Through original compositions and elements of improvisation, its approach balances between Western European and Eastern influences, creating an original soundscape.
SIBiLIMA performs for the first time in Greece three new works: the “String Quartet + Cretan Lyra” and “Cretan Lyra” by the American composer Coleman Zurkowski and “ORFURO” by Giorgos Tamiolakis. With the contrasts and connections created between the traditional and the contemporary, through the dynamics of different musical idioms, the concert at KET promises surprises.
Credits:
Lefteris Andriotis – cretan lyre
Charalambos Karasavvidis – violin
Kalliopi Mitropoulou – violin
Stelios Papanastasis – viola, artistic direction
Giorgos Tamiolakis – cello & composition
Coleman Zurkowski – composition
Coleman Zurkowski is a composer based in New York. He received a Bachelor’s in Music Composition from DePaul University in 2012 and an MFA in Music Composition from the California Institute of the Arts in 2014. In 2015, he was chosen to be a resident composer of the Syros Sound Meetings in collaboration with the Syros Film Festival in Syros, Greece. In 2017, he organized an international tour of his album ZERO, which was later released by Dangerbird Records in Los Angeles in 2018. In 2019, he released his follow up album INSTRUMENTAL with a US tour through New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Cleveland, and Miami. In 2022, Zurkowski released Music for No One which toured internationally featuring performances in Athens (at KET), Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Cleveland, and Minneapolis. Zurkowski currently works in New York composing music for film, TV, commercials, podcasts, and theatre as well as presenting music of his own.
Cellist and composer Giorgos Tamiolakis was born in Crete in 1986. A graduate of the Music Lyceum of Pallini, the National Conservatory of Halandri and the “Fryderyk Chopin” Music Academy in Warsaw, he won the 1st Prize in the National String Competition of the H.O.N. (2010). He has taken part in seminars on music interpretation with Julius Berger & Umberto Clerici and on music composition with Rafal Janiak, Aleksander Kosciow & Minas Borboudakis. He has performed as a soloist with the K.O.A. at the Athens Concert Hall (2011). He has collaborated as a composer, sound designer and performer with groups of all musical genres, as well as with theatre and contemporary dance groups, in live performances and video art projects. His compositions are characterized by melodic and geometric structures, often influenced by folkloric elements.
The music group SIBiLIMA is a kind of mosaic of different sound textures. They collaborated in 2021 with the National Opera House, creating two short films: ‘Bridget Planets’, with music composed by Giorgos Tamiolakis, directed by Margarita Gerogianni, and ‘Getaway’ directed by Pantelis Makkas. In the summer of the same year, they took part in the production ‘Wanderings’ directed by Konstantinos Hatzis and originally composed by Giorgos Tamiolakis, in collaboration with the actresses Sofia Pappa and Rubini Vasilakopoulou, as part of the event ‘The Revolution through the eyes of others’. In the summer of 2022, the group collaborated with Sophia Hill, in a production by Konstantinos Hatzis, at the Ancient Theatre of Delphi, on the occasion of the performance ‘EKAVI STRINGS’. In 2022 and 2023, they presented three classic silent cinema films with original music: ‘Battleship Potemkin’, ‘Lights of the City’ and ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’. The group has recorded and performed music by young Greek and foreign composers, most recently recording works by Christos Xenakis. Their last performance was in December 2023 at Romantso in a collaboration with sound artist Jeph Vanger.