From The Athens To Amsterdam And Back

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Beautiful Jazz tones for Igor Iofe (@igor-iofe-1).

Days that gone never come back again. The name is of this project is representative of the process that music goes from Athens to Amsterdam and came back as feedback. I wish a beautiful week to all!
Athens 5/12/2021

From The Athens To Amsterdam

From The Athens To Amsterdam And Back I [ Piano: Thomas Nakas | Trumpet: Igor Iofe ]

Beautiful Jazz tones by Thomas Nakas @to_mi_nor and Igor Iofe @igor-iofe-1

Days that gone never come back again. The name is of this project is representative of the process that music goes from Athens to Amsterdam and came back as feedback.

Usually, when I'm composing I have a strong imaginative concept that motivates me and lures me to the result.  
As an exception in these types of projects, I imagine just where the trumpet should go and how can boost and highlight the overall try. 
So these compositions even if that alone, are fair enough to get listened to and enjoyed, are not complete without trumpet because their existing purpose was to get paired and accompanied by the trumpet's element. 
Here is our second try with https://soundcloud.com/igor-iofe-1 . So great progress on our two-month journey and still on the start point of this cooperation try. Happy Holidays for the days that are remaining.

From The Athens To Amsterdam and Back no2

From Athens To Amsterdam And Back II [Trumpet: Igor Iofe | Piano: Thomas Nakas]

This is our third attempt with https://soundcloud.com/igor-iofe-1 . One of my favourite composers is Karaindrou these arpeggios in the right hand are a great inspiration by her techniques and advanced skill that she has to progress the basic theme to very emotional results! 
  As I have said and the last times about this project everything is getting composed with the idea that it will be combined with trumpet so the piano by itself even if it's an average result and is capable to capture in a decent way when you hear it. In a comparison of the duet, the result is not a complete view of the image that wants to describe. I wish you a beautiful weekend!

From the Athens to Amsterdam and Back 3

From The Athens To Amsterdam And Back III [Trumpet: Igor Iofe | Piano: Thomas Nakas]

From Athens To Amsterdam And Back III

Igor Iofe is a
composer whose musical
paths lead to diverse stylistic destinations. Currently Igor's focus in music is Armenian traditional duduk repertoire which he performs on trumpet. He brings the beauty and warmth of the duduk into his trumpet playing.

At the Conservatorium van Amsterdam he studied with  Wim Hendrickx,Richard Ayres,  Fabio Nieder,Willem Jeths and Jorrit Tamminga. Igor attended masterclasses with Misato Mochizuki, Dmitry Kourliandski, Tristan Murail andTan Dun. His music was performed at the Composers’ Festival Amsterdam (2012 and 2013), Atlas Academy (2010-12),  Looptail XXX and at such venues as De Link, De Duif, Het Bethaniënklooster, Het Veem, STEIM, Muziekgebouw aan 't Ij and CvA in Amsterdam and other cities of the Netherlands. His piece Y+Ywas performed by the Joint Venture Percussion Duo at several venues in the USA and Europe.

Parallel to his Classical Composition studies Igor studied Composing Music for Film with Jurre Haanstra and graduated as a Master in Composing for FIlm at the CvA. During his studies he wrote music for several movies which were shown at the Beeldbuis Filmfestival, Keep an Eye Film Festival, VERS Awards, Cinekid Filmfestival, M2M Filmfestival and Pleinbioscoop Rotterdam.

Igor is one of the organisers of the Toets des Tijds Concert Series