Violin: Iason Keramidis (Assistant Concertmaster - Munich Philharmonic Orchestra), Piano: Carlota Amado

Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjCXoQTIbqQ

The Journey of Jason by Michalis Andronikou, performed by Iason Keramidis  and Carlota Amado

Catalina Guevara Klein, bassoon
Bronwyn Schuman, piano
The piece was recorded in New York, on the 21st of May, 2021

Cantilena for the Victims of War by M. Andronikou, with Catalina Guevara Klein & Bronwyn Schuman

Sound: Trey Mills
Photo: Jennifer Weihmann

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8YhjWuweGQ

'Foreman Passacaglia' by Michalis Andronikou, performed by Charles Foreman

Paraphrases

Score Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWiqaQSJ47s

The work was a commission by the “Land’s End Ensemble” and was composed in the summer of 2010. It was premiered on the 17th of October and conducted by Joel Sachs.
 Working with familiar songs and melodic figures from Asia Minor, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus and former Yugoslavia, is a way of expressing my understanding of the mixture of various sound colours from the eastern Mediterranean. Related melodic motives are a kind of bridge between all these cultures, and suggest a beginning of an exploration of their common character. This material belongs to a living tradition.
	In this perception and exploration of folk music, the melodic element is used to stimulate  memory, imagination and creativity.

Paraphrases

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtfZH6xXTIw

Danza Desperata by Michalis Andronikou, performed by Antonis Liopiris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbIeakon7Lw

In Memoriam Theodore Antoniou by Michalis Andronikou, with Achilles Liarmakopoulos and Coline Orliac

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uNDRxz8lNE

Conductor: Christina Athinodorou

Famagusta 1974

Famagusta is the city where my family is from. Although I was born in Limassol after the Turkish invasion of 1974, I always had a sense of displacement. This alienation is possibly one of the reasons I became an immigrant. I grew up with stories about Famagusta and, along with my family, have experienced the pain of its memory. Famagusta exists in my music as an idea, as a memory, as a light, and a hope for eventual return.

'Famagusta 1974' by Michalis Andronikou, performed by the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra

1 Corinthians 13: 1-2 New International Version (NIV):
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyALIkphBKA

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels,
but do not have love,
I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge,
and if I have a faith that can move mountains,
but do not have love, I am nothing.
 
This piece is dedicated to Mark Bartel.
 
Music: Michalis Andronikou
 
Choir: Ambrose University Singers
Conductor: Mark Bartel
Piano: Elizabeth Clarke
 
Sound: David Robinson
 
Video: Mark Loewen

“On Love and Nothingness” by Michalis Andronikou - Ambrose University Singers under Mark Bartel

You can watch a video from the recording at Ambrose University, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUCWVFIjmfg

The piece is based on the first stanza of "Renascence" by Edna St. Vincent Millay:
 
All I could see from where I stood
Was three long mountains and a wood;
I turned and looked another way,
And saw three islands in a bay.
So with my eyes I traced the line
Of the horizon, thin and fine,
Straight around till I was come
Back to where I'd started from;
And all I saw from where I stood
Was three long mountains and a wood.
 
 
Music: Michalis Andronikou
 
Voice: Chelsea Woodard
Piano: John Matthew Cabalsa
 
Sound: David Robinson
Video: Mark Loewen
 
Coordination: Barrett Hileman, Val Lieske

"Renascence" by Michalis Andronikou, performed by Chelsea Woodard and John Matthew Cabalsa

You can watch a video of the Ambrose Piano Quintet performing this piece, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB6ShnVveRM

The title is derived from 1 Thessalonians 5:16, and the piece is dedicated to Edwin Gnandt.
 
Music: Michalis Andronikou
 
Ambrose Piano Quintet
 
Violin I: Melissa McDonald
Violin II: Anna Konrad
Viola: Andrew McDonald
Violoncello: Rachel McDonald
Piano: John Matthew Cabalsa
 
Sound: David Robinson
Video: Mark Loewen
 
 
Coordination: Barrett Hileman, Val Lieske

"Give Thanks in All Circumstances" by Michalis Andronikou, performed by the Ambrose Piano Quintet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsvdgxY0bBg

“Encounter” aims to encapsulate the surprise, and the emotion of an important meeting, like that of the musicians with the audience.

Violoncello: Amalia Giannopoulou
Cembalo: Katerina Ktona

Encounter for Violoncello and Cembalo (Live Recording)

"Panora-mix" - Rubbing Stone Ensemble -21/4/2011
Score video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOxUn9dltHI
Donovan Seidle - violin
Olena Kilchyk - violoncello

Mary Sullivan - flute
Stan Climie - clarinet
www.mandronikou.wixsite.com/website

Panora-mix

Music is dead! (for string orchestra and actor)
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Conductor: Edmond Agopian
The UofC String Orchestra
Actor: Edith Pritchard
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	The work is a musification of a nightmare, influenced by the idea of “the shadow” by Carl Jung. Jung viewed nightmares as comprehensive “statements” made by the unconscious. He observed that portions of our whole personality which we knowingly or unknowingly judge become disowned, and are frequently projected outward in dreams, taking the form of aggressors, devils, monsters, intimidating animals or natural events. He referred to these symbolic figures as “the shadow.”
	Whether we become aware of such elements of our shadow through nightmares or daymares, re-accepting these judged and disowned portions of ourselves is the message and the awaiting gift.

Music is dead!

This is a recording of a live performance of the piece by the Aura duet (pianist Agapi Triantafyllidi and cellist Nil Kocamangil) in Köln, on the 27th of November, 2016.

In Coexistence We Believe

Βon Viveur (2016) – Michalis Andronikou

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GbrgkhZ_yo

DissonArt Ensemble: Lenio Liatsou – piano, Thodoris Patsalides – violin, Vasilis Saitis – Violoncello
Audio Recording by: HOOK recording art studio

Bon Viveur is a pseudo-French formation, from bon (good) + viveur (a living person).
It often has a negative connotation, implying a person who enjoys luxuries, and daily pleasures without caring about the deeper meaning of life. This piece employs a neo-romantic music language to underline the dramatic nature of the fake life of those who live in the manner of a Bon Viveur.

Bon Viveur

Piano: Ermis Theodorakis , Audio Recording by HOOK recording art studio

Contrasts & Conflicts

The new work of composer Michalis Andronikou titled "We Say Farewell" is published by the Italian Da Vinci Edition and is dedicated to the memory of the great Russian Baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky: 
https://davinci-edition.com/product/dv-11123/﻿
 This is an operatic song based on a poem by Luann E. Hiebert, which was premiered in Manitoba by baritone David Klassen and pianist Tracey Regier Sawatzky. You can watch a video of a performance of the piece here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAqN3GUzmhE

We Say Farewell (In Memory of Dmitri Hvorostovsky)

Music by Michalis Andronikou
Performed on 8-String Guitar by Spiros Kavallieratos

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETX8pDFoRck

Hommage à Francesco da Milano

Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvImj5-nHxg

Music by Michalis Andronikou

dissonArt Ensemble
Flute: Jannis Anissegos
Clarinet: Alexandros Stavridis
Piano: Lenio Liatsou
Violin: Theodoros Patsalidis
Viola: Chara Sira
Cello: Maria Anissegou
Contrabass: Yiannis Chatzis

Live recording by HOOK recording art studio

                                                    “Is this Mozart?” (2018)

             The piece combines themes from W.A. Mozart’s symphonies no 25 and no 40, string quartet no 4, and the Requiem, along with themes that are influenced by folk music from various parts of the world, in an attempt to find an international musical language.

Is this Mozart?

Clarinet:  Orfeas Hiratos
Piano: Canan Kocaay Camurtas

The Sea of Kourion by Michalis Andronikou

Score video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXJ2c9aJ23w

Laura Jayne Bowler, conductor
John Lowry, violin
Beth Root Sandvoss, cello
Lucie Jones, flute
Andrew Morrow, clarinet
Kyle Eustace, marimba
Eric Bumstead, percussion
Matthew Blackburn, piano

Osmosis/Zymosis

Another performance of the piece by Anna Sutyagina (Artistic Director of MOVING CLASSICS TV) can be found here:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuUfKtckl8E

"Tango Appassionato" by Michalis Andronikou performed by Claire Harris in Popayán, Colombia

Video with Giorgos Arsenis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEFvmyc8oaU

Video with Ieva Baltmiskyte:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHkLBxoO4WE

Eva, by Michalis Andronikou, performed by Giorgos Arsenis

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jAOElrkS9g

Faith, by Michalis Andronikou, performed by the Three Sisters Trio

The piece is dedicated to the organization "Musicians Without Borders." The CD was released in Cyprus, in July 2020.
https://www.musicianswithoutborders.org/
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1fYfvbRVEo

'Guitars Can Change The World' by Michalis Andronikou, performed by Acordes Guitar Ensemble (CD)

Michalis Andronikou is a composer and musicologist currently residing in Calgary, AB. He holds a PhD in composition from the University of Calgary. He received his Bachelor’s and Integrated Master’s degrees in musicology from the Department of Music Studies, University of Athens, Greece. He has a Diploma in Classical Guitar, Clarinet and Music Theory from the Trinity College and the Royal Academy of Music, and a Diploma in Byzantine Music from the Argyroupolis Municipal Conservatory. Michalis gained credentials in Harmony, Counterpoint, Fugue, and Music Composition (with Theodore Antoniou) from the Hellenic Conservatory. Moreover, he has studied Greek folk instruments such as lute, tampoura and bouzouki. 

Michalis has composed music for small and large ensembles, theatre plays, art exhibits, movies, and songs. Ten CDs with his works have been released since 2003, and his scores are published by the Canadian Palliser Music Publishing, the Bulgarian Balkanota, the Italian Da Vinci Edition, the English Trübcher Music Editions, and the American Alea Publishing & Recording. 

Michalis is an associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre, a member of the Canadian League of Composers, a theory examiner of the Royal Conservatory of Music, a member of the Greek Composers Union, and a member of the Center of Cypriot Composers.

Michalis Andronikou - Μιχάλης Ανδρονίκου

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