Music curation (musical collage, improvisation), piano, keyboard, mechanical-clockwork toys: Ann-Kristin Sofroniou
Original story, libretto, English translation: Andriana Minou
Illustration, animation: Christina Spanou
Narration, singing, vocal improvisation: Maria Katrivesi
Sound recording, editing: Kostas Bokos – Studio 19

​Commissioned by the Greek National Opera as part of the 6th Online festival «The Bear and the Baritone on Other Planets» on GNO TV, December 2022.

Tales of a Bear: «The squirrel that made a forest disappear» is a musical fairy-tale for children and adults, in which piano music composed on the subject of the child is intertwined with an original fairy-tale. For more information, visit: https://www.kristinsofroniou.com/tales-of-a-talking-piano 

story summary: "A squirrel, the darkness-woman and a walking tree meet up in an original music fairy tale about diversity. Stop motion animation and contemporary music create a magic forest of sounds and images, inspired by Sofia Gubaidulina’s work 'Musical Toys' (1969)."

Tales of a Bear: «The squirrel that made a forest disappear» [EXCERPT 1]

pianist, maker and researcher based in Athens
www.kristinsofroniou.com

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