Our company undertook the modernization and the complete remodeling of the website of the organization “The Makings of the Actor” whose mission is to advance actor training pedagogy through an ongoing series of events, conferences, workshops, performances, artistic activities, and on-line resources.
Visit the official website here: https://themakingsactor.com/
Our company’s partnership with Kounadis Archive Virtual Museum is funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center.
The object of the collaboration is the creation and management of the Museum’s social media, the development of promotion and communication tools and the website modernization.
More specifically, we undertook:
The collaboration with the Kounadis Archive Virtual Museum aims at promoting the archive to a wider audience and consolidating it as one of the most important music collections in Greece.
Kounadis Archive Virtual Museum: https://www.vmrebetiko.gr/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kounadisarchive
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kounadis_archive/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kounadis_arch
Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWr-mjmlaJnWOGvOWAfanFA
Spotify Podcasts: https://open.spotify.com/show/2zFRj3Niaw6jNuvkBxyKK1?fbclid=IwAR2hV9mZuAsKkjEBRw–lm-Q1J0nrzj3IvTpDliPjNCqEN-q_0E3AKK-07U
Finance Director
Accountant
Anastasis Apostolou graduated from the Accounting Department of ATEI Piraeus and he is a postgraduate student at the University of Western Macedonia in the program “Energy Investments and Environment”. He maintains an accounting office in the center of Athens. He has many years of experience in the financial management and accounting services of companies related to the cultural industries.
Artistic Director
AI Researcher
Natalia Kotsani is a machine learning researcher and developer, working in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), a PhD Candidate of the National and Technical University of Athens (NTUA), holds an MA in “Jazz Performance and Improvisation” (NKUA) and she has graduated from the School of Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences of NTUA. She has designed and developed various websites, tools and applications related to culture, she is a musician, composer, music producer and lead singer of the acclaimed band “encardia“. She coordinates the production of cultural events, conferences and concerts.
Spyros Manesis piano
Arionas Gyftakis double bass
Anastasis Gouliaris drums
The three Greek jazz musicians met in 2012. From the very first moment a unique chemistry between them was shown, which, ever since has been developed with their live performances in jazz clubs and jazz festivals throughout Greece and the rest of Europe. On 2017 they released their debut album “Spiral Trio” by ANKh Music Productions, which was almost consisting of jazz standards and, recently, on 2021, they have recorded their second album, “Broken Blue”, consisting mostly of original compositions of the members of the trio, to be released in Spring 2022, by Odradek Records.
Today the trio is considered one of the most important Greek jazz formations. It is a modern jazz piano trio with many influences by the dominant figures of modern piano trio formation, still though with clear references to the tradition of jazz playing. The constant interplay as well as the high level of their musical and improvisation skills bring to the music elements of surprise, variety in the creation of musical images and imagination in the narration.
Awards:
2015: Apollon Jazz Competition Greece. First Prize. (Then as Manesis/Gyftakis/Gouliaris Trio)
Festival participations and notable club performances:
2017 – Gmlstn Jazz festival / Gothenburg, Sweden
– Athens Technopolis Jazz Festival / Greece / Collaboration with Symphonic Orchestra of Municipality of Athens.
2018 – Tour in Spain and Portugal, (Hot Club de Portugal, Lisbon/ Sala Clamores, Madrid / Rubicon Jazz Bar, Santander / Clarence Jazz Club, Malaga/ Jimmy Glass Jazz Bar, Valencia)
2019 – Half Note Jazz Club, Athens, Greece
– Cultural Center Linto, Larissa
– “The spring of the Keys” Festival, Kalamata, Greece
– Aegina International Music Festival, Aegina, Greece
– Naxos Festival – Bazaios Tower, Naxos, Greece
2020 – ”Jazz Chronicles” Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens, Greece
– Tour in Spain and Portugal (Lux, Granada / Espacio Turina, Sevilla / Clarence Jazz Club, Malaga / Rubicon Jazz Bar, Santander / Jimmy Glass Jazz Bar, Valencia/ Hot Club de Portugal, Lisbon)
2021 – Series of online concerts at the Half Note Jazz Club, Athens, Greece.
Visit Spiral Trio’s YouTube Channel Visit Spiral Trio’s Facebook Page
Kyratzides is a greek traditional music group that focuses mainly on the musical tradition of Pindos and expands throughout Greece: from Roumeli, Moria, Epirus and Thessaly to Thrace, Macedonia and the greek islands . We can find them in big concerts, in local and tradiotional festivals inside and outside Greece, in performances of greek traditional dance clubs and in social events.
Achilles Chahamis – voice
Dimitris Brentas – clarinet
Nikos Skafidas – violin
Nikos Angelopoulos – lute
Alexis Nonis – percussion
For more information visit their official page: https://www.facebook.com/kyratzides
Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWt82tHv_6KtQBxxGqUcefw
She graduated from the Department of Communication & Mass Media of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She did her internship (partnership management & public relations) at the ÉCU – The European Independent Film Festival in Paris. She has worked for the online artistic magazine Music Corner as a cultural editor and for the art production company 17//trita Productions in Athens as a communication & social media manager. She is a musician (traditional percussions) in various greek bands (Laikindia, Αζατι, Κοτζαμαν band, Νταλκα Χαμε).
Eptaichon is a chamber music ensemble founded in the summer of 2013 and staffed by selected members of Symphony Orchestras and distinguished soloists. It presented its work in the Third Program of the Greek Radio, in the hall of the Philological Association of Parnassos, in the Progressive Club of Ymittos, in the Cultural Club of Psychiko, in multi-cultural venues and elsewhere.
Its purpose is to interpret a wide range of genres of music, highlighting the unity behind the compositions of the so-called academic music and the current, or not so current, songs and music of wider popularity, with the appropriate orchestration curated by the inspirer with the valuable contribution of the co-founders and constant companions Dionysis Mallouchos and Christos Ginos, with the prevailing reasoning that musical inspiration does not and could not depend only on the theoretical training or artistic origin of the composer. Thus, Eptaichon presents works that have been heard by large orchestras, aiming to highlight the essence of each work with a few instruments (instruments), as well as circles of songs or music that have seen the light in a less complex way and which wear the sound and color richness of the specific organic ensemble, giving a special version of sensitivity and acoustic approach. Indicative programs – productions of the Ensemble: “Magos erotas”, a collection of music and songs whose common place is erotas in all its forms, “Ta tragoudia tis mouviolas” with favorite cinematic music, with songs by Gounari, Giannidis, Sogioul, Attik, “With the wings of the Archangel” – Mikis Theodorakis and poets, etc.
Coming from diverse backgrounds and genres the members joined forces around 2017 and have been evolving in multiple styles ever since. From Hip Hop / Boom Bap to Reggae/Dub to Steppa/Drum&Bass and everything in between the band enjoys a rich repertoire of different musical influences (written and proudly produced 100% original material) and has been playing live shows at festivals and tours around Greece.
The Third Eye Bizarre are: Nikos Koutantos, Evangelos Poulos, Yannis Karidoyannis, Philipp Manev, Konstantinos Gontikakis
For more information visit the official page: https://el-gr.facebook.com/thirdeyebizarre/
Find their music here: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/thirdeyebizarre/dwelling-in-the-underground?fbclid=IwAR2_JDeX2n2wdUTMIdiO6kJxUM547l-IRGApW_vBfE5HOya1vAsPXcnK_kI
Laikindia bridges Bollywood in India with the Greek folk music of the 60’s. It presents a selection of the “Hindu” folk songs, which were very popular in Greece in the period 1955-1965, connecting them with their original form from the Indian films of the time and the charming protagonists such as Nargis and Mandumbala. In the Laikindia covers, the great folk hits by artists such as Kazantzidis and Angelopoulos meet the original melody of the great Indian composers such as Shankar Jaikishan. The band was formed in the spring of 2020. The five professional musicians, but above all friends, started their live performances in the summer in Athens and then continued with a mini tour in the Aegean islands. In February 2021, they appeared on the ERT1 TV show “To Alati tis Gis” (“The Salt of the Earth”) entitled “Music stories with young people”. In August 2021 they performed at Paxos Music Festival.
Laikindia are: Kinjal Vora (vocals), Violette Boulanger (violin-vocals-arrangements), Eva Mylona (accordion-vocals), Salvatore Conticello (lute-vocals) and Maro Panagi (percussion).
For more information visit the official page: https://www.facebook.com/laikindiaband
