proudly introduces
Eugenia Manolides
Greek composer Eugenia Manolides was born in Athens in 1975.
Her musical studies started at a very young age at the conservatory J.S. Bach in Athens and continued in New York City at the Juilliard School where she studied composition, orchestration and orchestral conducting with the director of the NewYork Grand Opera, Vincent la Selva.
Specialized in Symphonic music she recorded her first CD in New York in 1998 conducting her own compositions with a small chamber music ensemble under the supervision of her composition teacher Daron Aric Hagen.
A series of recordings in the '98 - '99 season, include a ballet in 2 acts (recorded at the Wuppertal theatre in Germany and currently participating at the international competition ÑMusic for Balletì of the Onassis foundation), a four-movement symphony ÑMythical Couplesì and five greek hymns, all performed by the Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra and the Bulgarian National Radio Choir.
A series of live performances in the summer of 2000 include concerts in greek islands and at the annual national festival of music in Delphi organized by the National Radio of Greece.
Her first album "Meanings and Symbols" (Kunduru/Universal) was recently released in Greece, Europe and New York
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ÑThe respect and love that I have for classical Greece create an unlimited source of inspiration in everything that I have composed until now. With zeal and patience, I go back to the Greek philosophers and the mythology, from which I derive the subjects to be set to music. Therefore, with my music I try to offer, apart from pleasure, further enrichment to the knowledge around greek, cultural and historical inheritance.ì
Eugenia Manolides
