Rosa Ventorum | Argo Kollektiv

Saturday, November 30, 2024 | 7.30 p.m. 

mdw campus | Konzertsaal Future Art Lab

Program

Dror Binder

Neues Stück (UA) (2024)

Dimitrios Mousouras

Rosa Ventorum (UA) (2024)

Franck Bedrossian

La solitude du coureur de fond

Yuheng Chen

[overdose][overdrive]

Bruno Mantovani

D'un rêve parti

An evening full of contemporary sounds and a multifaceted repertoire-including two world premieres by former mdw composition students Dror Binder and Dimitrios Mousouras.

The Argo Kollektiv, consisting of Panos Nikitaris (piano), Juan Moreda (saxophone), Taikan Yamasaki (percussion) and Youngseo Kim (violin), was trained in the New Music Ensemble master's program at the mdw Vienna. The chamber music ensemble aims to explore the diverse sonic possibilities of the combination of saxophone, piano, violin and percussion.

The ensemble works with renowned artists of the Viennese avant-garde such as Alvaro Collao, Mathilde Hoursiangou, Annette Bik and Jean-Bernard Matter. In 2023, they made their debut at the Schiermonnikoog Festival and presented their project Der Anfang des Mythos at Brick-15 in Vienna.

They were awarded 2nd prize at the mdw's Leonard Bernstein Institute competition and were finalists at the Osaka International Music Competition.

Artists

ARGO KOLLEKTIV

Victoria Trusewicz, violin

Jing-Yi Zhai, viola

Namdar Majidi, cello

Lina Digka, flutes

Elena Arbonies, clarinets

Juan Moreda, saxophones

Panos Nikitaris, piano

Taikan Yamasaki, percussion

Sangyoung Han, conductor

Panos Nikitaris

Career Center Project Scholar

Panos Nikitaris (born 1995 in Rhodes, Greece) is a pianist specializing in contemporary music and lives in Vienna. He began his musical education at the Greek Conservatory, where he obtained his diplomas in piano and harmony. He then continued his studies at the Department of Music, Arts and Science at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki with Igor Petrin and received his Bachelor's degree in Piano Performance in 2018. After graduating, he was accepted at the HKU Conservatory in Utrecht, where he received his master's degree in piano performance in the class of pianist Klára Würtz in the fall of 2020.

He attended masterclasses with many eminent pianists, including Eldar Nebolsin, Yuri Bogdanov, Misha Fomin, Michael Wladkowski, Lilia Boyadjieva, Rafael Salinas, Agathe Leimoni and others. He has performed in many halls, including the Vienna Musikverein (AT), Tivoli Vredenburg (NL) and Concertgebouw Amsterdam (NL). He won 3rd prize at the National Piano Competition of the Conservatory of Larissa 2015 and 2nd prize at the Osaka International Music Competition 2023.

Panos Nikitaris performed as a soloist with the Webern Symphony Orchestra of the mdw at the Wien Modern Festival 2023 and with the Orchestra of the National Music Conservatory in Thessaloniki 2017, other formations included the Platypus Ensemble. He is co-founder of the Argo Kollektiv - Ensemble for New Music. He specializes in contemporary music and is currently completing his second Master's degree in New Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
 

https://www.argokollektiv.com/

Tickets

10 € regular price

5 € students

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