Fifteen young composers and performers come together to compose, practice and present new works.
Daily rehearsals, meetings, presentations, clinics and duscussions open to the general public.

Coordinated by Steven Jackson, clarinetist, composer (ALEA III)

Young composers:

Alexandros Gaglias (Greece - BU*) 
Joogwang Lim (South Korea - BU) 
Thanos Vogatsas (Greece) 
Aija Rēķe (Latvia - BU) 
Christos Yonas-Kontos (Greece) 
Christina Masoura (Greece - Berklee**) 
Thiseas Papanikolaou (Greece) 
Dimitris Antonakakis (Greece - Berklee)
Ilias Siatounis (Greece) - watch video
Anna Daniilidi (Greece)

Young performers:

Dimitris Antonakakis, violin, viola (Greece - Berklee)
Alexandros Gaglias, piano (Greece - BU)
Christos Yonas-Kontos, piano (Greece)
Ekaterini Dromiadi, flute (Greece – Nat/nl Conservatory)
Dimitris Kreatsoylas, piano (Greece – Un. of Macedonia)
Joogwang Lim, trumpet (South Korea - BU)
Augoustinos Michalopoulos-Stathopoulos, double bass (Greece)
Georgia Ntinopoulou, violin (Greece – Un. of Macedonia)

*Boston University
**Berklee College of Music

Works by the Forum Composers will be presented at: 
     Conversations – Monday, July 1
     Sounds from the New World – Wednesday, July 3
     Kallimasia Arts Fest – July 5 and 6

Presentations

13:00 – 15:00
Chios Music Middle and High School

All presentations are open to the public and admission is free.

 
The goal of this lecture series is to present an outline of concert music composed in the US from the Romantic Era to our days. In addition, other related topics are included.

• Sunday, June 30

          Alexandros Kalogeras, Professor Berklee College of Music
                    -  American Romantic Composers and Charles Ives
                    -  The New Americanism of the 30’s: George Antheil, George Gerschwin, Aaron Copland,
                               Leonard Bernstein, Gunther Schuler. Jazz and Third Stream. Dance: Martha Graham

• Monday, July 1

          Alexandros Kalogeras
                    -  The Symphonist composers (Piston, Shuman, Sessions), Neoclassicism, Elliott Carter
                    -  The first experimental composers: Harry Partch, Henry Cowell
          Steven Jackson, clarinet, composer, DMA Boston University
                    -  Writing for the bass clarinet

• Tuesday, July 2

          Alexandros Kalogeras
                    -  American Serialsism: Milton Babbitt, Donald Martino
                    -  John Cage and the New York composers (Brown, Feldman, Foss)
          Aija Rēķe, violin, composer, DMA student at Boston University
                    -  Serialism and Igor Stravinsky’s “Full Fadom Five”

• Thursday, July 4

          Alexandros Kalogeras
                    -  American Minimalism: Steve Reish, Philip Glass, John Adams
                    -  Neoromanticism: David Del Tredici, Joseph Schwantner
          Aija Rēķe, violin, composer, DMA student at Boston University
                    -  American Women Composers: Florence Price, Amy Beach, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Joan Tower,
                               Ketty Nez, Jennifer Higdon, Gabriela Lena Frank, Jessie Montgomery

• Friday, July 5

          Alexandros Kalogeras
                    -  Electronic music in US: Mario Davidovsky, John Chowning, Paul Lansky
          Christos Yonas-Kontos, piano, composer (Forum)
                    -  The Morphing Clavier & other Experiments in Algorithmic Music

• Saturday, July 6

          Eleftheria Lykopanti, Professor of Greek Literature
                    -  Understanding Alexandros Papadiamantis
          Forum composers present their works
                    -  Dimitris Antonakakis, Berklee College of Music
                    -  Joogwang Lim, Boston University
                    -  Kristina Masoura, Berklee College of Music
                    -  Ilias Siatounis