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“Nefes” vocal ensemble
Polyphonic variations produced by the human voice
Coordination: Elena Moudiri Chasiotou
Duration: 30 hours
Language: English, Greek
25 - 31 August
(25.8 welcome date / 31.8 departure date)
Drawing inspiration from the repertoire of the traditional music of Mediterranean and the Balkans, the workshop practices original contemporaneous arrangements especially for voices. It explores the range of possibilities of the sound of the human voice and the body, including, in addition to singing, speech, melodic harmony, vocal sounds, polyphonic rhythmicity with voice and body, rhythmic narration in dance, etc. By composing the above material, different versions of polyphony are created with the aim of telling a complete musical story with an uneasy plot.
“Nefes” means breath.
The common breath coordinates the ensemble of voices, where each individuality acts and interprets in its own way but always serving the "whole".
The workshop is aimed at singers and actors as well as anyone else involved in the performing arts who has already developed a good relationship with singing.
Elena Moudiri Chasiotou
Musician - active in world music, traditional and contemporary music scene.
Director of vocal ensembles performances.
She is a graduate of the Theater Department of the School of Fine Arts, AUTH with specialisation in acting and directing.
As a vocal performer she has taken part in theatre productions of NTNG (National Theater North Greece) and Experimental Art Stage, in compositions of Kostas Vomvolos, in collaboration with whom they created the free improvisation duet “The Collisions”. She participated in the Biennale of Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean, in Thessaloniki, with the show "Kassandra and the Wolf". She collaborated with Michael Marmarinos, as an assistant director in the theatre play "Insenso", which was presented at the Athens festival. Also, during her career in the theatre she collaborated with important directors such as Korina Vassiliadou, Haris Pehlivanidis, Kyriaki Spanou and others.
From 2013 to 2017 she lived in Istanbul, where she collaborated with great musicians such as Emre Erdal, Eda Karaytuğ, Osman Kırklıkçı, Şakır Ozan Uygan, Apostolos Sideris and others. She is one of the founding members of the musical group Sinafi trio, with whom they still perform on music stages and festivals in Europe and Turkey and recently released their first album entitled "IHO". Thessaloniki Concert Hall, Zeman world music festival (Serbia), Sismanoglio Concert Hall of Constantinople (Turkey), Ericheta festival (Italy), Alatza Imaret of Thessaloniki, Geni Mosque of Thessaloniki, Balkan Music Festival of Thessaloniki, Veria Arts Center, Music Village (International Music Community), ARTos Foundation (Cyprus), Fengaros Festival (Cyprus) are indicative of some festivals and concert venues of her activity as a musician.
From 2017 to 2020 she collaborated with the Regional Theatre of Veria, teaching children and adults the "Theatrical Singing" course. Today she directs the women's choir Dafnes/Dafnes, belonging to the Derko Metropolis of Constantinople and the vocal music ensemble Nefes, based in Thessaloniki, in which she teaches and arranges songs from the traditional music of Mediterranean and Balkans especially for voices. From the fall of 2022, she collaborates with the "En Dynamei" ensemble, a collective of young artists with and without disabilities, where they work on musical songs from the repertoire of theatre, cinema and tradition arranged for voices.
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English