The exhibition entitled “100 years of George Hadjinikos” is dedicated to the great artist and teacher GeorgeHadjinikosand will be inaugurated at the Music Library “Lillian Voudouri” at the Athens Concert Hall on Friday, March 1, at 18:00. In the context of the opening, a short presentation will be given by Valia Vraka, head of the Greek Music Archive of the Library, where the archive of Hadjinikos is kept, and two of his students, pianist and musicologist Christos Marinos and pianist and treasurer of the George Angelini-Pia Hadjinikou Foundation Nikos Adraskelas. The event will conclude with a guided tour by the curator of the exhibition Antigoni Kapsali.
The exhibition entitled “100 years of George Hadjinikos” is dedicated to the great artist and teacher GeorgeHadjinikosand will be inaugurated at the Music Library “Lillian Voudouri” at the Athens Concert Hall on Friday, March 1, at 18:00. In the context of the opening, a short presentation will be given by Valia Vraka, head of the Greek Music Archive of the Library, where the archive of Hadjinikos is kept, and two of his students, pianist and musicologist Christos Marinos and pianist and treasurer of the George Angelini-Pia Hadjinikou Foundation Nikos Adraskelas. The event will conclude with a guided tour by the curator of the exhibition Antigoni Kapsali.
The exhibition is part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of George Hadjinikos, in Volos on 3 May 1923. It was presented for the first time in August 2023 at the Cultural Foundation of George Angelini – Pias Hadjinikou, in the context of the 39th Pelion Hortos Festival, and is transferred in its entirety for the present presentation in Athens.
It is a visual and acoustic narration of the life of the eminent Greek soloist, orchestra conductor and music teacher, who is prominent in Greece and abroad. The exhibition aspires to be a personal experience for everyone who will find themselves standing in front of it. The exhibits have been selected from a “treasury” kept in the Lillian Voudouri Music Library, overflowing with recordings of personal, family and professional moments. The aim of the exhibition is to revive the life and spirit of a great man through a series of small “monuments”, based on the descriptions and narratives of those who stood by his side during the last years of his life.
The design of the exhibition adopts the aspect of the path, like those mysteries that suddenly emerge and challenge you to explore them. The three-dimensional interactive story line traces the most important milestones of George Hadjinikos’ journey in music, as a conductor, pianist and educator. It allows viewers to determine for themselves how much they will indulge in the musician’s journey of discovery. The entire exhibition expands into showcases filled with memories both material and immaterial. Photographs, newspaper clippings, personal belongings, awards, sheet music and letters fill the pages of a nonexistent diary, synthesizing what is not known about him, and thus quietly, almost silently, narrate the immense legacy he left behind. For almost every exhibit that is in physical form next to him, a QR code takes the visitor to audiovisual narratives of George Hadjinikos, to musical sounds and to digital albums that dress his multi-dimensional life with sounds and images.
Duration of the exhibition:
1 March – 19 July 2024
Opening hours
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday / 10:00-16:45
Wednesday / 10:00-19:00
Sundays 3 March, 7 April, 19 May and 2 June / 11:00-15:00
Guided tours of the exhibition will be given by the curator:
Wednesdays 20 March and 24 April, at 18:00, and on
Sundays 7 April, 19 May and 2 June, at 12:00 noon.
https://www.megaron.gr/event/100-chronia-giorgos-xatzinikos/
