Saturday, October 5, 20:00
Hadjinikos Hall
On their second visit to South Pelion as a group, El GreChor and Tasos Tataroglou joins Hortodia for a choral evening with music from different traditions and genres.
El GreChor
El GreChor is an international mixed choir in the Basel-France-Germany border triangle and has been active since 2016 and today has more than 30 members. Its director and founding member is the musician Tasos Tataroglou (*1985). The members of the choir are united by their joy and passion for Greek music, language and culture. Its repertoire lives from the mixing of traditional and contemporary elements of Greek tradition. Our songs speak of love, joy and sorrow, departure and adventure, longing and memory. Exciting choral sounds that trace back to a rich heritage of influences from the West and the East, from tradition and the present.
Tasos Tataroglu
Tasos Tataroglou is a musician, composer, improviser, choir director and researcher, born in 1985 in Thessaloniki. He lives and works in Basel since 2013. He studied classical trumpet, higher theory, contemporary singing, musicology and pedagogy in Greece. She did postgraduate studies in Free Improvisation with Fred Frith & Alfred Zimmerlin, as well as choir conducting studies with Martin Wettges at the Basel Music Academy. He has been studying sakuhachi (Japanese straight-ahead) since 2016. He has toured with groups such as the Insub Meta Orchestra throughout Europe and Russia and has written music for theatre and film, and has taught the course “Rebetiko, the Greek Blues?” and “Music and Speech: Greek poetry set to music”. Among other things, he has edited the transcription and publication of Japanese pieces in contemporary Western notation, and has recorded five personal albums and numerous collaborations in contemporary music making.
Hortodia (as the choral ensemble was named after its first performance in Horto in the summer of 2012) is composed of residents of the South Pelion region. It is an amateur choir, a mixture of nationalities, people with an appetite and love for singing, who share the joy of music and artistic creation. With the encouragement and support of the Angelini-Hatzinikou Foundation, the embrace of the active Development Association of Chortos, the fervent participation of the Friends of Calderimia Association and the guidance of the conductor and pianist Nikos Adraskelas, ChorTodia has already counted many dynamic performances in its course in Greece and abroad.
