April 2012: News for the Ears

New in the audio section of this website: excerpts from Aristides Strongylis' second string quartet, Troisième Hymne Delphique à Apollon - performed by Apollon Musagète Quartet in a recording for Bayrischer Rundfunk. Listen here.

June 8-9, 2012 :: Leipzig Opera I: On Gods and Heroes

In 2010, the cutting-edge music project Monsieur Matthieu, was wird? was awarded the junge ohren preis. Now the Leipzig Opera has started a new music education project together with Aristides Strongylis. Entitled “On Gods and Heroes", this programme has been tailor-made for the students of the Leipzig Filatow-School for the Blind and Vision-Impaired. The promising results and compositions will be performed at the Leipzig opera house, as part of the introduction to Classical Greek subjects in opera:

Friday, June 8, 2012, 7.30pm - Christoph Willibald Gluck: Alkestis

Saturday, June 9, 2012, 7pm - Christoph Willibald Gluck: Iphigenie in Aulis

June 22, 2012 :: Leipzig Opera II: Über-Macht

In June 2011, the city of Leipzig, six major Leipzig cultural institutions, and six secondary schools together created the Sustainable Network Culture and School. One team of this network are the Leipzig opera and the Leipzig Sports Middle School - a unique co-operation under guidance of Aristides Strongylis. The results will be shown under the heading "Über-Macht" in the opera houses' Kellertheater on Friday June 22nd, at 5pm.

Note: concerts and news of previous years can be found in the → archive