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to the website of Greek composer Aristides Strongylis. On the home page you find current news on works, performances, and projects. You can get an overview about his work from CV and list of works or learn more about his projects. The sound page offers extracts of works, high-resolution pictures for download can be found on the photo page. Of course you can also get in touch with the composer himself. For questions on the website, please contact the webmaster.
:: Concerts - Dates - News ::
November 9, 2025 – Annual Concert with the Chamber Orchestra musica viva
On Sunday, November 9, 2025, the Chamber Orchestra musica viva will perform its annual concert.
The concert takes place at 4:30 p.m. in the Old Town Hall in the center of Leipzig.
Program:
Franz Schubert – Symphony No. 7 (“Unfinished”) – Conducted by Yannika Schad
Maurice Ravel – Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a Dead Princess) – Conducted by Aristides Strongylis
Claude Debussy – Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun) – Conducted by Aristides Strongylis
New Commission from the Gewandhaus for the Pasakas Wind Quintet for the 2026/2027 Season
The Gewandhaus in Leipzig has commissioned Aristides Strongylis to compose a new work for the Pasakas Wind Quintet.
The composition, with a duration of approximately 12 to 15 minutes, will receive its world premiere during the 2026/2027 season in the Mendelssohn Hall, as part of the Gewandhaus Chamber Music Series.
The exact date will be announced in due course.
Members of the Pasakas Wind Quintet — all musicians of the Gewandhaus Orchestra — are:
Johanna Sigler – flute, Amanda Tauriņa – oboe, Matthias Kreher – clarinet, Juliane Fleischmann – horn, and Eckehard Kupke – bassoon.
January 17, 2025 – VIVA musica viva: 30 Years of Joyful Music Making – Concert in the Heilandskirche (Repeat concert from November 24, 2024, at the Old Town Hall, Leipzig)
Program:
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy – Symphony No. 1, conducted by Yannika Schad
Sergei Prokofiev – Classical Symphony, conducted by Aristides Strongylis
George Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue, soloist Silke Peterson, conducted by Aristides Strongylis
May 24–25, 2025 – Open Dress Rehearsal and Final Concert of the 2025 Composition Workshop at forum thomanum
Over five workshop days, spread across two consecutive weekends in spring 2025, the sessions will take place at the forum thomanum education campus. From May 9–11, the rehearsal camp will be held with the Chamber Orchestra musica viva. On the final weekend in May 2025, the nine world premieres by the participants will be performed in the recently renovated Luther Church in Leipzig. The composers and workshop instructors are Aristides Strongylis, Gregor Forbes, and Sebastian Ernesto Molina Villarroel. The program will also include a chamber orchestra piece by Molina Villarroel and Ravel’s Pavane. The open dress rehearsal and final concert will take place on May 24 and 25 in the Luther Church: open rehearsal at 5:00 p.m. and concert at 11:00 a.m.
Preview! May 22, 2026 – Public Premiere of the Orchestral Work “2020” by the Rheinische Philharmonie in Koblenz
In 2021, the premiere of the orchestral work “2020,” commissioned by the Rheinische Philharmonie,
took place behind closed doors in the Rhein-Mosel-Halle in Koblenz.
Here you can listen to and watch the orchestral piece:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opHPaYomJa0
On May 22, 2026, the Rheinische Philharmonie will perform the same orchestral work “2020” publicly
as part of the International Koblenz Guitar Days at the Sayner Hütte.
Here is the complete program of the event:
Rossini – Cenerentola Overture
Castelnuovo-Tedesco – Guitar Concerto No. 2 in C major, Op. 160
Rodrigo – “Concierto Andaluz” for four guitars and orchestra
Strongylis – 2020
Conductor: Mr. Ivo Hentschel.