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Twenty years after the launch of Irida Classical, its conceiver and founder, composer Alkis Papadopoulos, offers us his long- awaited first personal album, titled Six Film Scenes.
The album features works solo piano performed by Maria Moschidou and revolves around the composer’s love of cinema: the first six pieces are musical renditions of his memories from the viewing of six films that made a profound impression on him, intellectually as well as aesthetically.
From Mon Oncle directed by Jacques Tati to 2046 directed by Wong Kar-wai and from Hiroshima Mon Amour directed by Alain Resnais to The Travelling Players directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos, Alkis Papadopoulos recreates his cinematic experiences through a stylistacally diverse palette, with minimalism as his touchstone. The album ends with Three Obsessions and a Lullaby, which are based on repetition and the repertoire of piano etudes.
Alkis Papadopoulos was born in Athens. He studied piano with Rodney Jacobs and at the National Conservatory of Music, higher theory and composition with Periklis Koukos. He graduated with an A with distinction and first prize.
He is a graduate of the Economic University of Piraeus.
He has written works for symphony orchestra, chamber music, for piano and guitar, music for cinema and was the music editor for a series of documentaries commissioned by ERT.
Since 1997 he has been teaching advanced theory at the National Conservatory of Music.
In 2003 he founded the Irida Classical record label which aims to promote Greek art music and Greek composers and performers.
He was an external collaborator of E.R.T. (Greek national radio) in theatrical and speech broadcasts 1987-1992.
He has collaborated with the publishing houses F.Nakas, Patakis and SYNORA-A.A.LIVANI for the publication of music books.
He was one of the main members of the band “PIX LAX” from 1993 to 2002 and of “Lakis me ta Psila Rever” (Lakis Papadopoulos) and a founding member of the band “Synnefa me Pantelonia”.
Maria Moschidou has performed many times as a soloist and as a member of chamber ensembles. She has appeared at all the best known concert halls in Athens, as well as at festivals in Greece, Argentina and Canada. She has recorded and performed live for Greek national radio. She graduated with highest honours from the National Conservatoire in Greece and_ participated in masterclasses by world class professors at a young age. She was accepted to the international Piano Master Classes at Tel-Hai in Israel. She continued her studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She has given first performances of several works by contemporary Greek composers, including the Piano Concerto by Alkis Papadopoulos which is dedicated to her. She teaches piano at the Holargos branch of the Greek National Conservatoire.