Syros International Chamber Music Festival

For the 2025 edition of the Syros International Music Festival, we invite you to a series of five chamber music concerts in the magnificent setting of the Apollon Theater in Ermoupolis. Five concerts exploring different cultures and eras, from Bach to Aperghis.

Among the highlights of the festival is the concert "Ancient Greece, Dreamed Greece," conceived as a musical dialogue between France and Greece. Join us for this edition, which celebrates the diversity and richness of the chamber music repertoire in all its forms-two pianos, piano and violin duets, quartets, melodies-performed by internationally renowned artists. Each concert will offer a unique experience and will be followed by a meet-and-greet with the artists, making music a true collective celebration.

October 21^st - 20:30 - "Grand Opening"

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To open the Syros International Chamber Music Festival in style, discover the richness and voluptuousness of the piano duo. The concert opens with Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos, the composer who will also close the festival. This is followed by two great Romantic works, Brahms' Variations on a Theme of Haydn, and Rachmaninov's first Suite, which he composed at the age of just 20. The work ends with a flight of bells evoking Easter. With Adam Laloum, we will be the architects of this opening evening.

October 22^nd - 20:30 - "Grand Duo Piano Violin"

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Discover this exceptional program for violin and piano! Adam Laloum and Mi-Sa Yang create a dialogue-fusion. The evening opens with a Bach sonata. The instruments dialogue with remarkable inventiveness, testifying to Bach's love of the violin from an early age. Adam Laloum and Mi-Sa Yang then plunge us into two great Romantic masterpieces: Schumann's "Grande sonate", bursting with vitality and temperament, and César Franck's renowned and passionate sonata.

October 23^rd - 20:30 - "Dvořák !"

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This concert honors Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904), the great Czech composer.
Deeply rooted in the folk traditions of his country, he wrote music that carries within it an almost unsinkable energy, hope, and optimism. While some of his symphonic works and his cello concerto have become iconic, his piano music, melodies, and chamber music remain relatively unknown. This concert will showcase the passion, variety, and breadth of Czech musical genius!

October 24^th - 20:30 - "Ancient Greece, Greece of dreams"

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This concert is a dialogue. Firstly, a dialogue between France and Greece, between French composers from the first half of the 20th century who dreamed of Greece and drew inspiration from it-Debussy, Emmanuel, Gaubert-and, secondly, two major figures in contemporary Greek creation-Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) and Georges Aperghis (born in 1945)-who draw their inspiration from the great founding Greek myths. This dialogue will also take on a theatrical dimension. The musicians will be invited to listen to each other before playing together, as an allegory of Athenian democracy, a central and decisive political concept invented by the Greeks, never fully achieved and always fragile.

October 25^th - 20:30 - "Grand Gala"

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A rich and varied gala concert to close the 2025 festival. In the first half, Greek soprano Katherina Sandmeier will guide us through the complex twists and turns of the Russian soul, with Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich. After the intermission, Swedish flutist Sharon Bezaly will introduce us to the richness of the 20th-century repertoire for flute and piano (Poulenc and Messiaen), before Mozart brings the festival full circle with his Quartet for Flute and Strings, K. 285.