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A unique experience 06 April 2025

Each musical journey of the 'Music from the Ends of the Earth' series is a unique experience for the music-loving audience, and this is exactly what happened at the concert on Friday, April 4, with the special guest, the preeminent representative of the Maori musical tradition, Jerome Kavanagh Poutama. The Grammy-winning artist initially presented to the audience (with the help of the TSSO concertino Antonis Sousamoglou) the natural instruments of the taonga puoro, some of which are made of trees, others of rocks, whale teeth, shells and various other similar ones that produce the sounds of Nature. With these instruments, which he has from his ancestors nine generations ago, he performed the wonderful work 'Papatūānuku' that he wrote together with Salina Fisher. Jerome greeted the audience with the following warm words: "Thank you all for taking the time to come and I want to tell you something from my heart. These instruments have survived time just like you. In the few days that I have been here with the orchestra, we have bonded with its people and I feel like family to them. Thank you all! I will never forget it!"
The first part began with five pieces by Australian composer Percy Grainger arranged for orchestra for Stokowski, while the breathtaking concerto 'The All-Seeing Sky' by the Greek composer Yannis Psathas, who was present at the concert and lives and excels in New Zealand, with marimba and vibraphone soloists Fabian Ziegler and Theodor Milkov, who won the applause of the audience and the creator for their explosive performance.
TSSO conducted by Miltos Logiadis.




 

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