Ektoras Tartanis: Mystic Encounters – Chamber Music
6/21/2024, 16 Tracks, 51:37
Featuring
Paul Drouet
Irina Jae-Eun Park
Michael Borth
Susanne Keck
Ektoras Tartanis
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Performer Biography
Irina Jae-Eun Park, the soprano on this album, has been a professor at Ewha Womans University in South Korea since March 2023.
Composer Biography
Ektoras Tartanis, the composer, worked for several years as a musical assistant to Teodor Currentzis, a renowned conductor, receiving important artistic impulses from him.
Composer Biography
Ektoras Tartanis, the composer, began composing at age 12 and started conducting at 15, laying the groundwork for his career as a musician, composer, and conductor.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Ektoras Tartanis, the composer, views Greek mythology and philosophy as the foundation of his worldview and intellectual background, seeing myths as a code to decipher for deeper understanding.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Composer Ektoras Tartanis is inspired by Paul Celan's poetry, finding its free metrics and neologisms concrete and clear, and uses them to create new music that explores mystical dimensions.
Composer Biography
Ektoras Tartanis, the composer, received the 'Special Prize' at the 'International Khachaturian Conducting Competition 2021' in Yerevan, Armenia.
Composer's Artistic Vision
For composer Ektoras Tartanis, the music on this album is programmatic, not as a retelling of stories, but as a deeper level of understanding that clarifies and emotionalizes the meaning of the underlying myths.
