• GREEK POLYPHONY •
POLYPHONIC SINGING FROM EPIRE, RHIZITIKA FROM CRETE, POLYPHONY FROM THE IONIAN ISLANDS, MACEDONIA AND THRACE
Purpose
To learn the polyphonic songs of Greece.
This masterclass will cover :
• Learning the songs
• Working with ornamentation
• Working with different vocal groups
• The historical and cultural context of the style
GENERAL CONTENT
• Vocal technique: relaxation, breathing and breath management, warming up the voice, voice placement
• Learning polyphonic songs: Epirus, songs from the Ionian Islands, rebetiko polyphony, drone work, etc.
• Working in different groups: learning to take part in all the roles in polyphony.
• Learning polyphonic structure
Specific features of the masterclass:
The first two days of the masterclass will be spent with Maria Simoglou’s ‘Songs of Greece and Asia Minor’ students. So on 13 and 14 June you will have the opportunity to learn as much from Maria Kanavaki as from Maria Simoglou.
CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION
This master class is intended for :
• people with or without previous singing experience, not necessarily Greek
• people who already play an instrument (any instrument: string, wind, percussion, etc.), at any level (provided they have a minimum command of their instrument) and who can read a score without too much difficulty.
No theoretical knowledge is required.
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BIOGRAPHIES
MARIA KANAVAKI
Maria Kanavaki was born and grew up in Heraklion, Crete. At the age of 7, she began studying piano at the conservatory. From the age of 16, she worked in the world of professional entertainment as a pianist, accordionist and singer. She now performs in Greece and abroad.
MARIA SIMOGLOU
Polymorphic singer and multi-instrumentalist, composer and author, Maria Simoglou has more than 20 years of presence in the international music and theater scene.
Born in Thessaloniki, studying in Berlin and living in Marseille for the last 10 years, she is fortunate to benefit from a double musical culture, so academic as well as traditional, thanks to the family cradle full of traditional music from Macedonia, Thrace and Asia Minor and thanks to the studies she followed, first at the musical College and Lycée of Thessaloniki (ud, qanun, percussion), then at the National State Conservatory of Thessaloniki (oboe, piano) and finally at the Berlin musical academy “Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule” in the singing / music-theater branch with professors Marion Lukowsky and Pr. Magdalena Hajossyova.
She participated in singing workshops, among others, with Pr. Barbara Shlich, Pr. Norma Sharp, Thomas Quasthoff, René Jacobs, Spyros Sakkas, etc.
Very early she collaborated with many groups and orchestras in Greece and abroad in the field of traditional, classical and contemporary music. She is regularly invited to concerts, festivals and participates in musical seminars, especially for cinema, dance and theater music. She regularly intervenes on radio and television in Greece, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, England, France, United States, Australia etc.
She participates and collaborates in numerous concerts and recordings alongside singers and musicians of international renown (Harris Lambrakis, Paolo Pandolfo, Rhani Krija, Sokratis Sinopoulos, Claudio Bohorquez, Olivier Ker Ourio, Ross Daly, Spyros Sakkas, Stelios Petrakis, Efren Lopez , Andre Minvielle, Giorgos Xylouris, Sokratis Malamas, Bijan Chemirani, Patrick Vaillant, Kevin Seddiki etc.)
Since 2011, she has been working with the theater company “Mises en Scène” with which she takes part in two different shows: “Bon Appétit” and “La parabole des papillons” (directed by Michèle Addala / dramaturgy with Gilles Robic).
She has been living in France, in Marseille, since 2008, where she directs and integrates different ensembles. She collaborates as a singer, musician or actress in traditional and contemporary music, dance and theater shows.
Since 2008 she regularly gives Master-Classes (DROM, IIMM, FAMDT) and teaches in particular vocal and body technique as well as the repertoire, interpretation, ornamentation, rhythms and improvisation techniques, specific to the vocal, universal technique, Greek songs and songs from Asia Minor.