Nikos Mandilas, first violin in the Athens State Orchestra and pianist Popi Malapani propose a surprising program of much-loved Greek composers of the 1930s to be followed by music written by cotemporary Turkish composer Fasil Say.

We will hear European and Mediterranean melodies in a modern and surprising style revealing an unexpectedly similar musical language. Violin partita no 3 is a transcription by D. Mitropoulos of the original Bach partita, as it was later edited by musicologist Yannis Sabrovalakis. This will be its performance after in 90 years!

Say’s sonata for violin and piano was commissioned by the Arizona “Friends of Chamber Music” in 1997 and was premiered by the composer on the piano and Patricia Kopatchinskaya on the violin.