“Each movie, each picture has its own music. The composer must listen and write it.”
Self-taught he has said that the basic question for an artist, is not the way he learned something, but if he learned it well. He has written music for more than 40 films and we have met him with his collaboration with Krzysztof Kieslowski.
Zbigniew Preisner's film scores have record sales: The Double Life of Veronique over 300,000 CDs, the trilogy The three colors have exceeded 700,000 albums.
Among the awards for his compositions, he has received the Silver Bear from Berlin Film Festival, two Césars from the French Film Academy, three consecutive citations as the year’s most outstanding composer of film music in the Los Angeles Critics Festival. He is an honorary member of the French Film Academy.
The Polish composer will share with us the feast of sounds he has created for the cinema, presenting the world that lives inside him and not around him.
Together with him
Lisa Gerrard, with her special voice, a Dead Can Dance singer who thinks that “Music is a Place to take Refuge. It's a Sanctuary from Mediocrity and Boredom. It's Innocent and it's a Place you can lose yourself in Thoughts, Memories and Intricacies” as we read on her site.
Maria Farantouri. Zbigniew Preisner has said for her:
“It will be a great and unforgettable experience for me that I will collaborate with such a great figure and performer of the Greek song, which was also my great desire in the past.”
With the participation of Edyta Krzemień, pianist Kontrad Mastillo, violinist Zbigniew Paleta of the Zombie Pallet, Thessaloniki New Symphony Orchestra (teaching, preparation of Kabanis-Samaras) and Mixed Choir "Nikos Astrinidis" (teaching, preparation of Vassiliki Katsouka-Samara).
Dates:
03 November 201804 November 2018
04 November 2018
Starting time
20:30Ticket Prices
- Admission: 22-80
Location
Megaron The Athens Concert Hall, Lounge Christos Labrakis