Athens String Quartet in Romania

The Greek National day of March 25 gave the motivation and the chance to the Hellenic Embassy in Romania and to the Ambassador Vassiliios Papadopoulos to organize, one day later, in March 26, in the famous concert hall of Ateneul Roman in Bucharest, a concert given by the String Quartet of Athens State Orchestra.

It is very important that the concert will take place in the famous Ateneul Roman of Bucharest, a building-symbol of Romanian Culture and History; Ateneul Roman was built in the heart of the city of Bucharest 120 years ago, to become an architectural and spiritual expression of the Culture of Romania: The choice of the Concert Hall that will host the concert is also a discreet refere nce to the friendship and the collaboration between Romania and Greece.

The program chosen for this concert by the Athens String Quartet is very particular and “kaleidoscopical”; it includes: Gero-Dimos of Pavlos Carrer, in Nikos Skalkotas’ transcription for string quartet, La Folia (variations for string quartet) of Simos Papanas, Five Greek dances for string quartet of Nikos Skalkotas (Epirotikos, Kretikos, Tsamikos, Arkadikos and Kleftikos) and Ludwig van Beethoven's String Quartet in C major, opus 59.

The organization of this concert on this occasion and under these conditions, gives great honor and pleasure to the whole Athens State Orchestra.

Athens String Quartet was created in 2010 and is composed by remarkable musicians of the Athens State Orchestra, Apollo Grammatikopoulos (violin), Panayiotis Tziotis (violin), Paris Anastasiadis (viola) and Isidoros Sideris (cello).