Musical activities

The second concert in the series “Around the World in… 88 Keys – In Dialogue with Today’s Composers” takes place on 16 May 2025 in the “Giannis Marinos” Hall at the Athens Concert Hall. Students of pianist and educator E. Christodoulou perform works by sixteen contemporary Greek composers, engaging with current piano repertoire through study and public performance.

The Two-Day Contemporary Music Festival of KSYME takes place on 22–23 November 2024 at the Athens Conservatoire and includes works by Greek and international composers for electronic and electroacoustic media. The two concert evenings present different directions in contemporary music creation and sound processing.

The third concert in the series “100 Works by Contemporary Greek Composers” takes place on 23 November 2024 at the Lykovrysi–Pefki Municipal Theatre. The series presents new works by contemporary Greek composers through successive concert programmes.

The second concert in the series “100 Works by Contemporary Greek Composers” takes place on 3 November 2024 at the Mousiki Praxi Conservatoire in Athens and includes new works by contemporary Greek composers.

The first concert in the series “100 Works by Contemporary Greek Composers” takes place on 19 October 2024 and opens a sequence of presentations devoted to new works in contemporary Greek composition. The programme includes pieces for different instrumental combinations.

On 17 October 2024, within the WAAE Athens Summit 2024, the student project Pierce Little Musicians DIY Orchestra is presented by primary-school students from Pierce – The American College of Greece. The activity connects music performance with the construction and use of digital musical instruments.

The KSYME Electronic Music Concert takes place on 27 June 2024 at the Athens Conservatoire and includes electronic and electroacoustic works for different combinations of media.

In May 2024, the student film “Iliou Elpida…” by the Film Club of Pierce – The American College of Greece is awarded at the 14th International Student Short Film Competition “Cinema… Did You Read?”. The film is created collaboratively by students and approaches the theme of war through a child’s perspective.

The award-winning play “Paidia tou Patros”, written and directed by S. Kakavoulis, is staged at Mikro Gloria Theatre from 10 to 28 May 2024. The production brings its characters face to face with a traumatic past and develops around questions of power, faith, memory and personal responsibility.

The first concert in the series “Around the World in… 88 Keys – In Dialogue with Today’s Composers” takes place on 19 April 2024 in the “Giannis Marinos” Hall at the Athens Concert Hall. Students of pianist and educator E. Christodoulou perform works by contemporary Greek composers that have been incorporated into their piano studies.

The KSYME Electronic Music Class Concert takes place on 29 February 2024 at the Athens Conservatoire and presents works created during the first semester of the Electronic Music class. The programme brings together different approaches to electronic and electroacoustic composition.

In February 2024, a choral recording of “Peace”, a setting of poetry by Yannis Ritsos from the collection Agrypnia, is released digitally. The original setting is performed by the choir of Pierce – The American College of Greece.

The children’s book “Charis and Faris” by G. K. Alexandrou is presented on 3 February 2024 at IANOS in Athens, in an event organised by SUSAETA Editions. The presentation combines storytelling, puppet theatre and live music around the story of two children who do not speak the same language and find a shared way of communicating through play.

The Two-Day Contemporary Music Festival of KSYME takes place on 1–2 December 2023 at the Athens Conservatoire and is dedicated to the memory of H. Xanthoudakis. The two concert evenings include works by Greek and international composers for acoustic, electronic and mixed media.

On 16 October 2023, “A Successful Poem” is released digitally as a song based on poetry by K. Gimosoulis. The release is distributed on digital music platforms through CD Baby and is based on a musical setting of the poem of the same title.

On 18 September 2023, the children’s book “Charis and Faris” by G. K. Alexandrou, illustrated by F. Tikkou, is published by SUSAETA Editions. The story follows two children who do not speak the same language and find a shared way of communicating through play.

On 4 July 2023, at the conclusion of the Forum for Young Researchers II of CCE-NKUA, a participatory music activity takes place at the School of Philosophy. Participants from different programmes and members of the audience join a music-making process that begins without prior rehearsal.

The performance Diadromes is presented on 7 July 2023 at the Blackbox Theater of Deree – The American College of Greece as part of the Pierce Leadership Academy 2023. The project is developed over four days as a collaborative theatre creation, with active participation by middle- and high-school students.