Concerto

Greece and Thailand will be celebrating 65 years of diplomatic relations on May 31 with a performance of one Thai and two Greek classical compositions at the Athens Concert Hall.

The Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra performs a tribute to Richard Strauss (1864-1949) with a concert of the German composer's Serenade for 13 Winds, Duet-Concertino for clarinet and bassoon, Metamorphosen, Study for 23 Solo Strings and Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks. The ensemble is conducted by Dimitris Botinis, with Spyros Mourikis on clarinet and Alexandros Oikonomou on bassoon.

The Athens Philharmonia Orchestra will perform three fine works by representatives of the Second Viennese School accompanied by piano duo Beata Pincetic and Christos Sakellaridis at the Athens Concert Hall under the direction of Byron Fidetzis on Monday, November 18. The works to be performed on the night are Anton Webern's Passacaglia, Op.

The Greek National Opera Orchestra and acclaimed pianists George-Emmanuel Lazaridis, Stephanos Thomopoulos and Karolos Zouganelis will take the stage of the Stavros Niarchos Hall on November 14 for an evening of Romantic concertos for piano and orchestra.

The Athens Concert Hall will be hosting the Athens State Orchestra and Brazilian pianist Nelson Freire in a tribute to Greek composer Nikos Skalkottas on Friday, February 15, conducted by Stefanos Tsialis.

Virtuoso violinist Giorgos Demertzis, acclaimed pianist Vassilis Varvaresos and the Athens Philharmonic, conducted by Byron Fidetzis, will perform two pieces by Nikos Skalkottas that had been thought lost up until about five years and which he first presented in Berlin in 1930: Suite for piano and small orchestra and his Concerto for violin, piano and orchestra.

It was April 1930 when Nikos Skalkottas presented two new pieces to an audience in Berlin, his Suite for piano and small orchestra and his Concerto for violin, piano and orchestra.

Pianists Danae Kara and Maria Eustratidou and the Aenaon string quartet (George Mandylas and Vasilis Soukas on violin, Manos Gouvelis on viola, and Asterios Pouftis on cello) will be performing Mikis Theodorakis's Quartet No 4 and Mozart's piano concertos 415 and 449 on Wednesday, November 8. The performance starts at 8.30 p.m. and tickets cost 10 and 15 euros.

The seventh International Şefika Kutluer Festival, organized under the name of internationally acclaimed Turkish flutist Şefika Kutluer, known as the Magic Flute, will be held from Dec. 2 to 20 in Istanbul and Ankara.

In the final concert of its annual series at New York?s Carnegie Hall this season, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra will be joined by Turkish pianist and composer Faz?l Say for the New York premiere of his new Chamber Symphony, Op. 62, commissioned by Orpheus as part of its American Notes initiative.