The ensemble’s main artistic goal is the dissemination of contemporary music creation.
History

The ensemble’s main artistic goal is the dissemination of contemporary music creation. It focuses on music written in the 20th & 21st century, seeking answers to questions concerning the names and the identity of this repertoire, the subtle silences, the unexpected influences, the deviations, the deletions and the ramifications of material which is still open and evolving.

From promoting works by Greek composers to blending the arts (music and dance, music and literature), the group of musicians comprising the ensemble – starting in 2001 to fulfil the performance needs of the “Echosygkyria” as well as the ”Synthermia” Festivals (the latter consisting of an International Contemporary Music Festival and an International Composition Contest), and culminating with its recent cooperation with the State Theater of Northern Greece and the State Museum of Contemporary Art – attempt to rediscover the sound as body, thought and feeling, imagination and memory.

Since 2004 is “ensemble in Residence” in the Municipal Conservatory of Thermi in Greece, and in 2014 was "ensemble in Residence" in Megaron Concert Hall (Thessaloniki).Many distinguished contemporary composers have dedicated some of their works to the ensemble and they performed their world premieres.

Genres
Contemporary
Instrument types
Brass, Keyboard, Woodwinds
Members
Erato Alakiozidou - piano,
Nikolos Dimopoulos - flute,
Dimitris Leontzakos - clarinet,
Konstantinos Raptis - concert accordion (bayan),
Theofilos Sotiriadis - saxophone,
Country
Greece
City
Thessaloniki