eleni triada ioannidou
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Chairman of the Ars Augusta eV association
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Born in Breslau (Poland) in 1972 and raised in Greece, she completed her singing studies with honors in Volos. The diploma jury included Nicolas Zacharias and Kostas Paschalis, with whom she continued to perfect her voice and interpretation in "Atheneum Konservatorium". In 1998 she won the "Alexandra Triandi" scholarship for talented singers from the "Society of Friends of Music" in Athens, with the help of which she worked in Vienna (University of Music and Performing Arts) and at the famous "Accademia della Scala di Milano“ in Italy with Leyla Gencer. She was first prizewinner at the international singing competitions "Giuseppe di Stefano" (Trapani) and "Velluti" (Dolo) and was twice a finalist in the "Voci Verdiane" competition (Busseto). In addition, she completed the biennial course of the European Union "Il Teatro e la Musica", organized by the Academy for Dramatic Art "Silvio d'Amico" in Rome and the Conservatorio di Prato, which dealt with the theatrical dimension of opera.
As a prize winner of the "Giuseppe di Stefano" competition she made her debut in the role of Fiordiligi in Mozart's "Cosi fan tutte" in Maggio Musicale Trapanese and as a prize winner of the "Velluti" the role of Leonora in "Trovatore" and Violetta in "La Traviata" by Giuseppe Verdi.
After her debut in 1999 in Teatro Mancinelli in Orvieto in Puccini's "La Boheme" (role of Mimi) and in Varazze with Ciléa's "Adriana Lecouvreur" and after first small productions with the Milan Chamber Opera as Puccini's "Tosca" and Leonora in Verdi's "Trovatore" , she has appeared on stages such as the Athens State Opera (Contessa in "Nozze di Figaro, 2006), La Scala in Milan (Bianca in "Ugo, Conte di Parigi" by Donizetti 2006 and Fiordiligi in "Cosi fan tutte" in 2008), Teatro Strehler di Milano, Teatro Massimo di Catania, Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo ("Parisina" by Donizetti) etc. and in Germany (Passau) as well as at concerts in Japan, France and Colombia. In Munich she appeared with the "Anderes Opernensemble eV" as Euridice in the spectacle "Orpheus - Variations on Love and Death" by Hector Guedes.
She was chosen by Jose Carreras to sing with him at a concert for the Leuchemia Foundation at Megaron Mousikis in Athens.
Since 2015 she has been involved in the production of musical events. She has lived in Görlitz since 2016. In year 2017 she founded and heads the non-profit society "Ars Augusta" to promote art, culture and international understanding. With the society, she is dedicated to researching and presenting the common cultural heritage in the border triangle of Saxony/Bohemia/Silesia.
As projects of the society she has carried out several research projects and discovered and re-performed several manuscripts from the region's Baroque heritage. In 2022 she was funded by the performing arts fund (Fond Darstellende Künste) for the project "Discovering Saxony's opera treasures".
As a producer:
1. "Segreto di Susanna" by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari in Wolf-Ferrari-Haus in Ottobrunn 2016. (Production and role: Susanna. Director: Erik Samir and conductor: Massimiliano Murali)
2. 2017: Founding of the "Lausitz Baroque Ensemble"
3. Project of translation of the "Festspiel in Deutscher Reimen" by Gerhard Hauptmann and workshop for actors INTERREG PL-SN 2018.
4. "Homage to Bolko von Hochberg". Production of the concert series, writing a scientific biography, sound recording.
5. Anna Teichmuller. Sound recording and writing a brochure. (singing and writing) 2020
6."Giove in Argo" by Antonio Lotti. Discovery and re-first performance in the Kutheater Bad Salzbrunn and Palais im Grossen Garten in Dresden (production, edition of the score. Director: Szymon Komarnicki, conductor: Enrique Gómez-Cabrero Fernandez) and Gerhart Hauptmann Theater 2020 ( here she also took on the role of Arete as a singer).
7. Foundation of the "Academia Ars Augusta" and organization of workshops: 2019 Italian madrigals (with Enrique Gomez-Cabrero Fernandez) and 2021 German madrigals by Schütz and Hammerschmidt.
8. In 2022: Master class with Simone Kermes and workshop for young singers and instrumentalists on two operas from Dresden's cultural heritage "Il re pastore" by Hasse and Richter that she discovered.
9. Production of the sound recording of the opera ISSIPILE by Antonio Bioni. First performance and edition of the score.
10. "The Wichtelchen" monoact by Max Marschalk. Production, directing, sound recording, writing a text. In addition role: housewife. 2020
11."Silesian Apollo" a semi-concert performance with madrigals by Schütz and Hammerschmidt. Also directing. 2021
12th First International Song Competition "Bolko von Hochberg" in Görlitz 2021. Postponed to June 2022 due to the pandemic and successfully carried out.
13. "Song of Hellas" a website and database, CD and video channel about the songs of Philhellenism in the world, commemorating the 200 years since the outbreak of the Greek Revolution in 2021. Selected and funded project by the Commission " 200 years since the revolution".
14th edition of the Opitzan songs by Constantin Dedekind for the association "Musikschatze aus Dresden eV" (Ries & Erler, 2022).
In addition, in 2017 she initiated the first "Messiaen Days" for the association "Meetingpoint Music Messiaen" and also invited international artists to the next editions such as Peter Hill, the Lutoslawski Quartet and made the premiere of the film by Paul Moon possible the "Quartet for the End of Time" in STALAG VIII A in Zgorzelec.
She is an active member of the "Your Heritage" Foundation (Fundacja Twoje Dziedzictwo) with the task of revitalizing the former Evangelical Karl Langhans Church in Zeliszów, better known as "The Pearl of Zeliszów".
Eleni Ioannidou is also a graduate engineer in agricultural science (University of Thessalia 1995, specialized in crop production) and has participated in research projects in 2018/19 in Vienna at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Organic Agriculture. In addition to her mother tongues Greek and Polish, she speaks Italian, German and English very well and French well enough.