Domna Samiou

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Domna Samiou

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Songs About Greeks Far From Home

Songs About Greeks Far From Home

Songs narrating all the different aspects of migrating to foreign lands
Of Nature and of Love
  • SongMacedoniaChalkidiki, IerissosLove Song

Forty Five Lemon Trees

  • Σαράντα πέντε λεμονιές ⬥ Forty five lemon trees; forty five lemon trees rooted in the sand. Their leaves grow green, their lemons juicy; only my lemon tree is planted in rock. Its leaves are golden and its lemons silver; and whosoever touches them, is touched, and all that see them, [...]
Songs of Dame Sea
  • SongPontusFable Song (Ballad), Sea and Sailors Song

Somewhere in the Aegean Sea

  • Κάτω σην Άσπρην Θάλασσαν ⬥ Somewhere in the Aegean Sea, oh, my heart, my heart, so distant, so far away, my heart is fit to burst. A vessel richly fitted out, set out for ports in Frankish lands. It was manned by Pontic Greeks, by Greeks from ancient lands, They bent their [...]
Epic Songs of Warriors and Heroes
  • SongPontusAcritic Song

Akritas Goes Hunting

  • Ακρίτας πάει και σο κυνήγ’ ⬥ Out hunting, on the way to the hunting grounds, Akritas met Charon at a crossroads. - Charon, what've you got against me that you'll always following me? They call me Akritas, and God have mercy on your warrior's soul. - Hush thy boasting, my [...]

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Slow sailor's song from Kymi, Euboea
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Selections

Biography
  • Her life

Biography

Domna Samiou was born on October 12th 1928, in the Kaisariani neighborhood in Athens and died on March 10th 2012. Her parents were refugees from the village of Baindir in the Smyrna (Izmir) area. Her mother came to Greece in 1922, whilst her father, who was a prisoner of war, […]
Simon Karas
  • The Association

Simon Karas

  • Simon Karas (1903-1999) was a musicologist and researcher of the Greek music tradition and heritage. His lifelong research is considered by many as a key factor in the preservation of traditional music, which he recorded throughout Greece. He was born in 1903 in the village of Lepreon (former Strovitsi), of [...]
Nikos Stefanidis
  • Collaborators

Nikos Stefanidis

(1890-1983) A renowned kanun virtuoso, he also played the oud and the Constantinopolitan lyra. Born in Aksehir (Akşehir), Konya Province, Turkey, and died in Nea Ionia, Athens. He came to Greece after the Asia Minor catastrophe. During the German occupation, in 1941, he met Simon Karas; when the war […]
The First Concerts
  • Concert
  • 1971-1973

The First Concerts

In 1971, in the midst of the military Junta period in Greece, Dionysis Savvopoulos convinced Domna to sing at the club “Rodeo”. In the following years, she performed at “Kyttaro” and “Rizes”.
Concerts at the English Bach Festival
  • Concert
  • 1971-1980

Concerts at the English Bach Festival

Invited by Lina Lalandi, founder of the English Bach Festival and clavichordist, Domna Samiou made five appearances in the festival, presenting, in what could be the first time, the authentic traditional music of Greece to the English audience.
Dionysis Savvopoulos: ‘She Belongs to the Music of Another Era’
  • Others on Domna

Dionysis Savvopoulos: ‘She Belongs to the Music of Another Era’

  • 1977 ⬥ Domna Samiou is a nice person and, I am sorry to say that, be careful how you treat her, because she’s a sensitive thing and needs special treatment. And anyone who knows her closely can understand what I’m about to say: she has this strange quality, that is, [...]

Discography

Selection from Domna Samiou’s discography
Songs About Greeks Far From Home (LP)
Songs About Greeks Far From Home
I Tread the Earth Gently
I Tread the Earth Gently
Early last summer
My Old Torments
DOMNA SAMIOU'S ENTIRE DISCOGRAPHY

Photo Gallery

With Yehudi Menuhin

From the filming of the show Le Grand Échiquier, Kaisariani, 1977

With Yehudi Menuhin
Alekos Pavlou-Arapakis, Domna Samiou and Yehudi Menuhin
Mathios Balabanis playing the goblet drum and Nikos Stefanidis, the kanun master
Mathios Balabanis playing the goblet drum and Nikos Stefanidis, the kanun master
Mathios Balabanis, Kyriakos Kostoulas, Vassilis Katrakos, Domna Samiou and Yehudi Menuhin
Mathios Balabanis, Kyriakos Kostoulas, Vassilis Katrakos, Domna Samiou and Yehudi Menuhin
Nikos Stefanidis and Yehudi Menuhin
Nikos Stefanidis and Yehudi Menuhin
With Yehudi Menuhin
Alekos Pavlou-Arapakis, Domna Samiou and Yehudi Menuhin