Angelina Tkatcheva-Stathopoulou

Born in Minsk, Belarus, where she began her studies in music at the age of eight. At the age of ten, she won the first price in a competition for young performers, playing the Russian santur (chimbalom).

She continued her studies at the State Conservatoire, receiving her diploma in 1983. In the same year she was awarded a prize in an all-Union (USSR) competition, in Moscow. She began her carrier as a soloist, performing in many cities in the USSR; at the same time, she continued her studies at postgraduate level at the State Conservatoire.

Her rich repertoire includes many classical, romantic, and contemporary compositions. In 1989 she settled in Greece. She plays in concerts as a soloist –Athens Music Hall (Megaron), Herodeion, Pallas Theatre–, in festivals, as well as in various local cultural events.

She teaches at the Patras Municipal Conservatoire, the Petroupoli Municipal Conservatoire, the Athens Conservatoire, and the National Conservatoire.

Source: ‘Naftemporiki’ newspaper (08/02/2008)

Songs

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  • SongEastern AegeanChiosLove Song, Sea and Sailors SongCouplets

Dear Mother, I Am Awfully Tired

  • Βαρέθηκα μανούλα μου ⬥ Dear mother, I am awfully tired of gazing out to sea, to sea, of gazing out to sea, to sea of asking the postman if I’ve got, if I’ve got a letter, a letter, and receiving no letter, no letter. Oh, how I wished you were the sea and [...]
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  • SongDodecaneseKalymnosSea and Sailors Song, Work Song

Exile Is the Greatest Hardship

  • Ο μισεμός είναι καημός ⬥ Exile is the greatest hardship, the parting so upsetting but oh, that greeting  “Welcome home”, oh that Maroúli,1 is bliss. The diver’s air-pump is my mother, the winding winch my sister and on my mate upon the deck2 my very life depends. For you, I [...]
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  • SongMacedoniaChalkidiki, IerissosImmigration Song, Sea and Sailors Song

I Wish to Climb a Mountain Height

  • Πάνω σ’ βουνί θε ν’ ανεβώ ⬥ I wish to climb, I wish to climb, to climb a mountain height Roidou, sweet Roidou, dear, to breast a marble height. Oh, gather balsam sprigs –let go!, and fragrant boughs– let go! I wish I could sweep the sea, that ships might [...]
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  • SongCycladesSifnosLove Song

I’d Have Come Last Night

  • Ήθελα να ’ρθώ το βράδυ ⬥ I’d have come last night to see you, amán, amán, amán, but I was caught out in a shower. Then a heavy downpour soaked me, amán, amán, amán, and so I left you all alone. May curses rain on you, you cross-grained harridan. Nor wine nor [...]
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  • SongEastern AegeanChiosLove Song, Sea and Sailors SongCouplets

Little Ship, Where Are You Going

  • Καράβι καραβάκι ⬥ Little ship, where are you going shore to shore, come out so I can see you You’ve cast a spell on me and I am mad about you, your sister’s put a spell on me and I am mad about you. with red flag and golden cross, come out [...]
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  • SongDodecaneseNisyrosSea and Sailors Song

Oh Yes, Indeed Did Boreas

  • Ηθέλησεν ο κυρ Βοριάς ⬥ Oh yes, indeed did Boreas, Master North Wind, truly wish, Master North Wind, truly wish indeed to blow with gale force strength. He issued urgent warnings dire to every port and haven: – Secure your warps and anchors, ships, for I desire to blow, and [...]
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Records

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  • AlbumCD, Digital release1999Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Domna Samiou At Megaron, The Athens Concert Hall

This CD contains the live recording of the tribute concert for Domna Samiou’s seventieth birthday, at The Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall, in 1998. Some of her closest friends and collaborators were invited as guests: Lykourgos Angelopoulos, Dionysis Savvopoulos, Eleftheria Arvanitaki, and the distinguished Turkish musicians Fahrettin Çimenli and Volkan […]
Music from Greece: Δομνα Σαμίου
  • AlbumCD2018Caprice

Music from Greece: Domna Samiou

Reissue of the Caprice album Grekisk folkmusik (Ξενιτεμένο μου πουλí) on a CD with 9 extra tracks, and a comprehensively informative booklet about Greek folk music and the woman behind this production – Domna Samiou.
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  • AlbumCD, Digital release2002Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Songs of Dame Sea

The wealth of Greek traditional music has been enriched by every aspect of maritime tradition – by its values, virtues and charm – as is amply demonstrated by this wonderful collection of songs. They embrace the ways people have sung, since Ulysses, about the temptations of the sea, its risks, […]
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Concerts

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  • Concert
  • 29/10/1998

The Known and the Unknown Domna

A great concert called ‘The known and unknown Domna’, part of the series ‘Bridges’; a tribute concert for her seventieth birthday. Some of her closer friends and collaborators were invited as guests: Lykourgos Angelopoulos, Dionysis Savvopoulos, Eleftheria Arvanitaki as well as the two distinguished Turkish musicians Fahrettin Çimenli and Volkan […]
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