Antonis Martsakis

Musician and singer. He was born in Athens in 1979. At the age of six, he began his apprenticeship in Cretan dances in the Cretan Association of Piraeus "I Omonia". His first teacher in Cretan dances was Andreas Marianakis. At a young age, he began violin lessons with Kostis Pachakis, and later with the violin master Michalis Kounelis.

He taught violin at the Venizelio Conservatory of Chania until 2011 and from 2012 he established his own music school in Chania where traditional music instruments of Crete are taught.

He works systematically on Rizitika songs and his work has been released in collaboration with Seistron Musical Publications (Chania, Crete).

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Songs

Folk Fables in Song
  • SongCreteChania, LakkoiFable Song (Ballad)

A Maid Bidding Farewell

  • Μια κόρη συναπόβγανε ⬥ Fable song (ballad) from Lakkoi, Chania, with Antonis Martsakis. Recorded in 2006.
Songs of History and Heroes
  • SongCreteHistorical SongCretan Rizitiko

Great Joy Across the Land

  • Ούλες οι χώρες χαίρουνται ⬥ Historical rizitiko song with Antonis Martsakis. Recorded in 2004.
Epic Songs of Warriors and Heroes
  • SongCreteAcritic SongCretan Rizitiko

Last Night I Crossed Rivers

(The Death of Digenis)

  • Οψές επέρνου ποταμούς ⬥ Acritic rizitiko song with Antonis Martsakis. Recorded in 2004.
Folk Fables in Song
  • SongCreteFable Song (Ballad)

Mavrianos and the King

  • Ο βασιλιάς και ο Μαυριανός ⬥ Fable song (ballad) from Crete with Antonis Martsakis. Recorded in 2006.
The Swallows of Vlachiá
  • SongCreteChania, KambanosHistorical Song, National Legends and LamentsCretan Rizitiko

The Swallows of Vlachiá

(The Sack of Adrianoúpolis)

  • Τα χελιδόνια τση Βλαχιάς ⬥ The swallows of Vlachiá and the birds of the West weeping late and weeping early, weeping at noon, weeping for ravaged Adrianoúpolis sacked on all the year’s great feasts at Christmas for candles, on Palm Sunday for laurel and on Easter Day for the ‘Christ [...]
Epic Songs of Warriors and Heroes
  • SongCreteAcritic Song, Historical Song

When Kostantis Was Begging

  • Όντεν εδικονίζετο ο Κωσταντής ⬥ When Kostantis was begging in foreign lands,
 he walked the streets and crossed the narrows
 wearing his monk’s habit short, his sword appeared,
 his silver sword [in its golden scabbard.
 A princess spied it from high up in the palace.

 - That’s no monk and [...]
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Records

Of Nature and of Love
  • AlbumDVD2007Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Domna Samiou Sings Songs of Nature and of Love

This videotaped stage performance, held at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus on 2005, includes songs and rituals related to the cycle of the agricultural year,.
Epic Songs of Warriors and Heroes
  • AlbumCD, Digital release2017Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Epic Songs of Warriors and Heroes

Songs inspired by the popular tradition of story-telling, relating tales of brave warriors, both high-ranked lords, and lowly soldiers. Centering on heroic Digenis, they originate from all parts of Greece.
Folk Fables in Song
  • AlbumCD, Digital release2008Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Folk Fables in Song

Tales of the fabulous and the fantastic combining the real world with the supernatural. Narrating stories, often tragic, which might once have occurred – or could do so one day.
Songs of History and Heroes
  • AlbumCD, Digital release2007Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Songs of History and Heroes

The retelling of fine, magnificent, heroic deeds from the past has always inspired a future path for every nation, the weft on which its future is woven. Austere and Doric, as stern as the heroes they describe.
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Concerts

Domna Samiou Sings Songs of Nature and of Love
  • Συναυλία
  • 11/10/2005

Domna Samiou Sings Songs of Nature and of Love

Traditional songs and events that follow the course of the cycle of the year. Starting from the autumn, which marks the beginning of the working and ecclesiastical year, a harvest revival, events of the twelve days of Christmas, Easter festivities, Saint John of Kledon customs, and summer festive events.
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