Daphne Djaferis

Born in Cyprus. In 1969 she was awarded from the Boston University a degree in film studies and television.

From 1969 to 1972 she worked as a director and producer in the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation. From 1972 to 2004 she worked in the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation as a director in various fields, such as documentaries, music shows, concerts, drama series, and theatrical productions.

She has directed the documentary 'Domna and Her Grandchildren', which has been broadcasted by public television channels in ten european countries• it follows the history of folk music through the biography of Domna Samiou.

She has received two awards in international television competitions as well as in Greece, in the competition ‘Prosopa’ (2002). She was a member, and later decision-maker, of the European Union programme ‘EAVE-MEDIA’ (2002), head of the Music Shows Department in ET1, member of the Cost Estimate committee in ERT, as well as head of the International Co-Productions in ERT.

Since 1998 she has been staging and directing performances of folk music, dances and customs together with Domna Samiou and her assosiates, and since 2004 she has been producing CDs and DVDs of folk music together with Domna Samiou.

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Records

This recorded show includes stage performances of carnival songs and other related popular rituals from different areas of Greece, as they were presented at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall on the 4th of March 2003. Watch the songs in a PlayList on YouTube.
Κάλαντα ευχές και παινέματα των Χριστουγέννων, της Πρωτοχρονιάς και των Φώτων. Άλλα λιγότερο κι άλλα περισσότερο γνωστά που προέρχονται από διάφορες περιοχές της Ελλάδας. Κυκλοφόρησε με την εφημερίδα "Ελεύθερος Τύπος" στις 30 Δεκεμβρίου 2011.
This videotaped stage performance, held at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus on 11th of October 2005, includes songs and rituals related to the cycle of the agricultural year, rewarding human labour and telling of man’s relationship to nature.
The publication includes 30 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. The publication also contains a detailed booklet analyzing the history surrounding the songs, and their interpretation. […]
In fables, fragments of ancient myths are preserved. On this CD, Domna Samiou & her collaborators sing tales of the fabulous and the fantastic combining the real world with the supernatural and narrating stories, often tragic, which might once have occurred – or could do so one day – however […]
This CD is the proof of what an enthusiast Maecenas can achieve! Here Domna collected some of her most favourable songs: slow and tranquil songs, melodious and sad; songs of sorrow and of love, of parting and of loved ones far away. These songs are rarely, if ever, included in […]
Songs of Asia Minor by Domna Samiou. Live recording from the concert ‘Songs of Asia Minor with Domna Samiou’ at the Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall, on 8/3/2005. Traditional songs from the western coasts of Asia Minor, Propontis, Constantinople, Pontus and Cappadocia.
Through these songs, Domna Samiou pays tribute to how man, in years gone by, worshipped nature as the measure of ultimate beauty, order and harmony, and treated it with awe rather than with the destructive fury of today. The down-to-earth love of nature in these folk songs doesn’t derive from […]
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, these songs from history function both as chronicles and musical myths, and as […]
Wheat, wine, oil He makes grass grow for the cattle, and plants for people to cultivate· bringing forth food from the earth: wine that gladdens human hearts, oil to make their faces shine, and bread that sustains their hearts (Psalm 104, 15)

Concerts

A concert for children performed by children with traditional songs, dances, games and reenactment of folk customs. Twelve children’s groups from Epirus, Kalyvia of Attica, Crete, Karpathos, Olympus, Zefyri of Attica, from Nea Erythraea representing the Asia Minor tradition, Volakas of Drama, Skyros, Larissa, the “Argonauts-Komninoi” from Kallithea, Kozani and […]
A carnival feast at the stage of the Thessaloniki Concert Hall with songs, dances, and customs of the carnival period. In addition to Domna and her collaborators, musicians, singers, dancers and bands from regions of Greece take part, where even today the celebrations and rituals of Carnival maintain their authenticity.
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.
An Asia Minor tribute concert. A tribute to the muse of the historical space of the Greek East. Traditional songs from the western coast of Asia Minor, the Propontis, Constantinople, Pontus and Cappadocia and two Byzantine hymns from the musical tradition of the Orthodox Church. A musical variety that is […]
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 […]