Evgenios Voulgaris

Evgenios Voulgaris holds a diploma in Byzantine music. Since 1992 his main focus has been on the oud and traditional Greek music. His first teacher was Christos Tsiamoulis. He studied yayli tanbur with Fahrettin Çimenli, who also tutored him in the interpretation of makams and in improvisation.

He has participated in numerous performances and recordings with a wide range of musicians. Since 1995 he performs with the 'Orchistra ton Chromaton', playing mandolin and bouzouki, whilst in recent years he has also collaborated with the 'Camerata' Orchestra and the Athens State Orchestra.

He taught in the School of Greek Music of the Municipal Conservatoire of Patras, in musical highschools and seminars, as well as in the Department of Popular and Traditional Music of the Technical University of Epirus. In 2007 his book Urban Popular Songs of the Inter-war Period: Rebetika of Smyrna and Piraeus, co-authored with Vasilis Vandarakis, was published.

His records to date are Taxidia, To minima tou pringipa, and Apsilies in collaboration with other artists. He has also set music to parts of the Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam and composed music for theatrical plays.

Source: www.labyrinthmusic.gr

Songs

I Tread the Earth Gently
  • SongMacedoniaKavala, NikisianiLove Song

A Blue Dove

  • Μια γαλάζια περιστέρα ⬥ A blue dove, oh, a blue dove flew by. Flying from mountain to mountain she was searching for her mate. My love so far away, tell me, my love in a foreign land, how I can wait? Translated by Michael Eleftheriou
Early last summer
  • SongCappadocia / KonyaFarasaInstrumental

Dance with kerchiefs

  • Χορός μαντιλιών ♦ This local dance, set in a 2/4 rhythm, is clearly of great antiquity. It is performed face-to-face in pairs – usually by women, and less commonly by mixed couples.
Early last summer
  • SongPropontisMudaniaLove Song

Early last summer

  • Πέρσι το καλοκαιράκι ⬥ Early last summer I set my sights on a little bird. But chase as I would, lust as I might, She’d always take flight. She spread her wings, prepared to fly up to heaven, fetch back an angel and empty the seven… Empty the seven seas [...]
Early last summer
  • SongPropontisLove SongCouplets

Giannoula

  • Γιαννούλα ⬥ Life is sweet, despite all its torments, And only a madman seeks death. Giannoula, Giannoula, there’s nothing you don’t know. Giannoula, Giannoula, what you did it wasn’t right. Stars in the sky, why deny me your glimmer? And mountain springs, you might as well simmer. Those widow's weeds in [...]
Early last summer
  • SongPropontisInstrumental

Hasapikos dance from Aretsou

  • Αρετσιανό χασάπικο ♦ Live recording from the concert "Songs of Asia Minor with Domna Samiou", held on 8 March 2005 at the Megaron — the Athens Concert Hall.
Early last summer
  • SongPropontisLove SongCouplets

I Gave up All I Had & What’s Wrong, Theonitsa?

  • Όλα μου τα παράτησα & Τι έχεις Θεονίτσα ⬥ I gave up all I had, all the joys life gave me,  and now walk hand in hand with my humility. It’s you that torments me, but what can I say? I love you so much, and that’s how I pay. [...]
I Tread the Earth Gently
  • SongAsia MinorMakri - LevissiLove SongCouplets, Processional Tune

I Will Sing Tonight

  • Απόψε θε να τραγουδώ ⬥ I will sing tonight with the singers, my little duckling, with the singers — save your love for me. With the lads of Livissi, with those revellers, my duck, my goose, with those revellers — on your head be it. Tonight I will sing until [...]
Early last summer
  • SongAsia MinorSmyrna, BaindiriLove SongCouplets

I’ll Jump from the Battlements

  • Από τα μπεντένια πέφτω ⬥ I’ll jump from the battlements, I’ll end it all now; and my love shouts: “For the love of God, catch him somehow!” I didn't see you yesterday or today, I can’t take this torture, there’s just no way. I've vowed to wear black for the [...]
Early last summer
  • SongAsia MinorLove SongCouplets

If I want black eyes

  • Μαύρα μάτια κι αν θελήσω ⬥ If I want black eyes, I have them in hand — they’re my darling’s, my other half’s. Douneme, doumanaki, douneme, vai, vai, douneme, doumanaki, douneme, vai. My dear white rose, I desire your flower; when you’re away, I’m sad, when you return, I’m happy. [...]
Early last summer
  • SongAsia MinorMakri - LevissiLampoonCouplets

If you want to marry

  • Αν θέλεις για να παντρευτείς ⬥ If you want to marry, to take a wife, come ask me do, I’ll tell you who’s good for you. Don’t take a white woman, no sack of flower; for a sack of flower will always be dour. Don’t take a black woman, no [...]
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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 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.
I Tread the Earth Gently
  • AlbumCD, Digital release2008Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

I Tread the Earth Gently

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 […]
Early last summer
  • AlbumDigital release2022Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

My Old Torments

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.
Of Nature and of Love
  • AlbumCD, Digital release2006Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Of Nature and of Love

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 […]
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Concerts

Domna Samiou Sings Songs of Nature and of Love
  • Concert
  • 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.
Songs of Asia Minor with Domna Samiou
  • Concert
  • 08 & 09/03/2005

Songs of Asia Minor with Domna Samiou

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 […]
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