Seventy-two years old and still going strong is perhaps the best way to describe singer Domna Samiou. Few seem to have the determination, diligence and energy she has. A single smile and you'll be carried away into her magical world of music. A single song, and you'll find yourself somewhere [...]
Insisting on Greek ⬥ Publication on the release of the album Easter Songs, extract Confronted with the 'new order', in which we have lost our life relation and communication with nature (and we pass abruptly from winter to summer), stimuli that reconnect us with the symbols and values of the [...]
Publication on the concert "Songs about the Sea", Small Theatre of Epidaurus, 2004. Songs of the sea and a musical promenade with Domna Samiou from the Small Theatre of ancient Epidaurus. Songs about the moon, whilst the full moon will be shining in the sky. 'Our entire country is wet [...]
If traditional song was to be named, it would be given her name. Not just because she renders in such a special way the songs which bind us with our cultural memories, but also because Domna Samiou re-discovered these memories and connected us with the roots which uphold our country [...]
Domna Samiou together with 200 Musicians will be singing there on Tuesday and Wednesday ⬥ Publication on the concert “Music on the Edges of Hellenism”, Herodion 1995 (extracts). Tradition is awaiting us at the Herodion1 with unique and precious sound bytes of Greek music, in a venue which [had remained] 'impregnable [...]
Publication on the shadow theatre performances by Evgenios Spatharis at the Tsarouchis Museum in Maroussi, 1997 (extracts). A unique experience awaited the visitors of the Tsarouchis Museum1 in Maroussi a few days ago (Tuesday and Wednesday the 23rd and 24th of September). The president of the Tsarouhis Foundation, Niki Gryparis, [...]
Our 'national' Domna at the Athens Concert Hall ⬥ Publication on the concert 'Greek Carols' held at The Athens Concert Hall Domna Samiou is a national musical asset, and carols without her unique voice and her devotion to the authenticity of tradition are inconceivable. That is why the Athens Concert [...]
The sound of our traditional music and Domna Samiou in Constantinople ⬥ Publication on the occasion of a concert at Çemal Resit Rey, in Istanbul in 1996 (extract). Last night you offered us a feast Mrs Samiou' said the ecumenical Patriarch Mr Vartholomeos after the the service ended, on St [...]
Δύο διάσημοι καλλιτέχνες και δάσκαλοι της μουσικής έρχονται στην Ελλάδα για να λάβουν μέρος στα «Διεθνή Σεμινάρια για τη δυτική και την ελληνική παραδοσιακή μουσική», που θα γίνουν στο Ναύπλιο, στις αρχές Σεπτεμβρίου. Πρόκειται για το βιολιστή Σ. Γκαβρίλωφ και το βαρύτονο Γ. Μέττερνιχ, οι οποίοι θα διδάξουν, αλλά και [...]
