Athens To Be Filled With Piano Music As Piano City Returns For Its 2nd Year

For five days, Athens is awash with pianos, filling streets and halls. After its tremendous success in Athens for the first time last May, Piano City Athens returns for its second year from May 16 to 20, bringing melodies to the neighborhoods of Athens.

Having inspired thousands in Berlin, New York, Madrid, Milan, and other metropolises, Piano City has become an institution in Athens. Piano City Athens is the first festival to literally happen all over the city. Music spreads through parks, squares, sidewalks, the airport, the port, museums, embassies, hospitals, conservatories, schools, cafes, theaters, galleries, institutions, hotels, enters people's homes with house concerts, or simply meets you in the middle of the street.

This year, as part of Piano City Athens, we will enjoy - besides the free events - Special Events to be held at the Polytechnic Club PLYFA and the Parnassos Literary Society. 

The traditional puppeteer Kostas Makris in a new comedy full of hilarious lines and wonderful melodies, played live on the piano by Stavros Xyoura. Veziropoula seeks a pianist to organize a grandiose concert. Will Karagiozis manage to play the piano and get the job, or will he mess things up?

Award-winning pianist and composer Thodoris Oikonomou and the great dancer and choreographer of Bob Wilson Marianna Kavallieratou will lead us through an original collaboration in an interactive performance of great duration, where the viewers are free to exist and move in space as they want and feel and for as long as they want, thus becoming part of the special action. Music is written at that moment, as is the choreography.

A lavish musical journey without borders, with two pianos, drums, and double bass, under the spring Attic moon. Two distinct piano personalities, Christos Papageorgiou and Anastasios Pappas, Takis Kapoyannis on double bass and Serafeim Bellos on drums, in a crossover program combining classical style with improvisation and other popular music genres such as Jazz, Funk, Fusion.

Piano City Athens will close its musical journey with a milestone of the minimalism movement, in a special musical performance by five acclaimed Greek musicians. Pianists Titos Gouvelis and Thodoris Oikonomou, accordionist Konstantinos Raptis, harpist Maria-Christina Harper, and classical percussionist Andreas Farmakis invite us to a peculiar sonic journey based on the iconic minimalist score of Dutch composer Simeon Ten Holt, Canto Ostinato. Don't miss out on various free concerts. Visit the festival's schedule for more information.

Also, don't miss out on numerous free concerts throughout the city! Please, visit the festival's schedule for more information.