The Early Music Ensemble Ex Silentio presents a wide range of repertoire from medieval up to baroque. Founded in Greece, Ex Silentio appears regularly in festivals and venues in many European countries and focuses especially on music from Southern Europe and the Mediterranean as well as on Orient – Occident music relations. Ex Silentio’s CD “Mneme” received the Pizzicato Price and was short listed for the International Classical Music Awards.
Recorded six CDs and worked together with prestigious artists as the baryton Dimitris Tiliakos, the counter tenor Michael Chance and the singer & improviser Savina Yannatou. Performed in important monuments and ancient sites of Greece, such as the Rotunda, the Messina Theater, in Vergina and in Moni Dafniou, and presented the rare Codex of Cyprus in Nicosia supported by the Levendis Foundation. Ex Silentio is Ensemble in Residence at the Athens Conservatoire.
“Mneme” is as much a historically well-informed performance of this ancient music as it is a visionary and highly creative fairytale derived from Greek mythology and mediterranean psyche. © Millennium of Music, September 2015
Upcoming Concerts
9.12 Parnassos Concert hall
Music from the time of Hieronimus Bosch
Aprodite Patoulidou – soprano & nikelharpe
Tobias Schlierf – voice & hurdy gurdy
Renaissance flute consort
New Album
Ostium
“Ostium” is a selection of works from medieval, traditional and oriental sources featuring different ancient and modern flutes and recorders, drawing a rich tapestry of early flute sounds and melodies that inspired and formed later European musical culture on many levels. Greek flutist Dimitris Kountouras performs these pieces together with his ensemble Ex Silentio.
Dimitris Kountouras – flutes
Vasilis Zigkeridis – canun
Elektra Miliadou – medieval fiddle
Nikos Varelas – percussion
Jonas Niederstadt – recording, mastering, production