Ex Silentio

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

Musicians

Fanie Antonelou & Theodora Baka, voice
Thimios Atzakas, oud
Elektra Miliadou, fiddle
Andreas Linos, viol
Fani Vovoni, violin
Flora Papadopoulou, harp
Panos Iliopoulos, harpsichord & organ
Dimitris Tigkas, violone & viol
Nikos Varelas, percussion

Dimitris Kountouras, direction & recorder / traverso

Guest artists:

Irini Bilini-Moraiti, voice & fiddle
Tobias Schlierf, voice & hurdy gurdy
Sokratis Sinopoulos, lyra

Concerts (highlights)

Handel Festpsiele Goettingen  2023

Schwaebisch Gmuend  2022

St Blasien  2022

Kalamata Music Days  2022

Early Music Festival, Riga  2022

Megaron of Thessaloniki  2020

Summer Festival of Samos  2019

Via Medieval Mainz  2018

Megaron of Athens  2018, 2016, 2015

Banchetto Musicale Vilnius  2017, 2019

Alte Musik in Feldkirchen  2017

Styriarte Festival Graz  2016

Tidig Musik Trollhaeten  2016

Nicosia Early Music Festival  2016

St Ruprecht Vienna  2016, 2015, 2013, 2012

Mousike’ Bari, Italy  2011, 2012

Athens Festival  2017, 2015, 2013

Guitar Plus, Thessaloniki  2009

Marco Fodella Festival, Milan  2010

Musica Antiqua da Camera, The Hague  2005