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