I'm pleased to announce that The Onassis Cultural Center NY will proudly present CHROMA, a new performance project fusing jazz, classical, Greek folk, and world music on Wednesday, December 9th at 7PM.
Chroma,
defined as the purity or intensity of a color, is performed by 13
musicians (strings and percussion) expressing a palette of emotions and
ideas captured in the works created by renowned composer and performer Petros Klampanis.
"CHROMA
is a collection of compositions that forms my personal palette of
emotions, ideas, and impressions," states Klampanis. "I have transformed
these experiences into musical colors in an effort to share them with
you, and I invite you to listen to them and feel them. Perhaps they will
remind you of colors in your own personal palette, or - and I hope -
they will move you, and even become the reason you discover new colors
that already exist inside you."
CHROMA
will be performed by: Petros Klampanis, bass, voice, compositions,
arrangements; Gilad Hekselman, guitar, composition; Shai Maestro, piano;
John Hadfield, drums and percussion; Keita Ogawa, percussion; Maria
Manousaki, Gokce Erem, Megan Gould, and Maria Im, violin; Carrie Frey
and Peter Kiral, viola; Colin Stokes and Maria Jeffers, cello.
Accompanying
the performance, Athens-based visual and jewelry artist Eleni
Kyrmizaki, is creating an installation work created for CHROMA.
Petros
Klampanis has performed alongside some of New York City's celebrated
jazz musicians, including saxophonist Greg Osby, pianist Jean-Michel
Pilc, and drummer Ari Hoenig. His extensive list of appearances in the
U.S. includes Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and The Kennedy Center in
Washington, DC. He has performed at the internationally acclaimed North
Sea Jazz Festival and the Palatia Jazz Festival in Germany.
His
relationship with Greg Osby led to the release of his début album,
Contextual, on the saxophonist's Inner Circle Music label. The album was
praised by acclaimed bassist Arild Andersen as "one of the most
exciting projects I have heard from a bass player in years." His
arrangement of the Greek folk song "Thalassaki" was recently performed
by the Greek Public Symphonic Orchestra in Athens, with whom Klampanis
performed in 2013. He was recently voted as the "Best Artist of 2015" on
jazzonline.gr.
