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Calliope Tsoupaki receives Johan Wagenaar Prize 2026 🎉
Composer Calliope Tsoupaki has been awarded the Johan Wagenaar Prize for 2026, marking the first time a woman has received this prestigious lifetime achievement award.
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World premiere of “Serpent” during Bach Festival Dordrecht
20th of June the world premiere of “Serpent” is presented during Bachfestival Dordrecht by the Netherlands Bach Society together with harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani.
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World premiere of “Becoming” at Opera Forward Festival
Premiere of “Becoming”, as a part of “Harvest” March 12 2026 at Opera Forward Festival at Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ,…
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World Premiere – Let Someone Carry Me
The premiere takes place during the Utrechts Requiem concert
Location: TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht
Date & Time: Sunday, 8 February 2026 — doors open at 13:45, start at 14:00 (midday) in the Hertz
Saint Brieuc – A performance of Meeting point, Inner Life, Poem for an empty world
đź“… 20 january 2026 đź•— 20.00 đź“ŤLa Passerelle, Scène Nationale, Saint-Brieuc Compositions performed: Meeting Point, Inner Life solo piano en…
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World premiere of “Poem for an empty world”
French premiere October 4, 2025 “Poem for an empty world”
I wrote it as a wish and a need to let go of the haste to let go of all the pre-fix ideas and thoughts we encounter in our daily lives. When I look at the sea, I sense that a screen will never fit our souls. Vast space can only be felt in an empty world.
Recordings
Read more“Monteverdi of the 20th century”.
the Dutch magazine TM (about theatre, music and dance)
“dizzyingly beautiful”
Alex Ross
The New York Times
About
Calliope Tsoupaki (Piraeus, Greece, 1963) makes music that has a mood of timelessness. Her objective is expressing the essence as simply and clearly as possible. In her compositions she uses elements of early and contemporary music as well as the music of Greece and the Middle East.
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