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According to Tsoupaki, much music is composed in the Netherlands at a very high level. She appreciates the openness and intensity of the dialogue between different “styles” and sound worlds. “The polyphony of how we compose in the Netherlands is clearly audible in the work of my colleagues Yannis Kyriakides, Jan van de Putte, Mayke…

Celebrating 750 Years of Amsterdam World premiere on March 6 and performed on March 7, March 8 Music city Amsterdam! From Sweelinck to Tsoupaki On March 6, 7 and 8, 2025, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Groot Omroepkoor will present a rich and dynamic program, featuring a newly commissioned work “Another Day” by Calliope…

“When I was 27” For viola and double bass viola: Heleen Hulst Double bass: Dario Calderone I wrote “When I Was 27” exactly as the title implies—when I was 27 years old, living on a houseboat during my first years in Amsterdam while studying composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. At that point…

The State of Dutch New Music is being spoken every year at the opening of the prestigious festival Gaudeamus by selected composers, in order to reflect on the state of music, society, current politics and art. This year Calliope Tsoupaki gave the opening speech. She gave a philosophical reflection on the power of counterpoint, a…

April 13 to May 23 Tour in the Netherlands 13/04/24 – Amsterdam – Meervaart – Time: 20:15. Tickets 19/04/24  – Gouda –  De Goudse Schouwburg – Time: 20:30. Tickets 07/05/24 – Groningen – SPOT (Stadsschouwburg) – Time: 20:15. Tickets 14/05/24 – Roosendaal – De Kring – Time: 20:00. Tickets 15/05/24 – Purmerend – Theater de Purmaryn – Time: 20:15. Tickets 21/05/24 – Tilburg – Schouwburg Concertzaal Tilburg – Time: 20:15. Tickets 22/05/24 – Waalwijk – Theater De Leest – Time: 20:15. Tickets 23/05/24 – Den Haag – Het Nationale Theater  – Time: 20:15. Tickets Due to its great success and…

April 13 – 20:00 Kraakhuis, Gent Song is the most direct way to make music, the most giving one and for me making a song is a profound procedure, as if I am telling a secret. When Lucie Horsch asked me to write a piece for recorder and harpsichord I reflected mostly on the “vocal”…

March 8 2024 Falling is specially composed for Phion with conducter Alexei Ogrintchouk “Falling is full of contrasts…. It’s falling in love. Falling apart. Falling for something. It is: I give up, I go with it, I offer no more resistance. Or the night is falling. The silence falls… There are so many colours to…

March, 9 & 10 2024  “MEMENTO NOSTRI” will sound in a U.S /NEW YORK premiere. With the amazing Cantori New York, conducted by Mark Shapiro also featuring Parthenia Viol Consort and Farallon Recorder Quartet at the Church of St. Francis Xavier, NYC. Like no other, the Greek-Dutch composer Calliope Tsoupaki knows how to stop time.…

The album takes its title from Calliope Tsoupaki’s opening work. Her “Into space,” inspired by Marinus Boezem’s The Green Cathedral, is a vast and evocative prayer of sound that acts as an unveiling. CD Review NRC Into space is now in the top 25  of ‘luister gids NRC’  Video Buy CD here Excerpt from  Black…

Attracted by the progressive musical climate, countless aspiring composers found their way to one of the Dutch conservatoires. Among them the Greek Calliope Tsoupaki (Piraeus in 1963) and the Scottish Geneviève Murphy (Dundee in 1988). Why did they come to the Netherlands, and how has this impacted their artistry? A double interview by Dutch musicologist…

VER AETERNUM (eternal spring) 9 October 2023 open to the public At the Grote Sint LaurensKerk Solo organ version Specially composed for the grand opening of Het Grote Raam “The light of Freedom” The 23 meters high and 6 meters wide stained glass Large window created by the artist Fiona Tan & the world-famous Van…