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the passing of time the passing of life
steps in time
a continuous transition from moment to moment

A Thrilling double bass solo.
Scorpio is especially written for the amazing Sasha Witteveen and her Dutch classical talent finalist tour.

“Beautiful were the downward gliding tones, with shivery extinction at the end”

“I didn’t write it as yet another piece for a competition, no! Rather, I have been looking for how to add something substantial to the existing repertoire for solo cello”

The participants of the lectures will have the chance to connect with some of the most significant living composers of choral music, most of whom have immense choral experience….

The music company from Almere has asked composer Calliope Tsoupaki to create a composition especially for this special work of landscape art.

STORM is a unique collaboration between former “Composer Laureate of the Netherlands” Calliope Tsoupaki and choreographers Andrea Leine and Harijono Roebana; between a composer who dares to think from movement and choreographers who give shape to sound. Vital emotions and order, dance and music meet in a storm-like performance with six dancers and three musicians. LeineRoebana… Read more

Coming Wednesday 9 of February I will be giving a lecture @ Brussels Arts Platform and Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel about my composing approach focusing on the creation of “ODYSSEUS” a half hour of audiovisual journey, specially composed for Asko|Schönberg ensemble. During the performance the a breathtaking image by Awoiska van der Molen is projected slowly… Read more

Music by Calliope Tsoupaki Asko|Schönberg Ensemble Awoiska van der Molen Image, photography, projections Jurjen Alkema projections Composed for the Asko|Schönberg, with the financial support of Performing Arts Fund NL. Premiére & concerts: 10 November Verkadefabriek 19.00 , November Music Festival , Den Bosch 11 November Muziekgebouw 20.15 , Amsterdam 17 November Tivoli|Vredenburg Hertz Hall 20.00… Read more

Calliope Tsoupaki: World Premiere Memento Nostri Like no other, the Greek-Dutch composer Calliope Tsoupaki knows how to stop time. She touches people straight in the heart with her breathtaking music that spans centuries. During November Music 2019, she was allowed to realise a dream project. With her penetrating Bosch Requiem Liknon, she glued the listeners… Read more

Calliope Tsoupaki’s new piece Thin Air is performed in dozens of festivals worldwide, in prominent venues like Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. But it is also played or scheduled for performance in New Zealand, Russia, New York and Teheran.  Calliope was commissioned to write Thin Air by Festivals for Compassion. It is an initiative by Tamar Brüggemann, the director… Read more

These are hard times. The COVID-19 virus is spreading over the whole world and its impact is indescribable. People are dying, becoming ill and lonely, cannot meet and touch each other. So Calliope Tsoupaki decided to write a new piece as the Composer Laureate of the Netherlands, because we need music in these times to… Read more