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International Workshop Festival

It is a unique event due to the symbiosis between two types of meetings: the convention type, of an artistic nature, focusing on  specific musical instruments, and the traditional type of academic research conference, but focusing on a specific instrumental area.
The organization  aims to bridge the gap between artistic production and academic research, creating opportunities to combine artists’ and researchers’ knowledge, for mutual benefit.

The event will be hosted in Panorama ( Municipal Conservatory) from 8 to 12 of July 2019

Music Diaries this year will host great musicians that will offer masterclasses, lectures,concerts,educational programs for the following instuments:
Piano, Flute, Clarinet, Composition, Chamber Music and Contrabase.

Guest Artists 
Erato Alakiozidou-piano  & chamber music |GREECE,  Nikolos Dimopoulos -Flute & chamber music  |GREECE,
Dimitris Leontzakos-Clarinet & chamber music |GREECE, 
Ellie Zacharopoulou Composition & piano |GREECE,   
Vassilis Kitsos- Composition |GREECE,
Dimitris Patras- Violoncello |GREECE,
Marilena Liakopoulou- piano & chamber music |GREECE,
Irini Gavriilidou- piano & chamber music |GREECE,
Alessandro Gazzato- violin & chamber music |ITALY, 
Sharon Tomaselli- violin |ITALY,
Dario Doronzo - flunghorn |ITALY,
Pietro Gallo- jazz piano |ITALY

Special Guest | Luca Chiantore 
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The soul of the accordion.

We turned to the inside of the instrument in naming the first international festival in northern Greece based around the accordion. Thessaloniki has a vibrant cultural life in which the accordion, during the last several years, has played an important role - both in classical and contemporary music and in folk music.

We invited musicians from the most different musical environments to present some of the faces of the instrument: the accordion in today’s avant-garde, the accordion in rebetiko through the music of armonika, a lost instrument, and two accordions in realizing imaginative transcriptions of orchestral works of the classical repertoire.

These concerts are accompanied by four different workshops/seminars:

for adults who play the accordion
for children who want to know about it
for composers
for those who wish to see the accordion from the inside

For all who want to see the world of the accordion more closely.​
Navigate through the page of this website to learn more about the first international accordion festival of Thessaloniki.
We look forward to seeing you all there!