IHOS Music Theatre & Opera and the Salamanca Arts Centre present
Ananke …
A Kultour event produced by Multicultural Arts Victoria
Australia’s multicultural touring network Kultour kicks off it’s 2008 national music program with Ananke in Hobart on 19 June 2008.
Ananke is a response to the process of multiculturalism, broken histories and transported cultures filtered through the polemics of 21st century Australia. All three musicians work at the cutting edge of contemporary culture while remaining in touch with their own personal music histories. All three draw from their musical heritage yet transcend these positions to create a musical response that is uniquely a product of our time and place.
Performance Thursday 19 June 8.00pm
Venue: Peacock Theatre, Salamanca Place, Hobart
Tickets: $21 concession $17
Bookings: TSO Box office freecall 1800 001 190 or online at www.tso.com.au
All about Ananke:
Ananke is the Greek word for necessity. It is also an occasional trio of extraordinary musicians from Melbourne bringing together a diversity of styles in a dynamic musical conversation of free flowing improvisation and experiement.
Achilles Yiangoulli (bouzouki), Nick Tsiavos (double bass) and Anthony Schulz (accordion) range across musical genres from Greek Rebetika to Argentinian Tango, crossover jazz to ancient Byzantine and medieval chant, and cutting edge new music to free improvisation.
Kultour is a national network touring Australian multicultural arts. Kultour seeks to educate, inspire and entertain, and to create new audiences for some of Australia’s most talented artists. Kultour was established by the Australia Council in 2001, as an initiative of the Arts in a Multicultural Australia policy.
About the members of Ananke
Nick Tsiavos is a bassist and composer whose work operates at the intersections of a number of cultural boundaries: from 8th century chant to contemporary minimalism, from syncretic hybridisation to experimental improvisation, from church to pub to concert hall.
Since 1994, Tsiavos has been developing new music for the solo bass. As an ‘ethnic’ musician he is interested in, and informed by, non-canonical discourse, while refusing the tokenism that ethnicity often entails. The diversity of his cultural influences come together to create a new language for the bass – work articulating an intensely personal response to the problematics of contemporary Australian culture.
Achilles Yiangoulli is a founding member and lead vocalist with the habibis who won an Aria award for their CD “Intoxication” which featured in the Australian film “Head On”.
He is also a key member of the Greek Blues band Rebetiki who were the in-house band for Channel Sevens’ hit comedy series “Greeks on the Roof”. Rebetiki have also recently performed at the National Folk Festival and Woodford Music Festival. His passion in fusing contemporary and traditional Greek music has resulted in the formation of the ensembles Ananke and Eurotrash Taxim who are about to release a new recording of original and improvised music.
Anthony Schulz is one of the foremost accordion players in Australia. His distinctive accordion style and interpretations make him instantly recognisable in all fields of music. His playing, while being true to its roots in the traditional genres including Berlin Cabaret, Argentinian Tango, Folk and Brazilian music as well as Jazz, Rock, Fusion and Classical music, is unmistakably contemporary and relevant.
He has established himself firmly as a contemporary composer and performer with his work in the cutting edge world music/jazz ensemble Frock. Work with this ensemble has taken him on tours to Europe and Asia including the renowned Montreux Jazz Festival, their last tour coinciding with the release of their second CD.
Anthony is recognised and much sought after in professional music circles and performs regularly with leading Australian and international artists and ensembles including Doug de Vries, Dave Samuels The Australian Pops Orchestra and the Victorian State Orchestra (Wozzeck). He has recorded for Paul Grabowski ,Nichaud Fitzgibbon and Michelle Nicole and tours regularly with World Music award winning singer Zulya.
Marianne
