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Dr. Nikos Xanthoulis - Composer
Artistic Consultant at the Greek National Opera
Associate Researcher with the Academy of Athens
Correspondent Member at the Archaeological Institute of America
Dr. Nikos Xanthoulis is a composer, ancient lyre player and researcher.
He holds a Bachelors Degree in Political Sciences and has acquired a PhD in Music Theory from the Bulgarian Music Academy of Sophia. Dr. Xanthoulis is Professor of Trumpet, Harmony and Counterpoint at the Conservatory of Athens, Greece. He is also an Assistant Researcher of the Academy of Athens and a Tutor at the Greek Open University. For twenty-five years (1983-2008) he served as the principal trumpet player in National Greek Opera Orchestra and from May 2009 till 2012 he was heading the Educational Department of the same Opera.
As a composer and soloist, he has presented his music in Greece and Internationally (USA, Australia, Canada, China, Russia, Sweden, Italy, Bulgaria, Turkey etc.) His works include translations of the ancient Greek music theoreticians.
Xanthoulis has written and mastered incidental music for tragedies using reconstructed ancient instruments (lyre, aulos, tympanon and salpinx) trying to approach the prosody of the ancient Greek language.
He has composed four children’s operas; two of them had been presented by the Greek National Opera.
Dr Xanthoulis was awarded the Kress Lectureship by the Archaeological Institute of America for the year 2012-2013and an extension for 2017-2018. From 2014 to 2015 he was the Artistic Director of Public Broadcasting Orchestras and Choir (ERT).
The last six years he revived the technique of the ancient Greek lyre through his research based on the depictions of pottery and the ancient Greek literature.
Since 2019 the composer is represented by MUSICENTRY
BOOKS
GIANT'S ASSILABA DELASSY TRILOGY (1) - THE GIANT'S STAR CD (Edition Kalendis) (2009)
Τhe Giant’s Star
GIANT'S ASSILABA DELASSY TRILOGY (2) - THE ISLAND OF JOY CD (Edition Kalendis) (2015)
The Island of Joy
GIANT'S ASSILABA DELASSY TRILOGY (3) - THE KING'S HEART CD (Edition Kalendis) (2018)
The King’s heart
BOOK (Edition IWRITE.GR) (2018)
Ancient Greek Lyre, Learning Method
BOOK (Edition Daidalos Zacharopoulos) (2005)
The Art of Music
BOOK (Edition Orpheus) (1996)
The Art of respiration
MUSIC SCORES
Edition Orpheus (2005)
Concerto for Trumpet and Chamber Orchestra
Edition Orpheus (2005)
Fantasy for Trumpet and Piano
Edition Orpheus (2011)
Fantasia di Cesare (for horn and piano)
SYMPHONIC FAIRYTALES
SYMPHONIC FAIRYTALE (OSCAR WILDE) – BOOK WITH CD (Edition Kedros) (2004)
The Selfish Giant
SYMPHONIC FAIRYTALE (OSCAR WILDE) - BOOK WITH CD (Edition Kedros) (2004)
The Happy Prince
SYMPHONIC FAIRYTALE (MARIVITA GRAMMATIKAKI) – BOOK WITH CD (Edition Kalendis) (2011)
The Magic Violin
SYMPHONIC FAIRYTALE (DIMITRIS KASSARIS) – BOOK WITH CD (Edition Kalendis) (2014)
The Love Little Winterhouse
SYMPHONIC FAIRYTALE (DIMITRIS KASSARIS) – BOOK WITH CD (Edition Kalendis) (2014)
The Winterhouse
SYMPHONIC FAIRYTALE (EVI PAPADOPOULOU) – BOOK WITH CD (Edition Kalendis) (2015)
Kymothoi’s Journey
DISCOGRAPHY
''EYPHONY'' SONGS FOR THE THEATRE (2018)
Pink Ballet
Dio glyka matakia
Epanastatiko
Eyrika
Efiges
I Ioylieta pragmata
I Pethymia tou erota (feat. Eleni Koutsomanioti & Evi Jannakopoulou)
Kati schedon paralogo
Mikres gatoules
Dueto
Skotos
Tango (feat. Tassos Apostolou & Rena Sfinia)
Tarata (feat. Eleni Koutsomanioti & Evi Jannakopoulou)
To palio tragoudi
Tora tha dite
Finale
''SYNTHESIS'' 21 INSTRUMENTALS (2018)
Aeolis
Antigone
Apollo Citharoedus (feat. Stelios Golgaris & Vassilis Mastorakis)
Bruit
Cadens (feat. Stelios Golgaris & Vassilis Mastorakis)
Charpentier a la Turca
Eleni
Fantasia (feat. Dimitris Papatheodorou)
Fuga (feat. Dimitris Papatheodorou)
Guitar Symposium (feat. Evangelos Boudounis, Stelios Golgaris, Vassilis Mastorakis & Maro Razi)
Hermes
Holy violin
Love Accompaniment
Lydia
Orchestral
Orpheus
Preludio (feat. Dimitris Papatheodorou)
Take a bow
Tivoli (feat. Stelios Golgaris & Vassilis Mastorakis)
Wedding
Zephyr
''ALLEGORY'' 22 INSTRUMENTALS (2018)
Around the world
Cabaret style
Chanson
Cicero
Enfin réunis
Fanfare
Fantasia di Cesare
Futur maries
In India
Juliette
L’enfant
La dispute
La mer
Nebula
Olympia
Plural
Requiem
Romeo
Solo trombone
Tantalus
The abduction of Smaragdo
The Travel
''SWITCH'' BY GALAN TRIO (2018)
Piano Trio: I. Allegro
Piano Trio: II. Andante
Piano Trio: III. Allegro – Moderato – Presto
''ORPHEUS LYRE'' THE SOUND OF LYRE (2016)
Amphion
Zeus
Enharmonic Genus
Eumenides
Apollo’s lyre
Achille’s wrath
Achilles playing the lyre at his tent
Ariadne’s lament
Odysseus’s thoughts
Orpheus
Hera’s secret anger
Chromatic genus
''NEVOLUTION'' FOR CORNO DA CACCIA (2015)
Catch the time
''METAMORPHOSIS'' FOR CELLO AND PIANO (2011)
Rendez-vous avec une inconnue
"AN ANTHOLOGY OF COMPOSITIONS BY NIKOS XANTHOULIS" (2004)
Selfish Giant: INTERMEZZO
Selfish Giant: EYES LIKE TWO HOLES
Selfish Giant: THE WALL
Euphonia
Ines de Castro: ARISTOCRACY
Ines de Castro: WEDDING'S CEREMONY
Ines de Castro: THE REVENGE
Ines de Castro: THE PEOPLE
Ines de Castro: THE COUNSILORS
Plural: OUVERTURE
Sonata for Cello and Piano: ALLEGRO
Sonata for Cello and Piano: ANDANTE CANTABILE
Sonata for Cello and Piano: VIVACE
Tear of the moon: OUVERTURE
Tear of the moon: DURING MY LAST LIFE
Fantasy for trumpet and piano
''PLURAL'' ΚΙΚI DIMOULA – ΝΙΚΟS XANTHOULIS (2003)
1st April
Alithini Apantissi
Diadikastika
Diarixi Aftapatis
Isagogi
Ektropi
Episkeptirio
Erevos
Echoun apodichthi
O Plithintikos arithmos
Ikodomima
Onirokritis
Perassa
Rantevou me mian agnosti
San na dialexes
Sas afissa minima
Skoni
Sti filoxeneia (Finale)
Το spanio doro
Choros Aftairesion
''GREEK COMPOSERS WORKS FOR TRUMPET'' (2003)
Idio-rhytmia for trumpet and percussion
Fantasy for trumpet and piano
''MUSIC FOR BRASS QUINTET'' (1999)
Choro – Chronos I: Antiquity
Choro – Chronos I: Middle Ages
Choro – Chronos I: Modern Times
Choro – Chronos I: The Balkans
SONGS
Concerto for two guitars and strings
Duo Australiano ala Greca
Fantasy for piano and strings
Finale
Fugue for piano and strings
Inflation of sentiments
Prelude for piano and strings
Suite per cello e piano
Hai Kou
Agora
Anthropoi
Apo ton Astor ston Mano
Ase tin chara na bei
Afigissi
Glenta simera (finale)
Den tha se xechasso
Den chriazete na to xeroun oli
Ise to louloudi mou
Ena tragoudi agapis
Enas gigantas megalos
Ergastiri
I diki mou poli
I zoi mou archizei
I kategida
Iliachtida
Iliokores thigateres
Itan ena vradi tou fthinoporou
Tha erthi I chara
Iliada
Ismini
Ke I dio ichan vithisti sti siopi
Kalinichta
Kalispera Fa Sol
Kano panta oti boro
Concerto gia 4 korna
Concert for ancient Greek salpinx and strings orchestra
Kymothoi
M ena fili tou feggariou
Μes to skotadi
Μia zoi stous dromous
Μirasse ta triantafylla
Μonachos den boro
Μono I kardia bori
Μonos mou ime tora
Μoussiki isagogi o eftichismenos prigkipas
Μoussiki fantasia
Moussiko karavani
Boro a se agapisso
Boro na se agapisso ti rotisse tolmira to chelidoni
Do re mi erchome
Do re mi efyga
O Archodochoriatis
O Eftichismenos prigkipas erixe mia matia stin poli
O Hta Ypsilon
Ο Kathigitis
Oli mera gyrizo
Οrchistriko
Otan peftei ena asteri
Pare tis iliachtides mou
Pisteva pos m’agapousan
Poios bori
Poso mas elipse o kipos
Prigkipas Aggelos
Prigkipes Aggeloi
Prokas
Po po ti simfora
S’ ena vathro psilo
San petra
Ta diavatarika poulia
Ta poulakia
Ti armonia ti eftichia
Ti peripetia ki afti
To vradi pou eftasse stin poli
To emvatirio tis exousias
To epomeno proi
To La tis vrochis
To mistiko
To prostagma tou Vassilia
To Si o aeras
To stoma mou klisto
To tragoudi tis eftichias
To chthes
To chroma apo ta vathi tis kardias
Tou kipou mou i portqa ine klisti
Ton anemon
Istera apo liges meres
Fantasia prelude and fuga for piano and strings
Filista
Fige fige
Cha cha cha
Pseaxe edo psaxe eki
Sophocles' tragedy "OEDIPUS REX" in music by Nikos Xanthoulis.
30 – 31 May 2019 in Vladivostok, Sophocles' tragedy "OEDIPUS REX" at the stage of the Far East Academic Theater "Maxim Gorky".