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Natasa Vissarionos
SCHEDULE VOICE OF GREECE
Infinitely Curious: “Who Am I in Greek?” | 03 Aug. 2025
What does it mean to be Greek… when your Greek is imperfect? When your name lives in two languages? When home feels like both a place — and a question? With special guests: Dr. Eleni Hapidou, Greek-Canadian psychologist, on the invisible weight of hyphenated identity and inherited grief. Artemis Tak...
Infinitely Curious: Cool or Collapse – Can We Adapt in Time? | 27 July 2025
“Infinitely Curious“, the English-language program of Voice of Greece, poses a question that concerns us all: How can we adapt to extreme heat before it’s too late? As temperatures soar and summers become increasingly longer and harsher, who gets access to cool environments — and who...
Greek Music Express: More Greek lounge: From Mimis Plessas to Mikro | 25 July 2025
Here come some of the coolest summertime tunes, revisited through fascinating remixes by dynamic artists such as Ekmek, Mikro, Stereomatic, Vptheo and Thanos Kalentinis. The past meets the present, colossal composers such as Mimis Plessas and Manolis Hiotis meet the contemporary touch of innovative...
Greek Music Express: Twelve years without Nikos Mamagakis | 24 July 2025
Nikos Mamagakis was an internationally recognised figure of the music of the 20th century, with a massive contribution to the development of avant-garde. Of equal significance is his numerous collections of songs that span across various genres, from New Wave to art and folk. Mamagakis passed away on...
Greek Music Express: More Greek lounge: Demis Roussos | 23 July 2025
Demis Roussos is, together with Vangelis and Nana Mouskouri, the most recognizable Greek “brand” name in the field of music, having sold more than 50 million records in his unmatched career. His songs fully convey the Mediterranean summertime colours; as Roussos himself indicatively said: “The reaso...
Greek Music Express: Seven years without Manos Eleftheriou: His folk creations | 22 July 2025
When poet and lyricist Manos Eleftheriou was asked to write a short autobiographical note, he wrote the following text: “I was born in 1938 in Ermoupolis, Syros. I wrote poems, short stories and lyrics for many songs. I read many books, listened to a lot of music, saw places. I met great people and m...
Greek Music Express: More Greek lounge: Gerasimos Lavranos | 21 July 2025
Gerasimos Lavranos is basically known to everyone more as a soundtrack composer and not so much as a songwriter. Indeed, some well-known Greek films from the sixties and seventies had their music composed by him. Today, we will be appreciating the more cosmopolitan creations of this great jazzman that...
Infinitely Curious: Climbing beyond limits | 20 July 2025
What makes a person climb 13 Alpine peaks — all above 4,000 meters — in just 4 days? In this breathtaking episode of the English-language program “Infinitely Curious”, Katerina Batzaki follows Greek mountaineer Vasilis Vasilakis as he prepares to scale the highest ridges of the Swiss Alps. But...
Greek Music Express: Masters of the Greek clarinet: Petroloukas Halkias | 18 July 2025
Throughout the week that ends today, here at GME, we turned to the music of Epirus, a core type of Greek traditional music, and its main instrument: the Greek clarinet or clarino. Vassilis Soukas, Tassos Halkias, Giorgos Mangas, Manos Achalinotopoulos and Vassilis Saleas are the clarino instrumentalists...
Greek Music Express: Masters of the Greek clarinet: Vasilis Saleas | 17 July 2025
Vasilis Saleas is the soloist who brought the Greek clarinet to the greatest music halls around the world. Self-taught, he inspired great composers and has managed for many years to "dress" everything he loves with his favorite musical instrument and its melodies. Vassilis Saleas, who grew up in a house...
Greek Music Express: Masters of the Greek clarinet: Manos Achalinotopoulos – Giorgos Mangas | 16 July 2025
Manos Achalinotopoulos considered by critics as the best clarinet performer of the new generation in Greece, was born and grew up in Athens. He started learning the flute and clarinet from a very early age. Manos Achalinotopoulos has travelled -playing clarinet, cawal and flutes- in more than 20 countries...
Greek Music Express: Masters of the Greek clarinet: Tasos Halkias | 15 July 2025
Tasos Halkias was among the most celebrated performers of Greek music in general, having a vast repertoire and command of many styles, and the music of Epirus in particular. He was born in 1914 near Ioannina in northwestern Greece. His family consisted of musicians going back to the 19th century. Halkias...
Greek Music Express: Masters of the Greek clarinet: Vasilis Soukas | 14 July 2025
Throughout the week that starts today, here at GME, we turn to the music of Epirus, a core exemplification of Greek traditional music, and its main instrument: the Greek clarinet or clarino. The reason for our tribute: the loss of Petroloukas Halkias a few weeks ago, at the age of 90. Vasilis Soukas...