SOFIA VARVOUNI / Lyric Artist
SOFIA VARVOUNI
Lyric Artist
Concert artist, her artistic activity began in 1995 alongside his singing studies, while she is also trained with great artists of the National Opera of Athens and the Lyric world through master classes like Monsieur Ryland Davis and Madame Montserrat Caballé.
Her musical and artistic background is completed with classes in theatre in Greek comedy and tragedy, modern dance and jazz, music technology, as well as participations at the Secular University of Athens (department of the Athenian National University) in various fields such as Bioethics, the counterpoint technique in musicology from the pre-baroque-baroque era as well as the Mozartian period or Poetry in Latin America and Aestheticism in Art.
She performed in many concerts and recitals, including:
• the Auditorium of the Hellenic Conservatory of Athens, the Auditorium of the French Institute (works by Greek composers, medieval repertoire, Brahms-Liebeslieder, B. Britten and baroque composers), at the Danish Institute (works by contemporary Greek composers-Thomas Tamvakos Archives), at the National Army Museum (Charity Gala for African Children), at various Cultural Centers in Central Greece and the Athenian capital (works by W.A .Mozart), Union of Asia Minor (traditional songs),Union of Constantinoplois (sacred songs). She will also be invited several times to the Municipal Pinacoteca of Piraeus, paying tribute to contemporary painting through vocal music. At the same time, Miss Varvouni makes artistic presentations in the field of theatre-music addressing a repertoire for a more diverse audience. Until 2006, she was a member of two vocal ensembles specialized in the vocal art of contemporary Greek composers and traditional singing. It was then that she discovered the Baroque repertoire and performed many performances in the most important Catholic churches of Athens where she performed sacred songs as well as the Stabat Mater by G.B. Pergolesi on several occasions. Between 2008 and 2012 she was a member and secretary of the Baroque Association of Friends of the Organ (non-profit) in Athens.
In 2010, she decided to settle in Paris, the City of the Lights,where the Arts are omnipresent. Always in search of new sounds and evolution, and his love for baroque vocal art, allow him to perform since in the Parisian capital. In 2011, at the Escale de Villiers sur Marne, where she performed traditional songs from Asia Minor and the Epire, as well as at the Salle Georges Brassens de Villiers sur Marne, where she presented her new electro-acoustic concept in concertlyric accompanied by his pianist and permanent collaborator since 2007, Monsieur Marios Kazas.
Since 2012-2013, she has performed in many outdoor concert festivals and has closed the Koroni Classical Music Festival (Peloponnese of the South). Among her artistic performances include the Festival du Parc Floral de Vincennes (opera arias and music-hall melodies), the Fête de la Musique in Nanterre (electro-baroque concept), the SNCF auditorium (electro-baroque concept), while devoting himself to the repertoire of sacred music by performing in Catholic churches, notably at the Trinity of Saint Lazarus in Paris on many occasions, the Chapel of Saint Bernard in Montparnasse, the Church of Saint Catherine in Honfleur,Saint Ouen in Livarot (Normandy) and the Franciscan Chapel in Saint-Germain-en Laye.In 2018, she participated in the world premiere of the symphonic poem “The Jewel”, by Zorzes Katris, at the Grand Palace of Athens (Zappeion Megaron), accompanied by the Symphonic Orchestra of the Municipality of Athens.In 2019, she presented in private concerts a repetoire of Lieder,performing mostly Schubert and Brahms. Miss Varvouni has collaborated also with new composers such as Mr Michalis Andronikou and Mr Hector Cornilleau on contemporary art songs and sacred music.
A strong attraction for the seventh art, motivates her to create concerts with opera tunes often used in the credits of films to demonstrate the indisputable link between cinema and classical music. By the same means, a first presentation of contemporary Hellenic vocal art took place, while wishing to make known the intellectual aspect of the music of its origins, still unknown to the public outside Greece. Miss Varvouni is the founder of the Association Artistique Franco-Hellenic Lyria33, with the aim of promoting artistic exchanges through the preservation of historic heritage.
