Jazz at the Museum

Jazz at the Museum

Dimitris Katalifos & Dimitris Tsakas Quartet – “Body and dreams”

The B&E Goulandris Foundation’s popular concert series Jazz at the Museum ends its Poetry and Jazz tribute on Friday May 5, with an evening dedicated to the poetry of Dimitris Katalifos.

Dimitris Katalifos will join forces with the Dimitris Tsakas Quartet at the B&E Goulandris Foundation Amphitheatre for the performance “Body and dreams”, an evening of narration, singing and jazz music inspired by 15 poems written by award-winning actor and poet Dimitris Katalifos.

As an actor, Dimitris Katalifos has performed in theatre, cinema and television. He is also a director and was a founding member of the “I Skini” Theatre Company and the “Morfes” Theatre Organisation. He has received many awards, including the Aimilios Veakis Award (2002-2004) as well as the Best Actor Award at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival for his performance at Lakis Papastathis’ film Theofilos. He has taught acting in different schools while from 1993 to 2000 he was a co-creator of the “Embros” Theatre drama school. His poems are published by Patakis.

Composer and musician Dimitris Tsakas studied jazz saxophone at the Berklee College of Music, with a scholarship. He has featured in more than 200 albums and has participated in many concerts by Greek and foreign artists, while with his own jazz band he has given many concerts in Greece and abroad. He has released the albums “Growing up”, “A Man Dreams” and “Back of Beyond”.

The band:
Narration, singing: Alexandra Sieti, Dimitris Katalifos
Composition, saxophone: Dimitris Tsakas
Piano: Spyros Manesis
Double bass: Arionas Gyftakis

Artistic direction:
Dimitris Tsakas

Sound engineering:
Nikos Kollias

Production execution:
Anastasia Tamouridou - ARTos & Theama

Information:

Friday May 5 | 20.30
Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation Amphitheatre

Tickets: 20€
Tickets for B&E Members: 16€

Buy your tickets at:

VIVA.GR

About the Jazz at the Museum series

The B&E Goulandris Foundation presents Jazz at the Museum, a series of tribute concerts to different jazz genres. Once a month, jazz meets visual arts and together they take us on a music journey to the heart of jazz, at the B&E Goulandris Foundation Amphitheatre and under the artistic direction of Dimitris Tsakas.

In the latest series, great jazz bands present different aspects of the connection between jazz and poetry. The tribute kicked off with an evening dedicated to 20^th century Jazz Poetry and Japanese haiku by the We Real Cool Quartet, continuing with a journey to Latin American poetry by Yoel Soto and Klety Sotiriadou and then a performance dedicated to Greek poetry, by Alex Drakos Ktistakis and Katerina Polemi.