“Ossia Cassia” Concert and performance

The performance on Osias Cassias unites musicological study with chanting practice, with sounds of Loyal music of the City, with images, narratives and events around the personality of Osias Cassiani (9th century), a Sappho of the Middle Ages and a Hildergard von Bingen of the East.

Roles:
Cassia: young girl: Brett Arjomand, nun: Nausicaa Koulouri  Theodora: Tatiana Belyaeva
Theophilus: Dimitris Vaenas
Euphrosyne: Efthymia Kapageridou
Palatine: Anastasios Sideris
Young women: Vaya Aboud, Olga Bofonova, Despina Anastasiadou
Narrators: Evangelia Spyrakou, Eleni Simeonidou.
Costumes and set design.
Sound: Pavlos Gavrielidis.
Members of the musical groups participating in this event:
Thessaloniki Hymnodoi: Georgios Tsitsianopoulos, Leonidas Vlahopoulos, Stefanos Panagiotidis, Angelos Sefkas, Angelos Karatsiobanis, Anastasios Sideris, Savvas Topsachalidis, Nektarios Hadjimichael, Konstantinos Poleos, Nikos Plastaras, Fr. Christos Kotios, Alexandros Theodoropoulos, George Dormeanou, Apostolos Sophotasios, Fr. Chrysostomos Zafeiis, Aris Stamos, Mamatsios Dimitris, Andreas Popadonski, Thrasybulos Fouliras, John Lelekis, Christos Siapkaris, Anastasios Partoglou, John Partoglou, Grigorios Sultogiannis, Savvas Kourbogiannidis, Savvas Papavassiliou, Dionysios Paliouras, Dimitris Kleopas, Dimitrios Pinter, Konstantinos Paphilis, Vladimir Ioannidis, Manolis Petalotis, Mr. Ioannis Liakos, assistant professor of the Department of Social Theology and Christian Culture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Women’s Choir “Agia Anusia” of the H.E.M.E.: Efthymia Kapageridou, Nausika Koulouri, Alexia Kopsali, Evangelia Spyrakou, Eleni Simeonidou, Chrysa Trigoni, Evdokia Tsantila, Anna Tsakistara, Vaya Abood, Brett Arjomand, Tatiana Belyaeva, Olga Bofonova, Maria Alexandrou (conductor).
Ensemble of Classical Eastern Music “Psaltera”, T.M.S. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. : Myrsini Vekiou (violin), Anastasia Zachariadou (cannon), Kyriaki Kalaitzidou (violin), Alexia Kopsali (bendir), Demosthenes Spanoudakis (bendir), Maria Triga (bendir), Charalambos Tsobanopoulos (cannon), Andreas Axis (oud), Maria Alexandrou (cello).
Children’s Choir of the Holy Church of St. Seraphim of Sarov, Hiera Metropolis of Neapolis and Stavropol: Soilemezidis Alexander and Galini, Tepetidou Eleni and Maria, Kessapidi Agapi and Maria, Zosimidis Charalambos and Kyriakos, Siatkas Alexander and Vasiliki, Romanova Elpida, Papageorgiou Theocharis, Delianidis Iordanis, conductor. Olga Bofonova.
Group of Byzantine Music Palaeography “Chrysorreimon”, T.M.S. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.