“Marios Joannou Elia’s thrilling ‘Thalatta, thalatta!’ still reverberates in the ears”
Der Standard
CHAMBER MUSIC (up to 7 instruments)
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[PFEFFER] [SALZ] [ALAS] [IKELOS] [VERFLUCHT] [APOPHIS] [VERSTECKSPIEL] [LILT]
[SCHWARZE MILCH] [AUF ZEHENSPITZEN] [ANTIDORON] [STRAWBERRIES AND GRAPES] [TESSERA]
[QUIXOTIC] [TEARS IN CRYSTAL VASE] [SIGNALS] [TEARS IN CRYSTAL VASE] [I HAVE SEEN YOU TOMORROW]
[WITH A PAIR OF SCISSORS AND A THOUSAND THREADS] [DER VERRÜCKTE GRANATAPFELBAUM] [IM SPIEGEL] [ONTOLOGIE KUBIK]
PFEFFER
SALZ
for guitar quartet
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Year of Composition: 2013/16
Duration: 4′:30”
Commission: Miscelanea Guitar Quartet.
Premiere: Internationales Gitarrenfestival Hersbruck, 2016.
Miscelanea Guitar Quartet.
for guitar quartet
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Year of Composition: 2013/15-16
Duration: 5′
Note: Guitar 4 doubles electric guitar, ad lib.
Commission: Miscelanea Guitar Quartet.
Premiere: Jazz Festival am Bahnhof Salzburg, 2016.
Miscelanea Guitar Quartet.
ALAS
IKELOS
for flute and guitar
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Year of Composition: 2013
Duration: 4′:30”
Commission: Internationales Gitarrenfestival Passauer Saiten.
Premiere: Eröffnungskonzert, Kloster Niederburg, Aula (21.3.2016).
Flute: Vera Klug, Guitar: Yvonne Zehner.
for violin, cello and clavichord
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Year of Composition: 2010
Duration: 3′:30″
Commission: Ensemble cross.art / Literary Summer Stuttgart in Homage to Johann Peter Hebel.
Premiere: Catholic Church Hausen im Wiesenthal (April 22, 2010).
Ensemble cross.art, Stuttgart.
VERFLUCHT
APOPHIS
version for electric and classical guitar
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Year of Composition: 2008
Title Translation: CURSED
Duration: 8′
Commission: Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation.
Premiere: Republic – State of the Arts, Salzburg (May 17, 2008).
Electric guitar: Ronny Wiesauer, Classical guitar: Kostas Tosidis.
for guitar quartet
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Year of Composition: 2001/08
Duration: 4′:30″
Commission: Otto Mauer Foundation, Vienna.
Premiere: Aula Magna Rectorado, Carlos III University, Madrid (April 16, 2008).
Miscelanea Guitar Quartet, Salzburg.
STAUBZUCKER
VERSTECKSPIEL
for guitar quartet
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Year of Composition: 2007
Title Translation: POWDERED SUGAR
Duration: 3′:30″
Commission: International Association for Polyaesthetic Education in Homage to Wolfgang Roscher.
Supported by: Bankhaus Spraengler.
Premiere: Solitär Salzburg (October 20, 2007).
Miscelanea Guitar Quartet, Salzburg.
for quintet
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Year of Composition: 2006
Title Translation: HIDE-AND-SEEK
Instrumentation: Flute, clarinet, piano, violin, cello.
Text: “Kinderspiel” by Christian Adolf Overbeck (in German), hide-and-seek game expressions.
Duration: 7′
Commission: The Korean Society of the 21st Century Music.
Premiere: Chamber Music Today Festival, Seoul (March 28, 2007).
Hwaum Chamber Orchestra, Seoul.
LILT
SCHWARZE MILCH
for ensemble
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Year of Composition: 2006
Instrumentation: Saxophone, violin, piano, percussion.
Text: “Kinderspiel” by Christian Adolf Overbeck (in German), hide-and-seek game expressions.
Duration: 7′
Commission: Hamburger Klangwerktage.
Premiere: Hamburger Klangwerktage – Festival for Contemporary Music, Hamburg (October 8, 2006).
Ensemble Modern – IEMA Frankfurt (Cond. Nacho de Paz).
for bass clarinet duet
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Year of Composition: 2005
Title Translation: BLACK MILK
Text: “Schwarze Milch” by Paul Celan.
Duration: 8′
Commission: Mauthausen Concentration Camp Memorial.
Premiere: Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Linz (May 11, 2005).
Bass clarinets: Theodor Burkali, Fritz Kronthaler.
AUF ZEHENSPITZEN
ANTIDORON
for electric guitar duet
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Year of Composition: 2005
Title Translation: ON TIPTOE
Instrumentation: Flute, clarinet, piano, violin, cello.
Text: Impulses from “I used to always wear my watch on the left hand” by Marios Joannou Elia (in English).
Duration: 6′:30″ (Short version: 3′:30″).
Commission: Mozarteum Salzburg, Eliot Fisk’s Guitar and Friends, Salzburg.
Premiere: Central State Theatre Salzburg. A portrait concert of works by Marios Joannou Elia (April 24, 2005).
Electric Guitars: Günter Wiesauer, Ronald Wiesauer.
for amplified string quartet (violin solo and string trio)
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Year of Composition: 2004
Title Translation: HOLY BREAD
Subtitle: REQUIEM FOR COSTAS MONTIS
Text: “Moments of the Invasion” by Costas Montis, Quotations by Montis and Paracelsus (in English).
Duration: 12′
Commission: stART Festival aktueller Musik, Salzburg.
Premiere: Lutosławski Festival, Warsaw Philharmonic (February 14, 2005).
Rubinstein Quartet, Łódź.
Premiere with amplification: Konzerthaus Berlin (June 18, 2006).
Ensemble Modern, Frankfurt (Cond. Titus Engel), Sound projection: Norbert Ommer.
ERDBEEREN UND TRAUBEN
TESSERA
for (amplified) string trio
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Year of Composition: 2004
Title Translation: STRAWBERRIES AND GRAPES
Text: “Moments of the Invasion” by Costas Montis, Quotations by Montis and Paracelsus (in English).
Duration: 12′
Commission: Chamber Music Festival, Basel.
Premiere: Grosser Saal of Musik-Akademie Basel (June 28, 2004).
Ensemble Phoenix, Basel (Cond. Jürg Henneberger).
for recorder duet and double bass trio
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Year of Composition: 2004
Title Translation: FOUR
Text: Traditional folk song “Four and four” (in Cypriot Greek).
Duration: 10′
Commission: Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation.
Premiere: Orangerie Darmstadt, Internationale Ferienkurse (July 17, 2008).
Recorder: Lisa Kortleitner, Verena Wüsthoff, Double bass: Dario Danone, Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka, Fernando Yakoto deos Santos, Conductor: Eduardo Strausser, Répétiteur: Uli Fussenegger, Jeremias Schwarzer.
QUIXOTIC
TEARS IN CRYSTAL VASE
for septet
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Year of Composition: 2003/04
Instrumentation: Clarinet, trombone, percussion, harp, viola, cello, double bass.
Text: Traditional folk song “Four and four” (in Cypriot Greek).
Duration: 7′
Commission: Austrian Composer’s Union.
Premiere: Rachmaninov Hall of Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow (May 11, 2010).
Studio for New Music Ensemble, Moscow (Cond. Roland Freisitzer).
for ensemble
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Year of Composition: 2003/04
Instrumentation: Bassoon, violin, guitar, accordion.
Duration: 5′
Commission: Carl Michael Ziehrer Foundation, Vienna.
Premiere: Orangerie Darmstadt, Internationale Ferienkurse (August 18, 2006).
Accordion: Davide Vendramin, Bassoon: Elise Jacoberger, Bassoon assistance: Yohann Deigers, Violin: Nataliya Demina, Guitar: Matthias Koole, Conductor: Daniel Carberg.
SIGNALS
I HAVE SEEN YOU TOMORROW
for amplified string trio
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Year of Composition: 2003
Duration: 15′
Commission: Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture.
Premiere: Royal Northern College of Music (September 19, 2003).
Ensemble Eleven, Manchester.
for ensemble
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Year of Composition: 2003
Instrumentation: Flute in A, bass clarinet, percussion, piano, cello.
Text: “Burning Words” by Marios Joannou Elia (in English).
Duration: 11′
Commission: Hinrichsen Foundation, London.
Premiere: Dartington Festival, Devon (August 8, 2003).
Dartington Festival Ensemble, Répétiteur: David Bedford.
WITH A PAIR OF SCISSORS AND A THOUSAND THREADS
DER VERRÜCKTE GRANATAPFELBAUM
for violin and one guitarist simultaneously performing on two guitars
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Year of Composition: 2002
Duration: 10′
Premiere with electric guitars: Kettle’s Yard Cambridge, Cambridge University New Music Ensemble (November 8, 2002).
Premiere with classical guitars: Vienna Guitar Festival, ORF Radiokulturhaus (April 1, 2005).
Violin: Amiram Ganz, Guitars: Maria Isabel Siewers.
for horn and tuba
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Year of Composition: 2002
Title Translation: THE MAD POMEGRANATE TREE
Text: “The mad pomegranate tree” by Odysseas Elytis.
Duration: 7′
Commission: Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation.
Premiere: Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg, Vienna Hall (March 21, 2002).
Horn: Traianos Eleftheriades, Tuba: Christian Penz.
Premiere of short version: Musica Viva, Munich (June 27, 2008).
Soloists of Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Horn: Ursula Kepser, Tuba: Stefan Tischler.
IM SPIEGEL
ONTOLOGIE KUBIK
for cello and guitar
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Year of Composition: 2002
Title Translation: IN THE MIRROR
Duration: 6′
Commission: International Society for Polyaesthetic Education.
Premiere: International Symposium of the IGPE, Weinberg Castle – Knight’s Hall, Upper Austria (as part of the homonymous children’s music theatre) (July 4, 2002).
Cello: Michaela Schwarzbauer, Guitar: Marios Joannou Elia.
for guitar duet
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Year of Composition: 2001
Title Translation: CUBIC ONTOLOGY
Note: There is also a version for solo guitar entitled ONTOLOGIE PARALLEL (PARALLEL ONTOLOGY).
Duration: 7′
Premiere: Savarez-Corelli Chamber Music Festival, Schloss Frohnburg Palace, Salzburg (June 21, 2005).
Guitar: Kostas Tosidis, Yorgos Nousis.
ECHO
for piano trio and live electronic
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Year of Composition: 2001
Instrumentation Alternative: for piano duet (live electronic ad libitum)
Duration: 6′
Premiere: Teatro di Villa Mazzacorati di Bologna (August 2, 2003) (see Solo Music).
Piano: Stefano Malferrari.
