Horto Festival 2024

Cretan music from Yiorgis Xilouris and his group of musicians that promote folk music and inspire the audience.

Performance rooted in ancestral memory and personal transformation directed by Sanja Krsmanović Tasić

In the presence of the composer and with the collaboration of the choir and orchestra of the Volos Music School, the Mixed Choir of Agrias and the Hortodia, we will rediscover the Secrets of the Garden, Lillipoupoli and the music for films and theatre that the composer Nikos Kypourgos has loved so much.

A 3 days workshop with morning activities for kids under the guidance of nursery school pedagogues.

Final concert of the 12 days seminar for winds and piano under the guidance of renowned professors and performers of music.

Dimitris Baslam narrates and accompanies with his guitar the stores of Gargalistis. (in Greek). Earlier at 20:00 a workshop for wooden swirls will be especially installed for the kids to discover the process of making them.

Acapella music from the US based chorus ensemble that tours Greece for first time.

Norbert Bouche Quartet visits Horto for second time, this time in the middle of the summer, to bring us back the feeling of swing and groove.

In collaboration with Cinobo stream service and Region of Thessaly, Horto Theater’s garden will be transformed into an outdoor cinema, from 3 to 16 August

Chamber Music Concert for Voice, Cello and Piano with works by Beethoven, Shostakovich, Bellini, Verdi by Eurydice Novak, soprano, Alexandros Kasartzis, cello and Giorgos Galiatsos, piano

Singer Tetti Kassioni joins forces with guitarist Giorgos Athanasiou, cellist Stavros Parginos and accordionist Dimos Vougioukas for a concert full of Mediterranean senses.

Yiorgos Allamanis, writer and journalist presents his research on composer’s biography and we watch Dimitris Vernikos documentary on Manos Hadjidakis life.

A bilingual storytelling performance with an emphasis on music. Narration & text adaptation by Katerina Theodore and music by Achilleas Toloudis.

Τhe acclaimed singer Vassilis Agrokostas together with the composer – arranger Zafiris Koukouselis and their artistic team, present a concert full of Greek Music.

A capella choral music and accompanied with piano from the established seminar’s choir under the direction of Philipp Amelung

The acknowledged pianist Apostolos Palios gives a midday piano recital with music from classical and romantic era.

At the end of the 3 days workshop Jörg Meder and Nicos Panagiotides are leading the ensemble on a midday short concert