Savina Yannatou

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Savina Yannatou at a concert in ort eV Wuppertal, April 2009

Savina Yannatou ( Greek Σαβίνα Γιαννάτου Savína Giannátou ; born March 16, 1959 in Athens ) is a Greek singer and composer.

Live and act

In her youth she took classical guitar lessons and sang in a choir for several years. As an adult, Yannatou studied singing at the National Conservatory of Athens with Gogo Georgilopoulou and at Spyros Sakkas ' singing studio, as well as music theory with Alexandros Enian and guitar with Gerasimos Eliaresis . She then attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London as a postgraduate . Since 1979 she has worked professionally as a singer.

In 1980 her first CD Edo Lilipouli was released with children's songs, followed in 1985 by Nanourismata with lullaby and lullaby. In addition, she appeared in works by modern Greek composers such as the opera Erotokritos and Aretousa by Nikos Mamangakis and made a name for herself as an interpreter of works from the pre-classical period. Since 1983 she has worked with the Studio for Early Music , which performs works from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Baroque on historical instruments.

With the CD Aniksi sti Saloniki ( Primavera en Salonico ) she took on the tradition of Sephardic music as it was received by the cantor David Saltiel . This resulted in the Primavera Ensemble in Saloniko with Kyriakos Gouventas , Yannis Alexandris , Mihalis Siganidis , Harris Lambrakis and Kostas Theodorou under the direction of Kostas Vomvolos , which is dedicated to the music of the Mediterranean and the Middle East. In 1998 their first CD with songs from the Mediterranean was released.

Yannatou is also a well-known interpreter of classical world music and presented her own compositions for electronic music with the album Rosa das Rosas (2000). She composed music for theater, dance and video works and has improvised with musicians such as Peter Kowald and Barry Guy ( Attikos , 2010). In the film project Der Raub der Sabinerinnen by Eve Sussman & The Rufus Corporation , which was shown at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin at the beginning of 2007 , she appears as a singer. Günter Baby Sommer brought her to perform as the interpreter of his Requiem Songs for Kommeno (2012).

Discography

  • Edo Lilipouli , 1980-81
  • Sabotage , compositions by Lena Platonos , 1981
  • Karyotakis: thirteen songs , poems by Kostas Karyotakis , set to music by Lena Platonos, 1982
  • Zei o vasilias Alexandros , 1983
  • To '62 tou Manou Chatzidaki , 1983
  • Nanourismata , orchestral setting by Nikos Kypourgos , 1985
  • Mila mou jia mila , 1985
  • I Icho ke ta lathi tis , 1985
  • Erotokritos ke Aretoussa , 1985
  • O Odysseas sto potami , 1985
  • Minimal suite - Double image , 1986
  • En Athinais , 1986
  • Masko with Nikos Touliatos, 1994
  • Anixi sti Saloniki - Sefarditika laika tragoudia with the group Primavera en Salonico , 1995
  • Anapnoes , texts and composition by Lena Platonos, 1997
  • Apocheretismi tis thalassas , 1997
  • Tragoudia tis Mesogiou , with the Primavera en Salonico group , 1998
  • Panagies tou Kosmou with the group Primavera en Salonico , 1999
  • Rosa das Rosa (Lyra / Musurgia Graece 2000–2001)
  • Terra nostra with the Primavera en Salonico group (ECM 2002)
  • Pao na po sto synnefo. Savinna Yannatou Sings Manos Hadjidakis (Lyra 2002)
  • Sumiglia with the group Primavera en Salonico (ECM 2005)
  • Mousiki domation , 2007
  • Songs of an Other (ECM 2008)
  • Antonis Anissegos , Thymios Atzakas , Savina Yannatou, Michalis Siganidis with Maria Thoidou Soma (2009)
  • Songs of Thessaloniki with the group Primavera en Salonico (ECM 2015)
Participation in the works of others (selection)

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personal data
SURNAME Yannatou, Savina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Giannátou, Savína; Γιαννάτου, Σαβίνα (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek singer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens