The Greek Chamber Music Project performs classical and jazz music by Greek composers, shedding light on little-known works, as well as visiting familiar songs in a new way. GCMP's combination of all-Greek works are so unique, that they are rarely performed even within Greece.

Featured composers have included Manos Hadjidakis, Mikis Theodorakis, Manolis Kalormiris, Philippos Tsalahouris, Christos Hatzis, Andreas Makris, Dinos Constantinides, Dimitris Dragatakis, Michael Malis and others.

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Photography by KTT Boy Photography

Duo Mediterraneo is a voice and harp ensemble that my good friend Maria Chiossi and I established when I first relocated to London. We specialize in performing music specifically composed for our combination of instruments, while also venturing into experimental interpretations of medieval, renaissance, and early baroque compositions, not originally intended for voice and harp.
Recently, Maria moved to Chile, prompting us to put our collaboration on hold until we can reunite, hopefully....

La divina, The Last Interview of Maria Callas
This is a project that I was involved in as a director, not as a performer. It was my first directing attempt, and it has been an absolutely educating process.

Winner of the 2022 Best One Woman Show at United Solo Festival Off-Broadway, 2021 Orlando Fringe Critic’s Choice Award for Best Individual Performance in a Drama and Hollywood Pick of the Fringe (among others)! La divina: The Last Interview of Maria Callas is a one-woman show inspired by the life and work of the Dramatic 20th Century Opera Singer Maria Callas. The audience eavesdrops on La Divina’s interview with a nonexistant Mr. Wallace and are taken on a journey through trauma, allowed glimpses of an extremely complex and tormented woman, and treated to some operatic gems including “O Mio Babbino Caro”, “Habanera”, and “Vissi d’arte”. The show provides interesting tidbits from the singer’s life — how opera kept her alive during World War II — and delves some into her complicated relationship with Aristotle Onassis, while offering insight into the singer’s own complications. 

La divina, The Last Interview of Maria Callas is a flexible, easy-to-put-together show that is ideal for theatre festivals since it is only 50 minutes long and requires no props or set to be performed.
To book La Divina, contact Shelley Cooper at [email protected]. 
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Happy End by Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Well
Back in the spring of 2014, my good colleague Teddy Crecelius, at Mahidol University in Thailand, was planning to visit the Kurt Weill Foundation in New York City to seek help and funding for putting together a production of Happy End. Aware of my passion and dedication to the music of Kurt Weill, he asked me to be the music director. "What a great opportunity," I thought. Upon returning from NYC, Teddy brought back a substantial amount of money, secured the rights to the show, and presented a brilliant concept for the piece.
While putting the music together wasn't too difficult, helping the students grasp the challenges of Kurt Weill's style proved to be an intriguing process. Brecht and Weill represent a very different world, one our young students were not familiar with. This challenge allowed us to educate them "from scratch" and provide them with the opportunity to research and discover legendary performers of this music, such as Lotte Lenya and Ute Lemper.

​The piece was performed at the Alliance Française in Bangkok in October 2014.
The production photos posted on Facebook caught the attention of Michael Feingold, the author of the adaptation we used, which was exciting. To view the album, click on the photo on the left or click here.

From Guilt to Enlightenment
I collaborated on this project with pianist Kevin Bylsma during the period of 2010-2011 while I was still in the United States. My inspiration stemmed from religion-driven guilt and its impact on human relationships.
The 'Guilt' segment of the program is represented by repertoire from the Italian Baroque era, specifically focusing on laments that highlight human weaknesses such as guilt, despair, betrayal, and the desire for revenge. The 'Enlightenment' portion features music from the French post-romantic repertoire that reflects the opposite; themes of liberation, pleasure, and the freedom of personal expression.
This project is dedicated to an old friend of mine who often teetered between feelings of guilt and enlightenment.

Welcome to Bedlam
Bethlem Royal Hospital is a hospital in London, United Kingdom, specializing in the treatment of mental illness. It is Europe's first and oldest institution dedicated to mental health care. Over the years, it has been known by various names including St Mary Bethlehem, Bethlem Hospital, Bethlehem Hospital, and, informally and most notoriously, Bedlam.
Founded in 1247, it has been an important subject and a source of inspiration for many artists, who would visit its facilities and take tours observing the patients. Henry Purcell was one of those artists who, in 1683, published his Bess of Bedlam, a mad scene in which Bess, a resident of Bedlam, has been driven insane by lovesick grief.
Sometime between 2008 and 2010, I was working on 'Bess,' and I fell in love with its content and structure, especially its oscillation between being a monologue and an aria. Still a student and having time for research, I was delighted to discover many more of Purcell's songs belonging to the same sub-genre; the Mad Song. At the time, I was also emotionally charged, and the music seemed to resonate perfectly with my emotional state.

I decided to create a concert program in three parts: the first part featured Italian Baroque compositions by Antonio Vivaldi and Francesco Cavalli, where love is portrayed as a happy feeling with small doses of longing. The second part featured lute songs by John Dowland, highlighting the sadness and often subtle Renaissance depression of lost love. The third part was dedicated to the darkest and most undesirable side of love, featuring Purcell's mad songs and showcasing the journey from happy love to insanity.
Kevin Bylsma was my partner during the presentation of this brilliant music.

Wandering, Songs of Love and Dream
Andreas Xenopoulos and I are both musicians who lived abroad for many years, driven by educational and professional pursuits. Though we hail from the same country, we first met in a small town in Bowling Green, Ohio. There, we collaborated on various chamber music and photography projects. However, what truly brought us joy and inspiration was gathering with friends to cook, drink, and sing old Greek rembetika songs—a form of Greek blues—expressing themes of love, loss, longing, and homesickness, all of which we knew intimately.

Andreas played the accordion while I sang, and this form of home entertainment eventually evolved into numerous concerts and collaborations, primarily supported by the Department of Greek Studies at the University of Michigan and Greek communities across Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, and New York City. As we traveled, we encountered people experiencing our music for the first time, as well as many expats who recognized the tunes and would often join in singing along. Each concert became an opportunity to make new friends, many of whom we still keep in touch with today.

After working on more than a hundred songs through concerts and rehearsals, we finally managed to record those songs that we believe best reflect the feelings of those far from their homes and families. These songs hold a special place in our hearts, reminding us of the great times we shared together in America, the people we met, the tears shed, the laughter, the agonies, and the lessons learned—each experience equipping us with wisdom and fortitude for the challenging journeys that lie ahead.

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Langsam was an electronic music group formed sometime at the beginning of the century while I was still living in Greece. The mastermind behind it was my friend Babis Georgiadis, a wonderful composer who also wrote the lyrics right before I entered the booth to record, so it's no wonder why they may not make much sense.
We never released a CD, but our song "I'm Sorry" was included in the compilation album "One Nation" by Klik Records. All of our songs were recorded and mastered at the Underground Sound Studio in Thessaloniki by Sotiris Noukas.
You can purchase the compilation album at: www.klikrecords.gr/portfolio/one-nation-2/