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Residency of Marina Liontou Mochament

hosted by VOLAX - Village Of cuLture & Art eXperience
Participating countries:
  • Cyprus
  • Greece
  • Music

Period

  • From 01-08-2024 to 07-08-2024
Generation #3

Website

Address

Drama

Project summary

Dr. Marina Liontou Mochament is an oud player, composer and artistic researcher. Her performance and research interests span from early 20th century urban music to contemporary modal music performance and composition. For this residency, she will collaborate with Volax Festival in a project inspired by the eerie village of Volax: past and almost obsolete modal traditions of a remote frontier village coexist with music and musicians coming from all-over the world. The coexistence of the past and present in a rural distant space triggered the artist’s inspiration to create a project where the creative synergy of past and present will be transferred to a contemporary modal music work, encompassing improvised and pre-composed original material.

Artist

Marina Liontou Mochament

Biography: Dr. Marina Liontou-Mochament was born in Athens (1984). She studied Computer Science (2005, Athens Economic University) and Oud (2011, University of Ioannina). She holds a master’s degree in Oud and Performance from Codarts - University for the Arts (Rotterdam, The Netherlands). She completed her phD studies (October 2023) with the research subject: 'Enhancing inspiration: metric modal improvisation and compositional tools in contemporary modal music', in the Academy of Performing Arts, Leiden University, Netherlands. From 2013 to 2018 she lived and worked in Istanbul as a performing musician. She is a member of Sinafi Trio (TR/GR) and Crossover Trio (GR), performing in Greece and abroad. She leads workshops on oud, modal music, makam improvisation and music creativity in Greece and abroad.
Contact: liontou@gmail.com

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