10 - 14 June 

Subset Festival – New Music Festival  

Curated by Stavros Gasparatos 

In co-production with the Athens Conservatoire 

The Subset Festival, the multifaceted music platform launched last year, held by the Athens Epidaurus Festival in co-production with the Athens Conservatoire, returns refreshed but always with a focus on the dialogue between contemporary music and new media.  

Named after a mathematical term (subset ⊆), the Subset Festival together diverse versions of contemporary musical creation, incorporating a wide variety of artistic trends. From 10 to 14 June, the renovated Conservatoire venues will host musical ensembles and soloists, established and up-and-coming alike, both from Greece and around the world, visual and sound installations and performances, as well as open call workshops. 

The Subset Festival includes commissions to contemporary Greek ensembles and artists (Andys Skordis, Nefeli Stamatogiannopoulou, Evi Nakou, Vassoula Delli, George Kokkinaris, Thanos Polymeneas, MIZI, Alexandros Drymonitis, Magda Lampropoulou, Dimitra Kousteridou, Giorgos Poulios) who create seven new works-installations especially for the Festival. Other participants comprise renowned contemporary music ensembles and artists from Greece (Jannis Anastasakis and Natalia Manda) and abroad (Arve Henriksen, Raed Yassin, Laurel Halo, Klara Lewis, Nik Colk Void, Pedro Maia, Ben Frost, as well as Solistensemble Kaleidoskop for the world premiere of Maya Dunietz’s new work). The highlight of the Festival –which is becoming a valuable locus of artistic dialogue for the international music community– will be the screening of Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus directed by the Japanese-American filmmaker Neo Sora who recorded the final solo piano performance of its namesake composer and musician prior to his death.