In Evropos, a village in northern Greece, Danis Koumartzis carves out the wooden sound box of a traditional lyre before covering it with animal hide and attaching nine strings that when plucked ...

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey features Ludwig Göransson's groundbreaking score, abandoning traditional orchestras for authentic, period-accurate ancient Greek textures.

The Greek virtuoso owns one of the pecious instruments, but it was only following years of separation after a brief fling with it near the start of his career... The Greek violin virtuoso Leonidas ...

Leonidas Kavakos has a unique timbre and a flawless techinque. In Luxemburg the Greek violin virtuso recently interpreted Stravinsky's extraordinary Violin Concerto in D major, and "Musica" was there ...

Hymns sung to the Greek gods thousands of years ago resonated from ancient musical instruments in Athens on Thursday, transporting a transfixed audience to antiquity. The phorminx, the kitharis, the ...

Greek ViolinViolinist Leonidas Kavakos takes the solo part in the Violin Concerto in E-minor, by Felix Mendelssohn. Kavakos is in concert with the Montreal Symphony and conductor Herbert Blomstedt.

EVROPOS, Greece, - In Evropos, a village in northern Greece, Danis Koumartzis carves out the wooden sound box of a traditional lyre before covering it with animal hide and attaching nine strings that ...