Panta Rhei

Alternative Stage Founding Donor  

Major Sponsor of the Greek National Opera

Distinguished pianist Christina Panteli will give a special piano recital, titled Panta Rhei, dedicated to composer Joseph Papadatos, at the GNO Alternative Stage at the SNFCC on Tuesday, 12 May 2026. The programme will feature the composer's entire solo piano repertoire, covering a significant historical range of works from 1985 to 2025. Admission will be free to the public.

The concert collects pieces composed over a period of four decades, interconnected by a single, persistent pursuit: how can sound reveal the invisible currents of inner experience? Music unfolds less as narration and more as a presence – an art of listening that invites the sense of hearing on a journey inward.

From the piece Aénaa, where time is perceived as a constant, cyclical flow, to subsequent works, such as Nocturnal Echo, Anadyomene (Rising from the Sea), In the Light of Hope, and Reactivate, the piano becomes a field of emergence. Sounds do not simply appear: they arise, echo, and return, as if shaped by powers beyond conscious perception. Silence is not absence but a creative space in which the form prepares and transforms.

The works resonate with a contemplative sensitivity, exploring immobility, transformation, and the quiet development of awareness. At the same time, they remain grounded in sound’s natural qualities: touch, coordination, and breathing.

What emerges is a music of becoming, in which every gesture carries the trace of what was and the promise of what may return. Audiences are invited to enter a space where time, memory, and perception converge in silence.

Christina Panteli
She has a record of numerous recitals in Greece and internationally, including Austria, Switzerland, France, the United States of America, Turkey, London, Italy, Germany, and Ukraine. She has collaborated as a soloist with Greek and international orchestras in Greece and across Europe. She has repeatedly recorded for the Greek Radio, and her recordings have been broadcast by ERT’s Third Programme and by similar stations in Canada, South Africa, Italy, and Russia. She often performs works by Greek composers, many of which are dedicated to her. She has also given numerous chamber music concerts featuring strings and winds, two pianos, and voice, and has performed many of her own transcriptions. She has released two albums featuring works by Greek composers for saxophone and piano on the labels Acroasis and NAXOS. She earned her piano degree with honors by unanimous vote, including First Prize and a Gold Medal, after studying with Professor Thodoros Kotepanos at the Athenaeum Conservatory. She continued her piano studies at the École Normale de Musique de Paris alongside Edson Elias, graduating with honors in Piano Performance. Two years later, after studying with Pavel Chezinsky at Roosevelt University in the USA, she obtained her postgraduate degree in piano with honors by unanimous vote.

Joseph Papadatos
Born in 1960, he is a composer and Composition Professor in the Department of Music Studies at the Ionian University. He has also served as President of the Department and as Dean and Vice-Rector of the Institution. He is the current Director of the Institute of Music and Artistic Creation at the University Center for Research and Innovation. He studied in Greece with Andrea Carbone, Athina Kapodistria, and  Yannis Ioannidis; in Düsseldorf, Germany, with Günther Becker; and in Cologne with Hans Ulrich Humpert. He also attended algorithmic composition courses with Clarence Barlow and Byzantine music courses with Dimitris Terzakis. He has received numerous scholarships and has repeatedly been awarded prizes in some of the world’s most important composition competitions. He has composed more than 120 works. He has given several lectures and seminars on contemporary musical creation. He has collaborated with ERT’s Third Programme as a producer of music shows. He has served on juries for major Greek and international composition competitions. He is a member of the Greek Composers’ Union and served as its President from 2018 to 2025.