Clio-Danae Othoneou
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Clio Danae Othoneou is a Greek stage and television actress, musician
and pianist
.
, Greece, where her parents studied, is the oldest of three daughters.
At the age of 2, they moved to Xanthi
, her mother's hometown. There she began the first courses of piano in the National Conservatoire of Xanthi
at the young age of 5 and a half years old.
A few years later she moved to Athens
(Cholargos
), her father's hometown.
, in Athens Conservatoire
and the Attica Conservatoire, where she studied with Marina Lamprinoudi, Parry Derempei-Papastavrou and Dionyssis Malloychos.
She gave her first public performance at age seven in "Parnassos Hall" in Athens, playing Claude Debussy
.
From 1996 she appeared in many piano and phonetics concerts, in various Greek cities and in a many Athenian halls.
In 1998 she received her degree in the piano and in 2000 a diploma Soloist
, with professor Dimitris Toufexis.
Irini Karayianni.
She had seminars in the 4th Aestival Academy of National Theatre on the subject: “The body of actor and the cultural identities” and in the 6th Aestival Academy of National Theatre on the subject: “The Love in the Art”.
In 2005 she graduated from the Superior Dramatic Faculty of National Theatre
.
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
and pianist
Pianist
A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...
.
Family and early life
Born September 30, 1979 in ThessalonikiThessaloniki
Thessaloniki , historically also known as Thessalonica, Salonika or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of the region of Central Macedonia as well as the capital of the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace...
, Greece, where her parents studied, is the oldest of three daughters.
At the age of 2, they moved to Xanthi
Xanthi
Xanthi ; is a city in Thrace, northeastern Greece. It is the capital of the Xanthi peripheral unit of the periphery of East Macedonia and Thrace.-History:...
, her mother's hometown. There she began the first courses of piano in the National Conservatoire of Xanthi
National Conservatoire (Greece)
The Greek National Conservatoire was founded in Athens in 1926 by the composer Manolis Kalomiris and a number of other notable artists like Charikleia Kalomoiri, Marika Kotopouli, Dionysios Lavrangas, and Sophia Spanoudi...
at the young age of 5 and a half years old.
A few years later she moved to Athens
Athens
Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
(Cholargos
Cholargos
Cholargos is a suburb of Athens, Greece, located northeast of the city center and about 6 kilometers away from Syntagma square. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Papagou-Cholargos, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit.It is accessed by Messogion Avenue...
), her father's hometown.
Music education
In step with her schooling, she continued piano studies in the National Conservatoire (Greece)National Conservatoire (Greece)
The Greek National Conservatoire was founded in Athens in 1926 by the composer Manolis Kalomiris and a number of other notable artists like Charikleia Kalomoiri, Marika Kotopouli, Dionysios Lavrangas, and Sophia Spanoudi...
, in Athens Conservatoire
Athens Conservatoire
The Athens Conservatoire is the oldest conservatoire in modern Greece. It was founded in 1871 by the Athens Music and Drama Society. Initially, the musical instruments that were taught there were limited to the violin and the flute, representative of the ancient Greek Apollonian and Dionysian...
and the Attica Conservatoire, where she studied with Marina Lamprinoudi, Parry Derempei-Papastavrou and Dionyssis Malloychos.
She gave her first public performance at age seven in "Parnassos Hall" in Athens, playing Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy
Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
.
From 1996 she appeared in many piano and phonetics concerts, in various Greek cities and in a many Athenian halls.
In 1998 she received her degree in the piano and in 2000 a diploma Soloist
Solo (music)
In music, a solo is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer...
, with professor Dimitris Toufexis.
Theatre education
In step with her musical courses, she studied for one year in the Superior Dramatic Faculty “ARCHI" of Nelli Karra. The next year she passed through examinations to be imported in the Superior Dramatic Faculty of National Theatre. The same period, she studied lyrical music with sopranoSoprano
A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...
Irini Karayianni.
She had seminars in the 4th Aestival Academy of National Theatre on the subject: “The body of actor and the cultural identities” and in the 6th Aestival Academy of National Theatre on the subject: “The Love in the Art”.
In 2005 she graduated from the Superior Dramatic Faculty of National Theatre
National Theatre of Greece
The National Theatre of Greece is based in Athens, Greece.-History:The theatre was originally founded in 1880 with a grant from King George I and Efstratios Rallis to give theatre a permanent home in Athens...
.
Stage Credits
- In 1997-1998 collaborated with the "Theatre of Art" in the representation "LES FEMMES SAVANTESLes Femmes SavantesLes Femmes savantes is a play by Molière in five acts, written in verse. A satire on academic pretention, female education, and préciosité , it was one of his most popular comedies...
" of MolièreMolièreJean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature...
in direction Giorgos Lazanis, music by Nickos Platanos.
- Theatrical period 2003-2004 collaborated as pianist with the "Experimental Scene" of National Theatre in the work of León TolstóiLeo TolstoyLev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist...
“SONATA A KREUTZERThe Kreutzer SonataThe Kreutzer Sonata is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1889 and promptly censored by the Russian authorities. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence and an in-depth first-person description of jealous rage...
” in direction Stratis Panourios.
- In 2005 participated in the representation of "Experimental Scene" of National Theatre “ORESTEIAThe OresteiaThe Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus which concerns the end of the curse on the House of Atreus. When originally performed it was accompanied by Proteus, a satyr play that would have been performed following the trilogy; it has not survived...
” written by AeschylusAeschylusAeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived, the others being Sophocles and Euripides, and is often described as the father of tragedy. His name derives from the Greek word aiskhos , meaning "shame"...
, in direction Dimitris Lignadis.
- In June 2005 presented in Epidaurus as "Medea" in the representation “EXODOS” (Exit) in direction Dimitris Lignadis.
- The same summertime 2005, participated in Festival Epidaurus in the theatre of EpidaurusEpidaurusEpidaurus was a small city in ancient Greece, at the Saronic Gulf. Two modern towns bear the name Epidavros : Palaia Epidavros and Nea Epidavros. Since 2010 they belong to the new municipality of Epidavros, part of the peripheral unit of Argolis...
in the representation “MEDEAMedeaMedea is a woman in Greek mythology. She was the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children, Mermeros and Pheres. In Euripides's play Medea, Jason leaves Medea when Creon, king of...
” written by EuripidesEuripidesEuripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him but according to the Suda it was ninety-two at most...
, in direction Peter SteinPeter SteinPeter Stein is a critically acclaimed German theatre and opera director who established himself at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, a company that he brought to the forefront of German theatre....
.
- Theatrical period 2005-2006 participated in the representation “THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUSThe Tragical History of Doctor FaustusThe Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is a play by Christopher Marlowe, based on the Faust story, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge...
” written by Christopher MarloweChristopher MarloweChristopher Marlowe was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. As the foremost Elizabethan tragedian, next to William Shakespeare, he is known for his blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his mysterious death.A warrant was issued for Marlowe's arrest on 18 May...
, in direction Dimitris Lignadis, in the "New Scene" of National Theatre.
- Theatrical period 2005-2006 participated in the representation “ELECTRAElectraIn Greek mythology, Electra was an Argive princess and daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra. She and her brother Orestes plotted revenge against their mother Clytemnestra and stepfather Aegisthus for the murder of their father Agamemnon...
” written by SophoclesSophoclesSophocles is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus, and earlier than or contemporary with those of Euripides...
, in direction E. Theodorou, in the "New Scene" of National Theatre.
- Theatrical period 2006-2007 participates leading as "Queen Isabella" in the representation “DON CARLOSDon CarlosDon Carlos is a five-act grand opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi to a French language libretto by Camille du Locle and Joseph Méry, based on the dramatic play Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien by Friedrich Schiller...
” written by Friedrich SchillerFriedrich SchillerJohann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life , Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
, in direction of Kostas Arbanitakis in the Royal Theatre of National theatre of Northern Greece.
- Winter 2007-2008 with the support of Ministry of Mercantile Marine, tours the islands of AegeanAegean SeaThe Aegean Sea[p] is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkan and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey. In the north, it is connected to the Marmara Sea and Black Sea by the Dardanelles and Bosporus...
in the frames of 1st Festival Aegean Archipelagos, with the performance “TOTALARTE” with the work of Camille Saint-SaënsCamille Saint-SaënsCharles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...
, Le Carnaval des animaux (The Carnival of the AnimalsThe Carnival of the AnimalsLe carnaval des animaux is a musical suite of fourteen movements by the French Romantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns. The orchestral work has a duration between 22 and 30 minutes.-History:...
), in adaptation and artistic assiduity Yannis Georgiadis for piano and stringPiano quintetIn European classical music, a piano quintet is a work of chamber music written for piano and four other instruments, most commonly piano, two violins, viola, and cello . Among the most frequently performed piano quintets are those by Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, César Franck, Antonín Dvořák...
quintetQuintetA quintet is a group containing five members.It is commonly associated with musical groups, such as a string quintet, or a group of five singers, but can be applied to any situation where five similar or related objects are considered a single unit....
.
- Spring 2008 presented in the musical scene Caminito in Athens, in the musical representation “Noches Tangueras”, with the composer Zoe Tiganouria and the group Senso Latino.
- Summer 2008 tours all Greece participates leading in the representation of the Crete's Municipal and Regional Theatre as "The Bride" in the representation “BLOOD WEDDING” written by Federico García LorcaFederico García LorcaFederico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca was a Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27. He is believed to be one of thousands who were summarily shot by anti-communist death squads...
, in direction of Kostas Tsianos.
- Winter 2008-2009 participates leading as Miranda Grey, in the representation “THE COLLECTORThe CollectorThe Collector is the title of a 1963 novel by John Fowles. It was made into a movie in 1965.- Plot summary :The novel is about a lonely young man, Frederick Clegg, who works as a clerk in a city hall, and collects butterflies in his spare time...
” written by John FowlesJohn FowlesJohn Robert Fowles was an English novelist and essayist. In 2008, The Times newspaper named Fowles among their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".-Birth and family:...
, in direction of George Kimoulis.
- Summer 2009 tours all Greece participates leading in the representation of the Kozani's Municipal and Regional Theatre as "DulcineaDulcinea"Dulcinea del Toboso" is a fictional character who is referred to in Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote. Seeking the traditions of the knights-errant of old, Don Quixote finds a true love whom he calls Dulcinea. She is a simple peasant in his home town, but Quixote imagines her to be the most...
" in the representation “DON QUIXOTE” written by Miguel de CervantesMiguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus, Don Quixote, considered the first modern novel, is a classic of Western literature, and is regarded amongst the best works of fiction ever written...
, in direction of Yannis Karahisarides.
- After a few months absence because of maternity, reappears in spring of 2011 at the Foundation Michalis Kakoyannis in the representation "Do you remember how smelled the magnolias in Nicaragua" directed by George Karamihos.
- Summer 2011 starting from Epidaurus tours Greece and Cyprus participates in the representation of the National Theatre “SKINOVATES” in direction of Stamatis Fasoulis.
Television Credits
- Television period 2000-2001 participates in the children's emission of ERTElliniki Radiofonia TileorasiThe Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation is the Greek state-owned public radio and television broadcasting corporation. It is a member of EBU.Since 70's ERT is part of the Eurovision Song Contest, organized by EBU...
(Greek Radio Television) “A-mpempa-mplom”, (Lady Musical) in direction Nickos Pilavios.
- Television period 2006-2007 participates in the television serialSerial (radio and television)Serials are series of television programs and radio programs that rely on a continuing plot that unfolds in a sequential episode by episode fashion. Serials typically follow main story arcs that span entire television seasons or even the full run of the series, which distinguishes them from...
of MEGAMega ChannelMega Channel, also known as Mega TV or just Mega, is a major television network in Greece. Teletypos S.A. was founded in 1989 under the name Teletypos Television Programmes S.A...
"Mazi souMazi souMazi sou is a Greek drama featuring two teenagers whose only common link is their age. Two 17 year old teens who run away, one from a juvenile institution and the other from her home, and scour Northern Greece and Turkey,following the "arid" railroad near Maritsa's bank.-Overview:Ares runs away...
" (With you), script Kostas Vazakas, direction Alexandros Pantazoudis.
- Television period 2007-2008 participates leading in the television serial of ANT1ANT1Antenna, better known as ANT1, is a television network airing in Greece and Cyprus. The alternate spelling is play on words in Greek; ena is the Greek number 1, thus ANT1 is pronounced the same as Antenna . It launched on 31 December 1989, the same year as rival Mega Channel, and is owned by...
“Deliyiannion parthenagogion” (Deliyiannion Girls School) script of Charis Romas, Anna Chatzisofia, direction Christos Paliyiannopoulos.