Savina Yannatou
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Savina Yannatou is a renowned Greek
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 singer.

After taking classical guitar
Classical guitar
The classical guitar is a 6-stringed plucked string instrument from the family of instruments called chordophones...

 lessons and participating in the children's choir
Choir
A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...

 of Yannis Nousias for some years, she studied singing with Gogo Georgilopoulou and Spiros Sakkas in 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...

, and later attended postgraduate studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Guildhall School of Music and Drama is an independent music and dramatic arts school which was founded in 1880 in London, England. Students can pursue courses in Music, Opera, Drama and Technical Theatre Arts.-History:...

 in London
London
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. In 1979 she began working as a professional and two years later participated in the recording of the critically acclaimed album "Εδώ Λιλιπούπολη" ("Lilipoupolis here"); following that, her career took off and has since released numerous albums, collaborating with many Greek composers. In the mid-1990s, she joined forces with select jazz / traditional musicians forming a band known as Primavera en Salonico, which started by interpreting Sephardic
Sephardic music
There are three types of Sephardic songs—topical and entertainment songs, romance songs and spiritual or ceremonial songs. Lyrics can be in several languages, including Hebrew for religious songs, and Ladino....

 and Mediterranean songs, but later expanded to music from various areas of the world. Gradually, she has extended her vocal techniques
Vocal extended technique
Vocalists are capable of producing a variety of extended technique sounds. These alternative singing techniques have been used extensively in the 20th century, especially in art song and opera...

 to include throat singing
Overtone singing
Overtone singing, also known as overtone chanting, or harmonic singing, is a type of singing in which the singer manipulates the resonances created as air travels from the lungs, past the vocal folds, and out the lips to produce a melody.The partials of a sound wave made by the human voice can be...

, glossolalia
Glossolalia
Glossolalia or speaking in tongues is the fluid vocalizing of speech-like syllables, often as part of religious practice. The significance of glossolalia has varied with time and place, with some considering it a part of a sacred language...

 and ululation
Ululation
A is a long, wavering, high-pitched vocal sound resembling a howl with a trilling quality. It is produced by emitting a high pitched loud voice accompanied with a rapid movement of the tongue and the uvula. The term ululation is an onomatopoeic word derived from Latin...

s among others.

Besides that, her repertoire consists mainly of Greek music, although she has been a founding member of an Early music
Early music
Early music is generally understood as comprising all music from the earliest times up to the Renaissance. However, today this term has come to include "any music for which a historically appropriate style of performance must be reconstructed on the basis of surviving scores, treatises,...

 ensemble (Εργαστήρι Παλιάς Μουσικής), and has always displayed a keen interest in exploring free jazz
Free jazz
Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Though the music produced by free jazz pioneers varied widely, the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the limitations of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz, which had developed in the 1940s and 1950s...

 and avant-garde
Avant-garde
Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....

 music. Said explorations have led her to on- and off-stage collaborations and sessions with international musicians such as Barry Guy
Barry Guy
Barry John Guy is a British composer and double bass player. His range of interests encompasses early music, contemporary composition, jazz and improvisation, and he has worked with a wide variety of orchestras in the UK and Europe...

, Peter Kowald
Peter Kowald
Peter Kowald was a German free jazz musician.A member of the Globe Unity Orchestra, and a touring double-bass player, Kowald collaborated with a large number of European free jazz and American free-jazz players during his career, including Peter Brötzmann, Irène Schweizer, Karl Berger, Fred...

, Floros Floridis, Günther Pitscheider, Gerald Preinfalk of the band BPM
BPM (band)
BPM is a jazz-fusion band formed by Alex Machacek, Terry Bozzio and Gerald Preinfalk in 2002. They released the album, Delete and Roll, in 2002, which has received heavy critical acclaim.They are from Montgomery, Alabama.- References :**...

, Ken Vandermark
Ken Vandermark
Ken Vandermark is an American jazz composer and saxophone and clarinet player.A fixture on the Chicago-area music scene since the 1990s, Vandermark has earned wide critical praise for his playing and his multilayered compositions, which typically balance intricate orchestration with passionate...

, Sussan Deyhim
Sussan Deyhim
Sussan Deyhim is an Iranian singer, composer and dancer.Born in Tehran, her career began as a dancer with Iran's Pars National Ballet company...

, Damo Suzuki
Damo Suzuki
, universally known as Damo Suzuki , is a singer best known for his membership in the German krautrock group Can.-Biography:As a teenager, Suzuki spent the late 1960s wandering around Europe, often busking....

 of the krautrock
Krautrock
Krautrock is a generic name for the experimental music scenes that appeared in Germany in the late 1960s and gained popularity throughout the 1970s, especially in Britain. The term is a result of the English-speaking world's reception of the music at the time and not a reference to any one...

 group Can
Can (band)
Can was an experimental rock band formed in Cologne, West Germany in 1968. Later labeled as one of the first "krautrock" groups, they transcended mainstream influences and incorporated strong minimalist and world music elements into their often psychedelic music.Can constructed their music largely...

, and Kiya Tabassian
Kiya Tabassian
Kiya Tabassian was born in 1976, in Tehran, Iran, immigrating to Quebec in 1990. He has been trained in Persian music under Reza Ghasemi and Kayhan Kalhor...

 of the Ensemble Constantinople.

Yannatou is also a songwriter
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...

 ("Dreams of the mermaid. Is king Alexander alive?", "Rosa das Rosas", "Musique Des Chambres"), as well as a composer for theater, dance theater and video art
Video art
Video art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and comprises video and/or audio data. . Video art came into existence during the 1960s and 1970s, is still widely practiced and has given rise to the widespread use of video installations...

. She occasionally participates in select workshops, teaching vocal improvisations to actors and musicians.
Currently she's an ECM artist.

Discography & Participations

Releases (solo/group/compilations):
Year Album Album Artist Label
1980 Εδώ Λιλιπούπολη Manos Hadjidakis - Various artists Columbia - Minos EMI
1981 Σαμποτάζ Lena Platonos Lyra
1982 Κέρκυρα ’82: Αγώνες Ελληνικού τραγουδιού Manos Hadjidakis - Various artists
Live Recording
Κέρκυρα - Minos EMI
Καρυωτάκης
Kostas Karyotakis
Kostas Karyotakis is considered one of the most representative Greek poets of the 1920s and one of the first poets to use iconoclastic themes in Greece. His poetry conveys a great deal of nature, imagery and traces of expressionism and surrealism...

, 13 τραγούδια
Lena Platonos Lyra
1983 Ρεβάνς (O.S.T.) Dimitris Papadimitriou Lyra
Το '62 του Μανου Χατζιδάκι Lena Platonos Lyra
1985 Εν Αθήναις Nikos Kypourgos Lyra
Ερωτόκριτος
Erotokritos
Erotokritos is a romance composed by Vikentios Kornaros in early 17th century Crete. It consists of 10,012 fifteen-syllable rhymed verses....

 και Αρετούσα
Nikos Mamangakis Σείριος - Minos EMI
Η ηχώ και τα λάθη της Lena Platonos Σείριος - Minos EMI
Μίλα μου για μήλα Stavros Papastavrou Σείριος - Minos EMI
Lullabies
Νανουρίσματα
Nikos Kypourgos Lyra
Ο Οδυσσέας στο ποτάμι Michalis Gregoriou Σείριος - Minos EMI
1986 Dreams of the Mermaid. Is king Alexander alive?
Ζει ο βασιλιάς Αλέξανδρος;
Savina Yannatou Lyra
New excursion
Νέα εκδρομή
Elena Papandreou Lyra
Λεπιδόπτερα Lena Platonos Lyra
Μinimal suite - Double image Vangelis Katsoulis Praxis
1988 Το αηδόνι του αυτοκράτορα
Του Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet noted for his children's stories. These include "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," "The Snow Queen," "The Little Mermaid," "Thumbelina," "The Little Match Girl," and "The Ugly Duckling."...

Lena Platonos Lyra
1990 Μαρία Ντολόρες παρελθόν Dimitris Maragkopoulos Σείριος - MBI
Το φλυτζάνι Petros Dourdoubakis Lyra
1991 Ερωτική πρόβα Dimitris Lagios Columbia - Sony Music
1992 Africa (O.S.T.) Panagiotis Kalantzopoulos Cantini
Ίνα τί Dimitris Lagios Minos EMI
1993 Die zweite Heimat (O.S.T.)
New arrangements and performances inspired by the film
Nikos Mamangakis Milan - Sony BMG
Ατασθαλίες Vasilis Nikolaidis Lyra
1994 Masko Savina Yannatou & Nikos Touliatos
  • Cήμαντρον
  • Εμσε
Φέρτε τα! Aera Patera Olon Music
1995 Spring in Salonica: Sephardic folk songs
Άνοιξη στη Σαλονίκη: Σεφαραδίτικα λαϊκά τραγούδια
Primavera en Salonico: Canciones populares Sefardíes
Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico Lyra
Εάλω η Πόλις.
Θρήνοι για την άλωση της Κωνσταντινούπολης
Fall of Constantinople
The Fall of Constantinople was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire, which occurred after a siege by the Ottoman Empire, under the command of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, against the defending army commanded by Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI...

Early Music Workshop FM Records
1996 Ιστορίες αποχαιρετισμού.
Μουσική για τις παραστάσεις της εταιρείας θεάτρου Διπλούς Έρως
Dimitris Kamarotos Theseum
1997 What summer is made for.
Live at Rivermead Reading, 1996 WOMAD Festival
Various artists
Live Recording
Womad Select
Αναπνοές Lena Platonos Lyra
Αποχαιρετισμοί της θάλασσας
Ποίση Τάκη Σινόπουλου
Takis Sinopoulos
Takis Sinopoulos was a Greek poet and a leading figure among the so-called first postwar generation of Greek poets...

 - Άρη Αλεξάνδρου
Aris Alexandrou
Aris Alexandrou was a Greek novelist, poet and translator. Always on the Left and always unconventional , he is the author of a single novel which is widely considered to be among the classic modern Greek works in the second half of the 20th...

Michalis Gregoriou Minos EMI
Μελωδίες της ανατολής.
Τραγούδια της Σμύρνης
Smyrna
Smyrna was an ancient city located at a central and strategic point on the Aegean coast of Anatolia. Thanks to its advantageous port conditions, its ease of defence and its good inland connections, Smyrna rose to prominence. The ancient city is located at two sites within modern İzmir, Turkey...

Various Artists
Compilation
FM Records
Μέσ' απ' το σκοτάδι
Through the darkness
Vangelis Katsoulis Lyra
Προστάτης οικογένειας (O.S.T.) Nikos Mamangakis Δίφωνο
Σκοτεινή πράξη.
Ορατόριο σε ποίηση Τάσου Λειβαδίτη
Michalis Gregoriou Lyra
Τέμπλο
Templo
Giorgos Christianakis Virgin Greece
1998 Vananda Andreas Georgiou Libra Music
Zoolixo Λίγο Zoolixo Ligo E2
Όπως η θάλασσα Omadiki Αpodrasi Lyra
The photographers (O.S.T.)
Οι φωτογράφοι
Nikolas Gkinis Κίνησις
Mediterranea: Songs of the Mediterranean
Τραγούδια της Μεσογείου
Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico
  • Lyra
  • Sounds True
  • 1999 Μικρές αγγελίες Michalis Siganidis Lyra
    Μικρό έπος για τον Ανδρέα Ροδινό Nikos Mamangakis
  • Sony Music
  • Ιδαία
  • Virgin Maries of the world
    Παναγιές του κόσμου
    Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico Lyra
    Shores of twilight (O.S.T.)
    Τα ρόδινα ακρογιάλια
    Dimitris Katakouzinos Ostria - Eros
    2000 Rosa das rosas Savina Yannatou Lyra
    2001 Mode Plagal III Mode Plagal
    Mode Plagal
    Mode Plagal is an originally Greek group who perform traditional Greek music blended with jazz, funk and other international styles. They have been described as "the preeminent ambassadors of the much-maligned vernacular Greek music in the 21st century"...

    Lyra
    Terra nostra Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico
    Live Recording
  • Lyra
  • ECM
  • Εδώ Λιλιπούπολη.
    Ζωντανή ηχογράφηση σπό το μουσικό θέατρο Βόλου
    Various artists
    Live Recording
    Lyra
    Έλληνες συνθέτες.
    Τραυλός, Λαπιδάκης, Παπαδάτος, Τενίδης
    Plucked String Orchestra of Patras Κίνησις
    Garden secrets
    Τα μυστικά του κήπου
    Nikos Kypourgos Σείριος - Minos EMI
    2002 Lilly's story (O.S.T.) Nikos Mamangakis Universal
    Μια φορά κι έναν καιρό...
    Παραμύθια και διηγήματα απ' την Ελλάδα και τον κόσμο
    Various artists
    Compilation
    Δίφωνο
    Savina Yannatou sings Manos Hadjidakis
    Manos Hadjidakis
    Manos Hatzidakis was a Greek composer and theorist of the Greek music. He was also one of the main prime movers of the "Éntekhno" song ....


    Πάω να πω στο σύννεφο
    Η Σαβίνα Γιαννάτου σε τραγούδια του Μάνου Χατζηδάκι
    Savina Yannatou Lyra
    2003 Asate Andreas Georgiou Libra Music
    Your golden boat
    Tvá zlatá lodka
    Irena Havlová & Vojtěch Havlov
    Live Recording
    Indies Records
    Ένα γράμμα στον πατέρα μου Various artists
    Compilation
    Lyra
    Μπλέ
    Σε ποίηση Ρηνιώς Παπανικόλα
    Michalis Gregoriou
    Live Recording
    Legend
    Σας τα 'παν άλλοι;
    Κάλαντα δωδεκαημέρου
    Various artists
    Compilation
    Μελωδικό Καράβι
    2004 Garden theater
    Κηποθέατρο
    Nikos Kypourgos
    Live Recording
    Σείριος - Minos EMI
    2005 Electra Arild Andersen
    Arild Andersen
    Arild Andersen is a Norwegian bass player.Born in Lillestrøm, Norway, he started out as a member of the Jan Garbarek Quartet , with Terje Rypdal and Jon Christensen...

    ECM
    Levantina Vojislav Ivanović Εμσε
    Sumiglia Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico ECM
    2006 En concert Miquel Gil
    Live Recording
    Galileo
    Heimat (O.S.T.)
    58 music pieces from Edgar Reitz films Heimat I,II,III
    Heimat (film)
    Heimat is the overall title of three series of films in 30 episodes written and directed by Edgar Reitz which view life in Germany between 1919 and 2000 through the eyes of a family from the Hunsrück area of the Rhineland. Personal and domestic life is set against glimpses of wider social and...

    Nikos Mamangakis Ιδαία
    Tutti baci Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico
    Elena Ledda
    Elena Ledda
    Elena Ledda is a Sardinian singer.Born near Cagliari, she pursued conservatory studies in oboe and voice. Ledda has a dramatic soprano voice suitable for opera, which she originally performed as an artist, but was attracted by the folk singing of her native Sardinia and has chosen a career...

     & Mauro Palmas
    Lyra
    Άσμα ασμάτων.
    Ιερά τραγούδια του έρωτα
    Nikos Mamangakis Ιδαία
    Η μπαλάντα του Ερωτόκριτου Nikos Mamangakis Ιδαία
    Μέγα ορατόριο των Ελλήνων.
    Στρατηγού Μακρυγιάννη
    Nikos Mamangakis Ιδαία
    2007 Far West - Tribal dances Sotiris Debonos HitchHyke
    Musique des chambres
    Μουσική δωματίων
    Savina Yannatou Lyra
    2008 Songs of an other Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico ECM
    Τραγούδια του Αιγαίου Orchestra οf Colours Λέσχη Του Δίσκου
    Πάντως ήταν νύχτα - La poupée Stella Gadedi Lyra
    2009 Birthdays Felizol Puzzlemusik
    Οι άλλοι Michalis Siganidis
    Live Recording
    Lyra
    Σώμα Soma Polytropon
    2010 Ερωτόκριτος.
    Όπερα σε πέντε μέρη
    Nikos Mamangakis Ιδαία
    Η όπερα των σκιών
    Shadow play
    Shadow play or shadow puppetry Shadow puppets have a long history in China, India, Turkey and Java, and as a popular form of entertainment for both children and adults in many countries around the world. A shadow puppet is a cut-out figure held between a source of light and a translucent screen...

    Nikos Mamangakis Ιδαία
    Attikos Savina Yannatou & Barry Guy
    Live Recording
    Maya Recordings
    Ερωφίλη Nikos Mamangakis Ιδαία
    Η συναυλία στο Παλλάς Lena Platonos
    Live Recording
    Lyra
    Ερωτόκριτος.
    Η εκδοχή της Σητείας
    Sitia
    Sitia refers both to the port town, with 8,900 inhabitants and to the municipality with 19,209 inhabitants in Lasithi, Crete . It lies to the east of Agios Nikolaos and to the northeast of Ierapetra. Sitia port is on the Sea of Crete, which is a part of the Aegean Sea and is one of the economic...

    Nikos Mamangakis Ιδαία
    Το τραγούδι του Μπελογιάννη
    Nikos Beloyannis
    Nikos Beloyannis was a Greek resistance leader and leading cadre of the Greek Communist Party. He was born in Amalias in 1915...

     και της Έλλης Παππά
    Nikos Mamangakis Ιδαία
    2011 Ομήρου Οδύσσεια
    Odyssey
    The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second—the Iliad being the first—extant work of Western literature...

    Nektarios Karantzis Lyra
    Εγκώμιο στον Αλέξανδρο Παπαδιαμάντη
    Alexandros Papadiamantis
    Alexandros Papadiamantis was an influential Greek novelist and short-story writer.-His life:Papadiamantis was born in Greece, on the island of Skiathos, in the western part of the Aegean Sea. The island would figure prominently in his work. His father was a priest...

    Nikos Mamangakis Ιδαία
    Η Οδύσσεια
    The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel
    'The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel is an epic poem by Greek poet and philosopher Nikos Kazantzakis, based on Homer's Odyssey. It is divided into twenty-four rhapsodies as is the original Odyssey and consists of 33,333 17-syllable verses. Kazantzakis began working on it in 1924 after he returned to Crete...

     του Νίκου Καζαντζάκη
    Nikos Kazantzakis
    Nikos Kazantzakis was a Greek writer and philosopher, celebrated for his novel Zorba the Greek, considered his magnum opus...

    Nikos Mamangakis Ιδαία

    Theatre

    Year Play Director Commission
    1997 Medea
    Medea (play)
    Medea is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BC. The plot centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed...

    Nikaiti Kontouri National Theatre of Greece
    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...

    2005 The Bacchae
    The Bacchae
    The Bacchae is an ancient Greek tragedy by the Athenian playwright Euripides, during his final years in Macedon, at the court of Archelaus I of Macedon. It premiered posthumously at the Theatre of Dionysus in 405 BC as part of a tetralogy that also included Iphigeneia at Aulis, and which...

    Sotiris Hatzakis National Theatre of Greece
    2006 The Dybbuk
    Between Two Worlds
    Sotiris Hatzakis National Theatre of Greece
    2007 Iphigenia in Aulis Sotiris Hatzakis Thessalian Theatre
    Η Γυναίκα της Ζάκυθος Sotiris Hatzakis Ymittos
    Ymittos
    Ymittos , is a suburb of Athens, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Dafni-Ymittos, of which it is a municipal unit....

     Festival
    2008 The Caucasian Chalk Circle
    The Caucasian Chalk Circle
    The Caucasian Chalk Circle is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. An example of Brecht's epic theatre, the play is a parable about a peasant girl who rescues a baby and becomes a better mother than its natural parents....

    Sotiris Hatzakis National Theatre of Northern Greece

    Dance Theatre

    Year Play Director Commission
    1993 Medea of Silence Aspasia Kralli Theatre of Silence
    1995 Hades
    Hades
    Hades , Hadēs, originally , Haidēs or , Aidēs , meaning "the unseen") was the ancient Greek god of the underworld. The genitive , Haidou, was an elision to denote locality: "[the house/dominion] of Hades". Eventually, the nominative came to designate the abode of the dead.In Greek mythology, Hades...

     in a Room
    Orpheus
    Orpheus
    Orpheus was a legendary musician, poet, and prophet in ancient Greek religion and myth. The major stories about him are centered on his ability to charm all living things and even stones with his music; his attempt to retrieve his wife from the underworld; and his death at the hands of those who...

     and Eurydice
    Eurydice
    Eurydice in Greek mythology, was an oak nymph or one of the daughters of Apollo . She was the wife of Orpheus, who loved her dearly; on their wedding day, he played joyful songs as his bride danced through the meadow. One day, a satyr saw and pursued Eurydice, who stepped on a venomous snake,...

    Aspasia Kralli Theatre of Silence

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