Vangelis Katsoulis - Composer

SYMPHONIC WORKS

IN THE SIGN OF ARIES (For symphony orchestra) 

DOUBLE IMAGE (For piano and orchestra, in 3 different versions) 

ET EXSPECTO  (For symphony orchestra) 

ILUSIONS - PART I

 

OPERA

ORFEO (Chamber opera in one act)  (For counter tenor, 2 sopranos, bass and small ensemble [ fl - alto fl, ob,

2 percussionists, harpsichord-piano. harp, synthesizer, cello, c.bass] ) 

 

CHAMBER MUSIC

HEXALOGUE (For six percussionists, electronic sounds and video projections)

CONTRASTS (For alto voice, percussion, drums, piano, strings and bass synthesizer) 

HAPY SONG (For two voices and small ensemble - fl, b.cl, vib, guit, pno, cb) 

MOMENTUM (For 2 pianos, 4 percussionists and tape) 

TWO ETUDES COMPOSITIONELES (for 2 bassoons)

EVERY DAY'S MUSIC  (for soprano or alto voice, alto or tenor saxophone, violin, el.guitar marimba and 2 pianos) 

SIX VERSES FOR WIND INSTRUMENTS  (fl, ob, 2cl, 2bsn, 2hrn, tr) 

TRIO  (For flute, clarinet and cello) 

TRIO  (For clarinet, cello and piano)

SEPTET

ELEGY (For cello and piano) 

DUO  (For clarinet and bassoon)

IDIA PLANI for solo bassoon  

 

CHORAL MUSIC

STUDY ON THE APOCALYPSE (For mixed choir, piano, c.bass and percussion) 

REQUIEM  (for mixed choir)

 

WORKS FOR PIANO SOLO

HOMAGE TO BARTOK 

FIRST IMPRESSION 

STUDY ON B-A-C-H 

STUDY IN 7/8 

NEFELI'S DREAM 

GIRLS PLAYING 

SEBASTIAN 

NOCTURNE 

PRELUDE No 1 

PRELUDE No 2   

PRELUDE No 3 

PRELUDE in D major

THE TRILLS 

OSTINATO 

MEMORIES 

HIDDEN 

DESIRE 

ELEGY FOR BILL EVANS 

JAZZ ETUDE No 1

JAZZ ETUDE No 2

ELEVEN WANDERINGS  

VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY J.HAYDN 

VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY W.A.MOZART 

THE HOURS

 

WORKS FOR 2 PIANOS

ALICANTO  (2 pianos) 

 

BALLET MUSIC

THE SLIPPING BEAUTY (Ballet music consisting of 16 separate pieces)

1. Inner City Dance 
2. Luminous Water
3. The Slipping Beauty 
4. Picture Of An Other World 
5. First Confession 
6. After The Rain 
7. Flying Wings 
8. Overcast 
9. Improvisation 
10. The Sound Of The Stone 
11. Immaterial Gardens 
12. Thoughts Of A Young Girl
13. Touch The Sun 
14. Earth Beat 
15. The Dream 
16. Overdrive 

IOKASTI  (Ballet music for soprano, percussion & electronics) 

THE OBLIVION OF THE BODY  (Ballet music) 

THE TYPING MACHINE (Ballet music) 

 

SONGS

SIX SONGS  (For mezzo soprano and piano)  (Poetry by Yolanda Pegli) 

1. Einai mera messimeri
2. I episkepsi
3. Μe ton kero 
4. Otan tha ertheis 
5. Rixi 
6. Τa mellontika mou schedia 

 FOUR SONGS  (For soprano or baritone and piano)  (Poetry by Odysseas Elytis) 

1. Αithries II
2. Αithries VΙΙ
3. Αithries ΧΧΙ 
4. Epta nychterina eptasticha III 

 THREE SONGS  (Poetry by Tassos Livaditis) 

1. Issos
2. Skoteini apodimia
3. Irini me to oneiro 

IF I COULD TELL YOU  (Poetry by W.H.Auden) 

THE CLOTHES OF HEAVEN  (Poetry by W.B.Yeats)

NOVEMBER SYMPHONY  (Poetry by Oscar V. de L. Milosz)

POUR TOI MON AMOUR  (Poetry by Jacques Prevert)

DEJEUNER DU MATIN  (Poetry by Jacques Prevert)

WIE RAFFT IGH MICH IN DER NACHT  (Poetry by August von Platen)

ΑEROGEFYRES  (Κiki Dimoula)

ΜONO ESSENA THELO  (Lyrics by Sarantis Alivizatos) 

ΜΕ ΤΟ FEGGARI METHYSMENO  (Lyrics by Sarantis Alivizatos) 

PRASSINO LIOGERMA  (Lyrics by Sarantis Alivizatos) 

ΑYGOUSTO MINA  (Lyrics by Magda Papadaki) 

ΤOSSO APLA  (Lyrics by Vangelis Katsoulis) 

BOREI OMOS KAI OCHI  (Lyrics by Vangelis Katsoulis) 

SAN TI NYCHTA TON MATION SOU   (Lyrics by Vangelis Katsoulis) 

ΑYTO POU FOVASSAI - OI EPOCHES  (Lyrics by Vangelis Katsoulis) 

SKOTEINI TELETOURGIA  (Poetry by Giannis Yfantis)

PERILYPOS ESTIN  (Poetry by Giannis Yfantis)

SKERTSO (Poetry by Kostas Varnalis) 

ODI ΙΙ  (Poetry by Andreas Kalvos) (Soprano and string quartet)

SIGI  (Poetry by Takis Sinopoulos)

ELPINOR  (Poetry by Takis Sinopoulos)

Κ' ITAN MIA NYCHTA ORAIA  (Poetry by Maria Polydouri) 

GIATI M' AGAPISSES  (Poetry by Maria Polydouri) 

GIA POU  (Poetry by Maria Polydouri) 

 

MUSIC FOR THE THEATER 

THE CHERRY ORCHARD  (Anton Chekhov) 

ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM  (of unknown Elizabethan author) 

AGAMEMNON (Aeschylus)

ELECTRA  (Sophocles)

MEDIA  (Euripides) 

BACCHAE  (Euripides)

 

ELECTRONIC MUSIC

TERRORTORIUM 

PERDENDOSI 

PARANOIA

ELECTRIC ROUTES 

REBIRTH 

 

MUSIC FOR JAZZ ENSEMBLES

THROUGH THE DARK  (series of 12 pieces for jazz ensemble) 

1. Introduction: A dream within a dream 
2. Disillusion 
3. Like a cloud
4. Farewell 
5. Invention 
6. Allusion 
7. Through the dark 
8. Confessions 
9. Internal split 
10. Through the light 
11. Still 
12. Epilogue 

 SILENT VOYAGE   (series of 14 pieces for jazz ensemble)

1. Unseen 
2. Memories 
3. Silent Voyage
4. Crying in Silence
5. Transition I 
6. Land of Oblivion 
7. Let by Rain 
8. Traces 
9. Strange Afternoons 
10. Transition II
11. Rumble Fish 
12. Desert Sky 
13. First Rate, Second Hand 

 AN UNBEARABLY SHORT GLANCE (series of 10 pieces for jazz ensemble)

1. No Sound But The Wind
2. The Touch
3. The Most Precious Thing (Was Always Here)
4. Those Green Eyes
5. In The Shadow Of A Kiss
6. Belongs To The Past
7. Just To Please You
8. Only Now
9. Where Are You Leading Me? 
10. An Unbearably Short Glance

THE EXILE OF DREAMS  (series of 9 pieces for jazz ensemble) 

1. The Final Act 
2. Invention 
3. What Memories Of What Forgotten Moments 
4. Endless Dream 
5. Tears From The Sky 
6. East Of The Heart 
7. Landscape Of Sadness 
8. Farewell 
9. In Vain 

 PICTURES FROM INSIDE (series of 9 pieces for various solo instruments and keyboards)

1. The Universe Clockwork  (solo violin and keyboards) 
2. Snapshots Of A Lost World  (solo trumpet-flugelhorn and keyboards) 
3. Filinks  (solo djembe-bagpipes and keyboards)
4. I Died For Beauty  (solo voice and keyboards)
5. Not A Word  (solo violin and keyboards) 
6. Pictures From Inside  (solo fretless bass, voice and keyboards)  
7. Still Was The Night  (classical guitar and keyboards) 
8. Pagan Invocation   (solo voice and keyboards) 
9. Demand  (electric guitar and keyboards) 

 WHISPERS OF IMMORALITY  (series of 5 pieces for soprano and alto saxophone, violin, guitar, bass and keyboards) 

1. Whispers Of Secret Words 
2. Whispers Of  Love 
3. Whispers Of  Heavenly Wildness 
4. Whispers Of  Darkness 
5. Whispers Of Immorality 

ACROSS MOUNTAINS

1. Beyond The Dark (10:06
2. To See (12:48)
3. Invitation to the Unknown (5:29)
4. The Rebel (3:01)
5. Arco Flight (10:13)
6. Across Mountains (13:38)

ALLUSION 

1. Allusion (7:16)
2. Let by Rain (5:00)
3. Memories (6:42)
4. Crying in Silence (4:45)
5. Unseen (4:50)
6. For Once (4:41)
7. Johannes (4:42)
8. Tears from the Sky (4:39)
9. He Said to Me (5:26)
10. Silent Voyage (4:51)
11. Those Green Eyes (3:42)

 

MINIMAL SUITE (For voice, saxophone, violin, guitar, piano-keyboards, bass, drums)

THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF GREEN  (for clarinet doubling soprano and alto saxophone, el.guitar, bass, keyboards and percussion) 

 THROUGH THE DOOR INTO A DREAM  (for flute doubling soprano saxophone, violin, guitar, bass, keyboards and percussion)

1. Introduction 
2. Longing
3. The Eternal Return
4. Epilogue 

BLUE POINT (For jazz brass ensemble and rhythm section) 

OMAR (For trumpet, piano-synthesizers, bass, percussion)  )

FOR ONCE (For violin and piano)

DEAD END  (9 pieces for jazz ensemble)

TRILOGY  (3 pieces for jazz ensemble) 

ON THE WAY OUT  (for jazz ensemble) 

ABSENCE  (for jazz ensemble) 

STILLETTO HEELS  (for jazz ensemble) 

SOOTHING CRUELTY  (for jazz ensemble) 

DISTANT RAGA  (violin, keyboards and percussion) 

EARLY MORNING (Jazz ensemble) 

SO  (Jazz ensemble) 

NIGHT IN MAHE  (for jazz ensemble) 

SWING  (for jazz ensemble) 

FOUR / FOUR (for jazz ensemble) 

REGGAE  (for jazz ensemble) 

BOSSA NOVA  (for jazz ensemble) 

FIVE EPISODES FOR BASS AND SYNTHESIZERS 

WHAT'S GOING ON IN THIS WORLD  (For keyboards and sampled voices) 

SIGN  (For piano and sampled sounds)

BOUND TO HER QUIET FLOWING  (For piano and keyboards)

TAKE A DEEP BREATH (For flugelhorn)  (Vangelis Katsoulis, Andreas Polyzogopoulos)

DIAGNOSED PSYCHOPATH  (For trumpet and piano)  (Vangelis Katsoulis, Andreas Polyzogopoulos)

ME TOO (For voice and keyboards)  (Vangelis Katsoulis, Vojislav Ivanovic)

SONG OF THE MUTE SINGER  (For trumpet and piano)  (Vangelis Katsoulis, Markus Stockhausen, Takis Farazis)

THERE WAS A PEACEFUL MIND  (For flugelhorn and keyboards)  (Vangelis Katsoulis, Markus Stockhausen)

NEFSA (For soprano saxophone, bass, piano and keyboards)  (Vangelis Katsoulis, Vojislav Ivanovic)

JOHANNES  (for jazz ensemble) 

CARNIVORE CANDY (for jazz ensemble) 

A WATCH BEYOND TIME (for jazz ensemble) 

ALL OF US (for jazz ensemble) 

THE INNOCENCE OF WOLFGANG (for jazz ensemble) 

SUMMERCRIME (for jazz ensemble) 

 

MUSIC FOR SYNTHESIZERS AND KEYBOARDS AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS

IF NOT NOW WHEN  (series of 12 pieces for voice, trumpet, synthesizers, samples and jazz piano trio)

  1.All the Blue Sky

  2. Zarrin

  3.Grand Delusions

  4.Liquidity

  5.Tsake Take Tundum

  6. Midsummer Tobago (music by Vangelis Katsoulis, words by Derek Walcott)

  7. Noir

  8. Shhhh

  9. Tore

  10. The Slipping Beauty Part II

  11. If Not Now, When

  12. Recapitulation

SIENA  (For keyboards, synthesizers and percussion loops) 

ALTA (For piano, synthesizers and sampled voice) 

ANGEL (For piano and synthesizers) 

I DID (For piano, synthesizers and sampled voice) 

TOO LATE (For piano and synthesizers) 

UNDERCOVER (For piano, synthesizers and sampled voices) 

WHY (For piano, synthesizers and sampled voice) 

APOCALYPSIS (For piano, synthesizers and sampled voice) 

WHEN EVER EVER (For piano, synthesizers and sampled voices) 

WHISPERING (For piano and sampled loops)

IN THE GARDEN OF VOICES (For piano, synthesizers and sampled voices) 

ROSANNA ROSAS AMAT (For voices, instrumental ensemble and electronics)

STILL LAKE (For voices, instrumental ensemble and electronics)

L' ESTATE (For voices, instrumental ensemble and electronics)

 

INVISIBLE CITIES (series of 12 pieces on Italo Calvino's book "Invisible Cities")

1. Introduction 
2. Intermezzo I 
3. Intermezzo II 
4. Despina 
5. Intermezzo IIΙ 
6. Zovais 
7. Armila 
8. Aglavra
9. Octavia 
10. Chloe    
11. Valtrada 
12. Intermezzo IV 

TRIBE DANCE (for soprano saxophone, keyboards and percussion) 

PHAROAH  (for tenor saxophone, keyboards and percussion) 

IMAGO  (for synthesizers) 

ENIGMA (for synthesizers) 

SANHARA (for synthesizers)

EXPLOSION OF JOY  (for synthesizers) 

IMAGINARY SEASONS  (for synthesizers) 

JASMIN  (for piano and synthesizers) 

NEFELIS DANCE (for synthesizers) 

LIVING COLORS   (for synthesizers) 

LIGHT AS AIR   (for synthesizers) 

IDLE AND HAPPY  (piano-keyboards, bass, drums)

ΑΝΝΑ  (Trumpet and keyboards)

 

VARIOUS

NEFELI'S FAIRY (A music fairy-tale for narrator soprano, alto and keyboards) 

MUSIC FOR THE PLANETARIUM  (Electronic) 

MUSIC FOR AN EXHIBITION 

MUSIC for a radio program on George Seferis

MUSIC for a radio program on Melpo Axioti's poery.

MUSIC for a radio program on Carlos Castaneda.

 

MUSIC FOR MEDITATION

MUSIC FOR MEDITATION 1 (Music for the 5th Chakra) 

MUSIC FOR MEDITATION 2 (Music for the 6th Chakra) 

MUSIC FOR MEDITATION 3 (Music for the 7th Chakra) 

 

ARRANGEMENTS

FRAGILE  (Sting)

YOU'RE EVERYTHING  (Chick Corea)

CRYSTAL SILENCE  (Chick Corea)

TAKE FIVE  (Paul Desmond)

THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND  (Michel Legrand, Baden Powell, Billy Blanco)

MANHA DE CARNAVAL (Luiz Bonfá)

AQUA DE BEBER  (Antonio Carlos Jobim)

COMO DIZI A POETA  (Vinicius de Moraes, Toquinho)

RELIEF (Markus Stockhausen) for clarinet and orchestra

LIPPEN SCHWEIGEN  (Franz Lehar) for solo piano

MY WILD IRISH ROSE (Keith Jarrett) solo piano

DANNY BOY (Irish Traditional) solo piano

 

FILM  and TV MUSIC

ESTIN OUN TRAGODIA  (Music for the document.film by Stavros Ioannou) Awarded 1st Prize at the Int/nal Film Festival Thessaloniki 1994

DANCING ON ICE  (Music for the film "Dancing On Ice" by Stavros Ioannou) (2008)

PARA-PHRASES  (Based on music for the film "Dancing On Ice" by Stavros Ioannou) (2008)

1. Contemplation
2. Retrograde
3. Ride in Blue
4. How I Feel
5. Only Ice and Snow
6. First Variation
7. Foreboding
8. Cryptic Sounds
9. Back to the Same Mood
10. Sleepless Night
11. Seriously
12. Second Variation
13. Quiet
14. Just Thoughts
15. Far Away
16. How Can I Know?
17. Heading South
18. Alone
19. Third Variation
20. Beyond the Bounds

ROAD BLOCKS (Music for the film by Stavros Ioannou)  (2000)

MUSIC FOR THE DOCUMENTARY FILM  "THE SECRET WORLD OF BIRDS" (By Stavros Ioannou) Series of 30 episodes.

BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH  (Music for a documentary film by Stavros Ioannou) 

MUSIC FOR THE DOCUMENTARY FILM "MIHALIS ARFARAS" (by Pandora Mouriki) (1998)

CHRISTMAS EVE  (Music for a TV film by Eric Thalassinos)  (1994) 

THE COLONISTS or THE FROG'S JUMB  (A series of 10 TV episodes, including a MUSICAL directed by Stelios Rallis) 

THREE KINDS OF LOVE  (music for a film by Stelios Rallis)  

KAKOLYRI  (Music for a documentary film by Stavros Ioannou) 

MUSIC FOR THE 2004 OLYMPIC GAMES (Rowing)  

THE CLOSED WINDOW  (Music for a film by Hermes Velopoulos) 

DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA  (Music for a film by Thanasis Renjis)