Traditional singing, Katerina Papadopoulou

In the workshop we will study songs from various regions of Greece. The islands of the North and East Aegean, Macedonia, Thrace, Asia Minor, Pontus, Eastern Romulia and of course Istanbul, will also be our study areas.

We will deconstruct the melodies of the songs, isolating ornaments, shootings, variations and using them as exercises of the voice but also as tools for studying the art of traditional singing.

The workshop is aimed for amateurs , professional singers, as well as students of any kind of level

Katerina Papadopoulou is considered as one of the very few singers in Greece who still continue the art of the old masters of traditional singing.
She has an exceptional fluency in mooving between different vocal styles and combining them with her unique vocal and musical expression.
She has participated in several recordings of Greek traditional music as well as contemporary Greek

In 2002 – after archive and personal research – she released “Ta tragoudakia mou poulo”, her first personal CD, includind old traditional songs from A.Minor. The CD was voted from the music magazine “Echo & artis” as the best CD of Greek traditional music for the year 2002.
In May of 2007 she released the cd-single “San helidoni” (Cantini), singing three songs of Sokratis Sinopoulos.

In the autumn of 2008, she released “Amygdalaki tsakisa” (Music Corner), an lp with songs from different regions of Greece.In May 2010 together with Hristos Tsiamoulis and Sokratis Sinopoulos they released “Politiki zygia” (Legend), which was a live recording of a concert in Utreht in November 2008.

In 2012 “Amygdalaki tsakisa” was published in the United States by the title “Drawing in an almond” (Golden Horn Records).

In the international music field, she collaborates with the baroque group “L’ Arpeggiata” for the music project named “Mediterraneo” presenting old songs from the Mediterrenean Sea and also for the brand new “Balkanroute”.
“Mediterraneo” was published by “Virgin” in 2013
The recordings for “Balkanroute” were held in the Abbey of Saint-Michel-en-Thiérache in France and the album is to be published.

She also collaborates with Jordi Savall for the “Mare Nostrum”, The “Esperit del Balkans», the “Pelerinages De l ‘Ame”, the “Orient, Occident” and the “Ibn Battuta” programmes, singing songs from Greece. The “Ibn Battuta” programme was live recorded in Abu Dhabi.
She took part in the “Mare Nostrum” documentary film of Scuola Vivante with Jordi Savall, herself and Hesperion as protagonists. http://www.marenostrum-film.ch/en/team/
She gives Greek singing seminars in France in collaboration with the “Hiphaistia Association Européenne Pour l’ Expression de la Culture Grecque”.

Katerina, together with the music group “Aegean Arc” published two CDs, with recordings that took place in the Holy Patriarchal and Stavropegic monastery of St. George of Vasses in Karpathos.
The two cds are: “Notio Toxo-In Karpathos”, March 2019 and “Aura”, January 2024 (Saphrane records).

Both took exceptional reviews.
She has also published “Anastasis”, Live recordings in Baumstrasse, Athens in March 2020 (Saphrane records)

She is the conductor and teacher of “Domna Samiou” Choir, as well as “Kallisto” Choir, Lykeion ton Ellinidon of Kalamata.
Upcoming album with “Domna Samiou” Choir is to be published in the Autumn of 2026.