Athanasios Zervas | Recordings
LIA'S SONGS (2022 | Phasma Music)
This album sets Lia Siomou's poetry to music, in original compositions by Athanasios Zervas for mezzosoprano, oboe, English horn, cello, piano, vibraphone, alto saxophone, and recitation by the poet. (album available in 2023)
MEM (2022 | Phasma Music)
MEM includes 15 compositions for saxophone and flute by 13 contemporary composers, in these world premiere recordings with Athanasios Zervas, saxophone, and Iwona Glinka, flute. The album won the silver medal in the 2022 GLOBAL MUSIC AWARDS in the composer and album categories.
CHRISTOS SAMARAS: APHORISMS (2020 | Phasma Music)
A. Zervas plays soprano sax with the Athens Saxophone Quartet on this extraordinary album dedicated to the one of Greece’s leading composers, Christos Samaras.
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DINOS CONSTANTINIDES: MUSIC FOR SOLOISTS & ORCHESTRA (2015 | Centaur Records)
A. Zervas performs "Midnight Fantasy II for Alto Saxophone & Chamber Orchestra" with the Louisiana Sinfonietta, conducted by Dinos Constantinides, on this album of Greek soloists paying tribute to the composer.
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MUSIC OF STEPHEN SYVERUD (2013 | recorded by the composer)
Composer Stephen Syverud wrote "Contact" and "Smoking Mirrors" for A. Zervas. "Contact", for alto saxophone and electronics, was written during the spring/summer of 2001 in Budapest and includes manipulated recorded sounds, like a roof being replaced, jazz drummers, and crickets. "Smoking Mirrors", for alto saxophone and piano, was premiered in Athens, Greece, and -- as the title suggests -- things are not always as they first appear, with the music creating illusions.
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MICHAEL ADAMIS: MUSIC FOR SAXOPHONES (2011 | Athens Music Society)
Recorded at Parnassos Concert Hall in Athens, the Athens Saxophone Quartet performs some of the best works of Adamis melding traditional Byzantine with modern music.
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DINOS CONSTANTINIDES: SYMPHONIC MUSIC (2010 | Centaur Records)
Athens Saxophone Quartet, Louisiana Sinfonietta, Simos Papanas, James Ryon, and Gabriel Beavers come together in this rich celebration of Constantinides' symphonic music.
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DINOS CONSTANTINIDES: MUSIC FOR SOLOISTS AND ORCHESTRAS, Volume II (2010 | Centaur Records)
The second in this series, the album features Greek soloists Andreas Georgotas, Iwona Glinka, Simon Papanas, Ioannas Samprovalakis, and Athanasios Zervas performing with the Louisiana Sinfonietta.
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KOSTAS VARNALIS: ...RISING ON SOUNDWAVES (2008 | Fokionos Records)
In honor of the great Greek poet Kostas Varnalis, the Athens Saxophone Quartet along with New Hellenic String Quartet and the Hellenic Group of Contemporary Music perform music by Theodore Antoniou, Dinos Constantinides, Theodore Karathodoros, Christos Samaras, Kyriakos Sfetsas, Dimitris Themelis, and Athanasios Zervas
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GORAN BREGOVIC: BALKANICA (2001 | FM Records)
The Athens Symphony Orchestra, with conductor Eleftherios Kalkanis, plays music by the film composer Goran Bregovic. Bregovic was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia in 1950, beginning his music career in as the bassist with the local rock band Bestije and founding Bijelo Dugme, one of Yugoslavia's most successful and influential bands. He first turned to film work in 1978, composing the score to Mica Milosevic's Nije Nego; Bregovic's most fruitful collaboration was with director Emir Kusturica, for whom he scored 1989's Dom Za Vesanje, 1993's Arizona Dream, 1995's Cannes Film Festival winner Underground, and 1998's Crna Macka, Beli Macor. In Balkanica, Athanasios Zervas appears as soloist on clarinet, flute, soprano, and alto saxophone in tracks #3-10.
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Live Recordings
CONCERTINO for alto saxophone and concert band (5/2018)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILVm-6xEsBU
Russel Peterson, composer; A. Zervas, conductor; Demosthenes Palamidas, solo saxophone.
University of Macedonia Concert Band (Thessaloniki, Greece)
WHAT MY HEART KNOWS (3/2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50BXUdY57X4
A. Zervas, composer; Xenia Stamoudis, poet; Angelica Cathariou, mezzo soprano.
University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece)
FOR YOUR BEAUTIFUL EYES (3/2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfubvSHW6LE
A. Zervas, composer; Xenia Stamoudis, poet; Angelica Cathariou, mezzo soprano.
University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece)
VISION (2/2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujnxzh9Avo0
Niloufar Iravani, composer; A. Zervas, solo alto saxophone.
Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA)
STUDY NO. 1 for saxophone (2/2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CjzVYg-O64
William Montgomery, composer; A. Zervas, solo saxophone.
Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA)
CATHEDRALS OF AIR (11/2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5YrA4_atAw
Nickitas Demos, composer; A. Zervas, solo alto saxophone; Peter Marshall, piano.
Georgia State University (Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
DEVIL'S BRANCH for solo baritone saxophone (7/2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4RToDqLyqk
Eric Honour, composer; A. Zervas, solo baritone saxophone
(Athens, Greece)
XAS (5/2005)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bZ5VHyc8Po
Iannis Xenakis, composer; A. Zervas, soprano saxophone; B. Botonakis, alto saxophone; B. Pantazopoulos, tenor saxophone; G. Deibel, baritone saxophone.
Athens Saxophone Quartet (Athens, Greece)