Excerpts from the collection “From a Diary of a
Child”
30 Short Children Pieces for Piano Solo (2007).
The life of a child reveals and hides inside images and
sentiments, sounds and experiences, questions and
concerns. Parts of a world lost forever but treasured
in the adult soul.
From “First Day, First Page” of the diary and
Sunday’s “Joybells” to the “Bittersweet”
morning dances and the “Calm” of a “Sunny
Afternoon”, from “A Sudden Absence” and a
“S...(+)
Excerpts from the collection “From a Diary of a
Child”
30 Short Children Pieces for Piano Solo (2007).
The life of a child reveals and hides inside images and
sentiments, sounds and experiences, questions and
concerns. Parts of a world lost forever but treasured
in the adult soul.
From “First Day, First Page” of the diary and
Sunday’s “Joybells” to the “Bittersweet”
morning dances and the “Calm” of a “Sunny
Afternoon”, from “A Sudden Absence” and a
“Strange Question” to the “Loneliness” and
“Dream”, from the imaginary “Indian Dance” to
the “Walkin’” on “a Rainy Day” and from
“March of the Goose” to the “Flowers’ Waltz”,
“Lullaby” and “Farewell Song”, these “Diary
of a Child” pages unfold the thread of a very well
known memory, a memory of us all.
These 30 short piano pieces were composed between 2003
and 2007. Some of them are compositions of inspired
children, composer’s pupils, like Orsaki Roussetou
and Plato Tsoukatos-Pontikis.
This collection is dedicated to all composer’s pupils
and especially toy Nikos Karidis, the grown up
“child” who gave me the opportunity to write most
of the pieces presented. The work was recorded by
Dimitra Mane on cd for the upcoming edition of the
score by "Geitonas School". The artist performed parts
of the work in composer's personal Portrait organized
by "Greek Composers Union" at "Hellenic Conservatory"
in Maroussi in 2010 and the whole collection at "Mikros
Horos Tehnis" (Little Hall of Arts) in Glyfada, Attiki,
in 2015. Parts of the work had been performed also by
Eleni Papaspyrou students, from Herakleion Music
School, in "Theatrical Station", Herakleion, Crete and
at "Lillian Voudouri" Library Hall in Athens Concert
Hall in 2015.
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