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Sani Festival - The Philosophy
2001 - 10 years Jazz on the Hill
Belief in our vision for a tourism that respects the visitor, in the lead for a setting that will
always tend to creating opportunities for substantial contact and approach of people
through art, in passion for quality and values that surpass calculating entrepreneurship.
These have always been the milestones of our outlook, on which we based the creation of
Sani Festival.
Sani Festival - The goal
Abbey Lincoln Quartet - 1996
With 15 years of experience of constant presence in the country's cultural events, all us
Sani Festival continue serving this celebration of Art, consciously following the road
cultural action in the heart of a touristy landscape, believing that the cultural upgrade
our country is each and every one's business and passes through the decentralization
culture.
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Sani Festival is the only international festival of private initiative, exclusively funded by Sani.
S.A, that has the constant support of the media on its side. It worthily claims a place next
to the big, renowned festivals of our country.
The division of the festival in thematic units, instead of messily stacked events, the
selection of artists according to their history in the artistic spectrum, as well as their
vanguard creations, the constant improvement of venue facilities, and the formation of new
venues for events - always based on quality. Those are the main elements of Sani Festival
that have claimed its mark in our country's cultural map.
At the same time, they compose an impressively creative series of cultural acts and
emotions featuring selections in music, dance and fine art from both the international and
Greek domains, full of energy, inventiveness and summery mood.
Sani Festival - The History
In 1992, the first "Jazz on the Hill" three-day event was held, dedicated to jazz music. The
festival was yet to be named, while its few artistic events had started just like that, out of
our craving and longing for Art.
However, in 1993, the program was embellished and the need for a framework became
evident. Thus it was named "Sani Festival", and started a course that enriched the program
year by year, reaching out to more and more types of Art, with high quality and innovation
as its standards.
The location of Sani Hill - a natural amphitheater, with its medieval tower - is the ideal
scenery for a set of concerts and dance performances by leading artists from the entire
world.
An environment where the sea, the sky and the green of nature coexist in harmony, creates
all the requirement to stimulate the senses, give power to auditory perception and visual
enjoyment, leaving hints of a spiritual ceremony to the artists and the audience, allowing
them to elevate beyond the ordinary and the commonplace.
Later on, we added "Cine Orfeas" to the venues, where the Sani Classic concerts take
place, Artforum Sani Gallery for the visual arts part of Sani Festival. We also utilize every
place in Sani Resort that satisfies the creative exhibition of art with its setting and facilities.
We at Sani Resort created a microcosme
with respect to nature and man that
embraces all the joys of life with only
one aim: to offer happiness to our
guests.
Nature blessed Sani and appointed us to
by your host.
For 30 years, we have followed Greek
hospitality traditions and we continue
the same dream, your smile.
Jazz on the Hill
A 3-day section dedicated to jazz music
Roberto Fonseca - 2008
Today, 16 years after organizing the first Jazz on the Hill - the trademark of Sani Festival -,
this unique three-day special of "black" music, a home to the living legends of the global
jazz scene with its exclusive performances for many years, steadily continues its success in
Sani Festival.
The organizers' love for this music genre established "Jazz on the Hill" not only in Greece
but worldwide, as it is the only consistent international jazz festival in Greece.
Many important and celebrated musicians have passed from Jazz on the Hill's musical
stage, always held during mid-July, most of which were invited exclusively by Sani Festival
from America and the rest of the globe for an exclusive performance not only in Greece, but
in the entirety of Europe.
1992
1993
1994
Roy Hargrove
Quintet
Frank Morgan
Duet
Stephen Scott
Trio
Cedar Walton
Trio
Jon Hendricks
& Company
Archie Shepp
Quartet
Piero Odorici
Trio
Erik Costita
Quintet
David Lynch
Quintet
1996
1997
Marc Cary
Quartet
1995
Kenny BarronHank Jones
Quartet
Sakis
Papadimitriou &
Georgia Sylleou
Jan Garbarek
Quartet
Betty Carter
& Trio
Tiziana Ghiglioni
Quartet
Abbey Lincoln
Quartet
Tribute to
Great Jazz Pianists:
Sphere Kenny Barron
Donald Brown
Trio
Ahmad Jamal
1998
1999
2000
David Sanchez
Quartet
Regina Carter
Quintet
Ray Brown
Trio
Konitz, Bley &
Haden
Johnny Griffin
Quartet
Jacky Terrasson &
Stefon
Harris Quartet
Cassandra Wilson
Arturo Sandoval &
«Hot House Group»
2001
10 years
Tribute to great
wind soloists:
«The Magnificent
Seven» feat. Benny
Golson & Chico
Freeman
Freddie Hubbard
& The New Jazz
Composers Octet
Tom Harrell’s
«Paradise» with
Sheila Jordan
Dee Dee
Bridgewater
& Trio
2002
2003
Diane Schuur
Brad Mehldau
Trio
Eddie Palmieri’s
«La Perfecta II»
Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Trio
Chico Freeman
y Guataca
Vassilis
Tsabropoulos
Trio
2004
2005
2006
The Lynne Arriale
Trio
Alphonse Mouzon
Trio
15 years
Tribute to
ECM Artists:
E.S.T.
Esbjorn Svensson
Trio
Charlie Haden’s
“Land of the Sun”
Tord Gustavsen
Trio
Lizz Wright
“Sangam”
Charles Lloyd
with Zakir Hussain
and Eric Harland
Jacques Loussier
Trio
Anouar Brahem
Trio
“Le Voyage
de Sahar”
2007
2008
2009
Kenny Garrett
Quartet
Roberto
Fonceca
Yarron Herman
Trio
Abdullah
Ibrahim
Trio
Omar Sosa
Afreecanos
Quartet
Vasilis
Tsabropoulos
- The Promise
Geri Allen
Trio
Chucho Valdés
Quintet
Richard Galliano
Love Day Quartet
Sounds of the World
A 3-day section dedicated to world music
Dee Dee Bridgewater - 2007
Our new thematic unit, dedicated to the sounds of the world is a proof that Sani Festival is
evolving, opening to other musical genres, and enriching its program.
After many successful concerts and exclusive productions of ethnic music during the past
years, our lead in this music genre, like Cesaria Evora, Tito Puente, Dulce Pontes, Lila
Downs, Teofilo Chandre, Petru Guelfucci, Eliades Ochoa and others, the need for the
creation of a separate part of the program dedicated to this very interesting genre was
urgent.
Thus, the three-day part christened "Sounds of the World" was born, completing the
international concert selection.
2006
2007
2008
Hadouk Trio
Dee Dee
Bridgewater
Amadou
& mariam
Mory
Kanté
Tinariwen
Milton Nascimento
& Quartet
Minino Garay y Los
Tambores del Sur
Susana
Baca
Márta
Sebestyén
2009
Ska Cubano
Rodrigo Leão
Calima
Sani Classic
A special section dedicated to classical music
The third, traditional part of Sani Festival, after Jazz on the Hill and Sounds of the World, is
Sani Classic. It is dedicated to classical music and offers a chance to young, talented Greek
musicians to perform.
These chamber music concerts begin late August and are completed at the start of
September. They are held at the "Orfeas" open theatre of Sani Resort and are open to the
public, without an entrance fee.
1994
1995
1996
1997
Giorgos Lazaridis
Giorgos
Nikolaidis
Zoe Samsarellou
Christos Noulis
Yanna Athanasaki
Yiannis & Antonis
Anisegos
Jullia
Souglakou
Yanna Zissiadou
Xenia
Kourkoumeli
Antonis
SousamoglouKonstantinos
Kalakonas
Lilia Vasiliadou
1998
1999
2000
2001
Maria Thoidou
Eleni
Papadopoulou,
Dimitris
Polyzoidis,
Yanna Athanasaki
Kostas
Makriyiannakis
& Nikos Veliotis
Great Piano
Soloist :
Katya Sonina
Svetlana
Navassardian
Grigoris
Zambaras
Haralampos
Aggelopoulos
& Georgios
Zaharoudis
Myrto Karypidou
Clio
Papadopoulou
& Elena
Konstantinou
Maria
Panayiotidou
Christos Grimbas Katerina Saketta
Tangos A Quatro
2002
2003
Daniela Chihaia
& Grigore
Marcovici
Duo Capricorn
Petros Moschou Dimitris Karidis
Ioannis
Karayiannis
Theoharis
Feslikidis
Lenio Liatsou
Μακεδονικό Κουαρτέτο
Σαξοφώνων
2004
Danae
PapamatheouMatschke
& Uwe Matschke
Theodora Baca,
Kostas
Makrygiannakis
& Christos
Grimbas
Beata Pintsetits
& Christos
Sakellaridis
Elena
Christodoulou
2005
Ensemble Flutenio
Lila-Mirto Manola
& Jean-Christophe
Charron
Yioula Michail &
Ioanna
Polyzoidou
Varbara
Venetikidou
& Marilena
Liakopoulou
Art Various
Athanasia
Thomopoulou,
Theodoros
Papadimitriou
& Panagiotis
Kountouris
2006
2007
2008
2009
Vangelis & Anelia
Portokali
Efi Delfinopoulou,
Olga Zerva,
D. Photiadis,
Κ. Hasiotis,
Dimitri Gudimov
Kyriaki Konti
& Th. Pavlou
Μ.Tassopoulou,
D. Papagiannakis
Zenovia-Maria
Zafiriadou
& Tina Zerdin
Kostas
Fotopoulos
Maria
Tassopoulou,
Dimitris
Papayiannakis
& Stamos Semsis
Evi
Yiammopoulou,
Elli Marina Kasda
& Kostis
Rasidakis
Kostis
Papazoglou
& Concerto
Conservatorio
Mihalis
Tsiairas
Art Various
St. Hatziosidifis
& Nikos
Zafranas
D. Nepkas
& Β. Pozidou
Les Dames
Déshéritées
xenia
Theodoridou
Danai Matschke
& Uwe Matschke
Korina
Vouyiouka,
Th. Tzovanakis
Varvara
Venetikidou,
Jean-Christophe
Charron
& Lila-Myrto
Manola
3essence
ensemble
Nikos
Kyriosoglou
Dimitra
Athanasatou,
Thanasis Bililis
Dionysia-Niovi
Klavdianou
& ΙΑΜΑ Τrio
Music on Film vs Film on Music
Michel Legrand Trio with Alison Moyet - 2009
Summer 2009 saw the 17th Sani Festival enter into collaboration with the Thessaloniki
International Film Festival, incorporating into its programme a new series of events
under the title Music on Film vs. Film on Music. It is hoped that a cinematic programme
will in future become a permanent feature of the Festival.
This is not the first time the Sani Festival has flirted with the world of film. As part of
our Jazz on the Hill programme we introduced a cine-concert, screening a documentary
on the life of the musician Abdullah Ibrahim before the artist himself performed a
concert. All that was required was for the opportunity to present itself for a broader
collaboration, and finally this year the Sani Festival brought together music and the
magic of cinema in a three-day tribute to the famous French composer Michel Legrand.
Events included screenings of films with scores by Legrand and a concert by the
musician and his trio, accompanied by the high priestess of pop Alison Moyet,
performing some of his best-loved hits.
2009
Tribute to Michel Legrand
Screening:
Les parapluies de Cherbourg
La piscine
Lola
Concert:
Michel Legrand Trio with Alison Moyet
Greek Participation
Dimitra Galani - 2007
From 1993 to today, great Greek artists parade on the Sani Festival stage, leaving bits of
their aura behind. Stavros Ksarhakos, Eleni Karaindrou, Giorgos Dalaras, Alkistis Protopsalti,
Haroula Alexiou, Loukianos Kilaidonis, Dimitra Galani, Dionisis Savopoulos are just some of
the most eminent personalities of the Greek music spectrum that gave - and still give - their
gleam and inspiration in the Greek part of Sani Festival.
A section applauded both by the public and media, as the artists themselves, who honour
one of the most potent Greek cultural productions.
1993
1994
1995
1996
Nikos Papazoglou
Dionisis
Savopoulos
Giorgos Dalaras
Petros Gaitanos
Stavros Xarhakos
Haris Alexiou
Himerinoi
Kolimvites
1997
1998
1999
2000
Alkistis
Protopsalti
Marinella
Th. Mikroutsikos Petru Guelfucci
Eleni Karaindrou &
Camerata,
Ορχήστρα των Φίλων της Μουσικής
Vasilis Saleas
Songs of
Dinos
Christianopoulos
Dionisis
Savopoulos
Mariana Toil Zahos Terzakis
Κ.Ο.Ε.Μ. Stavros Xarhakos
Μarios Fragoulis
& Deborah Myers
Μaria Farantouri Elli Paspala &
Savina Yiannatou
Dimitris
Mitropanos
Evanthia
Reboutsika &
Yiannis Kotsiras
2001
2002
2003
Elli Paspala,
David Lynch,
Stavros Lantsias
& Haig Yazdjian
Quintet
Stamatis
Kraounakis, Kostas
Makedonas,
Dimitra Papiou
& «Spira-Spira»
Yiannis Kotsiras
Eleftheria
Arvanitaki
& Alkinoos
Ioannidis
Thanos Mikroutsikos
& Christos Thiveos
Dimitra Galani
& Melina Aslanidou
Dionisis
Savopoulos
& Κ.Ο.Ε.Μ.
2004
2005
2006
Doulce Pontes
& Stefanos
Korkolis
Tania
TsanaklidouEleni
Tsaligopoulou
Loukianos
Kilaidonis
with Κ.Ο.Ε.Μ.
Lavrentis
Macheritsas
& Christos Thiveos
Dionisis
Savopoulos
Eleftheria
Arvanitaki
& Manos
Pirovolakis
2007
2008
2009
Manos
Ahalinotopoulos
& Eleni
Tsaligopoulou
Eleni Karaindrou
& Camerata
George Dalaras
«Enchanted
songs»
A tribute to
rembetiko
Dimitra
Galani
Athena
Andreadis
Maria
Farantouri
& Martha
Frintzila
Maria
Farantouri
& Manolis
Mitsias
«By the sea»
Andreou,
Tsaligopoulou,
Thivaios
& Karantinis
International Participation
Goran Bregovic - 2007
The international part of Sani Festival, right from the beginning, was enriched with the
essence of personas of such fame as Milva, Yann Tiersen and many others, to blossom as
the years went by into one of the most successful music events, and to become the stone
on which the organizers of Sani Festivals stood to give birth to "Sounds of the World" and
start its course.
Today, artists of the international stage - except for world music, which falls into the
Sounds of the World unit - continue to excite with their ability to radiate talent and unique
personality on Sani Hill, creating magical memories of a multitude of stars.
1994
1996
1997
1998
Roberto Pla
Cesaria Evora
Tito Puente
& His Latin
All Star Band
Milva
1999
The Soul of
Cape Verde:
Teofilo Chandre,
Maria Alice
& Tito Paris
2000
2003
2004
2007
Nadia Weinberg
Lila Downs
Cuban’s Grammys
Goran Bregovic
& The Wedding
and Funeral
Band
Bevinda
2002
Yann Tiersen
2005
Pietra
Montecorvino
“Napoli
Mediterranea”
Dance
Tango Flamenco - 2004
Dance, an art closely connected to music, is an uncontested point of reference in Sani
Festival. Each summer, the program includes outstanding dancers and musical theatre
troupes, mostly of the contemporary dance genre, both Greek and international.
These important events of high artistic value are presented in front of the North Greece
audience, delivering the vision of cultural decentralization that the Sani Festival promotes.
1994
1995
1996
1997
«Ifigenia
en Tavris»
-Horokytaro
Thessalonikis
Group
of Contemporary
Dance of the city
of Thessaloniki
Dance Theater
«Parousies»
«Dancers of
the North»
1998
1999
2000
2001
Dance Theater
«Parousies»
Sinequanon Contemporary
Dance Group
Tango Variationen
Edafos Group
«Human Thirst»
Tangokinesis
2002
2003
2004
2005
«Tavrokathapsia»
By Roes
Dance Theater
Gala Evening with
Igor Zelensky
Tango Flamenco
The Parsons
Dance Company
2006
2007
2008
Aenaon
Dance Theater
- Dianel Lommel
«House of Alba»
The Aspen
Santa Fe Ballet
Caravan
Stage Company
Roes Dance
Theater
- Electra
Perpetrator
Fine Art
Kostas Varotsos - 1996
Beside music and dance, Sani Festival also includes fine art events.
Painting, sculpture and photography exhibitions, artistic interventions that elevate Sani
areas without negating them, are usually a charming introduction to the Festival at the
beginning of summer, and go on throughout the festival.
From 2003 onwards, these events have found their own home, Sani Gallery. An elegant
showroom that hosts the festival exhibitions, right in the Sani Marina mall.
1993
1995
1996
1997
Tsoklis
Ν. G. Pentzikis:
A retrospective
(Private collection
of Κ. Valavanis)
Kostas Varotsos
(Sculpture
Exhibition)
Pavlos Vasiliadis:
Art Installation
Glaroudis
Efthimis
Varlamis
(Painting
exhibition
with the title
«Apocalypse and
Evnironment»)
«Thessaloniki
through the eyes
of the painters»
Group painting
exhibition
1994
Lizeta Vasiliadi
Painting
Exhibition with the
collaborarion of
Artforum Gallery
Artists of
Artforum
Gallery
1998
1999
2000
2001
Gethsemane
Group exhibition
Of Halkidiki artists
1st Sani Art Show
«Sea Horse» Group Painting
exhibition
2nd Sani Art Show
«Dedicated to the
hidden legend of
the Sani Tower»
Group Painting
exhibition
Alekos Fasianos
Giorgos Mokalis
Paris Petridis
Rania Kapeliari
& «Oceanus Art»
Group exhibition
of Thesaloniki
artists
The Nomadic Life
& the Textiles of
the East
Nikolas Kyriakou
Roger F. Ballen
«Outsider»:
Photography
exhibition
Sean Kernan:
«The secret
Books» Photography
exhibition
2002
2003
2004
2005
3rd Sani Art Show
«Let’s Party»
Opi Zouni
Electros - aka
Babis Vekris
Marios
Eleftheriadis
«Connecting
Flights»
Vasilis Pavlis
Simon Norfolk:
«Afganistan :
Chronotopia»
Giorgos Vores
Yannis
Kapsidakis
Giorgos
Kouvakis
Tzeni LeontiadouTzamtzi
2006
2007
2008
Philip Tsiaras
Petros
Zouboulakis
Danae
Stratou
“Breathing
Circle”
Babis
Venetopoulos
Theodoros
Vagelis
Pliarides
Minos
Alhanati
Photography
Exhibition
Paul Pennisi
«Trip on the
Imagination»
Press Clippings
«An eccentric festival»
«...It might as well be the most eccentric festival held on Greek soil. With great artists from Greece
and impressive artists from abroad - some of whom no one else had dared to invite all these years, it
has succeeded an astonishing course in its content, and its fame during the last three years, based
at ... the edge of the world! Almost, that is, because it is the top of the hill at the edge of the sea,
with a medieval castle in the background, at the Sani area of Halkidiki... »
Difono
SANI FESTIVAL: the classiest festival of the country!
«...Cassandra is calling. In Halkidiki's first peninsula, the seductive seaside area of Sani, for the
seventh year in a row. One of the few international festivals, perhaps the only one left exclusively to
private funding that has the advantage of combining artistic integrity with idyllic holidays…»
Symbol - Ependitis
«This year's festival is top-notch»
«...This was the first institution that expressed the need of combining tourism with culture,
beginning from a three-day festival of jazz that grew to an autonomous music Festival, whose strict
quality standards, booking of important artists and rich background, rank it among the best of the
Balkans, if not Europe...»
Thessaloniki
«Art by the waves»
«...High-level artistic events, crystal-clear sea, green scenery. What else can anyone want from
summer? On Sani Hill, Sani Festival that becomes 10 year old this year, combines all three...»
Kiriakatiki Eleftherotipia - The Art of Life
«The most important festival outside Athens»
«...Sani Festival, the most important art festival outside Athens, is 10 years old this year...»
www.ozonweb.gr
«A festival for... special needs»
Aggelioforos
«Jazz legends at Sani»
Apogevmatini
«Sani sets up musical bridges of communication»
Aggelioforos
«Arts celebrate on Sani Hill»
Τa Νea - Zo sti Thessaloniki
«Sani Festival 2002 : A+!»
Tipos Halkidikis
«Excellent grade for Sani!»
Makedonia
«Art by the wave»
Kiriakatiki Eleftherotipia - The Art of Life
Covers Story
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Sani Festival’s Team
SANI FESTIVAL,
55str. N. Plastira, 54250 Thessaloniki
Τel: +30 2310 317327, 312320. Fax: +30 2310 317881
Artistic Director
Olga Tabouris
email:
[email protected]
Production Manager
Argiro Barata
email:
[email protected]
Communication Manager
Georgia Dodou
email:
[email protected]
Backstage...
1995 - Giorgos Dalaras
1996 - Abbey Lincoln
1997 - Tito Puente
2003 - Lila Downs
2004 - Jacques Loussier
2004 - E.S.T.
2004 - Cuban’s Grammys