Metallon Brass Ensemble

Athens State Orchestra Wind Instruments & Percussion Ensemble

Nikos Haliassas, Chief

Program

La Strada - Nino Route

The Clowns - Nino Rota

New York - New York - John Kander

Topkapi - Manos Hatzidakis

For a cabeza - Carlos Gardel

La vita e bell - Nicola Piovani

Pirates of the Caribbean - Klaus Badelt

Raiders Mar- John Williams

St. Louis Blues March - William Christopher Handi

I don't mean a thing - Duke Ellington

What a wonderful world - GD Weiss/B. thiele

Caravan- D. Ellington/J. Tizol

When the Saints - Traditional New Orleans

Singing in the rain - NH Brown/A.Freed

A night in Tunisi- D. Gillespie/F. Paparelli

“Miller medley” – Glenn Miller

Metallon Brass Ensemble

“METALLON” Brass Ensemble is a chamber music ensemble consisting of 12 people, 4 Trumpets, 2 Horns, 4 Trombones, 1 Tuba and 1 percussion.

Having had a brilliant European career, the ensemble holds the title of being the oldest and most established ensemble of the Athens State Orchestra, with its 22 years of uninterrupted work, and gives regular concerts every year in Greece and throughout Europe.

The ensemble, conducted by Maestro Nikos Haliassas, will participate in the festival with a program of jazz and film music, along with works by Nino Rota, who composed the music for iconic films in the history of cinema such as The Godfather, The Clowns, Eight and a Half and La Strada.