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Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association Choir
Biographical Note

The first phase: 1993 – 2012
The choir was formed in 1993 by Domna Samiou. In its initial composition, it consisted of students from the traditional singing class she taught at the Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments 'Phoebus Anogeianakis' from 1993 to 2001.
Afterwards, members and friends of the Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association joined the choir. Most members were amateur singers.
Under Domna's guidance, the choir participated in concerts and studio recordings.
Choir members (in alphabetical order): Anna Anastasiadou, Katerina Apostolopoulou, Despoina Basakarou, Stelios Berberis, Angeliki Chanoumi, Tita Daskalaki, Dimitris Dimopoulos, Olga Filaniotou, Fotini Frangoulia, Thanassis Georgiou, Thanassis Gekas, Koula Giazitzoglou, Panagiotis Giorginis, Theofilos Gomatos, Nikos Goulopoulos, Yannis Kabouris, Christina Kapopoulou, Eleni Karagiorgi, Pola Karantana, Vassilis Karkantzos, Eleni Katsa, Anna Katsoulaki, Sophia Korre, Alexandros Koskiniotis, Dimitrios Mantzouris, Michalis Mantzouris, Nikolaos Mantzouris, Panteleimon Mantzouris, Katerina Mitropoulou, Lazaros Mitsis, Elina Papadopoulou, Tasia Papanikolaou, Panagiotis Pestrovas, Alexandros Sigalos, Argyris Stamopoulos, Michalis Stroumbakis, Thanassis Tsaknakis, Tryfon Tsatsaros, Yannis Tsiotsiopoulos, Kostas Vangelidis, Myrto Vounatsou.
The second phase: 2014 to today

After Domna Samiou's death, her collaborator Katerina Papadopoulou took charge of the choir and launched the second phase of its history.
Today, the choir has many new members and operates divisions, one for beginners and one for the more advanced.
Multimedia
Videos
Forty five lemon trees
Domna Samiou sings songs of nature and of love at Odeon of Herodes Atticus.

Χορωδία του Καλλιτεχνικού Συλλόγου Δημοτικής Μουσικής Δόμνα Σαμίου - Της τριανταφυλλιάς τα φύλλα (Μικράς Ασίας)

Songs

Central Greece Euboea, Agios Dimitrios Fable Song (Ballad)
A Fair Maid Did Sing

Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Historical Song
A Great Command

Sporades Skiathos Fable Song (Ballad)
A Little Shorty (Skiathos)

Asia Minor Fable Song (Ballad)
A Maid from Evripο

Central Greece Euboea, Gymno Easter Song, Ritual Song | Sea and Sailors Song
All Attend at Church (Easter Dance)

Peloponnese Love Song
All the Birds, Two by Two

Peloponnese Fable Song (Ballad)
All the Castles I Have Seen (The Castle of the Beautiful Maid)

Dodecanese Patmos Carnival Song, Bawdy Song
An Old Man Was Approaching (Explicit)

Eastern Aegean Lesvos, Mandamados Wedding Song
Bless Us, Christ and Holy Mary (2)

Central Greece Attiki, Megara Ritual Song, Great Lent Song
Carnival Is Ended Now

Crete Cretan Rizitiko Heroic Song
Castle, What Has Happened to Your Towers

Macedonia Couplets Love Song
D'You Hear the Water-Mills

Propontis Mudania Fable Song (Ballad)
Dawn Glowed in the East

Thrace Acritic Song
Digenis Is Dying (The Death of Digenis)

Thessaly Magnesia, Trikeri Fable Song (Ballad)
Down on the Sandy Beach

Propontis Mudania Love Song
Early last summer

Cyclades Mykonos Fable Song (Ballad), Charon's Song | Great Lent Song
Evyenoula

Macedonia Kastoria Carnival Song, Bawdy Song
Five and Ten Priests' Wives (Explicit)

Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Couplets Love Song
For a Whole Seven Weeks...

Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Love Song
Forty Five Lemon Trees

Asia Minor Fable Song (Ballad)
Forty Stonemasons (Arta’s Bridge)

Propontis Couplets Love Song
Giannoula

Ionian islands Corfu, Klimatia Religious, Literary Easter Song, Ritual Song
Glory Be to Every Day (Priests' Dance)


Thessaly Larissa, Drymos Carnival Song, Bawdy Song
Here They Call the Fanny Yiota (Explicit)

Epirus Carnival Song, Bawdy Song
How Do They Grind the Pepper (Explicit)

Peloponnese Historical Song
How Joyous Are the Mountains


Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Sea and Sailors Song
I Went Aboard a Boat

Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Sea and Sailors Song, Immigration Song
I Wish to Climb a Mountain Height

Central Greece Carnival Song
If I Could Be Upon the Shore (Explicit)

Asia Minor Couplets Love Song
If I want black eyes

Asia Minor Makri - Levissi Couplets Lampoon
If you want to marry

Cyclades Naxos Carnival Song, Philosophical Song
It Is the Custom Every Year

Sporades Skyros Processional Tune Love Song
January Violet



Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Easter Song, Ritual Song
Now Hear Me,… (Easter Dance Song)

Macedonia Carnival Song, Bawdy Song
Now List, Good Man (Explicit)

Sporades Skiathos Table Song Sad and Plaintive Song
O Black Dawn, Won't You Break

Cappadocia / Konya Sinasos Love Song
On my way to the mountains of Prussa

Thessaly Larissa, Tyrnavos Carnival Song, Bawdy Song
On the Last Days of Carnival (Explicit)

Central Greece Lament, Local Event
River, Dry Gorge

Sporades Skiathos Easter Song, Ritual Song | Fable Song (Ballad)
Song of Saint George (Easter Dance)




Propontis Nicomedea, Katirli Couplets Love Song, Spring Song
The May Month


Sporades Skyros Couplets Sea and Sailors Song, Love Song
The Sea Pounds Me

Cyclades Naxos, Komiaki Couplets Swing Song
The Swing


Thrace Lampoon, Carnival Song
Three Beardless Gents

Cappadocia / Konya Sinasos Fable Song (Ballad)
Three Lords A-Sitting

Peloponnese Sea and Sailors Song
Three Slender Girls

Eastern Aegean Chios, Mesta Sea and Sailors Song
Three monks from Crete

Peloponnese Couplets Easter Song, Ritual Song
Today, My Dark-Eyed Beauty (Easter Dance)

Asia Minor Erythraea, Alatsata Carnival Song, Bawdy Song
Together With My Aunt Kontylo (Explicit)


Sporades Skiathos Love Song
We Kissed Each Other in the Night

Central Greece Klephtic Song
What Ails You, Poor Plane-Tree?

Eastern Aegean Ikaria, Fournoi Couplets Love Song
What Did I Do to You, My Sun


Sporades Skiathos Love Song
Whoever Saw a Tree of Green


Asia Minor Erythraea, Çeşme Work Song, Sea and Sailors Song
Yio Mario

Propontis Marmara Couplets For the Bride, Wedding Song
You wear white

Asia Minor Smyrna, Baindiri Couplets Love Song
You, Sweet Lass
Albums

Carnival Songs with Domna Samiou



Easter Songs

Epic Songs of Warriors and Heroes

Folk Fables in Song

Kaneloriza

My Old Torments

Of Nature and of Love

Songs of Dame Sea

Songs of History and Heroes

The Earth’s Three Bounties

Wedding Songs
Concerts

29/10/1998 The Athens Concert Hall, Hall of the Friends of Music
The Known and the Unknown Domna

08 & 09/03/2005 The Athens Concert Hall, Hall of the Friends of Music
Songs of Asia Minor with Domna Samiou

26-29/12/1996 The Athens Concert Hall, 'Dimitris Mitropoulos' Auditorium
Greek Carols

11/10/2005 Odeon of Herodes Atticus
Domna Samiou Sings Songs of Nature and of Love
