Beth Bahia Cohen plays traditional Greek music on the violin
and various lyras. She has learned from and performed with
many violinists and lyra players in Greece: Vangelis Zagoraios
of Andros, Achilleas Halkias of Epiros, Yiorgos Bellis of Kythnos,
Manolis Manouras and Yiorgos Avissinos of Crete, and more.
She performs with New York Greek dance groups GAFS and
Akrites, as well as throughout the U.S. and Canada, in
concerts, at Greek dance symposiums (FDF, HDF, etc.), and
with Ziyia, Panayotis League, Grigori Maninakis, Yiannis
Roussos, and others.
She is the recipient of various travel/study grants, as well as
the Radcliffe Bunting Fellowship, teaches Greek violin &
Greek ensemble at the annual Balkan Music & Dance
Camps as well as at universities throughout the U.S. She also
performs Arabic, Turkish, Hungarian and Klezmer music. She
performs her own Art of the Bow show, showing the various
ways of playing the violin and other bowed instruments
across many cultures.
and various lyras. She has learned from and performed with
many violinists and lyra players in Greece: Vangelis Zagoraios
of Andros, Achilleas Halkias of Epiros, Yiorgos Bellis of Kythnos,
Manolis Manouras and Yiorgos Avissinos of Crete, and more.
She performs with New York Greek dance groups GAFS and
Akrites, as well as throughout the U.S. and Canada, in
concerts, at Greek dance symposiums (FDF, HDF, etc.), and
with Ziyia, Panayotis League, Grigori Maninakis, Yiannis
Roussos, and others.
She is the recipient of various travel/study grants, as well as
the Radcliffe Bunting Fellowship, teaches Greek violin &
Greek ensemble at the annual Balkan Music & Dance
Camps as well as at universities throughout the U.S. She also
performs Arabic, Turkish, Hungarian and Klezmer music. She
performs her own Art of the Bow show, showing the various
ways of playing the violin and other bowed instruments
across many cultures.
Guest Musicians
| Panayiotis League spent much of his childhood in the Dodecanese immigrant community of Tarpon Springs, Florida, where he was exposed to the music and dance traditions of Kalymnos and other islands. He became involved in music at the age of 12, playing drums and percussion in a variety of styles, later moving on to the traditional Irish music of his father's heritage and finally coming back to the traditional music of Greece. He has traveled widely throughout the Greek islands, mainland, and Crete, learning from the older generation of traditional musicians and performing at village festivals and panigiria. He has a particular interest in and passion for the traditions of Kalymnos, the Dodecanese, and western Crete, and their respective and interconnected oral poetry and music. He is currently pursuing a degree in Classics and Modern Greek Studies at Hellenic College in Brookline, Massachusetts, and works as a freelance translator as well as performing and teaching traditional Greek and Irish music on a variety of string and percussion instruments. |