The “Composing sound painting” music workshop concludes with a concert open to the public with lots of music and electronic experimentations, on Sunday, 1 March 2026, at 12:00, at MOMus-Museum of Modern Art-Costakis Collection, at the Moni Lazariston, in Thessaloniki. 

The children aged 6-15 who participated in the double workshop since last October, led respectively by Zesses Seglias and Andrey Smirnov and with musical experimentations, electronic music and musical technologies as their main axes, complete their experience with a unique artistic, concert experience.

In detail, Zesses Seglias, composer and educator, will present the musical composition he created together with the children of his workshop, in collaboration with the musicians of the dissonArt ensemble; subsequently, Andrey Smirnov, musician and researcher of electronic music, will present the outcome of his workshop with the children who participated in a programme exploring dialogue between experimental electronic music and images. 

The programme “Composing sound paintings” is supported by the 2025 Funding for Youth Projects of Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. 

On the same day, after the concert, at 1:30 p.m., the visual installation by artists Elena Gubanova and Ivan Govorkov will be inaugurated in the courtyard of the Museum. The interactive musical sculpture draws its inspiration from the futuristic opera “Victory over the Sun” (1913) and has been produced with the support of Cyland MediaArt Lab.

Admission Free.

CV’s
Zesses Seglias is a composer of sonic bodies and lingual structures. His compositional output focuses on the relationship between the sound of voice and its semantic, as defined by language. Much of this repertoire is staged, although concert pieces also share the same principle. Latest compositional activity focuses on unifying musical and spoken language in a hybrid of sound and meaning described as spoken sound theatre. Opera and music theatre have been on the spotlight of his creation: To the Lighthouse (2017) in Bregenzer Festspiele received rave reviews by magazines and newspapers such as Opernwelt, Süddeutsche and Frankfurter Allgemeine. In 2023, he was commissioned by the Greek National Opera to compose a new music theatre piece based on Samuel Beckett's Not I. Other accomplishments include hystéra (2014) at the GrazOpera, while he has been a finalist in opera composition competitions (Joseph Fux – Graz, Mannheim National Theatre). In 2023 he was awarded with the Staatsstipendium from the Austrian state. In 2026 a new, semi-staged vocal theatre piece commissioned by Konzerthaus and supported by EVS foundation will receive its premiere. Seglias has taught Composition and Music Education subjects in various universities and academies. Since 2026, he has been an Assistant Professor at the DECE of the University of Thessaly, specialising in Music Pedagogy.
zesseseglias.com

Andrey Smirnov is a musical artist and researcher, internationally known for his teaching and research in the field of electronic music and the history of avant-garde music along visual arts. He established the Theremin Centre and he was the head of the Sound – Laboratory at the Rodchenko School of Arts in Moscow. He teaches history and aesthetics of electroacoustic music, sound design and composition, new musical interfaces and physical computing courses. He has implemented a variety of workshops and seminars, not only specialized but also for the general public, in the USA, Europe and Russia and has participated in worth-mentioning festivals and conferences. He is the author of the books “Sound In Z: Experiments in Sound and Electronic Music in Early 20th Century Russia” (Walther Koenig & Sound and Music, London, 2013) and “In Search of Lost Sound. Experimental Sound Culture in Russia and USSR in the first half of the 20th century” (Moscow, GARAGE, 2020) (The Book of the Year Award, Innovation 2021). Since September 2023, Andrey Smirnov has collaborated on experimental music projects at MOMUS.

dissonArt ensemble 
One of the top new music ensembles in Greece the ensemble dissonArt was founded in 2005 around a core of eight soloists and associated partners, with a flexible internal structure. The ensemble’s programs aim to promote works of recognized as well as emerging composers that deserve to be heard. Music-theatre works and collaborations with groups of other artistic disciplines, that result in the creation of original works, are among the main objectives of dissonArt. To that end the ensemble has closely collaborated with composers of international prestige such as Beat Furrer, Manos Tsangaris, Augustino di Scipio, George Koumendakis. dissonArt ensemble is performing frequently in Greece and abroad in prominent halls and festivals such as the Salzburg Biennale, Darmstadt International Summer Course for New Music, Klang Festival (Copenhagen), Berlin Deutsche Oper. It has recorded for Godrecords, Phasma Music and Dissonance Records and has received the Ernst von Siemens Funding for the creation of new music theatre works twice. Guest conductors of the ensemble include Johannes Kalitzke, Vladimiros Symeonidis, and Cordula Bürgi. Since September 2021 has started a longterm collaboration with the Berlin- based independent opera company NOVOFLOT. dissonart ensemble is supported for its tour concerts by the Onassis Outward Turn Program (www.sgt.gr).
https://www.dissonartensemble.com

2025 Funding for Youth Projects / Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation

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