17/02/2024
Introducing Ethnomusicologist Labri Giotto-Λαμπρινή Γιώτη !
Labrini will join us on our 3-day event Rebetiko Duets. She will perform live but she will also do a MASTERCLASS on vocals and singing, based on Rebetiko tunes and specifically focusing on the voices of Marika Ninou and Stella Haskil.
You don't need to have any previous experience in singing or music knowledge. Labrini will guide you to memorable experience with a great impact.
Please spend two minutes and read Labrini's bio below.
See you there!
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Labrini Astrid Gioti Andersson is a Greek performer, teacher,radio producer and ethnomusicologist.
She has graduated from Palini Musical Highschool, holds a Diploma in Classical piano from the National Conservatoire of Athens , a BA in Music Studies and an MA in Ethnomusicology from the Irish World Academy of Music & Dance (University of Limerick) with the aid of a scholarship from the Attica Tradition Foundation.
She began her involvement with Celtic music when she was 13 years old and in 2006 she completed her Master thesis on : “Sean-Nós singing style from the West Cork Gaeltacht area”, where she concentrated on the singing style of Eilís Ní Shúilleabháin, Iarla Ó Lionáird & Elisabeth Cronin.
During 2007&2008, she conducted workshops with byzantine, epirotic and rebetika music at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick.
She has been taught traditional music & different styles by Elaine Cormican, Eilís Ní Shúilleabháin, Deirdre Scanlon, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin ,Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Bobby Mc Ferrin, Mamak Khadem,Haris Lambrakis,Nikos Mamagkakis,Spyros Goumas,Ross Daly, Åsa & Esbjörn Hogmark, Nicklas Roswall , Ditte Andersson ,Ross Daly, Kelly Thoma, Martha Mavroidi,Maria Koti, Mamak Khadem, Veronica Doubleday, John Bailey, Johanna Bölja, Vicki Swan.
She has been a professional musician since 2000 performing in music stages, pubs & concerts all over Greece, as well as teaching piano,rebetika, traditional Greek and North European music, singing style and theory in Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, Norway,Germany and Greece.
She has performed at the Acropolis Museum(projects with the Irish Embassy), Cycladic Museum(Irish Embassy), ERT,Athens Celtic Music Festival, Festival,Athens Irish Festival, Irish Wings and Paxos Music Festival,Medieval Rhodes Festival, as well as in several music stages in Greece, Ireland(IWAMD, Bewley’s Cafe Theater), Sweden (Esi Tobo) and Scotland(Cowdray Hall, Blue Lamp) .
She is a pioneer in promoting Irish,Scottish and Nordic traditional singing in Greece with seminars since 2010, founding and conducting Curfa Gaelic Nordic Choir with students from the seminars since 2017.
Ms Gioti Andersson promotes the Irish and Celtic culture since 2006 with music projects in collaboration with the Irish Embassy, Culture Ireland and the Greek Irish Society, being an old member of the Greek Irish Society since 1996 and having served in the committee as well.
She is one of the founders of the Athens Celtic Music Festival (2014-2019 ).
The ITMA (Irish Traditional Music Archive) cataloged her in their archives as the first Greek who sang in the Irish (Gaelic) language, Sean-nós .
She has sung Sean-nós in front of the Irish President , Michael D. Higgins, in Athens.
In 2022, she performed Greek music for the awarded documentary movie “An Buachaill Gealghaireach” , the Laughing Boy with two famous Irish traditional musicians, Liam O’ Maonlai and Dave Power .
She is the one of the founding members of the band Sòlastas ( Athens Celtic Music Festival, Gagarin, Trianon, Hellenic American Union, Athens Irish Festival, Ianos, Goethe Institut, Rhodes Medieval Festival and several projects with the Irish Embassy and British Embassy ).
Since 2017-2021, she started the Nyckelharpa Greece project , having brought the first nyckelharpa from Sweden promoting Nordic music in Greece with her band Sòlastas .
In October 2019, she was accepted at the Intercultural Orchestra of the Greek National Opera alternative stage ,as a nyckelharpa player.
For a detailed bio on Nyckelharpa and Nordic music, go to the page Nyckelharpa Greece and Nordic Music in Greece.
