Ensemble En Chordais

The En Chordais ensemble is dedicated to the music of the Eastern Mediterranean and surrounding regions. Based in Thessaloniki, the ensemble offers a broad overview of Greek music through workshops, recordings, theoretical works, and numerous concerts.

En Chordais is active in the fields of multicultural music, encompassing both classical and folk traditions. The musicians’ experience, marked by eclecticism and inventiveness, gives the ensemble its distinctive character. They all share a genuine love for traditional folk music, a love rooted in a deep knowledge and experience of classical Byzantine music.

Combining research and performance, En Chordais regularly appears at festivals in Greece, the Balkans, Western Europe, and the Near East. The ensemble has collaborated with various artists from Greece and elsewhere, such as Nikos and Yiasemi Saragouda, Petroloukas Halkias, Chronis Aidonidis, Solon Lekkas, the Turks Suleyman Erguner, Melihat and Necip Gulses, the Lebanese Samir Siblini, Imane Homsy, Ghada Shbeir, Charbel Rouhana, the Tunisians Sonia M’Barek, and the Persians Kiya and Ziya Tabassian and Hossein Omoumi.