Ηow do artistic creation and ethos interact? Is the creative construct an aftereffect of the artist's ethos? When we are standing in front of a work of art, whatever that may be, do we only interact with the object of art or with the creator himself simultaneously?
Dimitris Maramis, a music composer and artistic director of the newly established Festival of Delphi, will lead us through an unexpectedly melodic path to the concept of the creator's ethos.
Dimitris Maramis studied piano and composition at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Great Britain. He has collaborated with cultural organizations such as: National Opera of Greece (Stavros Niarchos Foundation), National Theatre of Greece, National Theatre of Northern Greece, Armonia Atenea – The Friends of Music Orchestra, Megaron – the Athens Concert Hall and Thessaloniki Concert Hall, Dimitria Festival, Stegi – Onassis Foundation (Greek Design), and more.

He has presented his works abroad: in the USA, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg. He has released eight personal albums. Indicative titles of his discography are Dark Love and Emotional Age. He has written music for forty histrionics, cinema and educational television. He has been awarded thrice for his theatre music (in 2012, 2017 and 2018). The modern opera – musical Erotokritos, the Alternative Stage’s assignment of the Greek National Opera in 2017, was characterized as one of the greatest successes of the Greek National Opera, extracting dithyrambic reviews and presented a performance to the Alternative Stage of Stavros Niarchos Foundation, in Herodes Atticus Odeon, at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall and at the Cultural Centre in Heraklion. The composer’s second modern opera, Haunted, based on three folk songs, was commissioned by the Athens Concert Hall and was successfully presented extracting enthusiastic reviews in 2019 at Alexandra Triandi Hall.

Dimitris Maramis is the artistic director of the newly established Festival of Delphi, Lalon Idor, founded in 2018. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx