Zakka Katerina

Zakka Katerina

Studies Personal exhibitions (national or international) / Artwork Group exhibitions (national or international) / Performances / Concerts
Place of birth:

Areti, Ioannina

Place of Residence:

Ioannina

Phone:

2651032010, 6934046908


Studies

Pre-school Education

Personal exhibitions (national or international) / Artwork

Cd “Sounds of Pogoni”, 2007

Group exhibitions (national or international) / Performances / Concerts

In February 2009, she sang before the President of the Hellenic Republic Karolos Papoulias, in the inauguration ceremony of the exhibition “Folk Songs: History – Tradition – Identity”. The exhibition was organised for the benefit of Parliamentarianism and Democracy by the Foundation of the Greek Parliament in collaboration with the Foundation of Studies in the Ionian and Adriatic Area. The exhibition took place at the Art gallery of the Society of Epirote Studies.
In March 2008, she sang at the event of the Folklore Centre of the Academy of Athens with Marisa Koch, Domna Samiou, Lakis Chalkia, Chronis Aidonidis, etc. (Theatre “Akropol”, Greek National Opera).
In August 2007, she sang at the musical-theatrical performance “Women Fables” with Maria Farantouri and Lydia Koniordou, in the archaeological site of Dodoni.
In July 2005, she recorded lamentations and other Epirotic songs for the Greek Parliament, in collaboration with the Music Department of the Technological Education Institute of Epirus.
In May 2004, she interpreted lamentations at the performance “Who was my brother’s murderer” by G. Vizyinos, organized under the auspices of the Department of Educational Sciences of the University of Cyprus.
In February 2004, in Ghent, she collaborated with the artistic organization “Het muziek LOD”, in a series of eight concerts and she gave a lecture on Epirotic traditions in the University of Ghent.
In September 2003, in an event organized by the Refugees Centre of Thessalonica, she sang Epirotic lamentations and migration songs with Maria Farantouri. In the event, also participated artists, who were fugitives from Iran, Iraq, Persia, Nigeria, and Afghanistan.
In August 2003, she sang at a B.B.C. documentary for Greece.
In July 2003, she sang in Corfu, after an invitation of the National Theatre.
In May 2003, in the framework of the European Festival “Ars Moriendi” (Belgium), she represented Greece in a series of concerts entitled “Tearful Birds”.
 
In Summer 2000, she collaborated with the National Theatre in the framework of the 1st Summer Theatre Academy (Monodendri, Zagoriou), that aimed at comparing the classic texts with the Epirotic Folklore Traditions. There, she taught Epirotic lamentations to the students of the National Theatre, and she collaborated with Dick Van Der Hoerst (composer), Paola Batroletti (choreographer) and Guy Kouls (dramatist).
In 1999, she took part in a honorary event for the 50 years of the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization, singing polyphonic songs, together with Vasilis Lekkas and Maria Dimitriadi.
In 1996, she sang a lamentation in the framework of the theatrical play “Tou Konstanti – Tis Aretis” at the theatre “La Mama”, in Manhattan, New York; she collaborated with Ross Daily.

She repeatedly collaborated with the Cultural Centre of the Municipality of Ioannina.