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I conducted this short interview in the cultural salon of Ars Augusta with the pianist Jonas Vitaud . During his visit to his mother, he used our grand piano to practice for his next concert. He told us about his life as a musician, his new role as artistic director of a festival on the Greek island of Syros, and about Görlitz. Jonas, can you give us a little information about yourself? Who are you, and why are you in Görlitz? I'm in Görlitz because my mother has lived here f

This interview/discussion was conducted on May 25, 2025, at Ars Augusta headquarters. Simonas Poška (S) talks to interviewer Eleni...

Simonas Poška comes from a family of artists. His father is a well-known painter and his mother an actress. The child likely inherited...

Early Life and Background Andreas Hammerschmidt was born in 1611 or 1612 in Brüx (now Most, Czech Republic), a town in Bohemia (part of...

Here are how Eleni Ioannidou presents the experience of the Erasmus+ Projekt "YES! Young Europe Sings" wich ended in February 2025....

To commemorate the 350 years since the death of Andreas Hammerschmidt in Zittau, the cultural society Ars Augusta e.V. in Görlitz is...

Two hundred years ago, just like today, on April 19, 1824, Lord Byron died in the heroic city of Messolonghi from the effects of a cold. He was 36 years old. Just a few months earlier, on January 22, 1824, he wrote the poem "On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year" for his birthday. Sadly, he realized that he could no longer awaken feelings of love interest and spurred his spirit for battle, in a wish to be a soldier, and end his life in the battlefield. He had had enough

A few days ago, the Spanish philhellene gave an interview to the Cypriot newspaper "Filenews" in which he spoke about Greece,...