Alexia presents ‘Cypriote’ — a Live Arts thematic music performance that celebrates and enhances Cyprus’ cultural heritage and contemporary cultural expression. Drawing from a curated selection of songs and narratives from her international, Greek, and traditional repertoires, ‘Cypriote’ reflects the island’s rich and multilayered cultural identity.

Inspired by Cypriot antiquities and the themes they represent, Alexia crafts a contemporary sonic landscape shaped by imagery, memory, place, language and dialect. Through her distinctive sound, feminine perspective, and musical influences – Jazz, Classical, World Music, Traditional, Improvisation, she weaves harmonic and melodic modalities that bridge ancient traditions with modern expression. This musical journey creates a shared emotional experience, a mosaic tapestry, weaving a continuous thread between the ancient world and the present.

‘Cypriote’ invites audiences to discover Cyprus through sound – deepening their connection to its past while positioning the island within a global cultural dialogue, ultimately connecting Cyprus with the world.

A few words about the Artist – Alexia [Vassiliou] is widely regarded as a cultural and national treasure in both Greece and Cyprus. She is an Award-winning, Multi-Gold and Platinum, cross-genre, conceptual Vocal Recording Artist – Singer, Songwriter, Composer and Social Activist. With a historic career spanning 40+ years and 45 recorded albums, Alexia is known for her versatility and innovation with her eclectic, authentic, sophisticated musical sound, informed and inspired by Jazz, Classical, Electronic, Experimental, Improvisation, Avant-garde, Trip hop, Pop, World music, Gospel, Spiritual and Folk. Her vocal abilities, phrasing, timbre, and vibrato, personify and represent her unique style, the very essence of Alexia’s 3-octave contralto sound, transcending her genres of influence into the realm of intellectual abstract, high art. An educated vocalist from Berklee College of Music (’85), Alexia is a vocal force and Musical pioneer; from introducing pop music to Greece and Cyprus in the 80’s and forever altering the Greek music scene, to reviving the Greek film music symphonic and big band orchestras in the mid-90s, to making Jazz a commercially accepted genre by being the first Greek female vocalist to bring Classic American vocal Jazz to the mainstream market in the Hellenic world, to experimenting with her Voice as an Instrument by breaking away from the confines of the traditional structure of a song in her “Voice Improvisation Series” in the 2000’s; placing Alexia in a category of a singer who composes as she sings, an ability that few acquire in the world. Alexia has collaborated with some of the world’s greatest in live performances, recordings, theatre productions, and films, including: Chick Corea, Mikis Theodorakis, John Patitucci, Andreas Vollenweider, Madeleine Peyroux, Milva, Kostas Kapnisis, Rena Vlahopoulou, Mimis Plessas, Carlo Ponti Jr., Lena Chamamyan, Peter Gabriel, Pinar Toprak, and many others. Alexia’s Cultural Diplomacy work via her multi-cultural world concerts and albums, has raised awareness of the 1974 Turkish invasion and continued illegal occupation of her country, bringing attention on the displaced, the missing persons, and the ongoing ethnic cleansing of her country. In recent years, Alexia developed “Re-bE”, a Social Change Program for schools, as a way of bringing Music of quality, Creativity and Culture to the Youth. As a first of its kind program, and as a model of good practices in the European Union, Re-bE is an official program of the Ministry of Education of Cyprus, for all public schools across the nation.

Concert Credits:

• Soloist & Music Direction | Alexia
• Orchestrations | Giorgos Morfitis, Alexia Vassiliou
• Piano | John Di Martino
• Guitar | Spiros Exaras
• Electric Guitar & EFX | Ronan Chris Murphy
• Drums | Marcello Pellitteri
• Flutes | Anders Bostrom
• Narrator / Storytelling | Argyro Nicolaou, PhD
• Producer, Creative Director | Valentina Karantoni