The 3rd Sacred Music Festival in Athens Greece will take place on 12-16 April 2025. Here is how to enjoy exceptional music performances, which will be held at some of the most distinctive venues in Athens.
Athens Greece 3rd Festival of Sacred Music
If you are in Athens Greece on 12-16 April 2025, do not miss the 3rd Festival of Sacred Music. Featuring well-established artists, this superb festival will take place across several unique venues in Athens.
This year, the Festival will run from Saturday 12 to Wednesday 16 April, a few days before Greek Easter 2025, which will be celebrated on 20 April.
Led by artistic director Giorgos Koumentakis, the 3rd Festival of Sacred Music will feature over 40 concerts and events, which explore the many ways music connects with religious traditions and worship.
Sacred music has had a major influence on the growth of Western culture. The festival will include works created for religious purposes or inspired by spiritual themes, covering a wide range of styles and ideas.
The five-day Festival will include medieval and Byzantine hymns, Gregorian chants, French Baroque, Orthodox and Catholic liturgical music, as well as opera and contemporary music.
All performances are free of charge, but some require a reservation—please check the official website for details. Just make sure to arrive early, to avoid disappointment!
The venues of the 3rd Festival of Sacred Music in Athens
Set in a wide range of spaces, including churches, museums, theaters, concert halls, courtyards, and open public areas, the Festival weaves music into the everyday life of the city. It transforms Athens into a stage for a large-scale cultural and artistic celebration.
Below are the venues hosting the 3rd Sacred Music Festival of Athens:
- Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens – Googlemaps
- Catholic Cathedral of St. Dionysius the Areopagite – Googlemaps
- Fethiye Mosque (Roman Agora) – Googlemaps
- Acropolis Museum (courtyard) – Googlemaps
- First Greek Evangelical Church – Googlemaps
- Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation – Googlemaps
- Old Athens Stock Exchange, close to the Athens Food Market – Googlemaps
- Olympia City Music Theatre “Maria Callas” – Googlemaps
- Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments – Googlemaps
- Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNFCC) – Googlemaps
Artistic performances at the 3rd Festival of Sacred Music in Athens
Here is the detailed program for the 5-day Festival of Sacred Music:
Saturday of Lazarus – April 12
20:00 – From Passion to Resurrection
Konstantinos Angelidis, Panos Dimitrakopoulos, Byzantine Choir “Tropos”
Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens
Palm Sunday – April 13
12:30, 21:00 – Ex tenebris lux
Giorgos Krimperis, Eirini Anastasiou, Aglaia Pappa
Catholic Cathedral of St. Dionysius the Areopagite
16:00, 17:00, 18:00 – Tholos
Sokratis Sinopoulos, Taxiarchis Georgoulis, Stratis Psaradellis, Dimosthenis Karachristodoulou, Chrysanthi Gika
Fethiye Mosque (Roman Agora)
17:00 – Vassilis Tsitsanis: The Saint of Love
Dimitra Galani, Manolis Pappos, Andreas Katsiyiannis, Giorgos Konstantinou
Estoudiantina of Nea Ionia, Hellenic Byzantine Choir
Acropolis Museum (courtyard)
17:00 – Maria Matrem
Ex Silentio, Dimitris Kountouras
Greek National Opera Children’s Choir, Konstantina Pitsiakou
First Greek Evangelical Church
17:30 – Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
Spyros Tzekos, Iro Seira, Alexis Bove, Sofia Tambakopoulou, Lenia Zafeiropoulou
Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation
17:30 – Satie: Works for Piano
P 4 2 (Beata Pincetic, Christos Sakellaridis)
Old Athens Stock Exchange
18:00 – Philharmonic Orchestra of the Municipality of Chalandri
Conductor: Kostas Ioannidis
Route: Dionysiou Areopagitou (Acropolis Museum) → Apostolou Pavlou (Thiseio)
20:00 – Cherubini: Requiem
Athens Municipal Symphony Orchestra and Choir, Alkis Baltas
Olympia City Music Theatre “Maria Callas”
20:30 – Bach in the Sky with Diamonds
Alexandra Papastefanou
Old Athens Stock Exchange
21:00 – Eva
Sofia Kyanidou, Antonis Kordopatis, Dimitris Giakas
Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation
Holy Monday – April 14
17:00, 18:00, 19:00 – Bows of the East
Giorgos Psaltis, Sofia Eukleidou, Giannis Poulios
Fethiye Mosque (Roman Agora)
17:00 – “For it was not the season for figs”
Old Athens Stock Exchange
17:30 – Britten: Noye’s Fludde
Themelis Glynatsis, Kyriaki Kountouri, Konstantina Pitsiakou
Greek National Opera Children’s Choir, Underground Kids Orchestra, members of Underground Youth Orchestra, El Sistema Greece Youth Orchestra, and independent musicians
Olympia City Music Theatre “Maria Callas”
17:30, 19:30 – O My Sweet Spring
Tasos Apostolou, Vamos Orchestra, Thanasis Papathanasiou
Acropolis Museum (courtyard)
18:30, 19:30 – Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silent
Giannis Papatzanis, Nikos Katritzikakis, Nikos Papageorgiou, Dimos Papatzalakis
Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments “Phoebus Anoyianakis” – Centre for Ethnomusicology
20:30 – Nature, Worship, and the Divine
Sibil·la Ensemble
First Greek Evangelical Church
20:30 – Athens Guard Military Band
Conductor: Lt. Xenofon Mendes
Route: Acropolis Museum → Plaka → Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens
22:00 – The Harlot Came to Thee / Holy Tuesday Mystical Hymns
Theodoros Currentzis (artistic direction), Antonios Koutroupis, Ribal Wehbe, Grigorios Zarkos, Amalia Moutousi, MusicAeterna Byzantina
Old Athens Stock Exchange
Holy Tuesday – April 15
17:00, 18:00, 19:00 – Vitraux
Tasos Poulios, Kyriakos Tapakis, Giorgos Kontogiannis, Nikos Paraoulakis
Fethiye Mosque (Roman Agora)
17:00 – Conversations
Melia Kreiling, Chamber Ensemble of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Municipality of Chalandri
First Greek Evangelical Church
17:30 – Britten: Noye’s Fludde (Encore Performance)
Themelis Glynatsis, Kyriaki Kountouri, Konstantina Pitsiakou
Greek National Opera Children’s Choir, Underground Kids Orchestra, members of Underground Youth Orchestra, El Sistema Greece Youth Orchestra, and independent musicians
Olympia City Music Theatre “Maria Callas”
17:30, 18:30, 19:30 – At the Monastery of Hosios Loukas
Michalis & Pantelis Kalogerakis
Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments “Phoebus Anoyianakis” – Centre for Ethnomusicology
18:30 – Paradise Lost: Demon Forms
Nikos Galenianos
Ioanna Vrakatseli, Danai Bletsa, Artemis Bogri, CHÓRES Choir
Old Athens Stock Exchange
20:00 – Navy Music Ensemble
Conductor: Lt. Commander Efstratios Sitsas
Route: Aerides → Roman Agora → Plaka
20:30 – The Majesty of the Minimal: Choral Works by Tavener and Pärt
Les Vibrations Sympathiques, Pavlos Cordis
First Greek Evangelical Church
21:00 – Polyhymnia the Festive: The Polychoral Style and the Art of Melodic Ornamentation in 17th-Century Germany
The Clerkes Extraordinarie, Cappella Sancti Pauli, Iason Marmaras
Catholic Cathedral of St. Dionysius the Areopagite
Holy Wednesday – April 16
17:30 – Vanya Moneva Choir (Bulgaria)
Stavros Niarchos Hall, Greek National Opera – Alternative Stage (SNFCC)
19:00 – Vanya Moneva Choir (Bulgaria)
Stavros Niarchos Hall, Greek National Opera – Alternative Stage (SNFCC)
20:00 – Christ Symphony – Easter Concert by the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra
Afroditi Patoulidou, Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, Leo McFall
Stavros Niarchos Hall, Greek National Opera (SNFCC)
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