Artist's albums
Domna Samiou at Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall
1999 · album
Η Δόμνα Σαμίου στο Μέγαρο Μουσικής
1999 · album
Τα Πασχαλιάτικα - Τα Τελετουργικά
1998 · album
Τα Πασχαλιάτικα - Τα Χορευτικά
1998 · album
My Old Torments
2022 · album
Τα Παλαιά Μου Βάσανα
2022 · album
35 Paradosiaka Tragoudia
2022 · album
Τα Τρία Αγαθά της Γης
2019 · album
Music from Greece
2018 · album
Music from Greece
2018 · album
Epic Songs of Warriors and Heroes
2017 · album
Των Ακριτών και των Αντρειωμένων
2015 · album
I Tread the Earth Gently
2008 · album
Σιγανά και Ταπεινά
2008 · album
Ο κυρ Βοριάς… και Άλλα Τραγούδια για Παιδιά
2007 · album
14 Megala Tragoudia
2007 · album
Songs of History and Heroes
2007 · album
Ιστορικά - Κλέφτικα Τραγούδια
2007 · album
Folk Fables in Song
2006 · album
Of Nature and of Love
2006 · album
Παραλογές
2006 · album
Της Φύσης και του Έρωτα
2006 · album
Songs of Dame Sea
2002 · album
Της Κυρα-Θάλασσας
2002 · album
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Biography
Domna Samiou (Greek: Δόμνα Σαμίου; 12 October 1928 – 10 March 2012) was a prominent Greek researcher and performer of Greek folk music. Her parents were refugees from a village near Smyrna (Izmir, Turkey). During her childhood years she lived the harsh life of a refugee. At the age of thirteen, she also began to receive her first formal musical training from Simon Karas at the Association for the Dissemination of National Music, where she was tutored in Byzantine and Folk music, as well as being introduced to the idea of music field research. Her first professional collaboration with the National Radio Foundation (E.I.R.) started in 1954 and in 1963 she started touring the countryside independently, to record music for the archive she was establishing, using her own means and equipment. The Domna Samiou Archive includes more than 3000 songs and tunes from villages, settlements and towns of the Greek territory. In 1974 she started her collaboration with the Columbia record company, which resulted in a number of LPs being produced over the next years. In her work she has collaborated with the most renowned Greek and foreign musicians, musicologists and ethnomusicologists. In 1981 the Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association was founded to preserve and promote Greek traditional music and allow for the production of records and the organisation of musical events to the highest standards, free from the demands of commercial record companies.See also www.domnasamiou.gr