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Browse piano sheets by Yanni on Zen Virtual Piano. On the eve of a 1998 Latin American tour, Yanni pulled the plug. A year earlier he had performed record-breaking concerts at the Taj Mahal in India and the Forbidden City in China, two months apart, and he later said that there is a line beyond which you burn out, and that he found it by crossing it. Record-breaking concerts at two landmark venues, two months apart and a year before a canceled tour, suggest how large the touring operation had become. Yanni was born in Kalamata in 1954, the second of three children of Sotiri and Felitsa Chryssomallis. He began to play the piano at six but refused formal lessons: as a child he heard music in his head and wanted to hear it come out of the piano too, so he learned to play to make that happen. At fourteen he set a Greek national record in the 50-meter freestyle. A boy who refused formal lessons and grew into a musician whose albums are a one-man show hints at a long habit of working alone. In 1972, with his parents’ encouragement, he left his homeland to attend the University of Minnesota. In Minnesota he played in local rock bands and began to develop a personal style using both piano and electronic keyboards to create new sounds. He played keyboards for Chameleon, a band that became well known in the Twin Cities and toured regionally, and while in Minneapolis he also worked with the choreographer Loyce Houlton to provide music for dance works produced by the Minnesota Dance Theatre. Rock bands in the Twin Cities and music for a dance company in Minneapolis suggest a musician comfortable in very different settings. In 1980 he recorded and produced his first album, Optimystique, which Atlantic Records re-released in 1984 and Private Music in 1989. His breakthrough concert, Live at the Acropolis, was filmed in September 1993 at the 2,000-year-old Herodes Atticus Theater and released in 1994 as an album, VHS and Laserdisc. A concert filmed in a 2,000-year-old theater and then released on VHS and Laserdisc joins a very old stage to very new media. It was his first live album and used his core band with a sixty-piece orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Yanni hand-picked the band members who accompany him on tour and eventually added an entire symphony orchestra, yet his albums are a one-man show: he writes all the songs, plays all the instruments and handles all production duties. A composer who writes, plays and produces his own albums but tours with a hand-picked band and an orchestra moves between solitary studio work and very large public stages. In 2013 he performed in China again, at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala with the Chinese zither player Chang Jing, in the first year that CCTV had invited foreign artists to perform.
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Browse piano sheets by Yanni on Zen Virtual Piano.
On the eve of a 1998 Latin American tour, Yanni pulled the plug. A year earlier he had performed record-breaking concerts at the Taj Mahal in India and the Forbidden City in China, two months apart, and he later said that there is a line beyond which you burn out, and that he found it by crossing it. Record-breaking concerts at two landmark venues, two months apart and a year before a canceled tour, suggest how large the touring operation had become.
Yanni was born in Kalamata in 1954, the second of three children of Sotiri and Felitsa Chryssomallis. He began to play the piano at six but refused formal lessons: as a child he heard music in his head and wanted to hear it come out of the piano too, so he learned to play to make that happen. At fourteen he set a Greek national record in the 50-meter freestyle. A boy who refused formal lessons and grew into a musician whose albums are a one-man show hints at a long habit of working alone.
In 1972, with his parents’ encouragement, he left his homeland to attend the University of Minnesota. In Minnesota he played in local rock bands and began to develop a personal style using both piano and electronic keyboards to create new sounds. He played keyboards for Chameleon, a band that became well known in the Twin Cities and toured regionally, and while in Minneapolis he also worked with the choreographer Loyce Houlton to provide music for dance works produced by the Minnesota Dance Theatre. Rock bands in the Twin Cities and music for a dance company in Minneapolis suggest a musician comfortable in very different settings. In 1980 he recorded and produced his first album, Optimystique, which Atlantic Records re-released in 1984 and Private Music in 1989.
His breakthrough concert, Live at the Acropolis, was filmed in September 1993 at the 2,000-year-old Herodes Atticus Theater and released in 1994 as an album, VHS and Laserdisc. A concert filmed in a 2,000-year-old theater and then released on VHS and Laserdisc joins a very old stage to very new media. It was his first live album and used his core band with a sixty-piece orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Yanni hand-picked the band members who accompany him on tour and eventually added an entire symphony orchestra, yet his albums are a one-man show: he writes all the songs, plays all the instruments and handles all production duties. A composer who writes, plays and produces his own albums but tours with a hand-picked band and an orchestra moves between solitary studio work and very large public stages. In 2013 he performed in China again, at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala with the Chinese zither player Chang Jing, in the first year that CCTV had invited foreign artists to perform.
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Where was Yanni born?
In Kalamata in 1954, the second of three children of Sotiri and Felitsa Chryssomallis.
What was Yanni’s first album?
Optimystique, which he recorded and produced in 1980; Atlantic Records re-released it in 1984 and Private Music in 1989.
What was Live at the Acropolis?
His breakthrough concert, filmed in September 1993 at the Herodes Atticus Theater at the Acropolis of Athens with a sixty-piece orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and released in 1994.