Doors & bar at 7 - Music at 7:30
$30 advance tickets - $35 at the door
Seated listening room style show - All ages - General admission
The Alluvion World Music Series presents a double-bill with two different projects that both explore the Hellenic diaspora experience.
The Kombos Collective will be performing the critically acclaimed Uproot, a powerful program of Greek songs from Asia Minor. In collaboration with rembetiko interpreter Katerina Clambaneva, the ensemble performs modern arrangements of Greek music from the region, celebrating this vibrant musical heritage and capturing the refugee experience through song.
Malis and Navotny will present Malis' original song cycle Another Shore, Another Country, a setting of the poetry of C.P. Cavafy. Cavafy, who lived most of his life in Alexandria, Egypt, is the quintessential voice of the Greek diaspora and a prominent figure among 20th-century poets. Malis and Navotny recorded this cycle at the Alluvion in August 2025, and the Alluvion's audience will have an exclusive preview of the recording in this special event.
KOMBO’S COLLECTIVE: UPROOT - MUSIC FROM ASIA MINOR
Lauded as “intimately compelling” (Jeff Kaliss, San Francisco Classical Voice), Uproot weaves histories and personal stories throughout, generating a universal dialogue about the impact of forced migration and building a bridge to the experience of modern-day refugees.
Uproot: Music from Asia Minor - Artists:
Katerina Clambaneva - vocals
Ellie Falaris Ganelin - flute & arrangements
Emma Selmon - clarinet
Mary-Victoria Voutsas - piano
KATERINA CLAMBANEVA
Katerina Clambaneva specializes in traditional and contemporary Greek music and performs internationally, throughout Europe and the United States. She is captivated by world music and is very interested in cultural fusion through musical expression. She has a versatile voice and enjoys singing in a multitude of languages. Katerina maintains a busy performance schedule participating in several groups including, PAKAW!, Plastikes Karekles, and the Josquin Singers of B.A.C.H. Cities she has performed in include Athens, San Francisco, Oakland, London, Isle of Wight, Ixtapa Mexico, Brussels Belgium, Istanbul, Luxembourg, Mytilini Greece and counting. Favorite venues include the National Theatre in London, the Green Note in Camden, ODC Theatre in San Francisco and 1002 Nihtes in Athens.
Career highlights as a vocalist include the dance production of Rebetiko with Yannis Adoniou’s KUNST-STOFF and music by Minos Matsas, with shows in Berlin and San Francisco and the film score for the Spanish film De Tu Ventana a la mia directed by Paula Ortiz with music composed by Avshalom Caspi. Katerina was born in San Francisco and raised in Athens, Greece. After completing her Bachelor of Arts in Classical Civilizations from UC Berkeley, she built her career in Arts Administration and Marketing. She has been living in London since 2009, where she completed her Masters in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Music at City University and currently works as a performing arts manager.
ELLIE FALARIS GANELIN
Ellie Falaris Ganelin is a flutist, vocalist, bandleader and music director who is active as a performer of chamber, orchestral, Balkan and theater music in the San Francisco Bay Area. She performed in the pit for the national production of Mary Zimmerman's Matchbox Magic Flute at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, with a stage appearance in costume.
She is committed to making classical music inviting and accessible for all as an ambassador and performer for the Awesöme Orchestra Collective. For the past decade, she has been the director of the Kombos Collective. Ellie received her B.A. in Music from the University of Maryland, where she also holds a B.A. in Journalism and a Minor in French.
EMMA SELMON
DC Area-based clarinetist Emma Selmon is pursuing her doctor of musical arts degree at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she is active in the Symphony Orchestra, Wind Orchestra and Maryland Opera Studio orchestra. She is a founding member of glass trees, a flexible-instrumentation ensemble specializing in contemporary music and non-traditional concert experiences. She was a 2022 contemporary performance fellow at the Atlantic Music Festival in Waterville, Maine, where she performed clarinet and bass clarinet on the premieres of 15 new chamber ensemble works.
Selmon holds a master’s in clarinet performance from the University of Maryland and a bachelor’s in clarinet performance from the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music in Ohio. She currently studies clarinet with Robert DiLutis and serves as the clarinet studio graduate assistant at UMD. Beyond her musical pursuits, Selmon previously served as a reporter and news editor with the Gratiot County Herald, an Ithaca, Michigan-based weekly circulation newspaper with a readership of 11,000.
MARY-VICTORIA VOUTSAS
Mary-Victoria Voutsas is a “powerful” and “enthralling pianist” (Washington City Paper). She has toured extensively as a pianist and classical musician; she has performed solo at many notable venues, including the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage & Terrace Theatre, the Lisner Auditorium, and many embassies.
Dr. Voutsas is also one of the visiting Artists in Residency for Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts and has accompanied for the National Symphony Orchestra and artists such as Lin-Manuel Miranda and Alison Krauss, and collaboratively performed on NPR’s Tiny Desk series. Dr. Voutsas resides in the Washington D.C. area, where she teaches piano and theory, and performs regularly. She holds a D.M.A. from Catholic University, and her dissertation is focused on the piano works of Manos Hadjidakis and the history and influence of rebetika music in Hellenic song.
MALIS AND NOVOTNY
Another Shore, Another Country - Artists:
Constantine Novotny - vocals
Michael Malis - pianist & composer
CONSTANTINE NOVOTNY
Constantine Novotny is a recent graduate of the Master of Sacred Music program at the University of Notre Dame. He was previously the 2013-2015 Samuel Ramey Opera Fellowship recipient during his graduate studies at Wichita State University, and also holds a bachelor’s degree in vocal performance from Oakland University in Rochester, MI.
A native of the Metro-Detroit area, Constantine has performed with a variety of ensembles including the Apollo’s Fire Singers, American Bach Soloists, American Classical Orchestra, Artefact Ensemble, Spire Chamber Ensemble, Musica Sacra, Audivi, Sounding Light, the Michigan Opera Theatre Chorus, the Bach Cantata Academy Ensemble, and the Carnegie Hall Chamber Chorale alongside the Tallis Scholars. With the American Bach Soloists, Constantine has performed Bach’s St. Matthew Passion one-on-a-part as the Choir II Bass and also been featured in a concert at San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral singing selections from Mondonville’s Cantate Domino. In February 2024, Constantine performed the world premiere of song cycle Another Shore, Another Country composed by Michael Malis using the poetry of C.P. Cavafy as part of the Pro Musica Detroit concert series.
Operatic highlights include the title role in Don Giovanni and Sid in Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring with Opera MODO, Dottore Grenvil in La Traviata with Arbor Opera Theater, Gueusselin in Michigan Opera Theatre’s production of Kevin Puts’ Silent Night, and Aeneas in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Pirate King in Pirates of Penzance with Opera Notre Dame. He has been frequently heard as a chorister and soloist at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Detroit, MI, from 2018-2019 was the cantor at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Elkhart, IN, and was recently a member of the Choir of St. Luke in the Fields in New York City.
MICHAEL MALIS
Michael Malis is a composer, pianist, and music educator based in Detroit, MI. Noted for his “jaw-dropping display of improvisational power” (All About Jazz), Malis is a recipient of Greek America Foundation’s 40 under 40 award. He has taught at the University of Michigan and Interlochen Arts Academy, and is now a Doctoral student at the University of Michigan.
As a recording artist, he has released 14 albums. His music has been described as “downright transcendental” (Maggot Brain Magazine) and “uncommonly mature” (Detroit Free Press). He was noted as “among the most compelling Detroit jazz musicians of his generation” (Jazz From Detroit, University of Michigan Press). His compositions have been performed across the United States, including at Harvard University, the University of Maryland, The Owl (Brooklyn), and Orchestral Hall (Detroit).
As a pianist, Malis has shared the stage with a diverse array of musicians, including Marcus Belgrave, Jeff “Tain” Watts, Robert Hurst, Gerald Cleaver, Jaribu Shahid, John Lindberg, William Hooker, A. Spencer Barefield, Tyshawn Sorey, Brandee Younger, J.D. Allen, and Marion Hayden. He has performed at the Yokohama Jazz Promenade (Yokohama, Japan), the Kennedy Center, Birdland (NYC), and The Stone (NYC).
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