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QUESTION: What will be the main subject and highlights of the events during this year's festival? It will be held in the medieval fortified tower that dates back to 1600, belonging to the Vazeos family ("Πύργος Βαζαίου"). Over the past ten years it has become an established venue on Naxos for meeting different cultures and original creative projects.

Marios Vazeos: The title of this year's program is ‘Less is More’, since it focuses on smaller but the authentic performances, musical works and literary presentations.

QUESTION: Have you collaborated within the festival activities with Bulgarian artists, or maybe some Greek artists were invited to cultural events in Bulgaria? For example, the two excellent singers Vuyukli sisters who participated in the festival on Naxos turned the opening of the branch of the Foundation for Greek Culture in Sofia in 2008 into an unforgettable experience, winning the admiration and applause of the audience with their "multicultural"  repertoire.

Marios Vazeos: Despite the respect we have for Bulgarian culture and its artists it has not yet happened to establish cooperation with artists and ensembles from Bulgaria, something that we hope will happen in the future. What especially delighted me was that the Bulgarian state has bought the home of the great philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in Vienna and the fact that now the cultural center of the Embassy of Bulgaria in Vienna is housed there - an act of saving a historic building in which the Vienna Philosophy Circle gathered in the 1930s.  
We are particularly satisfied that talented artists who participated in the Naxos festival have been to and are known in Bulgaria because the Vuyukli sisters are among the most talented and attention worthy "exportable" Greek musicians.