MyWackoSpace MySpace Slideshow Upload Images MySpace Graphics MySpace EditorBorn in Athens Greece. Unanimously Excellent Premier Prix: Athens Conservatory. Masters Degree (with academic honors) and Postgraduate Diploma (with distinction for outstanding achievement in performance): New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Ph.D fellow: Indiana University Bloomington, Artist Diploma (after invitation) Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris. First Prize Winner: Concours F.Clidat-Paris 2003, artist-in residence: Studio Academie Beax Arts/Cite des Arts Paris, A.Onassis Foundation scholar, the only pianist to receive grants from the Bodosakis Scientific Foundation. Numerous awards including the Goulandris Museum of Art, Athanasiadis Foundation in New York, the New York Hellenic Times News, Karelia Industry, 3E Coca-Cola Company, the Ecumenical Patriarchate Constantinople (Istanbul). Concerts, recitals and lectures throughout the United States and in England, France, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Greece, including Jordan Hall, Northeastern University, Harvard College, Humbold University, American College of Greece, Pierce College, Berlin's Museum of Communication, Nizza International Festival, Spanish Ministry of Culture's "Great Interpreters Series", Camerata Europea, to name a few. The first Greek artist of classical music to perform and be interviewed on Internet TV-Radio Networks. 60 minute documentary on Greek National Chanel 3 about his life and activities as "a genious of international standing". An avid chess player and football tactics afficionado, was interviewed by Tagesspiegel on the opening day of Euro 2008 as a representative of Greece. Most recent concert: Brahms Concerto in D minor. Most recent recital: Bach Partita No.2 in c minor, Schubert Sonata in c minor D.958, Bach-Busoni Chaconne, F.Chopin: 4 Ballades. Most recent lecture: "National identity and artistic identity-The critical work and life crisis of Nikos Skalkottas"
