Donemus Webwinkel — Papageorgiou, Christos

Christos Papageorgiou is a composer of concert, film and pop music. His music is performed around the world by distinguished artists and ensembles. Christos Papageorgiou has led a career in other fields also as solo piano performer and TV&Radio producer.
His career includes collaborations with musicians and ensembles such as the: Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique du Capitole de Toulouse, Czech Radio Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Muenchen Sinfoniker, Orquestra Sinfonica “Ciudad de Malaga”, N.H.K. Danyu Orchestra(Japan), Odessa Philharmonic ,Orchestra Sinfonica-del Emilia Romagna-“ArturoToscanini”, Athens State Orchestra, Istanbul State Orchesta, Izmir State Orchestra, Hellenic National Radio Symphony and Modern Radio Sympony, Thessaloniki State Orchestra, Camerata of the friends of Music ,Orchestre Symphonique de Neuchatel, Odessa Chamber Orchestra, Oxford Philomusica, New England Symponic Ensemble, Opava Chamber Orchestra, Patras Chamber Orchestra, Volos Symphony Orchestra, N.Y.Phil. Chamber Soloists, contralto Maria Farandouri guitarist Oscar Ghiglia, Saxophonist Theodor Kerkezos and conductors Michel Plasson, Phillipe Entremont, Pedro Calderon, Hobart Earle, in important venues such as Carnegie Hall, Avery Fischer Hall, Symphony Space Auditorium (NY),Berlin Philharmonie, Barbican Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall, Kensington Palace, St. James Palace, Codaira Hall, Casals Hall and Κioi Hall (Τokyo), Rudolfinum Dvorak Hall (Prague), Bern Kulturkazino, Hans Huber Saal Basel, Athens and Thessaloniki Megaron of Music and in many festivals around the world. He has also special guest artist at UNICEF's 50th Anniversary concert at Chicago with Nana Mouschouri and Harry Belafonte.
Papageorgiou has recorded for B.B.C, RAI, ARD, Suisse Radio, Berlin Radio 3 a.o. His many other activities include productions of numerous radio and tv programs, giving solo piano recitals and concerts, lecturing, administrative work, teaching and conducting all with equal critical and public acclaim. He is widely known in his country, as producer of Classical Music Programs for TV and Radio in ERT(National Broadcasting Corporation). Between June 2014-15 he has been the Director of the National Classical Radio 3 and from 2016 to the present has been appointed “Special Cultural Advisor on Musical issues” at the same organization.
In 2015 on a televised anniversary concert performed and conducted from the piano Prokofieff’s 3rd Piano Concerto 85 years after Dimitris Mitropoulos in Berlin thus becoming the fourth after Prokofieff and Van Cliburn to do so.
From 2017 to 2020 he hosted the weekly Music TV Program , a co-production of Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation ERT2 and Athens Megaron of Music Concert Hall “OMMA at the ARTS” 2017-18 ommasstitexneswebtvet2 & “Stathmos Megaro” 2019-20 stathmosmegarowebtvet2.
He currently presents his own radio show daily 13.00.14.00 from National Classical Radio 3 ERT

Some of Papageorgiou's various distinctions include : First Prize at the “5th International Competition for Composition “2 Agosto” (Bologna, Italy) for his "Electric Guitar Concerto"; First prizes / distinctions in five International Piano Duo Competitions in U.S.A, Japan, Italy, Czech Republic and Switzerland. He was the recipient of the “Young Artist of the Year” award for 1998 by the “National Society of Critics for music and drama”; Special award for his cultural work as Radio Director from the “Maria Callas Society for the new Lyric Academy” and as a producer from the “Friends of Classical Music Society"; Appointed “Artist in Residence” at the Awarded International Classical Music and Opera “Festival of the Aegean” in Syros, 2013.

Papageorgiou has obtained his titles and diplomas in all the fields of his activities (piano, composition, conducting, teaching), with honours and distinctions from the Royal Academy of Music in London (with full scholarship and “Leverhume Trust Fellowship”), University of London, Thames Valley University the Athens State Conservatory. He was also granted the Onassis Foundation scholarship, among many others.

Since September 2015 Christos Papageorgiou is the Artistic Director of the National Conservarory of Kifissia in Athens. He also gives numerous lectures and lecture concerts (many times both as soloist and conductor). He had been teaching music history and piano at the Ionian University in Corfu and the National School of Dance, was a regular pre-concert lecturer for the Athens State Orchestra’s annual series and lectured in many Institutions around Greece and abroad such as the Wiener Gesselschaft fur Music, Lucern Conservatory, the Mass Media Department of the Athens University the Postgraduate Department of the School of Architecture of Volos University and others.

Source: Musicentry.gr