Saturday, October 19, 20:00
Hadjinikos Hall
“In the Mists”
Pianist Manos Kitsikopoulos presents a tribute to the piano music of Leos Janacek and Bedrich Smetana. Both ardent supporters of the Czech tradition, together with Dvorak, are its main and most important representatives.
Leos Janacek
In The mists
Bedrich Smetana
On the sea shore
Leos Janacek
Sonata “1.X.1905” ,From the street
Bedrich Smetana
Fantasia on Czech Folksongs
Manos Kitsikopoulos is considered one of the most versatile pianists of his generation. He studied in Athens with Max and Yannis Halleker and then at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he completed his studies in the Master of Arts and ArtistDiploma in Piano Performance postgraduate programmes.
He is a recipient of the Onassis Foundation Scholarship (billion) and the Athena Scholarship.He has been awarded the highest honorary distinction, DipRAM, by the Royal Academy of Music. She was awarded the “Eleni T. Mykonos” Award of the Class of Letters & Fine Arts by the Academy of Athens. While, she was awarded the 1st GrandPrix Prize in the ClamoMusic International Competition and the Dorothy Briant Award and LIoyd Hartley Prize.
He has performed in major venues around the world and has performed as a soloist with major orchestras.
Since the beginning of 2024, he has performed at the Athens Concert Hall as part of the “Piano Days” Festival with Nicolas Anadolis. He also collaborated with Dimitris Marinos in Rachmaninoff’s piano works for 2 pianos. Finally, he performed Beethoven’s Concerto No. 1 with the Orquesta Sinfonica de la Regional de Murcia, in Spain.
