Saturday, May 3, 20:00
George Hadjinikos Hall, Horto
Admission: 10€
After a series of successful performances that include “Battleship Potemkin”, “Sunrise” and “Nosferatu”, Manos Kitsikopoulos – one of the most versatile soloists of his generation – continues his creative career in live music for silent films. On Saturday 3 May at 21:00, he returns to Horto to accompany on piano one of the leading masterpieces of the 7th art: the film “Sunrise” by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau.
The Greek pianist signs the musical score and improvises on stage, drawing inspiration from the works of great composers such as Chopin, Weil, Satie and Radiohead.
Produced in 1927 in the US, the film is considered by critics to be the premier film of silent cinema. It marks a milestone in the art of cinematic storytelling: the great German director transforms a story of adultery and premeditated murder into a moving hymn to love and hope. At the same time, “Sunrise” introduces revolutionary filming techniques, freeing the static – until then – camera for the first time.
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.
