Friday, July 19, 21:00
Hadjinikos Hall
Spyros Takas was born and raised in Katerini, started his violin studies with Mikis Michaelides and completed them with Alketas Tziaferis at the Municipal Conservatory of Katerini. He continued his studies in violin, viola and music pedagogy at the Music University of Graz Austria with Christos Polyzoidis and Helfried Fister, as well as at the University of Macedonia with Dimitris Chandrakis. In October 2021 he completed his postgraduate studies at the University of Western Macedonia on the teaching of musical notation in violin and viola.
His participation in the world of the orchestra includes many performances as well as with chamber music ensembles both in Greece (Katerini, Athens, Volos, Thessaloniki, Larissa, Kavala, Florina, Xanthi, Kozani, Ptolemaida, Syros, Ioannina, Chania, Chora, Siatista) and abroad (Austria, Hungary, Italy, Croatia, Germany).
He participated as an active member in violin, viola and chamber music seminars with: Tatsis Apostolidis (violin), Christos Polyzoidis (violin), Dimitris Polyzoidis (violin, viola, Chamber Music), Konstantin Radionov (violin), Georg Hammann (viola), Noël Cabrita Dos Santos (violin), Martin Tuksa (violin), Judit Kiss-Domonkos (Chamber Music).
He has worked as a violin and viola teacher in Primary Conservatories and Music Schools (Servia, Komotini, Siatista, Ptolemaida, Kozani, Florina, Amyndeon, Katerini, Argos Orestiko, Xanthi, Kastoria, Karditsa, Trikala). Since September 2023 he works as a permanent violin teacher at the Music School of Siatista.
Dimitris Dimopoulos studied piano with Toni Sakellariou and theory with Yannis Tsanakas at the Municipal Conservatory of Larissa, where he graduated with distinction.He continued and completed his studies at the Royal College of Music in London and later, with a scholarship from the Royal Conservatory of Music, at the Liszt Academy in Budapest. For a decade he attended performance classes with Roberto Szidon in Sion, Switzerland. He also studied with Peter Wallfisch, Gunter Lutwing and finally in Moscow with Lev Naoumov. He has been taught the classical chamber music repertoire by Thomas Brandis (violin), Yuri Bashmet (viola) and William Pleeth (cello). He is particularly distinguished, both in recitals and chamber music concerts and in concerts with orchestra, for the wide range of his repertoire, which spans more than three centuries of pianistic art, starting with G. Frescobaldi and ending with T. Murail. He has many first performances to his credit and many works have been written for him. He has recorded for the Greek, German and Spanish Radio and Television and has been awarded by the Association of Theatre Critics for the recording of works by Greek composers for flute & piano with his brother Nicolo Dιmopoulos. He taught piano at the Larissa Conservatory, the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki and at many summer academies in Greece and abroad, and from 1999 to 2021 he conducted the Orchestra of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He was born in Athens in 1964. He grew up in Kozani, where he lives and works.
