Paxos Festival

Artist Category: Festival 2019

Giorgos Samoilis

Half Greek half Venezuelan, Giorgos was born in Athens in 1986. He received his first violin lessons at the age of seven from Mirela Papa. In 1997 he moved to Thessaloniki where he continued his violin lessons in the state conservatory of Thessaloniki and in the Synchrono Conservatorium of Thessaloniki with Dimitris Chandrakis and Mikis […]

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Erik Bosgraaf

Erik Bosgraaf is widely considered to be one of the world’s leading recorder players. His repertoire ranges from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons to the music of today. He is the founding member of Ensemble Cordevento with which he has performed at major festivals. He has released numerous CDs for Brilliant Classics (La Monarcha, Bach, Vivaldi). Bosgraaf […]

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Katerina Orfanoudaki

Katerina Orfanoudaki was born in 1996 in Chania, Crete. She started her music studies next to Professor Y. Kastrinakis at the “Y. Manioudakis” Chania Conservatory. She studies in the Music Department of the Ionian University since 2014 with Professor Katerina Michopoulou specializing in Old Music and Harpsichord. Since 2018 she studies harpsichord at the Amsterdam […]

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Vasilis Smanis

Vasilis Smanis was born in the village of Lefka in the mountainous area of Nafpaktia in 1954. He entered the world of music through church music as both his father and grandfather were priests. He learned to love the countryside and its lifestyle. He studied chemistry in the Athens University and during his student years […]

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Kyriakos Gouventas

Kyriakos was born in Thessaloniki in 1966 and started his music studies at the age of 12. He started his teaching career in 1989 in the Conservatory of Northern Greece and continued teaching in various Conservatories, music workshops and Music Departments becoming an expert in every music way and path one can meet in different […]

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Valeria Vetruccio

VALERIA VETRUCCIO “An arresting combination of vitality and technical precision” The Wall Street Journal   Valeria Vetruccio, graduated from the Lecce State Conservatory, summa cum laude, under Prof. Bruno V. Massaro. At the age of 15, she started her concert career touring major Italian cities and debuting with a solo recital at the Mozarteum’s Wiener-Saal in Salzburg. […]

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Agnese Carlucci

Agnese Carlucci has started her music studies on the piano at the age of 8 at the Tito Schipa Conservatory in Lecce with professor Ornella Greco. She received her piano diploma with honors with Professor next to Professor Valeria Vetruccio. She has won many prizes in piano competitions among which “Il Musicante” in Gallipoli and […]

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Lamprini Gioti

Lamprini Gioti, whose artistic name is Labri Giotto, is a performer, teacher, radio producer and ethnomusicologist. She graduated from the Musical High School in Athens and the National Conservatory with a Diploma and High Distinction in the classical piano. She holds an MA in Ethnomusicology from the Irish World Academy of Music & Dance at […]

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Christos Sakellaridis

Christos Sakellaridis is a pianist and sound artist/composer. A graduate of the F.Liszt academy in Budapest, from very early he specialized in contemporary music and received further coaching by members of the Ensemble Modern. He has performed all over Europe in concert halls and festivals as a member of the Pincetic/Sakellaridis piano duo and the […]

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Beata Pincetić

Beata Pincetić was born in Zagreb-Croatia. After her studies in the Music Academy of Zagreb she obtained a postgraduate qualification from the ”F. Liszt” Academy in Budapest, working with professors Sandor Falvai, Istvan Gulyas and Istvan Szekely. In addition she attended masterclasses with Sir Andras Schiff, Pierre Sancan and Cyprien Katsaris. An exponent of contemporary […]

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