Christos Papageorgiou is a multi-active performing musician.
His activities include playing solo piano recitals and concerts, also conducting from the piano, composing concert and film music, lecturing and teaching, all with equal critical and public acclaim. He is widely known in his country, as producer of Classical Music Programs for TV (over 40 episodes) and Radio National Channels since 2001. He is now broadcasting in daily basis for National Classical Radio 3.
Christos Papageorgiou, has received many distinctions for his compositions, including the First Prize at the 5th International Competition for Composition 2 Agosto (Italy) for his Electric Guitar Concerto. He has also received many First prizes and 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.
He is among others, the composer and librettist of the Musical Non mi ami piu (Onassis-Callas the Myth ) the first ever musical to be undertaken by the Greek National Opera in its entire history. Also his music was chosen for the Gala Concert for the 70th anniversary of the Athens State Orchestra. He has also special guest artist at Unicef's 50th Anniversary concert at Chicago.
Christos 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 grantedthe Onassis Foundation scholarship, among many others.
Christos Papageorgiou apart from being a composer, soloist, teacher and conductor, he is also a regular pre-concert lecturer for the Athens State Orchestra's annual series and gives numerous lectures and lecture concerts (many times both as solo or with orchestra). He has been teaching music history and piano at the Ionian University in Corfu and the National School of Dance, and lectured in many Institutions around Greece and abroad such as the Wiener Gesselschaft fur Music, Lucern Conesrvatory, the Mass Media Department of the Athens University the Postgraduate Department of the School of Architecture of Volos University e.t.c.
Works of Christos Papageorgiou that are being published by Editions Musica Ferrum:
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- Piano
Beauty and Hope in the 21st Century
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- Successfully funded by Kickstarter, this is a collection of 9 works of art and 9 works for solo piano
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- Piano, Strings, Volin
Triptychon
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- Concert for piano duo and string orchestra, by Christos Papageorgiou
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