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Guest Artist Georgios
Demertzis Performs Violin Works of Carl Nielsen November 30
By Charity Johnson
RELATED:
Internationally
renown violinist Georgios Demertzis, joined by pianist Maria Asteriadou,
will perform music for violin and piano, and for solo violin, by Danish
composer Carl Nielsen Friday, Nov. 30, at 8 p.m. in Kulas Recital Hall.
The concert is free and open to the public.
The program will include Nielsen’s Sonata No. 1, Op. 9, in A major;
Preludio e Presto for Solo Violin; Prelude and Theme with Variations for
solo violin; and Sonata No. 2, Op. 35.
Demertzis studied the violin with Stelios Kafantaris at the Hellenic Conservatory,
and with Max Rostal in Bern. He was a prizewinner in the 1981 Alberto
Curci competition and was awarded the Montsenigos Prize of the Academy
of Athens in 1986. He has performed with all the major Greek orchestras
and symphony orchestras in many parts of Europe, and has appeared at festivals
in Europe, the USA, and Australia.
He is the founder of the New Hellenic Quartet with whom he has recorded
music by more than 20 Greek composers, and has premiered many Greek solo
works, chamber works, and concertos, several of which are dedicated to
him. In 1997, he was appointed associate professor at Lawrence University
in Appleton, Wisconsin.
Georgios Demertzis has completed three recordings of the work of Skalkottas,
all on the Swedish label BIS. The first two critically acclaimed recordings
are entitled Nikos Skalkottas Music of violin and piano (with Maria Asteriadou
on piano); and Nikos Skalkottas Violin Concerto, Largo Sinfonico, Seven
Greek Dances (with the Malmo Symphony, Nikos Christodoulou conducting.)
Pianist Maria Asteriadou is established as a soloist and chamber musician
in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and has given premiere performances
of works by Dimitri Mitropoulos, Nikos Skalkottas and other Greek composers.
She has performed with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, the Iasi Philharmonic
Orchestra, all of the major Greek orchestras, and orchestras in the United
States and Canada. She won first prize in performance from the State Conservatory
in Thessaloniki, Greece, and was a prizewinner at the Maria Callas International
Piano Competition, Concerts Atlantique, Artists International, and the
Dora Zaslovsky competition.
Asteriadou holds degrees from the Conservatory in Thessaloniki, the Musikhochschule
in Freiburg, the Juilliard School, and Manhattan School of Music, where
she has also served as an associate faculty member. In 1995, she became
the artistic director of the Silver Bay Music Festival in New York.
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