On Wednesday, February 28, 2024, at 8:30 p.m. the piano duo Anni Totsiou and Lola Totsiou will perform music for 2 pianos in the Concert Hall of the Patras Philharmonic Society.
Anni and Lola Totsiou have been working together since 1995. Since then, alongside their personal musical journey, they have always found the time and mood for a new musical encounter. The program includes works particularly dear to the two pianists, Debussy, Ravel, Holst. It is a musical journey into the past and the present, a journey dominated by the dream world of the senses: a dreaming faun, a flamenco from the province of Malaga or a Habanera with a thoroughly Spanish character, a mystical melody that gives the music a cosmic quality, an impressionistic melodic figure that harmonizes, musics that the journey of life brings us.
Anne Totsiou
THE Anne Totsiou after her Greek diploma in piano (Excellence of exceptional genius) from the National Conservatory with teacher Tonis Georgiou, she continued her studies in Vienna (Robert Walter), then in Sofia (Julia Ganeva) and in London (Royal College of Music) with pianist Irina Zaritskaya. He also holds a “Master in Chamber Music” diploma from the Music Academy of The Hague under the supervision of violinist Vladimir Mendelssohn. Since 1990, she has been presenting her work in recitals and chamber music concerts in Greece and abroad. He has appeared in important halls and festivals such as: Carnegie Hall (New York), Schoenberg-Zaal (The Hague), Burghouse (London), Athens Concert Hall, Harrogate Festival (England), Anneberg Festival (Denmark), Swaledale Festival (England), Borusan Festival Istanbul, Athens-Epidavros Festival, Nafplion Festival, Cyclades Festival etc. Her interest in chamber music has led to musical collaborations with important artists such as: Efdal Altun, Olgu Kizilay, Misha Bukov, Maxim Andrieski, Ali Basegmezler, Fabio di Casola, Vladimir Mendessohn, etc. Her recording work “Russian music for two pianos” (Lyra), with works by Rachmaninov, Shostakovich and Scriabin, together with the pianist Lola Totsiu, has received excellent reviews in Greece and abroad (Germany, Switzerland, Japan, China). Annie Totsiou has taught piano and chamber music seminars and is a piano and prima vista teacher at the National Conservatory of Athens.
Lola Totsiou
THE Lola Totsiou, was born in Thessaloniki. She has been practicing her solo career since 1980 with concerts, recordings and tapings. She was particularly involved with the modern currents of classical music, having many first performances to her credit, while Greek composers have dedicated their works to her. He experiments with musical expression and performance, improvises and composes. He has written the music for plays presented at the National Theater of Athens, the State Theater of Northern Greece, the French Institute, the Aulaia Theater, the Sofouli Theater and the Thessaloniki Concert Hall. She has 7 CDs to her credit, including the CD with Anni Totsiou, which also received excellent reviews in Greece and abroad. He is an honors graduate of KOTH and the Heidelberg-Mannheim University of Music, with teachers E. Papazoglou and C. Back. For two years he studied under the internationally renowned pianist Zoltan Kocsis at the postgraduate department of the Ferenc Liszt Academy in Budapest. She was the director of the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki for eight years, promoting the holistic approach to the educational music process. At the same time deeply loving education, he taught for more than thirty years in distinguished conservatories of Thessaloniki and in the Department of Music Science and Art of the University “Macedonia”. Since 2005 she has been organizing her personal music seminars with the focus training method, using techniques from the Soundings method of the Polish director Richard Nieoszym and special Yoga practices of the Satyananda system.
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