Eleni
was born in Athens and started playing the piano at the age
of 9 with Kate Trulli at the Athens National Conservatory. She
graduated in 1995 with a unanimous First Prize. At that time
Eleni was also studying Greek Literature (Linguistics) at the
National Republic University of Athens. In 1998 Eleni won the
second prize in the 13th X.O.N. Panhellenic Piano Competition;
in the same year she was awarded a three- year scholarship by
the “Friends of Music Society” in order to study
the organ with Nicolas Kynaston in the Athens Concert Hall.
Studying organ music with Nicolas Kynaston at the Royal Academy
of Music since 2002, Eleni graduated from the Postgraduate Performance
Course in 2004 with distinction, also studied with David Titterington
at the same Academy for one additional year (2004-2005) She
is also studying privately with Johannes Geffert, Head of Church
Music Studies at the Cologne Hochschule.
Eleni has performed as a soloist at the Athens Concert Hall,
Bonn-Beuel. Dusseldorf, Himmerod Abbey (Germany), All Souls
Langham Place, Westminster Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Bath
Abbey, Huddersfield Town Hall, Cambridge Festival, St Dominic’s
Priory, Ciuntadella Cathedral (Menorca), Temple de Foyer (Paris),
Bristol Cathedral. York Minster. As a chamber music player Eleni
has performed at St Martin in the Fields, the Evangelist Church
of Katerini (Greece) and the Athens Megaron with the Capella
Istropolitana Orchestra and the Athens State Orchestra. She
has also participated in the Oundle Summer Academy (2001-2002),
Haarlem International Academy and also performed in master classes
with Jos van der Kooy, Piet Kee, Peter Hurford, Ewald Kooiman,
Luigi Tagliavini, Dame Gillian Weir, Franz Hauk, Jane Parker-Smith,
Joris Verdin, Lionel Rogg, Helmut Deutch.
In 2003 Eleni has been awarded a scholarship from the Alexander
S.Onassis Scholarship Foundation. In 2004 she was awarded the
“Margaret and Sydney Lovett Organ Prize” and also
the “United Music Publishers Ensemble Prize. In 2005 Eleni
participated in a joint recording project with the Royal Academy
of Music and the Southwark and South London Organ Society, playing
at the Royal Festival Hall.
From January 2006 until July 2007 she was organist-in-Residence
at Tonbridge School, Kent. Since September 2007 she has taken
over as Organist in Residence at Bilton Grange, Rugby and teacher
of organ and piano at Rugby School.
Eleni performed at St
John the Evangelist Islington on 20th October 2007:
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