Patron: Naji Hakim
Festival Director: Martin Stacey
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Eleni Keventsidou

Eleni Keventsidou - photoEleni 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:

Frederick Frahm - Fantasy for organ

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Nickitas Demos- Tonoi V

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