Date/Time
20/04/2024
20:30 - 21:45
Location
B&M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music
Acclaimed Greek pianist Lefki Karpodini returns to Theocharakis Foundation with the first recital of her concert series entitled “FORMA MUSICALE”, introducing her audience to the SONATA musical form.
Well-known works of the classical repertoire have been written in this form or are parts of Sonatas – from the Concertos and Symphonies of the great masters to Mozart’s Alla Turca. In this recital, the presentation of the forma sonata expands from the baroque era in Spain to the beginning of the 20th century in France.
Piano: Lefki Karpodini
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Time: 20:30
PROGRAM
FIRST HALF
JOSEPH HAYDN
SONATA IN E MINOR No.53, Hob.XVI:34
JEAN SIBELIUS
SONATA OP.12 IN F MAJOR
SECOND HALF
DOMENICO SCARLATTI
THREE SONATAS K.145, K.144, K. 84
ALBAN BERG
SONATA OP. 1
MAURICE RAVEL
SONATINE
BIO
LEFKI KARPODINI, pianist
Greek pianist Lefki Karpodini has performed in most European countries, in Israel, Canada, America and the islands of Barbados, in the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, Bolivar Hall, St. Martin-in-the-fields, St. John’s Smith Square, Meistersaal, ZKM, Rolston Hall, Parnassos, Theocharaki Foundation and international music festivals such as Mecklenburg Vorpommern Musikfestival, Schleswig Holstein, Dresdner Musikfestspiele, Banff, Cheltenham, Kalamata International Music Days, Cully Classique, Musique Printaniere a Beaucaire, Aegean Festival , Piano Festivals of Heraklion, Symi, Koroni, Paxos etc. He has collaborated with various orchestras and ensembles such as Ensemble Modern, Trio Fibonacci, Trioskop, Stenhammar Quartet, Pan European Philharmonia Orchestra, Guildhall Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of the Municipality of Athens, etc. Since 2013 with pianist Michael Brownlee Walker they appear as a piano duo. Their interesting programs and concerts have drawn excellent reviews from the press and the public. She has recorded for BBC3, the Philharmonic Orchestra, Hellenic Radio and Deutscher Musikrat in collaboration with Ensemble Modern. She has collaborated with many composers including Dai Fujikura, Jens Joneleit, Xingzimin Pan, Christina Athinodorou, Dimitris Andrikopoulos, Antonios Antonopoulos, Christos Samaras, Nestor Taylor, etc. and has presented works in first world performances in Greece and abroad.
She graduated from the Athens Conservatoire (Piano Diploma with Distinction) and later on from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London (Bmus, Mmus, PGDip) and received further education on contemporary music at the International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA) in Frankfurt. She has received scholarships from IKY, IEMA, the Belgais Center in Portugal – where she took piano lessons from the famous Portuguese pianist Maria Joao Pires – and from several music summer academies. She has been awarded the First Prize and Honorary Medal at the Panhellenic Music Competition “Filon”, First Prize at the International Schubert Competition (GSMD, London) and the title “Sir Henry Richardson Award” (MBF, London). In addition to her piano career, Lefki Karpodini has many years of experience in teaching. At the same time, in recent years she has been engaged in composition and attends jazz lessons with Dimitris Kalantzis. Her music has been presented at the Third Program of Greek Radio, at the Procorda UK and at Greek festivals. She has taught at GSMD in London, BBIS in Berlin and the Moraitis School. She has given piano seminars in the United Kingdom and Greece. She currently teaches piano at the Athens Conservatoire and the Athenaeum Conservatoire. www.
