Erato Alakiozidou- pianist / researcher
Artistic Director Music Diaries Festival,  Municipal Conservatory of Pylaia-Chortiati,  Istituto Ellenico di Cultura,
Professor Thessaloniki State Conservatory &  Athens Conservatory,General Manager Beartive.
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... the sheer intensity of this chamber version is utterly gripping, and the combination of the Greek pianist Erato Alakiozidou and the Lutosławski Quartet is electrifying… It is not every pianist who can make the obvious waltz-like gestures of the second-movement Tempo di valse resonate as Alakiozidou does ” Light Over Darkness” Editor;s choice –Gramophone magazine –January 2018

The pianist belongs to a group of fine and select musicians of Greece, actively involved in contemporary music. The last few years she has taken a special interest in the study and promote of works by 20th & 21st century Greek composers. Distinguished contemporary composers have dedicated some of their works to her and she performed their world premieres. One of her mentors for many years has been the distinguished pianist, conductor and composer Nikos Astrinidis , whose works she often performs.
She is frequently ventures out to innovative projects, contemporary music, artistic research, and pedagogic projects. She is interested in every aspect of the arts that can be creatively combined with piano performance. She has received excellent critiques for her entire presence in the artistic domain awarded from the Greek Union of Greek Reviewers for Theatre and Music.
Studied piano at the State Conservatory of Greece  receiving a Soloist Diploma with the highest distinction. She continued her studies under internationally acclaimed Bulgarian pedagogues Konstantin and Julia Ganevi, (former students of Heinrich Neuhaus), and with Lilly Boyadjieva  in Paris from where she received her «Diplome Superiere du piano» with the highest distinction and a first prize.
She furthered her studies in piano performance for many years, in the class of the great virtuoso, Brazilian pianist Roberto Szidon, (student of Ilona Kabos, Claudio Arrau and Arthur Rubinstein), as a private student. She has also been studied among others with Lazar Berman, Carla Ciudici, Alfredo Speranza, Margaret Newman. In addition, under scholarship, she completed her advanced theory studies obtaining diplomas in Harmony, Counterpoint, Orchestration and Fugue.
Erato Alakiozidou performs extensively in Europe in important concert halls and festivals (Netherland, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Serbia, Poland, Italy, Portugal, Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece) wresting always very good reviews. She has recorded for the Greek and Bulgarian state radio & television and for the German southwest broadcasting corporation.
Her repertoire includes a wide range of important classical and contemporary works.
She is a founder member of the ensembles “Tangos a Cuatro”, of the contemporary music ensemble “Idee Fixe” and of the nonprofit organization “beArtive”.
She has recorded for Odradek Records, Subways music, Ankh productions & Protasis productions.
She lives and works in Greece. (State Conservatory of Thessaloniki- IRC & Head of Department accompaniment/ Artistic Director of Municipal Conservatory of Thermi  /Athens Conservatoire).
​She is regularly invited by many musical associations as a jury to competitions or to give master classes in Europe.

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