piano, harpsichord
Biography:
The Greek-German pianist and harpsichordist Andrew Skouras, born in 1972 in Thessaloniki (Greece), studied piano with Prof. Franz Massinger and harpsichord with Prof. Lars Ulrik Mortensen and Prof. Ketil Haugsand at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich. Concert appearances, productions for CD, radio and television as a pianist and harpsichordist with orchestra or solo as well as chamber music and song recitals regularly take him to festivals in other European countries (e.g. Salzburg Festival, Munich Opera Festival, Early Music in London, Sacrum Profanum in Kraków, Festival d 'Aix-en-Provence, Summer Concerts between Danube and Altmühl, MDR Music Summer, Bluval Music Festival in Straubing, les muséiques in Basel, Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival) as well as in the USA, where he u. performed at Carnegie Recital Hall in New York. His chamber music partners include Kolja Blacher, Peter Sadlo, Wen-Sinn Yang, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Gábor Boldoczki, Nicolas Hodges and Minas Borboudakis. He plays i.a. with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the ASKO Ensemble, the Ensemble intercontemporain, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Augsburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchester des Pays de Savoie and the Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt. He works with conductors such as Peter Eötvös, Susanna Mälkki, Lucas Vis, Ralf Gothoni, Constantinos Carydis, Markus Poschner, Christoph Poppen, Dirk Kaftan and Jac van Steen.
Andreas Skouras' repertoire is complete The Well-Tempered Clavierand The Art of Fugue by J. S. Bach, all the sonatas by Mozart and Haydn and the complete works for piano by Johannes Brahms. But remote and unknown things also arouse his curiosity. In 2006 he played the world premiere of Carl Orffs Dancing fauns in the Orff Center in Munich. In addition, he devotes himself intensively to contemporary music and has performed numerous works, some of which were written for him (Nickel, Wuorinen, Brass, von Schweinitz, von Bose, B. Hummel, Zechlin, Corcoran, Schwenk, Kiesewetter, Terzakis, Acker, Kochan, Stadlmair , Baur, Borboudakis, Weiss, Stahnke, Aho, Tiensuu, Bolcom and Eliasson). His recordings include all works by Kalevi Aho, Anders Eliasson and Bernd Alois Zimmermann, but also numerous works by Scarlatti and Haydn, Schönberg and Stravinsky, Jukka Tiensuu, Charles Wuorinen and Isang Yun.
Andreas Skouras was a.o. awarded the scholarship for music from the city of Munich and the Bavarian Art Promotion Prize.
http://www.andreas-skouras.de/
Albums:
“1922” Suite for Piano / Three Piano Sonatas:
Live @ Megève Festival Savoy Truffle:
Domenico Scarlatti and the Modern Era of the Harpsichord:
Complete Works for Piano and Harpsichord:
Into the Open – Piano Music of Modern Age:
Complete Works for Piano Solo:
Chamber Music for Violin, Piano and Harpsichord:
Fragmenta Missarum pro Defunctis - Sonata on Darkness:
