Piano
Biography:
Dimitri Vassilakis, born in 1967, first studied in Athens, then at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris (with Gérard Frémy, among others), where he received first prize for piano, chamber music and piano accompaniment. He attended master classes with Monique Deschaussées, György Sebök, Vitaly Margulis, Alicia de Larrocha, Christian Zacharias, Maria Tipo and Leon Fleisher.
Dimitri Vassilakis has been a soloist in the ensemble intercontemporain since 1992. He worked i.a. with Pierre Boulez, Iannis Xenakis, Luciano Berio, Karlheinz Stockhausen and György Kurtág. His recording of Le Scorpion with the Percussions de Strasbourg received the Grand Prix du Disque from the Académie Charles Gros in the category »Best Recording of Contemporary Music 2004«.
He appears at numerous festivals (e.g. Salzburg Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Lucerne Festival, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Warsaw Autumn, Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, London Proms) and plays in major concert halls: Berlin Philharmonic (under Sir Simon Rattle), Carnegie Hall in New York, Royal Festival Hall in London, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. His extensive repertoire ranges from Bach to contemporary composers.
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