The Greek-German pianist and harpsichordist Andreas Skouras, born in 1972 in Salonica (Greece), studied piano with Prof. Franz Massinger and harpsichord with Prof. Lars Ulrik Mortensen and Prof. Ketil Haugsand at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts. Concert appearances, CD, radio and television productions as pianist and harpsichordist with orchestra or solo, in chamber music and Lied recitals regularly lead him throughout Europe to festivals (including Salzburg Festival, Munich Opera Festival, Early Music in London, Sacrum Profanum in Krakow, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Summer Concerts between Danube and Altmühl, MDR Music Summer, Bluval Festival in Straubing, les muséiques in Basel, Lockenhaus Kammermusikfest) as well as to the United States, where among others he has performed in New York’s Carnegie Recital Hall. His chamber music partners include Kolja Blacher, Peter Sadlo, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Gábor Boldoczki, Wen-Sinn Yang and Minas Borboudakis. He was playing with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the ASKO Ensemble, the Ensemble intercontemporain, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Augsburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie and the Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt. He has worked with conductors such as Peter Eötvös, Susanna Mälkki, Lucas Vis, Ralph Gopthoni, Constantinos Carydis, Markus Poschner, Christoph Poppen, Dirk Kaftan and Jac van Steen.
Skouras’ repertory includes the complete Well-Tempered Clavier and The Art of Fugue by J. S. Bach, the complete Mozart and Haydn sonatas and the complete piano works by Brahms. In addition to these, however, little-known repertoire and works off the beaten path have continued to arouse his curiosity. For example, he performed the world premiere of Carl Orff’s Tanzende Faune at the Orff Centre in Munich in 2006. Moreover, he dedicates himself intensively to contemporary music and has performed numerous new works, some of which were composed 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, amongst others). He has made recordings of the complete works of Kalevi Aho, Anders Eliasson and Bernd Alois Zimmermann, as well as numerous works by composers ranging from Scarlatti, Haydn, Schönberg and Stravinsky to Jukka Tiensuu, Charles Wuorinen and Isang Yun.
Andreas Skouras was awarded the Music Scholarship of the City of Munich and the Bavarian Arts Prize.
Paul Hindemith
Wolfgang Jacobi 125
Domenico Scarlatti, Isang Yun, Richard Strauss, Jukka Tiensuu, Minas Borbouidakis
Anders Eliasson
Kalevi Aho
Ins Offene – Piano Music of Modern Age
Bernd Alois Zimmermann
Charles Wuorinen
Michael Bastian Weiß