JOEY CALDERAZZO

PETRONEL MALAN

ALEXANDER PALEY

CLEMENS UNTERREINER

OVIDIO DE FERRARI

MIKHAIL PLETNEV

 

Concert tours have brought Panayiotis Gogos to several European countries in the past few years. During his voyages, he gave piano recitals in France, England, Germany, Austria, Greece and Switzerland. In addition, he gave many concerts as a soloist with various orchestras, such as Athens-Sinfonietta, "Santa Maria" Chamber Orchestra Lucerne, Patras Soloists and Marburg Youth Orchestra and worked together closely with conductors such as Alois Springer, Georg Aravidis, Dieter Lange and Dimitri Botini.

Panayiotis Gogos received invitations for concert series and festivals in Greece and abroad:

2007 / 2008 Paris, France “Féte de la Musique”
2008 Leipzig, Germany “ Klaviersommer “ Mendelssohn Haus
2009 Berlin, Germany “Berliner Palmenkonzerte “
2009 Herklion, Greece “Heraklion Summer Festival” 2010 Berlin, Germany "Berliner Palmenkonzerte" 2010 Samos, Greece "Phythagoreia Festival"

Panayiotis Gogos was born in Patras, Greece, and began to study piano at the age of six at the Philharmonic Music Society. In 1998, he received the soloist diploma cum laude and the diploma for the art of counterpoint. For three years, he worked in Athens with the great pianist and professor of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Valery Sagaidatschny, and attracted attention in 2001, when he won first prize at the national piano competition X.O.N. in Athens. In 2001, he continued his piano and chamber music studies at the Conservatory of Toulouse under Prof. Thérèse Dussaut with a scholarship of the prestigious "A. ONASSIS" Institute and graduated in 2004 with the "Prix de Perfectionnement" and the "Prix de Musique de Chambre". From 2006 until 2009, he was accepted in the famous artists residence "Cité Internationale des Arts" in Paris, which he was chosen to represent in 2007 and 2008 as soloist at the "Fête de la Musique" in Paris.

For the 2011/2012 concert season, he is invited for concerts in London, Berlin, Vienna and Athens. In December 2009 Panayiotis Gogos gave his debut recital at the famous Konzerthaus Wien.

Historical Composers & Artists

"After my coffee and cigar we went to one of the recording rooms where they had a Blüthner piano Well, this Blüthner had the most beautiful singing tone I had ever found. I became quite enthusiastic and decided to play my beloved Barcarolle of Chopin. The piano inspired me. I don’t think I ever played better in my life.“

Arthur Rubinstein 

„My Many Years“ (page 281)

 

„In das Exil nach Amerika begleiteten mich nur zwei Wesen von Bedeutung: meine Frau Natalja und mein kostbarer Blüthner.“

“There are only two important things which I took with me on my way to America. My wife Natalia and my precious Blüthner.”

Sergei Rachmaninoff

 

 “Almost in the middle of the room, the black Blüthner grand stood, free of music, book or photographs. Debussy was proud of his grand piano, and before I played he showed me a new device invented by Blüthner: an extra string set on top of the others. Although not touched by the hammers, it caught the overtones, thus increasing the vibrations and enriching the sonority. This was a piano he had rented during a stay in Bournemouth, and liked so well that he had bought it and had it shipped to Paris.” “He played a number of passages and the tone he extracted from the Blüthner was the loveliest, the most elusive and ethereal I have ever heard”. 

letter from Maurice Dumesnil, friend

Claude Debussy

Debussy's Blüthner at the Musée Labenche