STEFANOS TSIALIS

 
 
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Greek BORN Stefanos Tsialis, son of a Danish Mother and a Greek Father, grew up with impressions of two very different European cultures and made this openness his trademark.


He served as the Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Athens State Orchestra from 2014 to 2020. During his six year tenure there, he succeeded in increasing audience numbers by more than 60 percent despite a difficult economic climate, and improved the artistic quality of the ensemble beyond measure. This was due in no small part to his contacts with musicians of the calibre of Vladimir Fedoseyev, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Christoph Eschenbach, Martha Argerich, Leonidas Kavakos, Maxim Vengerov and Elisabeth Leonskaja, who accepted his invitations to Athens on multiple occasions. The improvement in quality of the Athens orchestra also resulted in several concerts being broadcast by Deutschlandfunk Kultur and in it receiving regular invitations to attend prestigious international festivals such as the ‘Festival of Flanders’, the ‘Festival Pianistico Internazionale di Brescia e Bergamo’, the ‘Marvao Festival’ and the ‘Enescu Festival’ in Bucharest, where it performed under his baton in September 2021. The press described the ensemble’s music-making as “a revelation”. It was on the heels of this success that Stefanos Tsialis was invited to appear with the ‘Enescu Philharmonic’ and Bucharest Opera.

 

CONCERTS 2023

 
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