Cello & Piano Recital

After their successful performance in 2011 as part of the Trio Iama, siblings Antonis Anissegos (piano) and Maria Anissegou (cello) return to The Shoe Factory for a cello and piano recital on 23 November 2012, in sonatas by Shostakovich and Rachmaninov. The concert is organized in collaboration with the European University Cyprus, where the artists are going to give several workshops.

Antonis Anissegos (b. 1970) studied piano and composition at the Ferenc Liszt Academy in Budapest. He subsequently moved to Vienna and Cologne to study with K. Schwertzig and K. Meyer and he completed his studies at the Berlin University of the Arts under W. Zimmermann. He has won a number of prizes in composition, such as the Alban Berg Prize in Vienna and the Neukollner Oper Berlin. Antonis has collaborated with Manos Hatzidakis who had commissioned him with the composition of new works. His music has been performed all over Europe by ensembles and orchestras such as Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Mosaik, Dissonart Ensemble, State Orchestra of Thessaloniki and Orchestra of Colours. Anissegos has participated in many projects and ensembles, among others, the Ensemble European Music Project, Ensemble Junge Musik, Trio IAMA, the groups “Lynx”, “Grix”, “KAYA”, “ΣΩΜΑ”, “ddaA” and “oneone”. Since 2007, he collaborates with the dance ensemble adLibdances. He has been distinguished on the concert platform and in recordings of contemporary music, and in recent years, he has been performing as an electronic musician.

Maria Anissegou has studied the cello at the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki under Professor Dimitris Patras. In 2001, she was awarded the Diploma in Cello Performance, with Distinction voted unanimously. She continued her studies at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg, class of Professor Jörg Metzger, and in 2003, at Leipzig’s Hochschule für Musik under Professor Peter Hörr, from where she graduated in 2007 with the title «Diplommusiker». In 2002 she won the Alexandra Trianti Scholarship, granted by the ‘Friends of Music Society’ of the Athens Concert Hall, and in 2004, she was awarded a full scholarship by the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) in Greece. Since May 2007, she is a member of Thessaloniki’s State Symphony Orchestra and she is a Professor of Cello at Thessaloniki’s Music College Conservatory. She is also a member of the Trio IAMA and collaborates with the Dissonart Ensemble.

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