Panagiotis Trochopoulos

RUBINSTEIN        Barcarolle ,Ondine www.facebook.com/trochopoulos www.youtube.com/user/pan141182

Some of his past orchestral appearances have included performances of Brahms' second piano concerto with the Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra of Pazardjik, Prokofiev's third piano concerto with the Symphony Orchestra of Kissinau in Moldavia, Liszt's first piano concerto with the orchestra of the municipality of Thessaloniki in Greece and Rachmaninov's third piano concerto with the Russian Symphony Orchestra of Yaroslavl.

Panagiotis has given a number of recitals at important international festivals such as the Athens Festival, the Sofia Festival, the "Musical Kremlin" Festival of Moscow, the Nafplion Festival and the English Music Festival where he presented an all-Holbrooke recital.

In 2002 he was chosen to represent the 1st Moscow-based Arensky Festival with concerts in Germany and Greece and in 2004, 2005 and 2006 he was one of the featured artists at the Malta International Festival.

His discography includes 5 CDs, the first of which features the world premiere of Pavel Pabst's Piano Concerto on Cameo Classics and became "Recording of the Month" on Music Web International. Both his all-russian-recital, including Stravinsky's Petrushka, and his Holbrooke solo works CD (vol.1) also received great critical acclaim (Music Web International, Gramophone).

In 2009 he was the main soloist in a concert with Croatia's Symphony Orchestra, performing Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" in Zagreb. This event inaugurated the entry of the Republic of Croatia into NATO.

He has participated in concerts representing Greece as an "artist for peace" in Moscow -invited by Alexander Ghindin- as well as Paris -invited by Cyprien Katsaris-, while in December 2011 he was chosen to participate in a gala concert-tribute to Marc-Andre Hamelin as one of the "new stars of the Russian piano school" in Moscow's House of Music.

In 2013 he gave the Russian Premiere of Alkan's monumental "Concerto for piano solo" in the "Tchaikovsky" Museum of Moscow and in December 2017 he received the prestigious Young Soloist of the Year Award from the Gina Bachauer International Music Association. www.facebook.com/trochopoulos www.youtube.com/user/pan141182