Kassandra Fountoulaki

❖Johann Sebastian Bach, Prelude No. 10 in B Minor,

BWV 855a ❖Franz Schubert, Hungarian Melody in B

❖Claude Debussy, Images oubliées: I - Lent, doux et mélancolique

❖Frederic Chopin, Etude Op. 10 No. 9

❖Franz Liszt, Consolation No. 3

❖Sergei Rachmaninoff, Prelude Op. 3 No. 2

❖Johannes Brahms, Intermezzo Op. 118, No. 2

❖Frederic Chopin, Prelude Op. 28 No. 18 in F minor

❖Ottorino Respighi, Notturno (1904)

❖Manuel Ponce, Intermezzo No 1

❖Enrique Granados, Andaluza ( Spanish dance No. 5)

❖Ennio Morricone, The Crisis from ‘’The Legend of 1900’’

❖Fazil Say, Kumru Ballad

CURRICULUM VITAE

She was born in Athens in 1992. She began her musical studies at the age of six. She studied Piano at the National Conservatory of Athens where she obtained a Piano

Degree with Honors.

She then studied at the Athens Conservatory as a scholar in the piano class of the distinguished pianist Maria Efstratiadi and obtained a Piano Diploma with Honors. She continued to study at postgraduate level with the internationally renowned pianists

Dimitris Toufexis and Dionysis Mallouchos. She has studied with important Greek and foreign pianists and has participated in many piano seminars in academies abroad.

She is active in giving piano recitals and chamber music concerts with distinguished musicians, selecting pioneering composers and alternative repertoire.

She was selected by the Ennio Morricone Friends of Music Cultural Association in

Greece, as the exclusive pianist of the artistic events for 2021-2022, a year where recordings of musical themes for piano of the great Italian composer, recitals and concerts with parallel screenings of films and works of art in his memory took place at the Athens and Thessaloniki Concert Hall, as well as at the Italian Institute.

With distinguished musicians from Austria and Greece, she has founded the "Contra tiempo ensemble" specializing in pioneering composers of the 20th and 21st centuries.

She teaches piano at the Delphic Conservatory of Athens.

She is also an Honors Graduate of the Department of Philology of the University of

Athens. She holds a Master's Degree from the Postgraduate Program of the Department of Classical Philology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

"Literature, Thought and Culture in the Greco-Roman World" with her diploma thesis on the subject: "Sophocles and Euripides drama in the operas of Greek composers of the 20th and 21st century".

She teaches all philology courses to high school students and has many years of experience in preparing for the Panhellenic Exams. She is the Academic Coordinator at the "Diakrotima" school in Nea Smyrni.

In 2016, she published her first collection of poems entitled "Chamber Music" by

Iolkos Publications, which was shortlisted for the "Yannis Varveris 2017" award of the

Society of Greek Authors for the best book by a debut poet. She worked for years in the publishing industry, with experience in translation, proofreading and editing. Her poems and short stories, as well as reviews of books and artistic events, have been published in reputable art magazines. Her second book is under publication.