Vassilis Tsabropoulos

Vassilis Tsabropoulos (born 1966 in Athens ) is a Greek pianist and composer, who also appears in the field of modern jazz.

Life

Vassilis Tsabropoulos won a piano competition of UNESCO at the age of ten years. He studied at the National Conservatory of Athens, the Conservatoire de Paris, the Academy of Music in Salzburg and the Juilliard School of Music. His teachers included Rudolf Serkin and Tatiana Nikolaeva.

He has performed with major orchestras Greek, but also with the Czech Philharmonic and the Houston Symphony Orchestra and worked with conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Choo Hoey and Robert Janssens. In the center of his classical repertoire are Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin and Bach, next to the Russian composers Sergei Rachmaninov, Sergei Prokofiev and Scriabin Alexander.

Tsabropoulos composed orchestral works, string quartets, violin and cello pieces, and numerous works for solo piano, including Six Preludes for Vladimir Ashkenazy. The works for solo piano, he played a solo on his plates.

He also made ​​a name for himself as a jazz musician, where he works especially in a trio with Arild Andersen and John Marshall.

Discography

  • Skyscape, 1990
  • Images, Jazz album with Yiotis Samaras, Yiorgos Fakanas and Spyros Panagiotopoulos, 1992
  • Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky, 1997
  • Achirana, (ECM, 1999) Jazz Album with Arild Andersen and John Marshall
  • August Symphony, works by Frédéric Chopin in 2001
  • Live In Cremona, solo album, 2002
  • The Face Of Love songs by Calliope Tsoupaki with Nena Venetsanou, 2002
  • Akroasis, (ECM, 2003) solo album
  • Chants, Hymns and Dances, Georges I. Gurdjieff compositions by Anja Lechner, 2004
  • The Triangle, jazz album with Arild Andersen and John Marshall, 2004
  • Melos, with Anja Lechner and U. T. Gandhi, 2008
  • The Promise, (ECM, 2009) solo album
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