Information About Maria - Bury teacher -

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Personal Description:

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Concert Pianist - Researcher - Recording Artist

PhD (Piano performance - RNCM), MMus (RCS), PGDip (RCS), PGDip(Advanced Accompaniment - RCS), Piano Diploma (Athens Conservatoire), Fugue Diploma (Athens Conservatoire), Counterpoint Diploma (Athens Conservatoire).

Maria was born in Athens. She graduated from the Athens Conservatoire in June 2007 with Excellence and First Prize. She continued her postgraduate studies at the RCS with Jonathan Plowright (PGDip in Performance with Distinction) and Fali Pavri (MMus in Performance), being a scholar of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation. In 2010, she finished the PGDip Advanced Accompaniment Course with Distinction under the guidance of Fali Pavri. Maria finished her PhD in Performance at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in 2021 under the supervision of Prof Barbara Kelly, Dr David Jones and Dr Simon Clarke, with scholarships from the RNCM, the NWCDTP, and the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation.

In addition to the above she has studied Harmony, she has a Diploma of excellence in Counterpoint and a Diploma of excellence in Fugue, both with Distinction, while studying with the famous Greek Composer and Professor Periklis Koukos at the Athens Conservatory. She also has a Diploma of excellence in Byzantine Music. She has undertaken singing lessons with the Greek Tenor Stamatis Beris and the soprano Fotini Kostopoulos. In 2019 she was awarded the ABRSM Grade 8 (Singing) with Distinction.

In 2013,Maria was honoured by the Academy of Athens with the ''Eleni Tim.Mykoniou'' Prize for Piano.She was awarded the first prize for her interpretation in Mozart’s Piano Concerto in D minor at the Jock Holden Memorial Mozart Prize Competition in the RSAMD (November 2008), and was highly commended at the Governors’ Recital Prize in 2010. In April 2012 she won first prize, gold medal and a recital at ‘AN-Art Artistry’, at X.O.N. Panhellenic Competition. In October 2007 she won first prize at the Panhellenic Competition for Young Pianists, held on the island of Andros, first prize at the Panhellenic Piano Competition ‘Filon’ in 2004, along with distinction for outstanding performance, and 5th Prize at the 2nd International Piano Competition ‘Konzerteum’ in 1996. She was also chosen to represent her country in the 1st European Union Piano Competition. She won many internal prizes at the Athens Conservatory both in piano and chamber music and has taken part in masterclasses with Bernard Ringeissen, Yonty Solomon, Steven Osborne and Martino Tirimo amongst others. She has also studied with the distinguished greek pianist Alexandra Papastefanou.

Maria was chosen twice among the piano department students of the RSAMD to perform with the RSAMD Symphony Orchestra at the RSAMD Concerto Concert, she has cooperated with Orchestra Filarmonica di Stato ‘Mihail Jora’ di Bacau and maestro Ovidiu Balan, and has performed in different venues in UK, Italy, Czech Republic and Greece.

Contemporary composers have trusted Maria to perform world premieres of their pieces (G. N. Gianopoulos Op.15 Five pieces for solo piano/Op.17 Nocturne for solo piano, E.Vaios ‘3’,D. Minakakis ''Metamorphoses'' for solo piano).

Tutoring Experience:

2021-present: University of Sheffield piano professor

2002-present: Private tutor of piano/ music theory and accompanist in Athens, Glasgow and Manchester.

2011-2017: Piano and music theory teacher in Nakas Conservatory (Athens)

2011-2017 :Piano teacher in Hellenic American Educational Foundation (Athens)

My students have been awarded distinction and merit in ABRSM grades, and have won first prizes in competitions.

Tutoring Approach:

Students meet an exciting music teacher to guide them in a professional, organised and cheerful way in order to achieve their goals and enjoy music.