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Concert Pianist Pavlos Hatzopoulos

Education

  • First piano lessons with his mother
  • Then with church music director Ernst Leuze, Kirchheim/Teck
  • During his time at grammar school, piano training at the Ostfildern Music School
  • Studies at the Stuttgart University of Music with the renowned German piano duo Prof. Lieselotte Gierth and Prof. Gerd Lohmeyer
  • Scholarship holder of the Greek Embassy in Bonn
  • Solo and chamber music master classes in Porto Karas/Greece, with the concert pianist Janis Vakarelis and the concert master of the Berlin Philharmonic Prof. Thomas Brandis; at the Salzburg Mozarteum with the Polish top pedagogue Prof. Andrzej Jasinski
  • Master class studies at the Würzburg University of Music with the Polish Chopin Competition Laureate Prof. Marta Sosinska
  • Successful completion of studies with the master class diploma for soloists

The Concert Pianist - Development of Lecture Recitals

Lecture recitals with Pavlos Hatzopoulos are self-moderated concerts. He combines expressive and virtuosic piano playing with brilliant rhetoric.

Until 1990

Until later in his studies, conventional classical recitals without moderation

Until 1990
From 1990

Start of intensive engagement with the interpretation of music

From 1990
From 1993

Expansion of solo concert activities to several European countries

He also performs as a chamber music partner and as a soloist with orchestras (including the Konstanz Philharmonic, Arcata, Orchestra of the Stuttgart State Opera, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Thessaloniki Orchestra)

From 1993
From 1995

Systematic development of the lecture recitals format

From 1995
Until today

Lecture recitals in English, German and Greek

Until today

Concerts and Teaching Activities

Lecture recitals in German-speaking Countries

  • In the traditional cultural sector and at festivals, including the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Black Forest Music Festival, Schloss Elmau
  • Lecture recitals in churches
  • From 2000, expansion of international concert activities to three continents. Politics, diplomacy and business invite him to representative events, including concerts in honor of the German Federal Presidents Richard v. Weizsäcker, Johannes Rau and the President of the World Bank Robert Zoellick
  • 1994 Invitation to Spain
  • 1994 Invitation to the USA, performance in honor of the then US Vice President and later Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore
  • 2008 Concerts for the first time in Israel
  • 2008 Historical lecture recital in Riyadh/Saudi Arabia as the first classical concert of Western type in the Royal Cultural Center with live TV recording
  • 2012 Invitation to Turkey to carry out one of the three major events on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of heavy industry with a lecture recital at the University of Karabük with TRT-TV recording
  • 2019 Diplomats’ lecture recital in Bahrain
  • constant expansion of concert activities also in the business sector
  • at the Liechtenstein Academy at Freudenfels Castle/CH
  • Implementation of lecture recitals and interactive musical seminars for managers and wealthy clients as part of a program for holistic personality development.
  • musical projects at private and state schools at home and abroad
  • 2023 musical projects and lecture recitals in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture of Baden-Württemberg for vocational schools.

Beginnings and the Pianist in Private

  • Born in 1964 in Denkendorf near Stuttgart as the child of Greek migrants
  • Started playing the piano at the age of three, first public performance as an exceptional musical talent with vocals
  • at the age of 10, first solo concert performance on the piano
  • married since 2014, father of four children
  • engaged in voluntary church service
  • enthusiastic about hiking, skiing, cycling, football, snooker, darts, golf
  • enjoys good food, red wine and whiskey

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