At just 36 years old passed away today, Saturday, November 19, 2022, the distinguished Greveniotis pianistGeorge Karagiannis, defeated by cancer.
In particular, according to ERT, George Karagiannis, who had appeared giving individual recitals and chamber music concerts in cities and festivals in Greece and abroad, including Germany, where he lived in recent years, Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria and Thailand, started piano lessons at the age of 11, in the town of Grevena, where he was born.
He had participated in many pan-Hellenic and international piano competitions, where he had distinguished himself, while in his musical career he attended dozens of piano and chamber music seminars with internationally renowned Greek and foreign musicians such as: Donald Weilerstein, Maxim Mogilevsky, Aglika Genova & Liuben Dimitrov, Mikhail Voskresensky, Jerome Rose, Elisabeth Kufferath, Winfried Rademacher, Hideyo Harada, Kemal Gekic´, Reinhard Becker, Viktor Chuchkov, Ákos Hernádi, Eugene Mursky, Svetlana Smolina, Johan van Beek, Eduard Zilberkant, Domna Evnouchidou, Elena Mouzala, Giorgos Chatzinikos.
He graduated in 2009 from the Department of Music Studies of the Ionian University, majoring in piano, where he also did his master’s degree, while after being admitted as 1st in the Konzertexamen (higher studies of soloist specialization in Germany) he continued and completed his studies at the University of Troisingen (Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Trossingen). Postgraduate studies in chamber music followed at the University of Hannover (Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover) and at the same time he attended Lied accompaniment courses.
He has recorded for the Third Program of ERT, playing with the modern music orchestra of Public Television and the symphony orchestra of the municipality of Thessaloniki, while he was also one of the founding members of the young metal rock band Dark Nightmare.
His health adventure began about two years ago with the diagnosis of a rare form of cancer, which he fought bravely, as he initially managed to face it and return to his favorite keys, even releasing an album. However, his health worsened at the end of the summer and he chose to return with his beloved violinist wife, Elisa van Beek to the city where he was born.
The exodus service will be held tomorrow, Sunday, November 20, 2022 at 12 noon at the Metropolitan Church of Grevena, Evangelistria of Theotokos.
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