Progetto Martha Argerich

italiano

Performers

piano

Alexandros Kapelis

 

Born of a Greek father and Peruvian mother, Mr. Kapelis grew up in both countries during his formative years. He began playing the piano at the age of five and has studied with Dimitri Toufexis, Diane Walsh and Julius Levine in New York, and Noretta Conci in London. Mr. Kapelis also studied orchestral conducting with Bruno Aprea at the Accademia Internazionale delle Arti in Rome, and has attended the masterclasses of Gianluigi Gelmetti at the Accademia Chigiana, in Siena. He conducted Handel’s Giulio Cesare at the Ernen Musikdorf Festival in Switzerland and has gone on to conduct Bach and Mozart piano concertos from the keyboard. He has appeared in recital and as soloist in England, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Malta, Greece, Cyprus and the Middle East, as well as the United States, Mexico, and South America. Recognized early in his career by the IPS as “one of the most promising young classical musicians of any nationality working in New York today”, he has gone on to perform in prominent venues that include Lincoln Center and the United Nations in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, the Chicago Art Institute and the Chicago Cultural Center, Cadogan Hall and Stationer’s Hall in London, the Salle Cortot in Paris, the Musei Capitolini in Rome, and the Athens Megaron. Mr. Kapelis has appeared with the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Camerata Italica, the Monterrey Symphony (Mexico), the Filarmónica de Lima (Peru), and the Orchestra ton Chromaton (Greece). Other engagements from last season include his debut with the Royal Philharmonic in London, as well as a special New York appearance at the Dahesh Museum of Arts.

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