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In this performance Eleni Petridou and Vassiliki Wiedenmayer will share with the audience the magic of their first concert together after their recent meeting.

Eleni Petridou was born in Thessaloniki. She took up violin lessons under the guidance of M.Michalidis and P.Arnaudov. She studied violin with D.Handrakis and S.Gikontis in the Department of Music Science and Art in the University of Macedonia and in the Department of Music Studies in the Ionian University, where she finished with an A degree. She continued her violin studies on the master degree with S.Gikontis in the Ionian University and she finished in June 2008. During her studies she attended the Masterclasses of S.Kafantaris, A.Stankov, I.Vatikiotis, V.Milanova, V.Oistrach, I.Kravtchenko, J.Leertouwer, N.Baltussen, E.Kawaguti, S.Gikontis, V.Beluska. She has participated in a great number of concerts in Greece and abroad (South African Union, Belgium, Germany, Japan, Italy, USA) with good critiques. She has played as a soloist in Beethoven's concerto for violin and orchestra with the Ionian University Orchestra, with the Symphony Orchestra of Volos and with the Symphony Orchestra of Rhodes and also with Athens’ Camerata (string orchestra) with the conductor A. Myrat in the forth Mozart's concerto. She cooperates with the Ionian String Quartet and the Ionian Baroque Ensemble.
The last year lives and works in Brussels where she plays at the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra and teaches violin.

 

 

Vassiliki Wiedenmayer was born and grown up in Thessaloniki, Greece. She studied in the State Conservatoire of Thessaloniki with Victoria Victoratou and Costas Grimaldis and graduated with distinction in Piano and Music Theory. Her inquisitiveness, curiosity and love for music took her to Paris where she completed her studies specializing in Piano and Chamber Music (Prix Supérieur) under the mentoring of pianist Aleksander Woronicki and cellist Marcus Jenny. She moved to Brussels in 1997 where she took master classes with renowned teachers such as Garrett List and Michel Massot in the domain of contemporary music and improvisation which was decisive for her artistic evolution and performing development. She has performed in several venues in different cities of Greece, Belgium, France, and Spain as a piano soloist as well as with chamber music ensembles and improvisation groups.
In Brussels she has also attended Drama and Declamation lessons and since then theater is an integral part of her life. As a music teacher, she has been, during all these years, surrounded by children of different ages to whom she transmits and communicates with enthusiasm and dedication her knowledge and experience in music and theater.

www.elenipetridou.com

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