Konstantinos Mavrogenis

A heartfelt thank you to Konstantinos Mavrogenis who joined us with the Callias Ensemble for the premiere of 'Octocorallia' by Alexander Maria Wagner during the Athens Democracy Forum organized by the Democracy & Culture Foundation in Association with the New York Times at the Terrace of the City Hall in Athens.

Born in Athens, he started studying piano at the age of 12, taking the piano Diploma with honors and first prize. He continued his studies in Advanced Theory taking the Degrees in Harmony, Counterpoint and Fugue with honors. At the same period he started studying classical singing with Mechthild Stamatakis and continued with George Zervanos, taking the Diploma with honors and first prize. He has also participated in masterclasses with Anna Tomowa Sintow, Renato Bruson and Vincenzo de Vivo and has also studied with the bass Nicolas Pagounis. He has cooperated with the Greek National Opera, the Romanian Opera Craiova, the Athens Concert Hall, the Thessaloniki Concert Hall, the Varna Opera Festival, the Mediterranean Festival, the Hellenic Festival, and the Onassis Cultural Center participating with the Orchestra Filarmonia della Calabria, the Orchestra of the Romanian Opera Craiova, the Orchestra of the Greek National Opera, the Athens State Orchestra, the Greek Radio Orchestra, the City of Athens Orchestra and the Armonia Atenea - The Friends of Music Orchestra rendering scores from the baroque era until the 20th century as also works of important greek composers (M. Theodorakis, M. Hatzidakis, Y. Markopoulos, N. Mamangakis, G. Koumendakis, P. Tsalahouris, N. Kypourgos etc.).

He has performed many roles until today on stage, some of which are Georgio Germont (La Traviata – G. Verdi), Conte Almaviva (Nozze di Figaro - W. A. Mozart), Doctor Malatesta (Don Pasquale – G. Donizetti), Doctor Dulcamara (L’elisir d’Amore – G. Donizetti), Silvio (I Pagliacci – R. Leoncavallo), De Siriex (Fedora – U. Giordano), Monterone (Rigoletto – G. Verdi), Lord Rochefort (Anna Bolena - G. Donizetti), Ping (Turandot – G. Puccini), Falke (Die Fledermaus – J. Strauss), Achilla (Giulio Cesare – G. F. Haendel), Truffaldino (Ariadne auf Naxos – R. Strauss) etc. He is a graduate of the Technical University of Athens in the Faculty of electrical engineering (1997) and holds a Ph.D. in Historical Musicology awarded by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in the Faculty of Music Studies (2009).

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