PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Dumka, Op. 59
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Franz Liszt – Sonetto del Petrarca 104 (from Années de Pèlerinage)
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Greek Classical Repertoire
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Repertoire by P.E.G.K.A.P. Pianists
BIOGRAPHY
Anna Saranti
Anna Saranti is a musician, contemporary vocal coach, music and movement educator, music therapist, and singer. As a performer, she has appeared on various music stages, in concerts and theater productions in Athens, across Greece, and abroad.
She has collaborated both on stage and in the studio with notable artists across a wide range of musical styles. She teaches contemporary singing and provides music therapy for children and adults—neurodiverse and neurotypical alike. Her work as a music therapist focuses on inclusion and accessibility through music.
Eva Tsagla-Manolaraki
Eva Tsagla-Manolaraki was born in Athens. Her journey with the piano began at the Pallini Music High School, studying under Eleni Dafeka. In 2015, she entered the Department of Music Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. After a successful transfer request in 2017, she continued her studies at the Ionian University in the Piano Performance program under Professor Lambis Vassiliadis.
Since then, she has attended masterclasses with internationally renowned pianists such as Hideyo Harada, Claudio Curro Dossi, Solungga Liu, Dmitry Rachmanov, Robert Saterlee, Alain Lefèvre, among others. She received her university degree in 2021 and her Piano Diploma in 2022.
Throughout and beyond her studies, she has performed in numerous solo and chamber music concerts at major venues including the Ionian Academy, the Spyropouleio Cultural Center, the Attiko Conservatory of Athens, the P.E.G.K.A.P. for the Piano City Festival, the Manos Hadjidakis House in Xanthi as part of the Summer Piano Institute of the Piano Plus Festival, and at the Athens Concert Hall (Megaron).
From 2019 to 2021, she taught piano at the Mantzaros Philharmonic Society. Since 2023, she has performed as pianist with the Piano Plus Festival’s mixed adult choir, in the production of The Phantom of the Opera at the Christmas Theater, in the children’s musical theater piece The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns (arranged by Alexandros Gonis), and in the Greek National Opera’s educational program Opera Interactive at Schools: Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène (arranged by Kornilios Selamsis).
Also featuring talented pianists:
Antonis Lagoudakis
Sotiris Lamprou
Makis Paipetis
Panagiotis Karatzaféris
