"Young Classical" is a chamber music cycle to be presented by specs 'n' arts, for the first time this year, from October 2011 to May 2012, at Parnassos Concert Hall, in Athens.

Young internationally awarded soloists will perform in the concerts organised with the support of Parnassos Literary Society and under the artistic direction of young Greek pianist Apostolos Palios, a prize-winner of prestigious international and domestic competitions including an award by the Academy of Athens.

Young artists from around the world, Greeks living in Greece or Greek born and raised abroad, Greeks who emigrated for studies and in search of a professional career, but also foreigners who studied together with Greek artists and love Greece, foreigners now living permanently in Greece, they are all invited to Athens. Greece hosts Young Classical Musicians...

Concert dates

6 October 2011, at 20:30

Athens Youth Symphony Orchestra

Soloists : Michael Guttman, violin & Clément Himbert, saxophone

Conductor: Michael Guttman

[works by W.A. Mozart, Elgar, Glazunov, Bozza]

With the support of the Embassy of Belgium in Athens

In cooperation with the Paris Conservatory

Free entrance 

26 November 2011, at 20:30

Jeroen Berwaerts, trumpet

Chalkion brass quintet

With the support of YAMAHA Music Europe & the Embassy of Belgium in Athens

21 December 2011, at 20:30

Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet

Ali Basegmezler, viola

Herodotus Kavasis, cello

Sotiris Louizos, piano

Chryssa Grenda, piano

[works by Brahms & Bruch]  

21 January 2012, at 20:30

Hande Özyürek, violin

Emre Elivar, piano

Apostolos Palios, piano

[works by Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Saygun, Constantinides] 

27 January 2012, at 20:30

Petros Bouras, piano & Dimitris Kouzis, violin

[works by Villa-Lobos, de Falla, Piazzola, Turina]

Agis Kalavrytinos, piano

the dancers Stella Smyrnaki, Margarita Plessa & Leonardo Gomez

[works by Astor Piazzolla, Gerardo Matos Rodriguez, Carlos Almaran, Edgardo Donato, Consuelo Velazquez, Angel Villoldo, Carlos Gardel] 

4 February 2012, at 20:30

Dimitris Karakantas – Chara Kanatidou, violin

Emorfia Papadimitriou, violin – Yanna Karayanni, cello – Lia Vassileli, piano

[works by Kodály, Bartók, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Babajanian] 

29 March 2012, at 20:30

“Jane Morris, the enigmatic Pre-raphaelite muse”

Mailys de Villoutreys, soprano

Apostolos Palios, piano

Magda Mavroyanni, texts/narration

[arie antiche, lieder, English songs & solo piano works by pre-classical composers and Liszt]  

28 April 2012, at 20:30

Ricardo Gallén, guitar

George Tossikian, guitar     

[works by Rodrigo, Cimarosa, Pujol, among others] 

14 May 2012, at 20:30

Marie-Claudine Papadopoulos, violin

Dimitri Papadopoulos, piano

Tatiana Leonidopoulou, piano

[works by French composers for violin & piano

works by German composers for solo piano]  

21 May 2012, at 20:30

Eleni Raptaki, piano – Lefteris Papanikolaou, violin

Constantinos Destounis, piano – Elli Anastasopoulou, soprano

[works by Schumann for solo piano and opera, musical & art songs]