The Greek Youth Symphony Orchestra (GYSO) inaugurates the new artistic season with a concert at the “Christos Lambrakis” Hall of Megaon – The Athens Concert Hall, on Thursday, 7th December 2023, at 20:30. 

Following the great success of its concerts presented abroad, the GYSO, Orchestra in Resedence at Megaron, performs a programme dedicated to Sergei Rachmaninoff, as part of the celebrations marking the 150 years since his birth. The GYSO, under the baton of its Founder & Artistic Director, Dionysis Grammenos, will perform Symphony No. 2 in E minor, op. 27, as well as Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, op. 18, with virtuoso pianist Vassilis Varvaresos as soloist. 

The concert is co-produced by the GYSO and Megaron – the Athens Concert Hall. 

PROGRAMME 

Sergei Rachmaninoff: 
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, op. 18 
Symphony No. 2 in E minor, op. 27 

Vassilis Varvaresos | piano 
Dionysis Grammenos | conductor 

Mucisians on stage: 

1st Violins

Maria Tsogia – Razakova, Maria Argyri, Giorgos Banos, Aimilios Bartzis, Vasiliki Bekiari, Charalampos Chavelos, Giorgos Daskalakis, Lourenço Entrudo, Evangelia Koutsodimou, Electra Mavropsaridi, Tânia Nércio, Lisa Nock, Georgia Ntinopoulou, Eleanna Stratou

2nd Violins

Orfeas Sarantakos, Achilleas Beris, Ioanna – Evmorfia Kotzioula, Lida Oikonomopoulou, Rodanthi Nikaki, Nikolas Papadakis, Grigoria Papadopoulou, Thanasis Rakos, Maria Stivanaki, Evangelia Theofanous, Alexandros Tipou, Arianna Ziva

Violas

Antonios Tzivenis, Sofia Chatzi, Christina Kaminari, Spyros Kokonetsis – Steriotis, Elena Mitsa, Tamara Mouratidou, Aristeidis Savvas Peristeris, João Diogo Saraiva Santos, Kalliopi Foteini Sarantakou, Elisavet Tsikanteri

Violoncelli

Eloy Daniel Medina Barreto, Efstratia Chaloulakou, Christos Chatzinathanail, Anna Manthou, Oskar Meier, Evdoxia Metso, Mateo Shestani, Elena Sofia Zivas

Double Basses

Edgar Alves Milhões, Stella Karagiorgou, Fragiskos Kokovlis, Lygia Milia, Matthew Nowak, Adasat Adama Santana Suárez 

Flutes

Dimitra Kostika, Efstathia Gisdaki, Theodora Apostolidou

Oboes

Jonas Schoups, Dimitra Goga, Iris Enache 

Clarinets

Conrad Hähnlein, Dimitris Argyros, Konstantinos Siragakis

Bassoons

Andreas Anthopoulos, Ioulia Bampe

Horns

Bram Vanoverberghe, Ana Muñoz Koniarska, Jonas Ellensohn, Benedikt Schmidinger

Trumpets

Christos Armeniakos, Leonidas Bairaktaris, Stamatia Fourlemadi

Trombones

Varvara Antigoni Athinaiou, Christos Nikiforos, Marios Vousolinos

Tuba

Giorgos Boulaxis

Percussion

Thodoris Koskinas, Chrysostomos Sakellaropoulos, Sokratis Trouptsidis, Dafni Andreadi, Evangelos Panagiotis Faitas 

With the participation of musicians from:

Nationale Jeugdorkesten Nederland (NJON) – National Youth Orchestras of the Netherlands
Wiener Jeunesse Orchester (WJO) – Vienna Youth Orchestra 
Jovem Orquestra Portuguesa (JOP) – National Youth Orchestra of Portugal