Poetic Soundscapes:
Timotheos Gavriilidis-Petrin and Alexia Mouza

Wednesday, February 5, 2024, 7:00 pm
Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Music Center, 129 W 67th Street, New York City (map)

The Hellenic-American Cultural Foundation invites you to join us for the New York debut of two premier Greek musicians of the next generation, cellist Timotheos Gavriilidis-Petrin and pianist Alexia Mouza.

As a prize winner at the International Paulo Cello Competition, Timotheos was praised for his “great and passionate soloist style.” He is a member of the chamber music group ApollΩn Ensemble – founded by Leonidas Kavakos, and a founding member of Trio Zimbalist. Timotheos was also named Artist-in-Residence at “Performance Today,” the most listened-to classical music radio program in the US, and has performed throughout North America and Europe.

Alexia is a Greek-Venezuelan pianist known for her extraordinary energy, clarity of sound and precision. She has received numerous awards, including from the Manhattan International and Berliner Music Competitions. Having performed throughout Europe, Asian and the Americas, she has appeared as a soloist at the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra Sinfonica del Estado de México, the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano, and the State Symphony Orchestras of Athens and Thessalonik.

Their recital draws from the deepest roots in the musical tradition of the romantic era: Janáček’s Pohádka, Poulenc’s sonata for cello and piano, and Papandopulo’s Rapsodia Concertante. The program will close with Brahms’s Sonata No. 2 in F Major, which centers on the romantic notion of thought, passion and self, making it one of the most striking compositions for cello and piano.