On Saturday 23 May at 21:00, Aimilia Kougia is holding a piano recital with Muses in Kypseli with Nikos Venner at Muses in Kypseli.
Nikos Venner is a distinguished Greek-Austrian pianist, known for his high-level artistic activity and his significant distinctions in Greece and international musical competitions.
He began his musical studies at the National Conservatory and in 2018 he obtained Piano Diploma with Honours Unanimous and First Prize from the I. Siggelakis Conservatory. He is a graduate of the American College of Greece (ACG) – Deree and the Open University of Great Britain, with a Bachelor of Arts in Music (Honors), where he cultivated his piano studies in depth alongside the internationally renowned pianist and pedagogue Dimitris Toufexis. He graduated from ACG with the Honors Magna Cum Laude and received the Outstanding Senior Achievement Award for his outstanding artistic activity.
He then completed postgraduate studies (Master’s in Music Performance) at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, on a scholarship from the A.G. Leventis Foundation.
In parallel, she studied at the Academy Schola Cantorum in Paris,under the guidance of the internationally renowned piano teacher Agathis Leymanis, obtaining the Diplôme Supérieur and Diplôme de Virtuosité for the high level of technical virtuosity and musical interpretation.
He has actively participated in masterclasses in Greece and abroad with important pianists and pedagogues such as Dimitri Toufexis, Aquiles Delle Vigne, Steven Osborne, Daniel Blumenthal, Raquel Boldorini, Lilia Boyadjieva, Michele Rossetti, Rafael Salinas, Borislava Taneva, Alexander Vassilenko, Olga Kern etc.
In Greece, he has been awarded at the Panhellenic Piano Competition in 2013 and 2016, as well as at the 2018 UNESCO Panhellenic Piano Competition. In addition, he has been awarded in international competitions,including the V Encontro Internacional de Piano de Sardoal in Portugal (2nd Prize), the ISCART Piano Competition in Switzerland (2nd Prize) and the International Moscow Competition (2nd Prize).
In 2022 he was awarded by the Academy of Athens with the Class of Letters and Fine Arts in the category of Piano Performance, in recognition of his high level of technical and artistic excellence.
His artistic activity includes performances in important halls, art spaces and cultural institutions in Greece and abroad. Among his most important performances are the Athens Concert Hall, the Alternative Stage of the National Opera, the Parnassos Philological Society, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow, the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, the Biblioteca Metropolitana in Bucharest, the St. Ann’s Church in Dublin, St. James’s Church in London, the Teatro Mazzacorati 1763 in Bologna and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
The programme to be presented by Nikos Venner
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) – Les Cyclopes (1724)
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) – Keyboard Sonata in E minor, K.98 (1740s-1750s)
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) – Piano Sonata in D major, Hob. XVI:37 (published 1780)
Frédéric François Chopin (1810-1849) – Nocturne in C minor, Op. 27 No. 1 (1836), Polonaise in F minor, Op. 44 (1841)
Franz Liszt (1811-1886) – Grandes Études de Paganini No. 6 in A minor, p.141 (1851)
