{"id":2283,"date":"2026-04-23T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2283"},"modified":"2026-04-23T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:45:00","slug":"lefteris-gavalas-narrates-his-lifes-relationship-with-the-piano-and-classical-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2283","title":{"rendered":"Lefteris Gavalas narrates his life’s relationship with the piano and classical music (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the occasion of the recital that pianist Lefteris Gavalas<\/b> will give tomorrow Friday at the Cultural Conference Centre of Heraklion, Crete, <\/b>he was interviewed<\/b> by Crete TV and journalist Christiana Skoura.<\/p>\n

Answering a question about the programme he will perform,<\/b> Lefteris Gavalas said that the works span from Bach to Hatzidakis,<\/b>that is, they cover a period of more than two hundred years. A period that for music, as the pianist says, is quite long. <\/p>\n

The programme he will present begins with Bach’s Bach’s Second Partita,<\/b> a work of six dances, continues with Beethoven’s Last Sonata,<\/b> “a deeply existential work”, written a hundred years later and while the great composer was in complete deafness, then he will perform Mendelssohn’s Fantasia,<\/b> a romantically classical work.<\/p>\n

The recital will conclude with Manos Hadjidakis’s Ionian Suite,<\/b> a work that, as Lefteris Gavalas says, gives him great joy when he performs it, and perhaps this joy was one of the reasons why last year he won the Manos Hadjidakis 100 Years Anniversary Prize<\/b> at the international piano competition De Bach au Jazz.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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As Lefteris Gavalas explains, the Ionian Suite is one of Manos Hadjidakis’ first works, number seven in his oeuvre, “when the Greek composer was still looking for what direction to take, a work that has both classical form, and Greek dances, and a part he calls an aria that has elements of opera.” <\/b><\/p>\n

When asked by the presenter if this recital is aimed at audiences who are familiar with classical music, the pianist replied that “the music is aimed at all people who have a little space in their souls to listen to musical landscapes even if they don’t know them. To let the music speak through them, whether they are knowledgeable or not.”<\/b><\/p>\n

Asked a more personal question about how Lefteris Gavalas began his career in music, the answer is that his love was born with him and is mainly due to his father George Gavalas, a great jazz-rock artist, who introduced him by gentle dreams into the vast world of this art in a house full of notes.<\/b><\/p>\n

He concludes this interview by describing the lonely journey of a pianist <\/b>who spends many hours every day studying sitting at his tambourine with his eyes on the sheet music and his fingers on his piano’s handle.<\/p>\n

The recital will be given tomorrow Friday at 21:00 at the Cultural Conference Centre of Heraklion, Crete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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