The established Piano Festival of the GNO Alternative Stage, dedicated to the «king of instruments», reschedules its yearly date with Athenian audiences, for the first time outside the SNFCC, in the historic hall of the Parnassos Literary Society, from 23 to 17 October 2022, always in collaboration with the Thessaloniki Piano Festival, and curated by Charalampos Aggelopoulos. Admission to all the events will be free upon priority vouchers that will be distributed from Wednesday 19 October, at 12.00,  exclusively via ticket services.

Five acclaimed Greek pianists with international careers, Dimitri Vassilakis (23/10), Lorenda Ramou (24/10), Karolos Zouganelis (25/10), Prodromos Symeonidis (26/10) and Christos Papageorgiou (27/10) perform some of the greatest piano works of the 20^thand 21^st centuries, covering a very wide range of music trends and compositions. Works, among others, by Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Sergei Rachmaninov, Sergei Prokofiev, Isaac Albéniz, Arnold Schoenberg, Dmitri Shostakovich, Olivier Messiaen, Iannis Xenakis, and modern-day piano pieces compose a particularly interesting multi-faceted programme.

The Festival's parallel events include two afternoon concerts by the emerging soloists Natalia Giannaki (23/10) and Margarita Kolasi (26/10), and a piano masterclass by the featured artists.

Lorenda Ramou in recital
Monday 24 October 2022 / Starts at: 20.30
Works by Ge, Cage, Cowell, Dragatakis, Marcus, Rzewski, Sakellariou - Ramou, Schoenberg, Wolfe

Pianist Lorenda Ramou, established in the conscience of music-lovers for her years-long and in-depth relationship with the piano avant-garde, presents  works of «special standards», promising fascinating music pieces that ignite our imagination. Get prepared to listen how a piano work flirts with music theatre, asking from its performer to unravel an impassioned monologue as s/he is playing, how to use the cluster technique to perform ancient Chinese music, how the intervention of objects on chords radically transforms sound, and how a tiny toy piano blends with electronic sounds!