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She studied at the Athens Conservatoire, the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, at Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, and the Indiana University Bloomington, under Aliki Vatikioti, Peter Solymos, György Sebők and Alfred Brendel. She was a finalist at the Toronto Bach Festival and Clara Haskil Competition, while she received the Liebstoeckl and Fazioli Prizes at the International Geneva Competition. She took up music theory and composition, with G. A. Papaioannou, and Frederic Fox. She has performed the complete works of J. S. Bach and Robert Schumann. She recorded Dimitris Mitropoulos’ Greek Sonata and the complete piano works of G. A. Papaioannou, as well as works by Giorgos Koumendakis, Periklis Koukos, Yorgo Sicilianos, Vangelis Katsoulis, etc. She was awarded the Spyros Motsenigos Prize by the Academy of Athens. She has recorded Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, French Suites, Fantasias and Goldberg Variations, as well as works by Schumann. She received the Best Recording of 2018 award by the Union of Greek Critics for Drama and Music.

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