Elena Papandreou

埃琳娜·帕潘德麗歐1966年生于希臘首都雅典。1985年畢業(yè)于國立音樂學(xué)院，其間師從Vangelis Boudounis學(xué)習(xí)吉他。之后，她獲得英國議會獎學(xué)金在英國皇家北方音樂學(xué)院深造，師從于Gordon Crosskey，并獲得音樂表演專業(yè)文憑。 帕潘德麗歐曾參加過如迪亞茲（Alirio Diaz）、布里姆（Julian Bream）、吉利亞（Oscar Ghiglia）、布勞威爾（Leo Brouwer）以及基耶薩（Ruggero Chiesa）等多位名家的大師班課程。 她曾三次獲得國際吉他大賽的第一名（Maria Callas、Gargnano、Alessandria）以及美國吉他基金會吉他大賽的第二名。她也由此進(jìn)入到了Naxos唱片公司的“吉他桂冠系列”之中，而此前，她已經(jīng)出版了5張唱片。1992年，帕潘德麗歐獲得了雅典研究院頒發(fā)的“Spyros Motsenigos”獎，對于一個希臘音樂家來說，這是一個非常重要的獎項(xiàng)。 如今，帕潘德麗歐的足跡已經(jīng)遍及北美的美國、加拿大以及歐洲的11個國家，很多著名的 音樂廳都已回蕩過她美妙的琴聲，其中包括維也納愛樂音樂廳、科隆愛樂樂團(tuán)音樂廳、柴可夫斯基音樂廳以及伊麗莎白女王音樂廳等等。1998年三月，帕潘德麗歐首次在美國紐約的卡耐基音樂廳舉辦音樂會，1999年6月，她再度受邀來到卡耐基音樂廳，與極樂弦樂四重奏（Elysium string quartet）共同演出。此外，很多著名作曲家，包括Nikos Mamangakis、Nikita Koshkin、Vangelis Boudounis以及Dimitris Nicolaou等等都把自己的作品題獻(xiàn)給這位女藝術(shù)家。 帕潘德麗歐無論在希臘本土還是其它的地方都獲得了非常高的評價。華盛頓郵報(bào)稱她為“吉他詩人”，而一份希臘的報(bào)紙“TA NEA”則這樣寫道：“埃琳娜·帕潘德麗歐已成為最偉大的表演藝術(shù)家之一，每當(dāng)琴聲響起，批評的聲音必定消散而去。”
 
Elena Papandreou was born in Athens on 7th March 1966. She studied the guitar with Evangelos Boudounis at theNational Conservatory and graduated in 1985 with honours. She gave her first concert at the age of 15. She continued her studies with Gordon Crosskey at the Royal Northern College of Music, England, on a British Council scholarship, obtaining the Diploma in Advanced Studies in Musical Performance (1986). She also had lessons with Oscar Ghiglia, Alirio Diaz, Julian Bream, Leo Brouwer and Ruggero Chiesa.
 
She has won the First Prize in three International Competitions, &Maria Callas& (Greece), &Gargnano& (Italy),&Alessandria& (Italy) and the Second Prize in the &Guitar Foundation of America& Competition. In the latter she was also awarded the &NAXOS& Prize, which gave her the opportunity to record two personal CDs with this company while she had previously released five other records. Since 2001 she collaborates with the Swedish BIS where she already released two CDs (works by N. Koshkin and R. Dyens). In 1992 she was honoured by the Academy of Athens with the &Spyros Motsenigos& Prize - a most important prize that is awarded to one outstanding performer every two years.
 
Elena Papandreou has performed in most European countries, as well as in the U.S.A., Canada, Brazil, Venezuela, Puerto Rico and Japan. Within the &Rising Stars& program of the &European Concert Hall Organisation& (ECHO), she gave concerts in some of the most prestigious halls in Europe, the Vienna Musikverein, the Koelner Philharmonie, the Birmingham Symphony Hall and the Athens Concert Hall. She has also played in the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow and the Queen Elisabeth Hall in London. She frequently tours the U.S.A. and in 1998 she gave her Carnegie Hall debut in New York.
 
She has collaborated with outstanding musicians, the guitarists Alirio Diaz, Oscar Ghiglia, Roland Dyens, Nikita Koshkin, Evangelos Boudounis and Yorgos Mouloudakis, the violinists Leonidas Kavakos and Gerardo Ribeiro, the singers Vasso Papantoniou, Herbert Lippert and Nena Venetsanou and the flutist Stella Gadedi. Elena Papandreou has played as a soloist with the State Orchestras of Athens and Thessaloniki, the Camerata Orchestra, the Orchestra of Colours, the Orchestra of Patras and the Orchestra of Alessandria, Italy. Performances of hers were recorded by the Greek Television and Radio, Radio France, Deutsche Welle and the Turkish Television.
 
Elena Papandreou teaches at the &University of Macedonia& in Thessaloniki and at the National Conservatory in Athens, where she is also giving Postgraduate classes. Composers who have dedicated their works to her are Roland Dyens, Nikita Koshkin, Nikos Mamangakis (including a concerto for guitar and orchestra), Evangelos Boudounis, Giorgos Koumendakis and Dimitris Nicolau.
 
For her interpretations she has received laudatory comments from significant people of the music world and enthusiastic reviews from the Press in Greece and abroad. Alirio Diaz said about her: &Her musicality through her refined technique cannot but stir up the admiration of her audience&. And Leo Brouwer: &If you want to hear music of the highest level of interpretation with poetical perfection you must hear Elena Papandreou&. The Washington Post called her &a poet of the guitar& and the Greek newspaper &Ta Nea& wrote: &Now we see Elena Papandreou as one of the greatest interpreters [...] the critic becomes silent ... when the Music begins&.