Organ Recitalist

A native of Athens, Eleni began piano studies at the age of eight with Danae Stavraki and later Kate Trulli at the Athens National Conservatory, graduating in 1995 with a unanimous First Prize. She went on to study organ with Nicolas Kynaston at the Athens Concert Hall as a three-year scholarship recipient of the Friends of Music Society, and subsequently continued her training as an Alexander S. Onassis Foundation scholar at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Nicolas Kynaston and David Titterington, completing the Postgraduate Performance Course with Distinction in 2004.

Her awards include the Margaret and Sydney Lovett Organ Prize and the United Music Publishers Ensemble Prize (Royal Academy of Music, 2004), as well as the Artistic Director’s Prize at the Mikael Tariverdiev International Organ Competition in Kaliningrad, Russia (2007).

Eleni has appeared as a soloist and ensemble performer at major festivals in Greece, Cyprus, Romania, United Kingdom, Spain, France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Norway, Finland, Poland, USA, Australia. She has collaborated with the Capella Istropolitana, the Athens Radio and State Orchestras, the Athens Camerata, and the Athens Philharmonic Orchestra. Recent highlights include performances at the RCO Winter Conference Celebrity Organ Recital (2021) and the Royal Festival Hall’s 70th-anniversary organ recital series (2024).

Her discography includes a joint recording project with the Royal Academy of Music and the Southwark and South London Organ Society at the Royal Festival Hall, a CD of English choral music with the Rugby School Choirs, and a newly released album of Reger’s Opp. 46, 60, and 73 for Selby Abbey Organ Masters.

Eleni has previously served as Organist-in-Residence at Tonbridge School, Bilton Grange School, and Bishops Stortford College. She currently teaches piano and organ at Rugby School, organ at Eltham College, and has served as Organist of the French Protestant Church since 2023. She earned her PhD in Organ Performance from Canterbury Christ Church University in 2016. In recognition of her contributions to the field, she was elected Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) in 2023.

Programme

Frescobaldi, Toccata Nona
J Alain, Suite pour Orgue, ii. Scherzo JA70
J.S Bach, Prelude and Fugue in a BWV 543
Saints-Saens, Troisieme Fantaisie, Op.157
Manos Hadjidakis, Grand Sousta and Syrtos from suite ‘For a little while seashell’
Reger, Fantasy and Fugue ‘BACH’ op.46