Curriculum Vitae
Loulaki Loukia
Cellist
Loukia Loulaki was born in Athens, Greece, in 1992. She studied cello at the Athens Conservatory, as a scholarship student, under Dimitri Gouzios. In June 2008, at the age of 16, she had already completed her violoncello studies and graduated (celloperforming diploma)with the highest honors, receiving the "Gold Medal Award”, a prize that hadn't ever since 1915 been awarded to a cellist by the Athens Conservatory. By that time she had already been a first prize winner at various Greek musical competitions.
The period 2007-2009 she also had lessons with Marianne Chen.
In June 2008 she won the “Gina Bachauer Award” dedicated to the memory of M. Rostropovich, thereby receiving a scholarship by the “World in Harmony Foundation”, which continued the next year 2009-10 as well.
She has participated in various master classes and seminars with professors such as Giorgos Hadzinikos, Grigori Zhishlin (chamber music), Maria Kliegel, Marianne Chen, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Peter Nagy (chamber music) and Natalia Gutman.
From March 2007 on, she is attending the Post Graduate Courses at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, in Italy, with Natalia Gutman (in collaboration with Elizabeth Wilson), by the scholarship of “World in Harmony Foundation”.
Since September 2010, at the age of 18, she has been accepted for Master Studies in the Vienna Konservatorium Privatuniversität with Natalia Gutman, this time under a scholarship by the “Onassis Foundation”.
Loukia Loulaki has performed as a soloist with the Athens State Orchestra (at the Athens Megaron Music Hall), the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra (at the Thessaloniki Megaron), the Orchestra of Colours (at Trianon Concert Hall) and theOrquesta Ciudad de Granada (at the Manuel de Falla Concert Hall, Granada). She has recordedfor the Symphony Orchestra of ERT (Greek Radio Orchestra).
She has given recitals in Greece, Italy and Slovenia, in important concert halls like the Greek National Opera House in Athens, the "Philological Society Parnassus", the Auditorium of the Institute Francais D’ Athenes and the Benaki Museum,the Auditorium San Micheletto in Lucca and Ferruccio Busoni in Empoli and theBasilica di Sant’ Alessandro of Florence.
She also participated as a soloist in the 3rd International Music Festival of Aegina and the 14th Festival of Manolis Kalomoiris in Samos.
Famous Greek Composers like Filippos Tsalachouris and Periklis Koukos asked her to perform their works.
In her upcoming schedules, she will participate at the 20th year’s anniversary of Athens Megaron Concert Hall, performing chamber music with Giannis Vakarelis and Areti Zoula and she will participate as a chamber music soloist of the Vienna Konservatorium Privatuniversität, in Musikverein of Vienna. (March 8th and May, 10th). She will also participate with a solo recital for violoncello the “concerti mezzogiorno” of Spoleto in July.
Loukia is also a first year student in the Department of Theatre Studies at The Athens University and a last year student in P. Koukos class of the of Harmony Degree at the Athens Conservatory.
Repertoire
With orchestra :
D. Shostakovich, concerto for cello and orchestra,No.1
Antonin Dvorak, concerto for cello and orchestra in b minor, op. 104
Sir E. Elgar, concerto for cello and orchestra
S. Prokofiev, concertino for cello and orchestra, op.132
Sinfonia Concertante for cello and orchestra, op 125
Μax Bruch, Kol Nidrei. for cello and orchestra.
Joseph Haydn : Concerto for cello and orchestra in C major, no. 1.
Concerto for cello and orchestra in D major, no. 2.
Εdouard Lalo, Concerto for cello and orchestra in d minor.
Darius Milhaud, Concerto for cello and orchestra no. 1
Camille Saint-Saëns, Concerto for cello and orchestra no. 1, op. 33
Chamber Music for cello and piano :
Prokofiev cello sonata(op.119)
Brahms, sonata in e minor
sonata in f major
J.S. Bach, sonata for viola da gamba, No 3
R. Schumann, Adagio et Allegro
L.V Beethoven, sonata No 5
sonata No 3
R. Strauss, sonata for cello and piano in f major
E. Grieg, sonata for cello and piano in A minor, op 36
Solo violoncello :
Z. Kodaly solo sonata
P.Hindemith solo sonat
G. Cassado solo suite
J.S.Bach solo suite no.1
solo suite no. 3
solo suite no. 5