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Mourikis Spyros
Clarinetist
Spyros Mourikis international reputation started when he won the first Prize at the Carl Nielsen International Clarinet Competition in Odense in 1997 , while he has also awarded both the orchestra’s Prize and Audience Prize.
Born in 1974, Spyros Mourikis studied with Ch. Farantatos and got his Diploma with the Gold Prize at the Athens Concervatory in 1992.He continued his stadies at the Paris Conservatory with Michel Arrignon and Maurice Bourgue, gratuading with the First Prize in 1995. In 1997 he won the young Artist Prize of the Greek Associatio
n of Theatre and Music Reviewers.
As a soloist he regulary performs with all the orchestras in Greece and has given concerts with the Odense Symphony Orchestra, the Paris Conservatory Orchestra, the European Union Wind Ensemble, the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of South-west Germany, the Mexico city Symphony Orchestra and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
He has already given recitals in several European concerts halls including Athens Concert Hall, Cite de la Musique and Salle Gaveau of Paris, Gasteig of Munich, Queen Elizabeth Hall of London, Tivoli Concert Hall of Copenhagen, receiving enthusiastic critical acclaim.
He also took part in the “Rising Stars” with concerts in the Vienna Concert Hall, Cologne Philharmonic, Birmingham Symphony Hall, Brussels Palais de Beaux – Arts, Amsterdam Concertgebouw and in New York city at the Weil Hall.
Many composers have composed and dedicated works to him. He has worked as a principal clarinet with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra directed by Claudio Abbado. He has recorded for the Greek, the Danish Radio and the Radio Vaticana.
He is professor of clarinet at the Athens Conservatory and solo clarinetist at the Athens State Orchestra.
Among his recordings are Nielsen’s Concerto with the OSO (Danish Radio), the Brahms’s and Mozart’s clarinet quintets with the “Paris Opera string quartet” (Agora) and also the clarinet piece “Reflexions” of the Danish composer Erik Bach with the ASO (Dacapo).
Repertoire
CONCERTOS FOR CLARINET AND ORCHESTRA
B.CROUSEL: CONCERTOS 1,2,3,4
C. STAMITZ : CONCERTO IN B FLAT MAJOR
C. STAMITZ : CONCERTO IN E FLAT MAJOR
C. STAMITZ : CONCERTO No 4
J. J. PLEYEL: CONCERTO
S. MERCADANTE : CONCERTO
F.KROMMER : CONCERTO IN E FLAT MAJOR op.35
H. SUTERMEISTER : CONCERTO
F. TISCHAUSER : THE BIGGAR’S CONCERTO
G. ROSSINI :VARIATIONS FOR CLARINET
G. ROSSINI : INTRODUCTION, THEME AND VARIATIONS
C. V. STANFORD : CONCERTO
J.M. MOLTER : CONCERTOS 1,2,3,4
L. SPOHR : CONCERTOS 1,2,3,4
C. M. WEBER : CONCERTO IN F MINOR op. 73
C. M. WEBER : CONCERTO IN E FLAT MAJOR op.74 No 2
C. M. WEBER : CONCERTINO
A. MANEVICH : CONCERTO
G. FINGI : CONCERTO
I. SARKOZY : SINFONIA CONCERTANTE
F. BUSONI : CONCERTINO op. 48
A. SCHIBLER : CONCERTINO
CARL DAVIS : CONCERTO
A. GHIDONI : CONCERTO
A. COPLAND : CONCERTO
C. NIELSEN : CONCERTO
I. GOTKOVSKY : CONCERTO
H. TOMASI : CONCERTO
H. BOZZA : CONCERTO
W. A. MOZART : CONCERTO IN LA op. 622
W. A. MOZART : SINFONIA CONCERTANTE
J. FRANCAIX : CONCERTO
E. DENISOV : CONCERTO
J. CORIGLIANO : CONCERTO 1975
C. DEBUSSY : PREMIERE RAPSHODIE
J. BRAHMS : SONATA No.1 FOR CLARINET AND ORCHESTRA arr. L. Berio
J. FRANCAIX : TEMA CON VARIAZIONI
BO HOLTEN : CONCERTO
ERICH BACH : VARIATIONS DES PRELUDES