Curriculum Vitae
Trochopoulos Panagiotis
Pianist
Panagiotis Trochopoulos was born in November 1982 in Greece. He comes from a family of scientists and in May 2006 graduated from the Moscow State Conservatory where he studied with Nikolai Petrov. With a repertoire which includes 15 solo programs and 30 concertos for piano and orchestra incorporating as well the complete concertos of Rachmaninov, Panagiotis Trochopoulos has toured worldwide and performed in such countries as the United States, Russia, Germany, Austria, Italy, Croatia and Rumania. He has collaborated with many distinguished conductors including Tomasz Bugaj, Murad Annamamedov, Ovidiu Balan, Grigor Palikarov and Oktav Calleya. His past orchestral appearances have included performances of Brahms’ second piano concerto with the Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra of Pazardjik, Prokofiev’s third piano concerto with the Symphony Orchestra of Kissinau in Moldavia, Liszt’s first piano concerto with the orchestra of the municipality of Thessaloniki in Greece and Rachmaninov’s third piano concerto with the Russian Symphony Orchestra of Yaroslavl.
Panagiotis has given a number of recitals at important international festivals such as the Athens Festival, the Sofia Festival, the “Musical Kremlin” Festival of Moscow, the Nafplion Festival and the English Music Festival where he presented an all-Holbrooke recital. In 2002 he was chosen to represent the 1st Moscow-based Arensky Festival with concerts in Germany and Greece and in 2004, 2005 and 2006 he was one of the featured artists at the Malta International Festival. He has recorded 5 CDs, the first of which includes the world premiere of Pavel Pabst’s Piano Concerto on Cameo Classics and which became “Recording of the Month” on Music Web International.
Most recently, he was a featured soloist with Croatia’s Simfonijski orkestar Hvratska vojske in a performance of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” in Zagreb. This concert inaugurated the entry of the Republic of Croatia into NATO. His Holbrooke solo works CD (vol.1) received great critical acclaim on the Gramophone magazine. Right now preparations are made for the world-premiere of Holbooke’s 2nd Piano Concerto with Leslie Howard conducting. In November 2011 he was invited by the great Russian pianist Alexander Ghindin to take part in a very special concert (“Musicians for Peace”) in Moscow’s “Church of Christ the Savior”, featuring 13 pianists from different countries (including such artists as Cyprien Katsaris) and in December 2011 he was chosen to participate in a gala concert-tribute to Marc-Andre Hamelin as one of the “new stars of the Russian piano school” in Moscow’s House of Music.
Repertoire
SOLO REPERTOIRE
ALKAN Symphony for piano solo
ARENSKY Three pieces, op.42
BACH Prelude and Fugue in C (I)
Prelude and Fugue in c (I)
Prelude and Fugue in f (I)
Prelude and Fugue in F-sharp (I)
Prelude and Fugue in g (I)
Prelude and Fugue in B-flat (I)
Prelude and Fugue in B (II)
English Suite nr.2 in a, BWV 807
English Suite nr.3 in g, BWV 808
Toccata in c, BWV 911
Toccata in e, BWV 914
BALAKIREV Oriental Fantasy “Islamey”
BEETHOVEN Eleven Bagatelles, op.119
Rondo in G, op.51 no.2
Six Variations in G, WoO 70
Sonata no.1 in f, op.2 no.1
Sonata no.3 in C, op.2 no.3
Sonata no.5 in c, op.10 no.1
Sonata no.7 in D, op.10 no.3
Sonata no.13 in E-flat, op.27 no.1
Sonata no.15 in D, op.28
Sonata no.17 in d, op.31 no.2
Sonata no.27 in e, op.90
Sonata no.30 in E, op.109
Sonata no.31 in A–flat, op.110
BLUMENFELD Nocturne in E-flat, op.6 no.2
BRAHMS Two Rhapsodies, op.79
Sonata no.2 in f-sharp, op.2
Four Pieces, op.119
Variations on a theme by Paganini, op.35 (I+II)
CHERKASSKY “Prelude Pathetique”
CLEMENTI Sonata in f-sharp, op.26 no.2
COUPERIN “Les Carillons de Cythere”
HOLBROOKE Sonata-Fantasy no.1 “The Haunted Castle”
Sonata-Fantasy no.2 “Destiny”
Barcarolle
“Barrage”
10 Rhapsody-Etudes
8 Nocturnes
Celtic Suite
Concert-Valse “Talsarnau”
2 Futurist Dances
LISZT Consolation no.2 in E
Concert Etude “La Leggierezza”
Transcendental Etude no.3 “Paysage”
Transcendental Etude no.5 “Feux-Follets”
Transcendental Etude no.12 “Chasse-Neige”
Paganini-Etude no.3 “La Campanella”
Hungarian Rhapsody no.6
Mephisto-Valse no.1
“Reminiscences de Don Juan”
“Italie” from “Annees de Pelerinage” (complete)
Sonata in b
MEDTNER Sonata Reminiscenza
MOZART Fantasy in d, K.397
Fantasy in c, K.475
Sonata in a, K.310
Sonata in D, K.311
Sonata in C, K.330
Sonata in A, K.331
Sonata in c, K.457
Sonata in B-flat, K.570
PROKOFIEV Old grandmother’s tales
Sonata no.6 in A, op.82
Toccata in d, op.11
RACHMANINOV Etude-Tableau op.33 no.8
Etudes-Tableaux op.39 nos.1, 2, 3, 6
“Daisies”, op.38 no.3
“Fragments”
“Lilacs”, op.21 no.5
Prelude in c-sharp, op.3 nr.2
Prelude in d, op. posth.
Ten Preludes, op.23
Sonata no.1 in d, op.28
Sonata nr.2 in b-flat, op.36 (1931)
RAVEL “Gaspard de la nuit”
REBIKOV “Christmas-Tree”
SCHUBERT Four Improptus, op.90
Sonata in a, D.784
Sonata in B-flat, D.960
SCHUMANN Scenes from childhood, op.15
Kreisleriana, op.16
Arabesque, op.18
SCRIABIN Etude in c-sharp, op.2 no.1
Etude in g-sharp, op.8 no.9
Four preludes, op.22
Two poems, op.69
Sonata nr.10 in C major, op.70
STRAVINSKY Three Movements from “Petroushka”
ALYABIEV/LISZT Le Rossignol
BRAHMS/CZIFFRA Hungarian Dance no.5
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV/KURSANOV Concert Fantasy on "Scheherazade"
LISZT/BUSONI “La Campanella”
LISZT/BUSONI Figaro Fantasy
LISZT/HOROWITZ Danse Macabre
LISZT/HOROWITZ Hungarian Rhapsody no.15
LISZT/HOROWITZ Hungarian Rhapsody no.19
LISZT/HOROWITZ Wedding March
RACHMANINOV/RICHARDSON Vocalise
WAGNER/LISZT Isolde’s Liebestod
REPERTOIRE FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA
BACH Concerto no.1 in d, BWV 1052
Concerto no.5 in f, BWV 1056
BEETHOVEN Concerto no.1 in C, op.15
Concerto no.2 in B-flat, op.19
Concerto no.3 in c, op. 37
Concerto no.4 in G, op.58
Concerto no.5 in E-flat, op.73
BRAHMS Concerto no.1 in d, op.15
Concerto no.2 in B-flat, op.83
GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue
GRIEG Concerto in a, op.16
HAYDN Concerto in D
HOLBROOKE Concerto no.2
LISZT Concerto no.1 in E-flat
Concerto no.2 in A
MOZART Concerto no.9 in E-flat, K.271
Concerto no.20 in d, K.466
Concerto no.23 in A, K.488
PABST Concerto in E-flat
PROKOFIEV Concerto no.2 in g, op.16
Concerto no.3 in C, op. 26
RACHMANINOV Concerto no.1 in f-sharp, op.1
Concerto no.2 in c, op.18
Concerto no.3 in d, op.30
Concerto no.4 in g, op. 40
Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini, op.43
RAVEL Concerto in G
SAINT-SAENS Concerto no.5 in F, op.103
TCHAIKOVSKY Concerto no.1 in b-flat minor, op.23
Concerto no.2 in G, op.44