Maria Stratigou

Dr Maria Stratigou studied at the Conservatory of Athens, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the Royal Northern College of Music, where she completed her PhD Performance Aspects of Louise Farrenc’s Piano Études, being a scholar of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit foundation, the North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership and the RNCM. In 2024 she was awarded the ‘Gina Bachauer-N. Dumba Discography Award 2024’ (awarded by the Gina Bachauer International Music Association) for her recordings of Louise Farrenc’s Complete Piano Works, released under Grand Piano Records, and in 2018 she was awarded the First Student Prize for her paper and presentation Performing Louise Farrenc’s Piano Études at the Into the Unknown conference at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Stratigou is the recipient of numerous prestigious piano awards, including the Eleni Tim. Mykoniou Prize for Piano (Academy of Athens, 2013) and First Prizes at the Jock Holden Memorial Mozart Piano Prize Competition at the RCS (2008) and various Panhellenic piano competitions.

L.v. Beethoven: 32 Variations in C minor
L. Farrenc: Air Russe Varié Op. 17
S. Bortkiewicz: Esquisses de Crimée, Op. 8 No. 3, Walks in Alupka
I. Oriental Idyll – Allegretto in E minor
II. Chaos – Allegro molto tempestoso in C minor
N. Medtner: From the Second Cycle of Forgotten Melodies, Op. 39, No. 5, Sonata Tragica