The rising star of Anna Avramidou playing her final concert with the Purcell School Symphony orchestra before moving on to the Royal Academy of Music where she will continue her training with Tessa Nicholson.
Already a seasoned performer who I heard last month in Cadogan Hall playing Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with her fellow Cypriot Marios Papadopoulos and his Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra.
No ordinary performance for an eighteen year old with this genial preparation for the Ninth Symphony, playing by heart because the music is so ingrained within her youthful being. As she demonstrated once again last night in Milton Court with a performance of the Tchaikovsky B flat minor concerto that was played with an authority that belied her anagraphical age. She imbued the music with beauty and radiance as well as technical mastery and aristocratic good taste.
I had heard Anna play in Cyprus a year ago in a masterclass with a brilliant young Italian pianist who had been invited to give a recital at the Pharos Arts Foundation by the Keyboard Trust. A masterclass the day after saw some valiant local pianists receive guidance from this young Italian star. https://christopheraxworthymusiccommentary.com/2025/02/20/giovanni-bertolazzi-at-the-pharos-arts-foundation-cyprus-power-and-poetry-combine-with-mastery/
The last to play was a young lady who when she began the ‘Appassionata’ Giovanni and I looked at each other in amazement such was the authority and intelligence of her playing of a sonata that has many traps for those that do not look closely. It reminded me of Alim Beisembayev’s masterly and intelligent performance that I had just heard at the Wigmore Hall. https://christopheraxworthymusiccommentary.com/2024/01/06/alim-beisembayev-at-the-wigmore-hall-bewitched-and-enriched-by-the-man-on-the-high-wire/
Who is your teacher I asked :’ Tessa Nicholson’ !
Enough said ………….another rising star who will enrich our lives with musical integrity and mastery for years to come !
ChristopherAxworthy-MusicCommentary 