Giannis Giannopoulos is a Greek pianist/conductor. He received his piano diploma from the Athens Conservatoire and his Post-Graduate Diploma from the Royal Academy of Music in London, as a student of Ian Fountain and with a scholarship from the Onassis Foundation. In 2014, the Academy of Athens awarded him with the ‘Eleni T. Mykoniou prize’ (Order of Letters and fine Arts) for his career as a musician in Greece.
Giannis has performed solo and with chamber music ensembles in several festivals and series of concerts in London, Paris, Moscow, Athens, Thessaloniki, Tokyo, Fukuoka, Okinawa. As a soloist, he has performed with the State Orchestra of Athens, the State Orchestra of Thessaloniki and the Symphonic Orchestra of the Municipality of Athens.
He started his orchestral conducting studies with the famous Greek conductor Loukas Karytinos and is now doing his Master’s Degree in the Birmingham Conservatoire in Orchestral Conducting with Mos Daniele Rosina, Edwin Roxburgh and Michael Seal. He recently participated in a Master Class with Edward Gardner and the Symphonic Orchestra of Birmingham Conservatoire, and was also invited as a guest/visitor conductor in the Britten Pears Youth Orchestra, under Marin Alsop. He has been working as an assistant conductor to Mo Fraser Goulding at the Mozart’s opera Le Nozze di Figaro (March 2017) and the Gay/Britten’s Beggar’s Opera (June 2017) in the Birmingham Conservatoire. He was Mo Andreas Tselikas’s assistant conductor in The Medium by G. Menotti and Trouble in Tahiti by L. Bernstein and has had the musical direction in L’Inganno Felice by Rossini, for the Greek National Opera. He is the Principal Conductor and artistic director of the staged opera Il Pimpinone / G.F.Telemann in the Aegina Internstional festival (August 2017). During the years 2014 – 2015, he was honored to be working as Musical Director of the historic Athenian Mandolin Orchestra “Nikolaos Lavdas”.
