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Focus to be on Greece during free piano recital at Illinois

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Pianist Konstantinos Papadakis will perform music by contemporary Greek composers and works inspired by Greek themes at a free recital March 13 (Tuesday) at the University of Illinois.

Papadakis, who was born in Heraklion, Crete, has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Athens Concert Hall, Wigmore Hall in London, and the Grand Concert Hall in St. Petersburg, Russia. He is the Motoko and Gordon Deanne principal chair with Boston’s Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, and is on the faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music.

He will premiere a piece by Jorge Villavicencio Grossman, and perform works by Nikos Skalkottas, Manos Hadjidakis, Minas Borboudakis, Panagiotis Theodossiou and Robert Maggio.

The recital, sponsored by the Modern Greek studies program and endorsed by the Robert E. Brown Center for World Music, begins at 7:30 p.m. in Smith Memorial Hall, 802 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana. For more information, visit http://www.moderngreek.illinois.edu/events.

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