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Yannis Tsitselikis

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The Background

One of the most acclaimed cellists of Greece, Yannis is renowned for his intensity and forward drive of music, his capacity to produce a wide range of sounds, marked with distinctively pure and smooth qualities and tone shading. Yannis followed cello studies in Thessaloniki under the leading music pedagogue Manolis Kazambakas at the Thessaloniki State Conservatoire and received with the highest distinctions and awards his Diploma degree in 1990. The Academy of Athens has paid Yannis the highest honour for his artistic excellence, giving him the Spyros Montsenigos Award.

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Ε.Εlgar(1857-1934) concerto for cello and orchestra | Athens Concert Hall, 25 Nov. 2016 - Athens, Gr.| Yannis Tsitselikis: cello, with the State Orchestra of Athens |
C.S.Saens (1835-1921) The Swan
G.Faure (1845-1924) Apres un reve
D.Popper(1843-1913) Hungarian Rapsody
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Vocalise (14 Romances, Op.34, 14)| Athens Concert Hall, Tuesday 14 March 2017 - Athens, Greece| Yannis Tsitselikis: cello, Ai Motohashi: Piano |
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Cello Sonata in G minor Op.19| Athens Concert Hall, Tuesday 14 March 2017 - Athens, Greece| Yannis Tsitselikis: cello, Ai Motohashi: Piano |
Dmitri Shostakovich, Cello Sonata in D minor, Op 40 | Athens Concert Hall, Tuesday 14 Mar. 2017 - Athens, Gr.| Yannis Tsitselikis: cello, Ai Motohashi: Piano |
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J.Brahms (1833-1897) concerto for violin cello and orchestra | Athens Concert Hall, 21 Oct. 2006 - Athens, Gr.| Yannis Tsitselikis: cello, C.Galileas: violin, with the State Orchestra of Athens |
César Franck - Sonata, mov. 1 & 2 | Parnassos Concert Hall Wednesday 26 Oct. 2011 Athens, Gr.| Yannis Tsitselikis: cello, Maria Asteriadou: piano |
César Franck - Sonata, mov. 3 & 4 | Parnassos Concert Hall Wednesday 26 Oct. 2011 Athens, Gr.| Yannis Tsitselikis: cello, Maria Asteriadou: piano |
Frédéric Chopin - Introduction et Polognaise brillante, op.3 | Parnassos Concert Hall Wednesday 26 Oct. 2011 Athens, Gr.| Yannis Tsitselikis: cello, Maria Asteriadou: piano |
Frédéric Chopin - Cello Sonata, op.65 - Largo | Parnassos Concert Hall Wednesday 26 Oct. 2011 Athens, Gr.| Yannis Tsitselikis: cello, Maria Asteriadou: piano |
César Franck - Sonata, mov. 1 & 2 | cello Recital at Mykonos Festival, Jun. 2011| Yannis Tsitselikis: cello, Dimitris Sgouros: piano |
César Franck - Sonata, mov. 3 & 4 | cello Recital at Mykonos Festival, Jun. 2011| Yannis Tsitselikis: cello, Dimitris Sgouros: piano |
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Reviews

What people say

Yannis Tsitselikis with Janos Starker in
Bloomington 1997

Mstislav Rostropovitch in Athens 1990

"Yannis Tsitselikis is a cellist and musician of the highest order. He is a very effective performer with a pleasant personality. He is going to be an important contributive member of the musical community."

Janos Starker
"… soloist Yannis Tsitselikis, a musician belonging also to the State Orchestra of Athens. He seemed sure of himself, he had worked in detail and with a great sensitivity every separate unit of the work. He particularly..." Read more
Nikos Α. DontasKathimerini, 21 Nov. 2004
“… his structural balance, coherence, suppleness, his extreme tone precision and warmth that resounds in all the dynamic stages, and the bow that never, even for a moment,..."Read more
Liana Roussianou-PiperakiEstia, 9 Jan. 2004
“… absolute master of his instrument, perfectly trained with a flawless tone and a powerful sound, the cello artist from Thessaloniki, created a precise interpretation with uninterrupted high levels of energy. His personal..." Read more
Yannis SvolosΕleftherotypia, 4 Jun. 2003
"The cellist Tsitselikis belongs to those few musicians, who, with their performance abilities and other skills, enlarge the aureole of the beauty of music, making other people live relaxed through pleasure. This is an absolutely rare gift. Everybody knows how long..."Read more
M. OgnjanovicPolitika (Belgrade), 1999
“…The young, technically excellent cello player, possesses those elements that transform a conscientious performer into an inspired interpreter-poet, namely: the beautiful, palpitating sound,..."Read more
Lili DrakouΕleftheros Typos, 14 Nov 1995
“… with this performance the young solo player in the Haydn concerto charmed the public both by his total dexterity expressed by a steady bowing, producing a sound saturated with emotion and with the “sureness”… "Read more
Liana Roussianou-PiperakiEstia, 16 Sep. 1995
“Yannis Tsitselikis captures the audience with the maturity of his musical thought directly expressed in his performance. And he seems to have an infallible sense of the line in the building of the musical work..."Read more
Aleka SymeonidouKathimerini, 26 Aug. 1989
“Young Yannis Tsitselikis convinced us not only of his precociousness in terms of his expression and of his extreme sensitivity but also of his excellent education,..."Read more
Liana Roussianou-PiperakiEstia, 14 Jun 1987
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Valery Gergiev, St. Petersburg 2003

Zubin Mehta, Bombay 2006

With Odessa Philharmonic Thessaloniki Concert hall 2007

Repertoire

“For cello & orchestra”

Carl Philippe Emmanuel Bach

Concerto for cello and string orcherstra no. 3 in A major

Luigi Boccherini. Arrangement: F.Grützmacher

Concerto for cello and orcherstra, no. 1, in B flat major

Max Bruch

Kol Nidrei. For cello and orcherstra.

Gabriel Fauré

Elégie. For cello and orcherstra op.24

Εdouard Lalo

Concerto for cello and orcherstra in d minor.

David Popper

Hungarian Rhapsody. For cello and orcherstra.

Robert Schumann

Concerto for cello and orcherstra in a minor op.129

Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky

Pezzo Capricioso. For cello and orcherstra op.62

Rococo Variations. For cello and orcherstra op.33

L. V. Beethoven

Τripelconcerto for piano, violin and cello in C major op.56

Johannes Brahms

Double Concerto. For violin, cello and orcherstra op.102

Antonin Dvorak

Concerto for cello and orcherstra in b minor op.104

Joseph Haydn

Concerto for cello and orcherstra in C major no.1

Concerto for cello and orcherstra in D major no.2

Darius Milhaud

Concerto for cello and orcherstra no.1

Camille Saint-Saëns

Concerto for cello and orcherstra no.1 op.33

Dimitri Shostakovitch

Concerto for cello and orcherstra no.1 op.107

Philippe Entremont, Athens festival 2004

With the cellists of Maggio Musicale FiorentinoFlorence 2006

Philippe Entremont, Athens festival 2004

With the cellists of Maggio Musicale FiorentinoFlorence 2006

Gala concert Onassis Foundation, Athens

Adrian Symphony Orchestra 2011

Gala concert Onassis Foundation, Athens

Adrian Symphony Orchestra 2011

Contact

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Email: yannis.cello@gmail.com
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