Born in Volos, Greece pianist Maria Pikoula has been an active soloist with performances in New York City, Boston, Chicago, Washington DC, Toronto, Moscow, Greece and Cyprus. Recently, Maria gave her official New York debut recital at Carnegie Hall. She has been honored as a featured artist at the Hellenic Consulate in New York in addition to giving a special performance for Greece’s Ambassador to the U.S.
Her many honors and awards include First Prize and Gold Medal at the HON Hellenic National Competition, the GWUC National Music Competition in Chicago, and the Hellenic American Women’s Music Awards. At age seventeen, she graduated from the Volos Municipal Conservatory with First Prize in Performance and the Highest Special Honors. She is also a Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation Award Winner.
Maria Pikoula received her Master’s Degree in Piano Performance from the Manhattan School of Music in New York and her Bachelor’s Degree in Piano Performance from the University of Toronto. Her past teachers have included Arkady Aronov, Boris Lysenko and Dino Mastroyannis. She has also studied at the Glenn Gould School of Music and has attended various summer festivals including the Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory International Summer School. Maria is currently pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree under Anthony di Bonaventura at Boston University.
Thank yo for accepting my friend request. I enjoyed sampling your wide array of repertoire. What great technique and beautiful expressiveness. Good luck in your studies!
Hi Maria, Amazing playing. I have to admit that Christos is right. You have matured so much over the years. Keep up the great work you sound AMAZING! Maybe I'll see you in NYC. I have to go there to work on Tan Dun's Water Concerto which I'm playing with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra in May of '08. 'best... BEV JOHNSTON
I am astonished at the maturity that your playing has acquired during the past few years. I am delighted to have been able to meet you during the formative years of what I am sure will be a brilliant career in music. Bravo! You make Volos and Greece very proud.
Thanks for connecting and charming us with your Mozart etc interpretations. I wish you all the best with your concerts coming up and look forward to hearing you play live one day. Kalinixta!...Bushra
My heartfelt thanks for your very kind comment and for accepting my friend request. I think you are ferociously talented and admire your playing enormously – it has delicacy, intelligence, wit and life in every phrase!
Have a wonderful summer, and best wishes with your career,
