Panos Karan

Panos Karan (born 1982[1][2]) is a British[3][4] classical pianist[5] and composer[6] of Greek origin.[7] He was born in Crete,[1][8] and grew up in Athens.[2] He studied piano at the Royal Academy of Music as a student of Sulamita Aronovsky.[9] He made his professional debut performance at the Southbank Centre at age 19.[10][11]

Performances

St Martin-in-the-Fields on 15 April 2004;[12]

Hermitage Theatre on 17 January 2008;[13]

Konzerthaus, Vienna on 6 May 2011;[14]

Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on 19 May 2007,[15] 9 June 2009 and 11 October 2011;[16]

Athens Concert Hall on 14 January 2011[17] and 26 June 2013;[18]

Tokyo Oji Hall on 16 March 2014;[19]

Queen Elizabeth Hall on 2 April 2014;[20][3]

Teatro Nacional Sucre on 13 December 2012[21][22] and 29 April 2015;[23]

Blue Rose Hall at Suntory Hall on 14 March 2014[24] and 3 August 2015;[25][26]

St John's, Smith Square on November 2008[27] and 1 June 2015;[28][29]

Tokyo Opera City on 20 August 2015;[30]

Symphony Hall, Boston on 3 April 2016.[31][32]

Karan's composition Surupanga was premiered at St.John's, Smiths Square, London on 1 June 2015.[33]

Recordings

Karan has recorded Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3 with Toby Purser, conductor, and the Orion Symphony Orchestra.[34][35]

Awards

Karan was laureate at the 2004 "José Iturbi" International Piano Competition in Valencia, Spain.[15][36]

Humanitarian work

In 2011, he founded charity organisation Keys of Change,[5][37] with the motto "Can music change the world? We believe it can", an organisation aiming to use music as a tool to improve to improve and empower the lives of young people around the world.[10][38][39] With Κeys of Change he has completed musical projects in the Amazon,[40][41] Sierra Leone,[42] Uganda,[43] India,[43] Serbia[44] and Japan.[37]

In 2012, with the support of Keys of Change, he founded the Fukushima Youth Sinfoinetta, an orchestra made up of young musicians that came together in the wake of the 2011 disaster.[45] In April 2014 he performed with the Fukushima Youth Sinfoinetta at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London,[46] in August 2015 at the Tokyo Opera City[46] and in April 2016 at Symphony Hall, Boston.[47]

Personal life

Karan has resided in London since 2000.[48]

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