Panos Karan

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Panos Karan (born 1982 [1] [2] ) is a British [3] [4] classical pianist, [5] conductor [6] and composer [7] of Greek origin. [8] He was born in Crete, [1] [9] and grew up in Athens, [2] where he graduated from the American College of Greece. [10] He studied piano at the Royal Academy of Music as a student of Sulamita Aronovsky. [11] He made his professional debut performance at the Southbank Centre at age 19. [12] [13]

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Performances

St Martin-in-the-Fields on 15 April 2004; [14]

Hermitage Theatre on 17 January 2008; [15]

Konzerthaus, Vienna on 6 May 2011; [16]

Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on 19 May 2007, [17] 9 June 2009,11 October 2011 [18] and 8 June 2018; [19] [20]

Athens Concert Hall on 14 January 2011 [21] and 26 June 2013; [22]

Tokyo Oji Hall on 16 March 2014; [23]

Queen Elizabeth Hall on 2 April 2014 [24] [3] and 1 April 2019; [25]

Teatro Nacional Sucre on 13 December 2012 [26] [27] and 29 April 2015; [28]

Blue Rose Hall at Suntory Hall on 14 March 2014, [29] 3 August 2015 [30] [31] and 23 June 2018; [32]

St John's, Smith Square in November 2008 [33] and 1 June 2015; [34] [35]

Tokyo Opera City on 20 August 2015; [36]

Symphony Hall, Boston on 3 April 2016; [37] [38]

Cadogan Hall on 11 June 2018; [39]

Suntory Hall on 6 August 2018; [40]

Sydney Opera House on 3 February 2020. [41]

Karan's composition Surupanga was premiered at St.John's, Smiths Square, London on 1 June 2015. [42]

Recordings

Karan has recorded Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3 with Toby Purser, conductor, and the Orion Symphony Orchestra. [43] [44]

In 2018 he recorded the 24 Chopin Études in live concert at London's Cadogan Hall. [45]

Awards

Karan was laureate at the 2004 "José Iturbi" International Piano Competition in Valencia, Spain. [17] [46]

Humanitarian work

In 2011, he founded charity organisation Keys of Change, [5] [47] 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. [12] [48] [49] With Κeys of Change he has completed musical projects in the Amazon, [50] [51] Sierra Leone, [52] Uganda, [53] India, [53] Serbia [54] and Japan. [47]

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. [55] In April 2014 and 2019 he performed with the Fukushima Youth Sinfoinetta at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, [56] in August 2015 at the Tokyo Opera City [56] and in April 2016 at Symphony Hall, Boston. [57]

He has helped create the Kolkata Youth Orchestra [58] and the Accra Youth Sinfonietta. [59]

Personal life

Karan has resided in London since 2000. [60]

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