Markellos Chryssicos

He studied harpsichord with Margarita Dalmati at the Vignanelli School of Athens, from which he received his diploma with distinctions and first prize. He continued his studies in Paris with Salvo Romeo and Olivier Baumont, at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg with Kenneth Gilbert and Siegbert Rampe and completed his studies at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève with Christiane Jaccottet (Prix de virtuosité avec distinction) of which he was the last student. He has participated in several award-winning recordings for MDG, Decca and Sony. He is a founding member of the early music ensemble Latinitas Nostra, with whom he has performed and mounted staged Baroque works (Athens Epidaurus Festival, Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall, Greek National Opera Alternative Stage) as well as original productions based on the dialogue between the Baroque and other music genres (Byzantine, Ottoman, electronic, etc). He has conducted the Venice Baroque Orchestra in a double CD recording based on Metastasio’s libretto L’Olimpiade (Naïve), which was awarded the international Choc Musique. He regularly conducts the Camerata – Armonia Atenea and has collaborated with the Athens State Orchestra and the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra as well as with such music ensembles as the Irish Baroque Orchestra, Bach Consort Wien, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Musica Viva Chamber Orchestra, Musikkolegium Winthertur, etc. He has been invited to the Kammeroper Wien for three consecutive years. He has conducted at the Theater an der Wien, Wigmore Hall, Bayreuth Opera and Handel Festival in Halle, Tchaikovsky Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, etc. He has curated and presented Palimpsest, a radio programme for the Third Programme of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Greek National Opera.