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). As assistant conductor to George Petrou, he has participated in several award-winning recordings for MDG, Sony and Decca. He is a founding member of the early music ensembles Ex Silentio and Latinitas Nostra with whom he has recorded and mounted staged Baroque works as well as original productions based on the dialogue between the Baroque and other music genres. 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 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. 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. He has curated and presented Palimpsest, a broadcast for the Third Programme of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation.