"Panayiotis Demopoulos is a young Greek composer-pianist who shows himself in this sharply contrasted recital to be an exceptionally sensitive artist. In Brahms’s Intermezzi he responds with a special interior magic to the composer’s most bittersweet world. He is alive to every harmonic felicity…hauntingly poetic…so that like Wordsworth’s the Solitary Reaper one bears the music in one’s ear ‘long after it was heard no more’. Demopoulos’s Farewells show how music of severe economy can achieve a concentrated evocation..."
Gramaphone review (p. 71, vol. 84, No. 1006
…an extremely talented
...deep thinking and warm musician...admirable sense
of rhythmic energy...quintessentially sensitive…
Murray
McLachlan, concert pianist
…thoughtfully played…strong
and acute technique…considerable emotional depth…
Phil Scowcroft,
Music Web international
…a wonderful blending
of the romantic, the modern and the post-modern
to make a young man’s masterpiece… Demopoulos is
a shining light in the land of young composers…
Patrick
Gary, Music Web international
…great originality
and daring…
Adam Gorb,
Head of composition, RNCM
high intelligence…an
outstanding pianist and a very able presenter of
his own work in lectures…
Anthony
Gilbert, ex-Head of composition, RNCM
…wonderful virtuosity
at the piano… could have heard it all again…an awesome
range of tone from the keyboard in a thrilling display…
Rochdale
news
…a promising artist
with a great creative potential, a wide range of
musical interests and impressive musicality…
Nina Orotchko
Artistic Director – Ftan International Piano Festival
(Switzerland)