Pianist Dimitris Sgouros ( DHMHTRHS SGOUROS )  is one of today's most sought-after classical artists. As orchestral soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician, he has garnered an enviable reputation as a performer whose commanding virtuosity and impassioned music-making are bringing new life to the concert stage.

His musical career has taken him to many of the world's most prestigious venues: London's Royal Festival Hall, Barbican Centre; New York's Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center; Salle Pleyel de Paris; Berlin's Philharmonic Hall; Rome's Campidoglio; Vienna's Musikverein and Konzerthaus; Amsterdam's Concertgebouw; Tokyo's Suntory Hall; Athens' Odeon of Herodes Atticus; Australia's Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Concert Hall. He has collaborated with some of the world's best-known conductors and orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, London Symphony, BBC Symphony, English Chamber Orchestra, Oxford Symphony, Vienna Symphony, NHK Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, St Petersburg Philharmonic, Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Salzburger Kammerphilharmonie, National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, Dallas & Fort Worth Symphonies, Manhattan Philharmonic and American Symphony of New York, Cleveland Orchestra, Icelandic Symphony, National Orchestra of Spain, Sydney Symphony, Melbourne Symphony, Auckland Philharmonic and many others. Frequent international tours have led him to the U.S.A., Russia, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Venezuela, South Africa, and to virtually every European country.

Dimitris Sgouros is a perennial favourite of festival audiences, appearing at Newport (Rhode Island), Maryland, Lucerne, Prague Spring, Budapest Spring, Menton, Radio France. He is a frequent chamber music collaborator with some of today's most distinguished artists, including violinists Shlomo Mintz, Salvatore Accardo, Leonidas Kavakos; the cellist Mischa Maisky; and ensembles such as the Borodin Quartet, Kodaly Quartet, Sharon Quartet, Komitas Quartet, Salzburg Pro Arte Quartet, Vienna Artis Quartet, and Zagreb Soloists.

He maintains an active teaching schedule and has given seminars and masterclasses at Athens University, the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Japan, the Bilkent University of Ankara, the Southern Methodist University of Dallas, the New Conservatory in Thessaloniki, Greece, as well as the Bosville Conservatory in Switzerland. Since 1987 he has been funding the Sgouros Scholarship Award in the New Salonica Odeon.

Several events have been established in his honour, including Sgouros Festivals in cities as far apart as Ljubljana, Hamburg and Singapore. He has been honoured by the Mayor of Los Angeles (for his participation in the opening ceremony of the 1984 Olympic Games), as well as the Academy of Athens, and is a recipient of the Leonardo da Vinci Award and Melvin Jones Award, along with many other prestigious Greek and international honours.

Dimitris Sgouros has been the subject of numerous feature stories around the globe in publications such as The New York Times, Time Magazine, Reader's Digest, People Magazine, Andy Warhol's Interview, and London's Daily Mirror. He has also appeared on radio and television programs in many countries including the U.K., U.S.A., Japan, Australia, France, Germany, Slovenia, Romania, The Netherlands.

His recordings for EMI have received widespread critical acclaim and include Rachmaninoff's 3rd Piano Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic, Tchaikovsky's 1st Piano Concerto with the London Philharmonic, and two solo albums of Brahms, Schumann, and Liszt. He has also recorded Liszt's 2nd Piano Concerto with the Slovenian Philharmonic; Rachmaninoff's 2nd and 3rd Piano Concertos with the Cyprus State Orchestra to mark Steinway & Sons' 150th anniversary; two live albums in Australia with works by Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, and Liszt; and an all-Mozart album, released to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the composer's death.

Dimitris Sgouros was born in Athens on August 30th, 1969, and began his piano studies at the age of six and a half. Within eighteen months he gained a scholarship to the Athens Conservatory of Music, where he studied with the noted pianist-teacher Maria Herogiorgiou-Sigara. He gave his first piano recital in the Public Theatre of Piraeus in 1977 performing two of his own compositions, for which he also won two first prizes in the Composer's Competition in Sofia. He graduated from the Athens Conservatory in 1982 with a Professor's and Performer's Diploma, a First Prize and a Gold Medal. This was but one of several First Prizes he took at successive competitions between 1978 and 1983, among them the UNICEF Competition in Bulgaria in 1979, the competition at Ancona, Italy, in 1980, and two major competitions in Athens. These early successes established him as the pianist of choice to perform with visiting artists in Greece. In 1981 he gave his first performance outside Greece in Bologna, Italy, followed by appearances and tours in France, Switzerland, Holland and Venezuela. Sgouros began his orchestral career at the age of 11, performing a Mozart concerto with the Chamber Orchestra of Cannes under Phillip Bender. In the same year he performed in Germany with the Karlsruhe Chamber Orchestra in the palace where the seven-year-old Mozart had played.