DIMITRIS SGOUROS: A PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT

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A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME: PHOTOS FROM DIMITRIS SGOUROS' PRIVATE COLLECTION AND OTHER CONTRIBUTORS

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Programme for the first ever concert given by Dimitris Sgouros, on 20th May 1977, aged SEVEN !!  He played two of his own original compositions as well as works by Beethoven, Kuhlau, Clementi, Mozart, Chopin, Liszt, etc.

 

     
           
Tie given by Rostropovich to Dimitris Sgouros at his 1982 Carnegie Hall debut. Gold watch was a gift from Artur Rubinstein in Geneva, two months before his death.   Dimitris Sgouros' Diplomas and Honours   Medallions, plaques, and prizes  
         
           
    Dimitris Sgouros in Utrecht      
(photo courtesy of Gustav Alink)
           
 
           
 
           
Dimitris Sgouros at the 1985 Lucerne Festival  
           
           
     
Marianthi Sgouros with His Imperial Highness Prince Mikasa (brother of Japan's Emperor Hirohito) in Tokyo 1984   Perth Airport, 1987 Australian tour   Dimitris Sgouros with Australia's Governor-General Bill Hayden in Government House, Canberra 1989  
           
     
With Chinese Cultural Consul Lou Xiaoyan in Sydney 1989   Duo recital with Salvatore Accardo   With the King and Queen of Sweden at St James's Palace, London 1995  
           
     
           
           
     
With His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent   With Joan Collins      
           
     

Dimitris Sgouros with renowned Israeli violinist Shlomo Mintz

  

Shlomo Mintz and Sgouros at the Athens Megaron Concert Hall 1998

      
           

 

     

With Mstislav Rostropovich at the Budapest Spring Festival 2001
 

Dimitris Sgouros at Carnegie Hall, April 2000

  

 

      
           

 
           

 
           

 
Solo recital in Halkidiki, Greece, 2004  
(photos courtesy of K. Giannakidis & C.O. Music Instruments)  
   
   
 
   
 
Concert poster for Carnegie Hall gala recital of June 1, 2005 to benefit  
victims of the Tsunami disaster  
   
   
 
In the limelight - Sgouros with UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Marianna V. Vardinoyannis  
   
   
 
   
 
   
 
   
 
   
 
December 2004 with Vladimir Ashkenazy and the London Philharmonia,  
performing Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto  
(Ashkenazy is a naturalised citizen of Iceland)  
 
   

The President of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson

  
requests the pleasure of the company of Mr Dimitris Sgouros
at a reception in honour of His Excellency Constantinos Stephanopoulos, President of Greece
 

   

 

  
 
Performing Liszt in Carnegie Hall  
   
   
Performing a Mozart Concerto & Beethoven Choral Fantasy in Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall (New York)  
   
     
With Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and the BBC Orchestra  
   
   
Gala concert in Zurich (Swiss TV feature)  
   
   
Concert in the Berlin Philharmonie (German TV report)  
   
   
Sgouros on NBC TV - unwinding with a game of baseball!  
   
   
With Ray Martin on Australian television (Channel 9)  
   
   
   
Performing in The Hague, Netherlands (Dutch TV program)  
   
 

 

 
Sgouros and Zubin Mehta - joint TV appearance  
  
 
 
Syros Island International Festival, Greece, August 2006  
 
           
     
           
     
Dimitris Sgouros & Mischa Maisky  
Menton-St Petersburg Orchestra/Jean-Bernard Pommier  
Concert in honour of Mstislav Rostropovich  
August 2007, Menton Festival (France)  
   
   
   
   
 
 
   
    
2008 Beijing Olympic Cultural Celebrations - Dimitris Sgouros performs Rachmaninoff 3rd Concerto  
with the Beijing Symphony Orchestra at Beijing Conservatory Hall  
   
 
           
     
           
           
     
   

 

      
           
 

     
           
   

"The Greek Myth"

      

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