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“Varvaresos not only has a natural yet finely honed technique, it springs as one with the wide scope
of profound musicianship. Varvaresos engaged his audience with a performance that sizzled from
start to finish. ”
New York Concert Review
“What I particularly enjoy is the balance he gets between virtuosity and musicality...whatever
Varvaresos plays, it is always really beautiful”
Cyprien Katsaris, BBC Magazine
Highlights of Mr. Varvaresos’ 2025-2026 season include collaborations with the Warsaw Festival Orchestra, the Bodensee Philharmonic and the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, as well as acclaimed artists such as David Garrett, Dionysis Grammenos and Noe Inui. His upcoming recording with the London Philharmonia will feature the world premiere of “Night”, Pulitzer-winning composer Kevin Puts’ Piano Concerto. This season he alsoappears as a recitalist in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Greece and Denmark.
Previous seasons include collaborations with the Geneva Chamber Orchestra, the Dessau andBodensee Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Athens and Thessaloniki State Orchestras. He is regularly invited, among others, at the Piano a Sainte-Ursanne and Thessaloniki Piano Festivals, while he performs alongside Leonidas Kavakos in a series of concerts at the Athens Concert Hall. He is invited, among others, to the Malta Baroque Festival, the Paris Les Etoiles du Classique Festival, meanwhile performing as a recitalist and chamber musician in the Netherlands, Greece, Germany and France. Mr. Varvaresos collaborates with Christoph Essenbach and the State Orchestra of Athens, he appears at the Pietra Santa Festivals with Vadim Repin and Boris Berezovsky, the Halicarnassus, Istanbul, Athens Festivals, as well as the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, and the Nohant Chopin Festival. He collaborates alongside numerous orchestras including the St. Petersburg Chamber Orchestra, the Basel Symphony Orchestra and the G. Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2008, he represented Greece in the Athens State Orchestra tour in China for the Beijing Olympic Games Celebrations.
The love that Vassilis Varvaresos has for chamber music can be seen from his collaborations: regular partnair with Giorgos Demertzis, Noé Inui, Michel Dalberto, as well as with the Quatuor Akilone, he records with Dimitris Tiliakos, Giorgos Demertzis, Ivan Karizna, Noé Inui, Ophélie Gaillard. He was the Artistic Director of the "Up to 8" Chamber Music Festival of Thessaloniki.
A true eclectic, Vassilis Varvaresos composes music for a range of films, including new tributes to Brancusi and Julie Mehretu from the Checkerboard Film Foundation, while is collaborating with New York Times best-selling author Apostolos Doxiadis on an upcoming musical theater project.
Since winning the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York, at age 14 (the youngest pianist, until that point, to have ever having won the Auditions) he has appeared in some of the biggest halls in America and Europe – with debut recitals and orchestra collaborations in Zankel Hall of Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center in Washington, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall of New York, as well as the Tonhalle in Zurich, Salle Gaveau in Paris, and Musikverein in Vienna. The Washington Post hailed his Kennedy Center debut recital, marking him “a young master on the rise”. He has nine record deals with NAVIS Classics, BIS Records, Aparté Records and Mirare Records.
His first album, V for Valse, received rave reviews, with Le Figaro giving it five stars.