Yorgos Sicilianos: A Life in Music - On the 20th anniversary of his passing

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We invite you to a special evening at the Royal Academy of Music in London, on Saturday 22 November 2025, 7:30 p.m.

Held under the auspices of the Embassy of Greece and the Lykion Ton Hellinidon, this unique event combines discussion and live performance.

A panel of speakers will reflect on Sicilianos’s life and work, with a special contribution from Georgios Demertzis — distinguished violinist and founder of the esteemed New Hellenic Quartet — together with a presentation of the Sicilianos Archive & Database at Sicilianos.org.

 

The programme culminates in a concert of three of Sicilianos’s string quartets:

 

String Quartet No. 1, Op. 8

String Quartet No. 2, Op. 13

String Quartet No. 3, Op. 15 (laureate of the Liège International String Quartet Competition, 1962)

Performed by Georgios Demertzis & Anastasios Mavroudis (violins), Wanshu Qiu (viola), and Özgür Kaya (cello).

Event Date: November 22, 2025 - 7:30 pm