Dionyssis Mallouhos

Dionyssis Mallouhos began piano lessons at the National Conservatory with Thaleia Bahas. He continued his studies at the Athens Conservatory, where he graduated in 1987 in the class of Georgios Arvanitakis. Supported by the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation and the P. Bakala Brothers Foundation, he studied with Márta Gulyás and István Gulyás at the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy in Budapest (1988-91).

Mallouhos has performed in major Athenian venues and numerous festivals (Pendeli, Corfu, Heraklion Crete, Volos, Kozani, Samos, Syros, Tinos, Naxos, Aegina, MusiKythnos Kythnos, Patmos, Koroni, Mani, Kyparissia, MuSifanto Sifnos, etc.), in Thessaloniki, Patras, and many other Greek cities, as well as internationally in Monte Carlo, Germany (Berlin), the USA (New York, Atlanta, Nashville, Princeton and Rutgers Universities, Indianapolis), Abuja in Nigeria, at the Bevagna Festival and the Villa Reale in Monza, Italy, France (Théâtre Côté Cour and the Church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste in Mézin), Budapest, Estergom, and other Hungarian cities, in recitals or chamber music concerts.

He has collaborated as a soloist with the State Orchestra of Athens, the Camerata-Orchestra of the Friends of Music, the Athens City Symphony Orchestra, the Thessaloniki City Symphony Orchestra, the National Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Sinfonietta Orchestra of Athens, the Athens City Chamber Orchestra, the String Orchestra of the Académie de Jeunes Solistes in Mézin (France), and the “Franz Liszt” String Orchestra of Hungary (Herodes Atticus Odeon, Athens Festival ’93). He is a founding member of the instrumental ensemble Eptaichon (2013).

His discography includes a variety of works for solo piano and chamber music, by Greek and foreign composers, for labels such as EMI, SONY, Subways Music, IRIDA Classical, and UTOPIA-Mikri Arktos.

Mallouhos collaborated for many years with Frangiski Karori-Psaharopoulou on ERT Television as a screenwriter, producer, and presenter of music television programs with an educational and informative character, focused on children and youth [“The World of Music”, International Music Competitions, “The Game of Black and White” (1984-92), “News and Notes” (1994-95)].

From April 2003 to the end of September 2021, he presented the radio show “All the Mornings of the Third”, on the morning live zone of the Third Program of ERT, and from the end of 2020 to the end of September 2021, the show “First Floor” featuring recordings of the Radio Music Ensembles.

With forty years of experience in teaching piano, he is currently a professor at the Attiko Conservatory and the Filippos Nakas Conservatory and coordinates the continuing education seminar series “Piano Without Borders”. He also gives masterclasses in Athens, Thessaloniki, Kozani, Sifnos, Naoussa, Heraklion Crete, Drama, and many other Greek cities, in collaboration with local organizations and Conservatories.

He regularly participates as a guest soloist-piano professor at the Académie de Jeunes Solistes, directed by the renowned French violinist Christophe Boulier, in Mézin (Aquitaine, France).

Source: Nakas Conservatory