QUINTESSENTIAL Chamber Music Concert with Stenhammar Quartet & pianist Lefki Karpodini

Lefki Karpodini | piano

Stenhammar Quartet 

Violins- Peter Olofsson & Per Öman / Viola - Tony Bauer / Cello - Mats Olofsson

Stenhammar Quartet

Formed in 2002, the Stenhammar Quartet has established itself as one of Scandinavia’s leading string quartets. A wide-ranging repertoire spans from the Classical period to contemporary works, while naturally affording the quartets of Wilhelm Stenhammar and other Swedish composers their allotted space. The Quartet regularly commissions works from Nordic composers, and has collaborated with figures such as Anders Hillborg, Sven-David Sandström, Kaija Saariaho and Bent Sørensen. In 2009 the ensemble was commended by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music for its contributions to Swedish music.

The Stenhammar Quartet has to date made some forty recordings for Swedish Radio, participated in broadcasts on Swedish television and been the subject of a documentary on the French music channel Mezzo. Its several recordings for record labels such as BIS, CPO och Alba have met with  critical acclaim from reviewers both in Sweden and internationally, earning the Quartet two  nominations for the Swedish “Grammis” Awards. 2024 saw the release of the first disc of two with quartets by the Finnish composer Kalevi Aho.

Touring extensively, the Stenhammar Quartet has performed across Europe, as well as Japan, Algeria and India, appearing at prestigious venues such as Beethoven-Haus Bonn and Tokyo Bunka Kaikan. Plans for the next couple of years include visits to Canada and Japan.  www.stenhammarquartet.com

Lefki Karpodini 

Lefki Karpodini is considered one of the leading female pianists of her generation in Greece. She has performed in most European countries, Israel, Canada, America and the Barbados islands. Highlights of her festival appearances are  Mecklenburg Vorpommern Festival, Kalamata International Music Days, Banff Festival,  Cully Classique, Heraklion Piano Festival, Pharos Trust, Aegina and others. She has collaborated with the Ensemble Modern, the Pan European Orchestra, the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra and the Athens Municipality Symphony Orchestra and has collaborated with renowned musicians in Greece and abroad, receiving excellent reviews from the press and the public. She has recorded for BBC3, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Hellenic Radio, the Deutscher Musikrat and Irida Music. She has collaborated with Greek and foreign composers and premiered works in Greece and abroad. In recent years, she has also been involved in composing mainly piano works for pedagogic purposes.. 

She graduated from the Athens Conservatory and continued her studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London (Bmus, Mmus, PGDip, PACC) and the Ensemble Modern IEMA Academy in Frankfurt. Scholarship holder of the Hellenic Republic Scholarships, among others. She has received First Prize at the ¨Filon¨ music competition and at the Schubert Competition (GSMD, London) and the „Sir Henry Richardson Award“ in London. She has given masterclasses and has been invited to teach in piano courses in France, Greece and the U.K. She is piano professor at the Moraitis Music School and the Athenaeum Conservatory. www.lefkikarpodini.com