Antigoni Goni,
Acclaimed by the New York Times as "An eloquent player with a graceful touch and a rich sound" Antigoni Goni is "Undoubtedly one of today's most compelling talents." Guitar Review
The Greek guitarist, Antigoni Goni enjoys a truly international career, performing extensively in Europe, Russia, the Americas, and the Far East, both as a recitalist and soloist.
In 1995, to an already long list of international competition prizes she added the first prize of the Guitar Foundation of… Show more Americas (GFA), thus becoming the first and only Greek guitarist to ever conquer it.
She regularly performs in major concert halls such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Covent Garden and the Wigmore Hall in London, Gasteig Hall in Munich, the Megaron and the Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Acropolis (Athens) as well as the Philharmonic and the Cappella Sale in St. Petersburg and the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, or, in the US, the Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and the Juilliard Theater in New York City, Spivey Hall in Atlanta, Benaroya Hall in Seattle and Herbst Theatre in San Francisco.
A former student of great masters such as Evangelos Assimakopoulos, Julian Bream, Oscar Ghiglia, Sharon Isbin and John Mills, she regularly brings her internationally acclaimed expertise to universities and academies around the world, and she is a regular jury member to prestigious international competitions.
A NAXOS and KOCH recording artist, her highly successful recordings have been praised for being "expressively poetic and technically exciting" and have been received with great enthusiasm by the international musical community. At least a dozen of the pieces she has recorded, have been included in Enrique Robichaud's classical guitar Cd guide: Guitar's TOP 100. Best.
Composers such as Augusta Read Thomas, Sergio Assad, Stanley Silverman, Ernesto Cordero, Tulio Peramo, Calliope Tsoupaki, John Magnussen, Atanas Ourkouzounov, and Dusan Borgdanovic composed and dedicated works to her.
Founder and Chair of the Guitar Department, Pre-College Division, at the Juilliard School of Music, (1995-2005), from 1999 until 2005 she also taught as an adjunct professor at the Columbia University. Between 2000 and 2005 she was Artist in Residence with San Francisco Performances. For her International achievements, the Royal Academy of Music in London awarded her with the honorary position of Associate Professor (ARAM).
Since 2004, she is the Professor of Guitar at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Brussels and since 2007 she is the founder and artistic director of "the Volterra Project, Summer Guitar Institute", a workshop bringing together, every summer, international students and professionals of the highest caliber for 10 days of intense study and inspired performances.
Antigoni Goni is currently leaving in Brussels, Belgium, with her husband and two daughters.
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