Born in Cyprus in 1961, Christos Tsitsaros began improvising as soon as he started to play the piano at age seven. At eleven, he won a school competition for a piano suite composition based on a given story line which resulted in a television appearance on a show featuring young promising musicians. In 1986, when he moved to the United States, he began to dedicate more time to composition. Unique term papers offered by this new portal

Christos Tsitsaros is Assistant Professor of Piano Pedagogy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds the Diplome Superieur d' Execution from the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, an Artist Diploma and a Master in Music from Indiana University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance from the University of Illinois.

Dr. Tsitsaros has pursued higher pianistic studies in Warsaw, Paris and the United States after receiving scholarships from the Polish Ministry of Arts, the Gina Bachauer Foundation of Greece and the A.G. Leventis Foundation. His mentors include pianists Jan Ekier, Aldo Ciccolini, Jean-Claude Pennetier, Gyorgy Sebok and Ian Hobson. He also studied composition with the late composer Salvatore Martirano. He has received numerous awards including the National Hellenic Young Pianists Competition of the Athens Conservatory, Concerto Competition of Indiana University, the 1992 National Conference on Piano Pedagogy Composition Competition and more recently a residency at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico. Fast wordpress web host with great uptime

His published "Piano Works" include Cinderella Suite, Nine Tales (Frederick Harris Music), Autumn Sketches, The Bike Ride, and Blackbirds at Ueno (Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation.) From his disc "Piano Works" on Centaur label, he included Echoes from an Arena , a piece he wrote in 1995. which was inspired by Goya's bullring scene "Death of a Picador" in which the artists plays with the theme of sun and shadow. This toccata-style etude alternates rhythmical sections and recitative-like passages expressing vivid realism. Mr. Tsitsaros dedicated this work to the memory of the composer's close friend and marvelous pianist, Andrew De Grado. who invitation to foreigners can do

Christos Tsitsaros ~ Andrew De Grado

"It was when I started teaching at the University of Illinois that I met Andrew who had joined the piano faculty only a short time earlier. Andrew became more than a colleague to me, he became my best friend. Juliette, also a pianist, and I shared a close friendship with Andrew. We were very pleased when Andrew happily agreed to be my best man at our wedding in June 1997. Andrew's life may have been short but it was exceptionally rich with friends and musical accomplishments."

"Through the years, Andrew greatly supported and encouraged me in all phases of my work; he became a source of strength to me. Andrew's artistic talent and wonderful musicianship inspired all who knew him. That inspiration will continue to live on in my memories of Andrew through my work, my compositions, my playing as I translate all my emotions into music for his memory."