Anna Avramidou

Anna gave her first solo piano recital at the age of nine, and a year later, she made her debut with the Cyprus Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Vienna Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. In March 2020, at the age of 12, she made her debut with the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra. Since then, she has given numerous recitals in Cyprus and abroad, and has been invited again by the CYYSO to perform in The Nutcracker, in a joined production with the Nicosia Youth Ballet at the Nicosia Municipal Theater. In 2021, she participated in the winners’ concert of the International Competition “Euplayy” at the Brunnenhof Residenz in Munich, where she won the First Prize.

Anna Avramidou received widespread international attention in November 2023 after her victory at the 6th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition for Young Pianists in Weimar, when not only did she win the First Prize in Category II, but also the Grand Prix for her outstanding performance throughout the Competition, the Liszt Prize, the Classical Sonata Prize, the EMCY Prize, and the Junior Jury Prize. Anna was the youngest finalist in her category, and the jury noted that her performance elevated the overall level of the competition. In recognition of her achievement, the High Commission of Cyprus in the United Kingdom organised a piano recital in her honour in February 2024, at the House of Cyprus in London.

In recent seasons, Anna has appeared as a soloist with the Thessaloniki State Orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1, with the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra in a collaborative concert with the Cyprus Youth Symphony Orchestra in Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, she performed at the Barletta Piano Festival in Italy, and she has given recitals in Weimar, at the Leeds International Concert Season, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the Hinchingbrooke Performing Arts Centre, the Clarendon Muse Concert Hall, and Pushkin House in London.