Greek/British pianist Nikos Stavlas is based in Amsterdam and has a busy and diverse performing and teaching career in the Netherlands, Greece, the United Kingdom, and Spain. He coaches solo and chamber musicians (Morley College, London, Grittleton Chamber Music Course, Zeeland Klassiek), performs new music both as a soloist and as a member of the Tetrachord Piano Ensemble and the Oihua Ensemble, and works with singers as the principal pianist of the Barcelona Festival of Song, focusing on Iberian and South American vocal repertoire. He also regularly performs with the London-based cabaret group Coocoolili, and accompanies the Amsterdam Gay Men’s Chorus.
Furthermore, he has appeared in solo and chamber music concerts at major venues including Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room in London, the Athens Concert Hall, the Greek National Opera, the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, as well as the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ in Amsterdam and Theater aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht. His performances have been broadcast by BBC Radio 3, Catalunya Música, the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), and NPO Klassiek. He has recorded Latin American art songs with soprano Patricia Caicedo, two albums of piano music by the Berlin-based composer Hans-Jörn Brandenburg, and the Piano Quartet, Op. 7 by Vincent d’Indy with the Haarlem Piano Quartet.
He studied piano and chamber music at the State Conservatoire of Thessaloniki and the University of Macedonia, received a scholarship for postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Music, London, and completed a PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London, with practice-based research on Mauricio Kagel’s Ludwig van.