Jannis Georgiadis

Who is Jannis Georgiadis?

Jannis Georgiadis is a Greek violinist, conductor and pedagogue of Armenian descent. He is also Concertmaster of the City of Athens Symphony Orchestra. Born to a Greek father and Greek-Armenian mother, Georgiadis was brought up in a musical family. His mother was also a violinist and so he began learning the violin at the age of four. He subsequently studied at the Athens Conservatory under violinist Tatsis Apostolidis and attended summer seminars at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. During his teenage years he represented Greece in the European Union Youth Orchestra for two consecutive years and having received scholarships from the Alexandros Onassis Foundation and the Austrian government, he continued his studies with the distinguished professor Franz Samohyl at the Vienna Academy of Music