Eugenia Manolides
Born in Athens, Greece, Eugenia Manolides started her first piano lessons at the age of five. In 1994, she stopped the advanced piano studies at the conservatory J.S. Bach with the Russian teacher Ala Chalapsi in order to study composition at the Juilliard school.
She studied composition and orchestration with Daron Hagen and orchestral conducting with the director of the New York Grand Opera, Vincent la Selva, continuing at the same time piano studies with the American soloist Julie Jordan.
In 1998, she began post-graduate studies with the Belge composer and conductor Robert Janssens at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels. In 2005, she completed post – graduate studies (major History of Civilization) at the Alpine Universität, Zürich.
Eugenia Manolides' Olympic Symphonic Concert was performed with great success. The audience welcomed with enthusiasm the symphonic tale "Two Cultures, One Spirit", which was inspired by the union of the two ancient civilizations, the Greek and the Chinese, through the Olympic Games.
