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Waves from the Keys | Stavroula Thoma | Piano Recital
Nov
We’re delighted to welcome Cypriot-born, UK-based pianist Stavroula Thoma to the Commandaria Orchestra & Friends Chamber Music Series. Our community of Chamber Music Friends will recall her brilliant virtuosity, beautiful musicality, and the emotional intensity that defines her performances.
Recital Rationale
Having recently embraced the precious role of being a mother, I find myself reflecting upon the cyclical nature of life – the coming and going of people, days, and emotions.
The circular waves we see in nature mirror those of our lives: the wind blowing here and there, the sun and moon rising and setting, flowers blooming, and water flowing.
Andrea Granitzio’s “Concentric Circles in the Water” are a set of three contemporary pieces, filled with impressionistic, atmospheric colours. Liszt’s “Au Lac de Walenstadt” is a dreamy work that communicates the stillness of a lake in contrast to the earth’s troubled waters. Tchaikovsky’s “The Seasons” are twelve pieces referring to the twelve months of the year. They include life’s great events intertwined with the raw elements of nature.
Tickets now available – don’t miss out! Seats are limited.
Sunday , November 2nd, 2025, 7pm
Cyprus Wine Museum, Erimi, Kourion Municipality, Limassol
Tickets: Adults €15
🍷You can also pre-purchase your 🥂 wine and 🍇 🫚 🧀cheese platters.
This concert will be performed without an intermission and these are served and consumed only before and at the end of the concert.
Consuming in the Museum (concert) hall is prohibited. Thank you!
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Stavroula Thoma is a Cypriot pianist who has performed across Europe. She is well acknowledged for her vivid sense of communication, warmth and lyricism in her music making.
She gave her concerto debut in May 2014 with Cyprus Symphony Orchestra as part of the CYSO ‘Young Soloists First Step’ series and performed the Bach D minor Piano Concerto with conductor Roland Melia. In December 2014, she performed the Mozart D minor Concerto with Birmingham Conservatoire Repertoire Orchestra and conductor Daniele Rosina.
Stavroula has performed concerts in major concert venues and festivals such as: International Kodály Festival, Kecskemet, (Hungary), Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Musica Als Parks (Barcelona), Frontiers Festival (Birmingham), Classical Music Festival (Larnaca), Symphony Hall (Birmingham), Steinway Hall (London), The Palace of Arts (Budapest), Adrian Boult Hall (Birmingham), St James Piccadilly, Chichester Cathedral.
At the age of 11 years old, Stavroula won the second prize in the Evaggelia Tziarri International Piano competition. During her undergraduate studies at Royal Holloway University of London, Stavroula was a scholar of Georgiou and Maria Tirimou’s foundation. She was awarded the Marzorie Hulzehurst Piano award for her final Masters’ recital at Birmingham Conservatoire and was also a full Joseph Weingarten scholar at the Liszt Academy of Music in 2012-14. She was also awarded a distinction for her Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Performance from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (2016).
She has studied under the direction of: Eva Georgiou -Conservatoire of Classical Studies, James Kirby- Royal Holloway, University of London, John Twhaites and Margaret Fingerhut (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire), András Kemenes, István Gulyás – Liszt Academy of Music. She has participated in masterclasses with internationally renowned pianists such as: Fabio Bidini, Malcolm Bilson (fortepiano), Orsolya Szabo, Imre Rohmannn, Peter Donohoe, Idil Biret, Jean Efflam Bavouze, Martino Tirimo and Pascal Nemirowsky.
Stavroula published a CD entitled ‘Folk inspired piano music’ in 2016.
Composing music is one of her passions as reflected in her published work ‘Dewdrop’, (by Aktis) a fairytale by Panayiotis Thoma in which she composed the background music and songs.
The Cypriot pianist equally enjoys passing on her passion and knowledge of the piano to her numerous students based in London.