NATALIE TSALDARAKIS is a Greek concert pianist, member of the Ivory Duo Piano Ensemble, Convivium Label Artist, and artistic co-director of the PianoPlus International Recital Series in south London. She is an elected member of the American National Music Honor Society Pi Kappa Lambda, in recognition of excellence at the conclusion of her M.M. studies in piano performance studies (high distinction; WCUPA, US, 1994) and was also selected competitor at international piano competitions such as Gina Bachauer and Vienna Beethoven. Besides winning several awards at competitions in Greece and the US, and being supported by an array of scholarships during her undergraduate studies, Natalie is a doctoral researcher at City, University of London. Her thesis focuses on British pianism and the influence of European pianistic traditions in Britain in the early 20th c., which involved interviewing several well-known pianists, including Martino Tirimo, Philip Fowke, Martin Roscoe, Deniz Gelenbe, Karl Lutchmayer. She is also a graduate of Royal Holloway (MMus, 2007), where her teachers included musicologists such as J. P. E. Harper-Scott, Nicholas Cook, and John Rink. In 2017, her recording with the Ivory Duo Piano Ensemble of Helen Hagan’s Piano Concerto, which survives in manuscript in its two-piano version only, was used in Yale University’s documentary Yale Goes to War: Helen Hagan. This subsequently earned her and the ensemble an entry in the American Piano Concerto Compendium by W. Phemister (2018). Natalie is a published author (Classical Music in a Changing World, edited by L. Kramer and A. Nones, Vernon Press 2021) and was for a number of years trustee of the Cornelius Cardew Concerts Trust. Formerly artist teacher in residence at the American College of Greece for a decade, and on the teaching staff of the National Conservatoire in Athens, Greece, she relocated to London, UK in 2005. Since then, she has concertised extensively in the UK and abroad in venues such as Athens Concert Hall (Greece), Glasgow City Halls, Sibelius Academy, Southbank, Steinway Hall, Fairfield Halls, St John’s Smith Square, St-Martin-in-the-Fields, St-James-Piccadilly. while broadcasts include BBC Radio 3, Scala Radio, WQXR (NY, US), Hellenic Radio (ERA-1, ERA-2, ERA-3), and an array of further radio broadcasts throughout North America and UK. Official website: http://www.ivoryduopiano.com
