orchestra conductor
"Eleni Papakyriakou has the skills to advance to the first league of the female conductors in Germany!"
"a highly talented conductor, with a clear view of the music and a fine sense of style"
"clear and focused conducting, aesthetic and far from any show"
"technical sovereignty and musical sensitivity"
"thanderous applause and standing ovations"
Biography
Eleni Papakyriakou completed her studies in orchestra conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in 2015. She has performed in the Philharmonie de Paris with the Orchestre Pasdeloup and the Paris Mozart Orchestra (international competition "La Maestra Paris"), in the Great Broadcasting Hall of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, in the Aristoteles University Concert Hall with the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, in the Ballhaus Kassel with the Orchestra of the Music Academy "Louis Spohr", in the opera house of Passau/Landshut/Straubing with the Niederbayerische Philharmonie and many more. She is the chief conductor of the Passau University Orchestra (2016-2019 and since 2022) and worked at the Landestheater Niederbayern for 7 years, conducting opera performances. In 2023 Eleni Papakyriakou founded her own symphony orchestra, Sinfonietta Passau, which can already look back on four highly successful concert series. She was honoured with the Tokyo Foundation's SYLFF Leadership Initiatives Award in 2024.
Agenda
17.05.25 Passau / 24.05.25 Straubing / 31.05.25 Landshut
Hanna Blomberg: "The Importance of Time" (German premiere), C. Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No. 2 - Soloist: Lida Limmer, J. Sibelius: Symphony No. 3
Sinfonietta Passau
13.06.25 Kassel
F. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto, L. Farrenc: Symphony No. 3
Orchestra of the Music Academy of the City of Kassel "Louis Spohr"
05.-06.07.2025 Passau
F. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto - Soloist: Margarita Nastouli, A. Dvorak: Symphony No. 8
Passau University Orchestra
01.01.2026 Vilshofen
New Year´s Concert
Sinfonietta Passau
Press
The interaction with the orchestra is brilliant, also because the orchestra itself is alert, never switches off and is characterised by great unity. This is impressively demonstrated by the winds in Saint-Saëns or in Sibelius' Symphony No. 3: not only are the entries themselves homogeneous, but also the mutual decrescendo after the accent. Papakyriakou's sense of detail is exemplary here, the sum of which results in a wonderfully balanced and rounded orchestral sound.
Here [Sibelius Symphony No. 3], Eleni Papakyriakou focusses entirely on the composer's concentrated expressive will. She guides the musicians smoothly and clearly through the orchestration, energetically demands the increasing rhythmic tempo and finely works out the interplay of the changing motifs and fragments. The symphony ends exhilaratingly and hymn-like.
The Sinfonietta produced a sound that, for all its well-rehearsed precision, sounded free and invigorating. And this natural music-making characterised the evening to the complete satisfaction of the audience.
Philipp Heidepeter, Passauer Neue Presse / Dr. Edith Rabenstein Kulturblog / Kristian Kuhnle, Straubinger Tagblatt
05.2025