Katerina Stamatelos

About the artist

Katerina Stamatelos

Painter

Bradenton
FL
United States

Statement

I have been drawing since my childhood: models in fanciful dresses, but mostly entire cities. By age nine, I knew exactly what I wanted to become in life: an architect! Then, by age fifteen, I listened to Chatchaturjan’s second symphony: my feelings were so intense that I immediately knew I HAD to become a musician! Composition never appeared into my fantasy world: I thought this was the privilege of musical “geniuses” and I did not consider myself being one.

Throughout my adolescence, several teachers of different disciplines were trying to talk me into this or the other artistic profession. All had one common demand: absolute devotion. I followed that choosing piano performance and, over the next decades, I devoted myself to this art entirely. I was happy with my decision but not ENTIRELY happy to have chosen ONE-and, secretly, continued drawing…..
The good thing about my choice: I learned to focus. This ability would prove to be priceless during my later artistic development.

But-one day-something “exploded”: I allowed myself to study Fashion Design! What followed was a complete surprise: I started composing! And writing poetry….and paint!!

Now, I finally recognize my “personal” truth: all of these talents go together; nothing works when I exclude the others. I feel free and happier than ever before….

What is the best description of me? A composer, pianist, painter, poetess, and fashion designer!

You will find all additional info in my main website:

http://www.katerinastamatelos.com

and my art gallery:

http://www.katerinastamatelosart.com

My music albums can be purchased here:

http://www.reverbnation.com/katerinastamatelos

and my scores here:

http://www.myscorestore.com/list/user/id/1356/katerina-stamatelos.html

Biography

Biography-Education
Katerina Stamatelos was born 1951 in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Piano performance education: studies with Helen Papazoglou (State Conservatory of Thessaloniki), Gelert Modos (Pireus Association), Dianko Iliew (Conservatory of Vienna), Lois Rova Ozanich (Kent State University), and Uriel Tsachor (The University of Iowa).

Composition education: studies with Michael Eckert, David Gompper, Lawrence Fritts, and Jeremy Dale Roberts (The University of Iowa).

Composition master classes attended: Theodore Antoniou, Robert Platz, and Beat Furrer (The University of Iowa).

She holds degrees from The University of Iowa (MA and PhD in composition), Kent State University (MM in piano performance), the Conservatory of Vienna (Piano Teaching Certificate), and the Pireus Association (Piano Soloist Diploma). She also holds a degree in Fashion Design (Dimitrelis School of Fashion, Thessaloniki).

Biography-Awards

Katerina Stamatelos has received the following awards:

A full tuition scholarship and assistantship for PhD studies in composition, (The University of Iowa, 2005–2006)

The Henry and Parker Pelzer Composition Award (The University of Iowa, 1999–2000)

The Rita Benton Scholarship for piano performance (The University of Iowa, 1999–2000)

The Iowa Performance Fellowship (The University of Iowa, 1996–1999)

Scholarship of the Hellenic University Club of Northeastern Ohio (1986)

Scholarship of the Blossom Festival School (Kent, Ohio, 1985)

Full tuition scholarship and assistantship (Kent Sate University, Kent, Ohio, 1985–1986)

Scholarship of The Music Friends of the City of Vienna (Vienna, Austria, 1975–1976)

Scholarship of the Pireus Association (Pireus, Greece, 1970–1971)

A Panhellenic Piano Competition Award (Pireus, 1970).

Biography-Performances

Katerina Stamatelos's compositions have been performed at the Midwestern Composers’ Symposiums of 2006, 1998, and 1997 at: The University of Iowa, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Oberlin College, in Italy, and Greece (Athens and Thessaloniki). As a pianist she has performed in Greece, Austria, Germany, the United States, and Canada. She has appeared as a soloist with all major orchestras of Greece and on National Radio and TV.

Biography-Teaching

2005-2006: Teaching Assistant. The University of Iowa School of Music.

1996-2000: Graduate Fellow. The University of Iowa School of Music.

1990-1996: Piano Professor. Music College of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.

1989-1990: Piano Professor. Synchronon Conservatory of Thessaloniki.

1988-1989: Piano Professor. Synchronon Conservatory of Thessaloniki, Makedonikon Conservatory of Thessaloniki.

1986-1987: Piano Professor. Makedonikon Conservatory of Thessaloniki.

1985-1986: Teaching Assistant. Department of music,Kent State University, Kent, Ohio.

1983-1984: Piano Professor. Neon Odeon of Thessaloniki.

1980-1982: Piano Professor. Vritsiou School of Music, Thessaloniki.

1977-1980: Piano Pofessor. Konservatorium der Stadt Wien, Vienna, Austria (Musikschule "Margareten").

Biography-Professional Memberships

Katerina Stamatelos is an elected member of Pi Kappa Lambda Society, ASCAP (American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers), and GCU (Greek Composers Union).

Influences on Katerina Stamatelos's Artistic Output

Johann Sebastian Bach, Bela Bartok, Alban Berg, Luciano Berio, Lugwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Janni Christou, George Crumb, Peter Maxwell Davis, Claude Debussy, Josquin Deprez, Leopold Godowsky, Orlando di Lasso, Gyorgy Sandor Ligeti, Ferenc Liszt, Witold Lutoslawski, Gustav Mahler, Olivier Messiaen, Modest Mussorgsky, Wofgang Amadeus Mozart, Krzysztof Penderecki, Sergey Prokofiev, Ariel Ramirez, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Alexander Scriabin, Pyotr Ilyitch Tshaikovsky, Edgard Varese, Hugo Wolf, Iannis Xenakis.

Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Calder, Paul Cezanne, Cimabue, Leonardo Da Vinci, Otto Dix, James Ensor, Paul Gauguin, Alberto Giacometti, Giotto, Friedrich Hundertwasser, Paul Klee, Gustav Klimt, Joan Miro, Amedeo Modigliani, Piet Mondrian, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, Phidias, Jackson Pollock, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Egon Schiele.

Luis Barragan, Basil Al-Bayati, Santiago Calatrava, Antonio Gaudi, Frank Gehry, Walter Gropius, Iktinos, Imhotep, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Kallikratis, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,Rudolph Steiner, Frank Lloyd Wright, Iannis Xenakis.

Archimedes, Democritus, Embedocles, Albert Einstein, Epicurus, Euclid, Werner Karl Heisenberg, Heraclitus, Pythagoras.

Aristophanes, Henri Bergson, Mihail Bulgakov, Carlos Castaneda, Agatha Christie, T.S. Eliot, Odysseas Elytis, Paul Eluard, Eurypides, Lawrence Durrell, Nicolai Gogol, Henry James, Martin Heidegger, Hermann Hesse, Nazim Hikmet, Homer, Henrik Ibsen, Nikos Kazantzakis, Vladimir Mayakowsky, Friedriech Nietzsche, Harold Pinter, Plato, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Rimbaud, Reiner Maria Rilke, Jean-Paul Sartre, Socrates, Sri Aurobindo.

Ingmar Bergman, Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein, Nikos Koundouros.

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