Nikos Stavlas is a pianist, chamber musician, musicologist and educator based in Amsterdam.

Solo

As a soloist, Nikos has a wide range of repertoire: some of his areas of expertise are the music of Beethoven, which was part of his doctoral research, Russian and Central European music of the 20th century, and Spanish and Latin American repertoire.

Chamber music - Accompaniment

Nikos plays in various ensembles: he is member of the Zalas Trio, the Vladimir & Estragon piano duo, and the contemporary music ensemble Oiseaux Bizarres. He also performs regularly with the soprano Patricia Caicedo, promoting Spanish and Latin American art song through the Barcelona Festival of Song, as well as the violinist Saya Ikenoya and the cellist Matthew Strover. He often accompanies exams and recitals at the Royal College of Music and elsewhere, as well as the Royal Opera House Thurrock Community Chorus.

Academic research

As a musicologist, Nikos has focused on the use of quotation and the incorporation of tradition in the works of Alfred Schnittke and Mauricio Kagel, the application of deconstruction in music, postmodernism, and the distinction between the roles of the composer and the performer in indeterminate music. His doctoral thesis was on Mauricio Kagel's Ludwig van, a film and musical composition on Beethoven. The composition is actually a DIY collage of the music of Beethoven, which Kagel invites the performers to undertake in their own way. In his version, extracts of which can be seen in the video below, Nikos created a collage of Beethoven's letters alongside that of his music and devised a quasi-surrealistic musical theatre performance that reflects on the myth surrounding Beethoven's figure.

Selected discography

Biography

Dates

4.7.2024

Cinema Middelburg, Festival Zeeland Klassiek
Performance with violinist Lisa Jacobs
Works by Milhaud and Respighi

30.6.2024

Jamboree, London
Performance with Coocoolili

29.6.2024

Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam
Concert with the AMSGMC
Close encounters of the queer kind

28.4.2024

Theater Vrijburcht
Concert with the Haarlem Piano Quartet.
Works by Fauré and D'Indy

7.4.2024

Podium Eibergen
Recital with violinist Enzo Kok
Works by Grieg, Brahms and Debussy

15.3.2024

Remonstrantse Kerk, Harlem
Recital with violinist Paul Anthony Madeiros
Works by Beethoven, Franck and Prokofiev

9.2.2024

Cultural conference centre of Heraklion, Crete
Concert with 8 pianists on 4 pianos
Gustav Holst's The Planets

7.2.2024

Cultural conference centre of Heraklion, Crete
Concert with the Tetrachord piano ensemble
Works for 2, 3 and 4 pianos

27.1.2024

Podium Mozaiek, Amsterdam
Concert with the AMSGMC
Snuggle up: Harmonies in hibernation

21.1.2024

Scheveningen
Recitals with cellist Wouter Mijnders
Works by Rachmaninoff, Villa-Lobos, Tchaikovsky and others

9-17.12.2023

Scheveningen
Recitals with cellist Wouter Mijnders
Works by Rachmaninoff, Villa Lobos, Tchaikovsky and others

26.11.2023

Jamboree, London
Performance with Coocoolili

19.11.2023

Huis de Pinto
Performance with Oihua ensemble
Works by Vanessa Lann, Thanasis Deligiannis

5.11.2023

November music
Performance with Oihua ensemble
Works by Wim Henderickx

16.9.2023

Festival Muza van Zuid
Performance with Oihua ensemble
Works by Wim Henderickx, Mathilde Wantenaar

26.8.2023

Festival of Crete, Chania
Performance with the Tetrachord Piano Ensemble
Works by Smetana, Rachmaninoff and others

17.6.2023

Batavierhuis and HBS, Rotterdam
Performance with Oihua ensemble
Works by Wim Henderickx, Vanessa Lann, Saskia Venegas

31.5.2023

Municipal theatre of Serres
Performance with the Tetrachord Piano Ensemble
Works by Smetana, Rachmaninoff and others

16.6.2023

Emma Cons Hall, Morley College
Performance with the Morley Chamber Orchestra
Fantasia on a theme by Handel, by Michael Tippett

28.1.2023

Megaron Concert Hall, Athens
Performance with the Tetrachord Piano Ensemble
Works by Smetana, Rosenblatt, Wilberg and others

Contact

For any enquiries please contact Nikos on nikosstavlas@gmail.com.