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

12-13.7.2025

Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam
Concert with the AMSGMC
Welcome to the Family

26.6.25

Theater de Liefde, Haarlem
Concert with the Haarlem Piano Quartet
Works by Gabriel Fauré

1.6.25

Greek National Opera
Performance of Trevor Grahl's opera

30.3.25

Scheveningen
Concerts with cellist Wouter Mijnders
Works by Rachmaninoff, Scriabin and Shostakovich

24.3.25

Kunst in de Kamer
Concert with violinist Enzo Kok
Works by Ysaÿe, Franck, Pärt

23.3.25

Podium Palisium, Eerbeek
Concert with violinist Enzo Kok and cellist Eline Hensels
Works by Franck, Schumann, Debussy and others

1.2.25

Podium Mozaiek
Concerts with the Amsterdam Gay Mens' Chorus Design of a Decade

11-26.1.2025

Scheveningen
Concerts with cellist Wouter Mijnders
Works by Rachmaninoff, Scriabin and Shostakovichs

14-22.12.2024

Scheveningen
Concerts with cellist Wouter Mijnders
Works by Russian composers

2-3.11.2024

Red Jasper, Athens
Performance with Coocoolili

27.9.2024

Willem de Zwijgerkerk, Amsterdam
Concert with violinist Paul Madeiros French chamber music works

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

Contact

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