About
Appointed Assistant Conductor 2022/23 of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and having won the Orchestra's Prize award of the 16th Mitropoulos Conducting Competition with an invitation to debut with Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, Konstantinos has been excelling in symphonic, operatic and contemporary repertoire.
He was selected Fellow Conductor at Lucerne Festival 2022 which included a Masterclass with Thomas Adès and Jonathan Stockhammer.
He competed in important conducting competitions such as the 17th Donatella Flick Conducting Competition where he conducted the London Symphony Orchestra and as Semi Finalist of the Siemens Hallé International Conducting Competition 2023.
In 2024 he won 1st place at the Athens State Symphony Orchestra's audition for Guest Conducting over next seasons.
During season 2023/24 he was regularly enganged in his home country conducting a number of productions which, among others, included Rossini's opera La Cenerentola, Delibes' ballet Coppelia and Shchedrin's Carmen and he returned to the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.
This season he debuts with the Athens State Symphony Orchestra, the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra and the Greek Radio Symphony Orchestra while he'll be returning to Ergon Ensemble, the Olympia Theater and the Greek National Opera.
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Symphony no. 2
Hebrides Overture
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Lucerne Festival Academy
International Ensemble Modern Academy
#Review on Fidelio's performance at Olympia Theater by Nikos A. Dontas at Sunday's Kathimerini newspaper.
[...] First positive surprise was Konstantinos Terzakis. The young conductor secured the dramatic flow and intensity of the opera, gave space and uplift at the amazing quartet of first act, balanced very well the light character of the music and the buffa characters of the opera, Rocco, Marzelline and Jaquino, with intense dramatic moments of Leonora, Florestan and Pizarro, he gave vision at the chorus of prisoners.
He's accredited significant part of the success of the production. [...]
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'[...] with his very professional work, attentive to all the details of the music score and the performers on stage offering a reading of great intensity and care in Rossinian style. [...] a perfectely put together sextet, with devilish rhythm and careful nuances in the most delicate passages. [...]' La Cenerentola at Olympia Theater (14th April 2024)
Concerts
Diese Vielfalt der Stimmen prägt auch das Composer Seminar, das er 2016 ins Leben gerufen hat und deren Ergebnisse 2022 zusammen mit Dieter Ammann vorstellt.
Minzuo Lu: Vuca (Dirigent: Konstantios Terzakis)
Wildy Quillin: Construction documents (Dirigentin: Chloé Dufresne)
Raimonda Ži?kait?: Whoa-Wah-Wow (Dirigentin: Hankyeol Yoon)
Zhenjan Li: Hashigakari (Dirigent: Martin Rajna)
Aregnaz Martirosyan: 501-2 (Dirigent: Martin Rajna)
Internationales Ensemble der Modern Academy
Teilnehmer:innen der Conducting Fellowship
Konzert vom 3. September 2022, KKL Luzern (Lucerne Festival)
Das Konzert steht unbegrenzt zum Nachhören zur Verfügung.
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Assistant Conductor of Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla.
Assistant Conductor of Ryan Wigglesworth on the Dream of Gerontius, Elgar.
in collaboration with the University of Birmingham
Premiering and recording 16 new pieces of final year composition students of the University of Birmingham over two days
Tango music concert with guest artist quintet Tangarto
*Debut*
Assisting Mike Seal with CBSO Youth Orchestra on Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony no. 3
Workshop performance of PhD candidate Tom W Green on his once act contemporary chamber opera The Shadow Queen
Opera
LA CENERENTOLA
Gioachino Rossini
The highly successful production of the National Opera of Greece (2013/14) is being revived at the Olympia for four performances, featuring an exceptional cast of performers. Rossini composes an ingenious comic opera full of humor and twists. The plot is based on Charles Perrault's “Cinderella”, but Jacopo Ferretti's libretto adapts the story to the time when the opera was written. Rodula Gaitanou stages the action in the microcosm of an off-Broadway theatre in New York City in the 1930s, during the period of the Great Depression and the economic crash. Thus, the story is modernized to highlight social and moral reflections in a time and place that resonate more with today's audience's references.
in collaboration with the University of Birmingham
Premiering and recording 16 new pieces of final year composition students of the University of Birmingham over two days
Olympia Theater, Athens (GR)
L. v. Beethoven opera in two acts ''Fidelio'' with the Greek Radio Symphony Orchestra
Cast
Leonora: Mary Ellen Nesi
Florestan: Dimitris Paksoglou
Rocco: Petros Magoulas
Don Pizarro: Dimitris Tiliakos
Marzelline: Marilena Striftobola
Jacuino: Nikolas Maraziotis
Don Fernando: Giannis Selitsaniotis
Debut concert after winning the orchestra's Award at the 16th Mitropoulos International Conducting Competitionin May 2024
Programme
Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377), Kyrie-Christe-Kyrie (Messe de Notre Dame) - 3'10''
G.P da Palestrina (1525-1594), Sicut cervus - 3'15''
Purcell: Fantasias (n. VII) για 4 viola da gamba (string orchestra)
Koumendakis: The Pedal Tone for a Middle-Aged Man Concerto no.4 for piano, saxophone quartet and string orchestra
Φραγκίσκος Λεονταρίτης, Kyrie και Hosanna (Sanctus) από τη Λειτουργία για 8 φωνές Super Laetatus Sum - 3'
Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674), απόσπασμα από το Credo (Crucifixus, Et resurrexit, Et in spiritum Sanctum), από τη Λειτουργία για 8 φωνές - 3'30''
Purcell: Fantasias (n. IX) για 4 viola da gamba (string orchestra)
Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony, op. 110a
Re invitation of the Radio Symphony Orchestra after successful performance of Beethoven's Fidelio, to conduct at the Athens Megaron Concert Hall with soloist Ilya Shmukler.
Franz Berwald – Estrella de Soria
Edvard Grieg – Klavierkonzert a-moll
Jean Sibelius – Symphony no. 2 D-dur
Concert in the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus
Konstantinos Terzakis, one of our most active and popular young Greek conductors, has already distinguished himself in demanding international competitions and appeared on the podium of important European orchestras. For this, his Athens State Orchestra debut, he will be conducting Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony, a piece which starkly captures Scotland's grey, melancholy and often wild landscape and the range of emotions it gives rise to. We look forward with especial interest to the performance of the outstanding trumpet soloist Dimitris Gogas in the Divertimento by Charalambos Kanas, one of the finest Greek composers of our era, whose music combines the cerebral with the emotional in a clear and consistent way.
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Workshop with Uni of Birmingham conducting a recording session with 6 premieres of pieces for 11 instrument ensemble.
CBSO Centre _ Birmingham
