No art can compare itself with humanity or with a true smile coming from the heart..

Yiorgos Psihoyios

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“Yiorgos’ improvisation is an incredible gift of God!
An absolute surprise to me."  Keith Jarrett

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With great pleasure we welcome this month a great man and an extraordinary artist, Yiorgos Psihoyios.

The composer, Yiorgos Psihoyios, is one of the leading pianist and accordion players with astonishing virtuosity and capability of improvisation. His compositions involve strong emotional tension with melodies that are filled with love
and poetry. His music goes beyond the limits of Jazz in order to join with the wonderful world of classical music.

We had the opportunity to attend his last two concerts and realized that while he played he seemed to transform
into an elf with his soul and body vibrating, his face almost touching the keys of the piano drawing us away in a sensational dance of emotions. Psihoyios brings out light along with the unapproachable truths of music
and is above all a true artist.

Lambros Mitropoulos

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Yiorgos Psihoyios was born in Athens in 1970 and started studying the accordion at the age of 14 at the Greek Odeon. He graduated in 1987 acquiring his Diploma with A’ Excellent unanimously.

He continued his studies at the Experimental Odeon and graduated acquiring the Diploma of the Piano Soloist
with A’ Excellent unanimously and also the First Prize and Honorable Mention of extraordinary talent.

In parallel with his piano career in the field of classical music, Yiorgos has also been occupied with Jazz Music
and Improvisation with great success as well.

He is also a piano teacher and has created and leads since 1998 the Student’s Orchestra and Chorus
of the Economic University of Athens.

Yiorgos Psihoyios has given many piano improvisation recitals in Greece and abroad that were especially
acknowledged and honored by critics and public.

The composing work of Yiorgos Psihoyios is rich and widely recognized.

• In 1993 his work “Sea of Purple” for strings and piano was performed for the first time.
• In 1994 he participated in the International Contest for young composers “Ensemble Moderne du Montreal” and received an award.
• In 1995 he wrote his first concert for violin and orchestra, “The death of Tango”, for accordion, a small groupof wind instruments and percussion, strings and classical guitar.
• In 1999 his symphonic work with the title “Medusa” was performed by the ERT modern Orchestra. With the same work he participated and was awarded a prize at the 10th Biennale of Venice (2006).
• In 1999 he composes the work “The strange love of a willow and a horse” for piano and small orchestra.
• In 2000 he composes the work “Manos for Astor” for accordion and for strings.
• In 2001 his work “Deep Blue” was recorded by the ERT modern Orchestra.
• In 2003 he composes the work “The struggle for violin” for piano and narrator and "Ecuador" for strings.
• In 2004 his work “Ecuador” for strings was recorded and also “Deep Blue Nr. 2” by the ERT modern Orchestra.
• At the end of 2006 his first CD was released with eight compositions of his own, one of P. Simon and one of J. Mercer with the title “Resurrection … a jazz sensation”.

In December 2007 his second CD with the title “Love Obsession … a jazz sensation 2” was released.

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