Nikita Koshkin: Ragtime (Cambridge Suite) - Evangelos & Liza guitar duo

The superb concerts of Evangelos Assimakopoulos and his wife Liza Zoe in Europe, United States and Canada, have made them one of the most highly regarded duo guitarists in the world today.
Not only have the two Greek musicians been acclaimed by many newspapers of repute, including the New York times, Daily Telegraph, Paris Matin, Chicago Sun and Los Angeles Times, but they also earned the esteem of the great Andrés Segovia himself, who wrote of them: "Since Fate cruelly deprived us of Presti-Lagoya, I no longer had the pleasure of listening to any similar duo. But lately, when the talented Greek guitarists Evangelos and Liza played for me, I felt complete satisfaction and enjoyment. I cordially wish Evangelos and Liza to conquer the high esteem of the public as they have conquered mine!"
They both began their studies of the guitar in 1953 at the National Conservatory of Athens under Dimitris Fampas. After receiving first prizes "with excellence" upon graduating, they shared the first two prizes in the International Competition in Naples, Italy. For four consecutive periods they were awarded scholarships to study with the Presti-Lagoya duo in France and with Andrés Segovia in Spain. Shortly after, they became professors at the National Conservatory in Athens.
Since their arrival on the international scene in 1967, Evangelos and Liza have carried out extensive tours all over the world and given hundreds of recitals at some of the most famous concert halls, including Carnegie Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Conzertgebauw, Wigmore Hall, La Theatre de la Ville and Lincoln Center. They have also performed for many radio and television stations (the BBC, Paris RTVF, Brussels, Madrid, Cologne, Berlin etc.) and taken part in major festivals in, among other places, New York, Boston, Antwerp, Rome, Amsterdam and Mexico. They usually appear as duo soloists with well known symphony orchestras such as those of Montreal, Michigan, Cincinnati and Birmingham, as well as teaching seminars and holding Master-classes at universities and academies overseas including The Juilliard School, The Royal Academy of Music, The Royal College of Music, UCLA, Stony Brook University and Mannes College of Music.
Both Greek and foreign composers have written pieces especially for Evangelos and Liza (T. Antoniou, D. Dragatakis, M. Grigoriou, J. Morel, P. Koukos, V. Tenidis, N. Mamangakis, J. Duarte, N. Mavroudis, G. Miliaressis, J. Papadatos, M. Castelnuovo-Tedesco, D. Sykias, N. Tatsis, M. Travlos, F. Hand, G. Kouroupos, Y. Ioannidis, A. Kalogeras, M. Ekonomou, K. Grigoreas, K. Tzortzinakis, D. Fampas, J. Haliassas, P. Jouvin; at the same time the two musicians have enriched a rather meager guitar duo repertoire with transcriptions and arrangements for their own (J. S. Bach, G. F. Handel, F. Couperin, I.Albéniz, E. Granados, M. de Falla, P.A. Soler, J. Dowland, J. P. Rameau, P. I. Tchaikovsky, F. Schubert, A. Vivaldi, D. Scarlatti, M. Corelli, F. Chopin, etc).
They have produced several records (Philips, EMI Classics, Legend Classics) and CDs of works for one or two guitars that are available everywhere.
The breath of their repertoire, their technical skill and rich interpretations, have earned an enthusiastic reception wherever they have performed, resulting to their wholehearted acceptance by the public as one of the "most exciting husband-and-wife virtuoso duos of today's musicdom."

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• RAGTIME KOSHKIN

[nkoshkin]

Dear Evangelos and Liza! Thank You very much for such a nice performance of my piece! I was really pleased! And I was so happy to see you both on the screen. I miss a lot Greece, Athens and Your wonderful company!

[nonexponential]

It might be inappropriate for an amateur to

comment in the presence of such great artists

as the Evangelos and Liza duet and Mr. Koshkin

but I simply wanted to say thanks for the

wonderful music.

[poupee58]

Nice music and very well played.

[jojoke81]

BEAUTIFUL PIECE  MUY RELAJANTE!!!

[SanJosedeFlores]

Beatifull piece, congratulations, Juan Aragón Luna

[nkoshkin]

Thank You very much. You are welcome to watch some other videos of mine on my channel.

[bonniedrasco]

Dear mister Koshkin. I thought it was a joke but I really think it is you. Anyway, form me the Usher Waltz is one of the greatest guitar composition I know. I always wondered who someone could put so much tention, melody and technique in one piece. You're a great inspiration! You made me start writing myself.

[skatastolako]

Sorry, pure misunderstanding. I am big fan of you and your music dear Maestro. What i actually meant was that this music cannot be real, it is like something extraordinary, something that lives only in imagination. Don't know if i still made it clear...

[nkoshkin]

Sorry, but I didn't get what is not real. The music or myself?

[skatastolako]

not even real koshkin....

[tassadar28]

muy bueno!!!