Alexia Daphne Eleftheriadou is an award winning Greek pianist in high demand as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. Her affinity with the music of J.S Bach has won her the Royal Academy of Music’s Harriet Cohen Bach Prize, as well as the RCS Bach Prize for Harpsichord, Piano and Organ. Additionally, she was the winner of the RCS classical concerto competition, culminating in a performance and recording of Beethoven’s 3rd piano concerto with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Alexia will give her solo debut at London’s Wigmore Hall in June 2025.

Performance highlights include solo appearances at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh, the Greek National Opera recital hall in Athens as part of the GNO Piano Festival and recitals at the Thessaloniki Piano Festival. Alexia has also worked with such renowned artists as Leif Ove Andsnes, Dame Imogen Cooper, Yevgeny Sudbin, Pascal Roge, Grigory Gruzman, Steven Osborne, Piers Lane, and Roy Howat amongst others. 

Her other competition successes include top prizes at the Ramsay Calder Debussy Prize for Keyboard, the Philip Halstead Prize for Piano, the Musicians’ Company Prince’s prize, the Edinburgh Concerto Competition Festival as well as the Roma International Piano Competition in the Duo 4 Hands category with pianist William Bracken.

Collaborative playing and diverse creative projects are also an important part of Alexia’s musical identity. Regular collaborations with violist and recorder player Inis Oírr Asano saw the birth of Clio Duo, with which she enjoys an active concert schedule. Upcoming plans of the duo include a Cornwall concert tour in March 2025 in association with Roseland Music Society, concerts with Shropshire Music Trust, Gloucester Music Society and St Chads Church, Shrewsbury amongst others. Alexia has also been involved in several interdisciplinary projects at the RCS Piano Festival including a project with modern ballet dancers, string orchestra and piano, performing Hindemith’s “The Four Temperaments”, as well as a recording of Saint Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals in collaboration with ballet dancers. In 2021 Alexia performed in the world premiere of Waulking Songs, a work by Elise Haller-Shannon for 6 pianos and electronics.

Alexia is a recent graduate of the Master of Arts course at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She studied in the class of Ian Fountain and was awarded a distinction and the diploma for exceptional performance in her final recital. She also holds a Bachelor of Music from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where she studied with Jonathan Plowright, Aaron Shorr and Fali Pavri. She is a member of the Musicians’ Company Young Artists’ Programme and her studies were kindly supported by a RAM scholarship, the Munster Trust Derek Butler Award, Help Musicians, the Craxton Memorial Trust and Zetland Foundation.