Alexia Daphne Eleftheriadou is an award-winning Greek pianist, sought after as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. Her affinity for the music of J.S. Bach has earned her the Royal Academy of Music’s Harriet Cohen Bach Prize and the RCS Bach Prize for Harpsichord, Piano, and Organ. She also won the RCS Classical Concerto Competition, culminating in a performance and recording of Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Alexia will make 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 and recitals at the Thessaloniki Piano Festival. She has received guidance from renowned artists including Leif Ove Andsnes, Dame Imogen Cooper, Yevgeny Sudbin, Pascal Rogé, Grigory Gruzman, Steven Osborne, Piers Lane, and Roy Howat.

Her other competition successes include top prizes at the Ramsay Calder Debussy Prize for Keyboard, the Philip Halstead Prize for Piano, 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. She enjoys an active concert schedule with violist and recorder player Inis Oírr Asano as Clio Duo, which recently toured Cornwall, giving six concerts, ten school workshops, and a masterclass. Other highlights include interdisciplinary projects at the RCS Piano Festival, such as Hindemith’s The Four Temperaments for ballet dancers, string orchestra, and piano, and a recording of Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals in collaboration with ballet dancers.

Alexia is currently continuing her studies with Ian Fountain at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She holds a Master of Arts with Distinction and the DipRAM award for exceptional performance from the Royal Academy of Music, as well as a Bachelor of Music from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is a Musicians’ Company Young Artist and a Talent Unlimited artist. Alongside her performing career, she maintains a strong commitment to music education, leading workshops and creative projects in schools across the UK and serving as an Ambassador for the Benedetti Foundation.