Dora Chatzigeorgiou

Greek violinist Dora Chatzigeorgiou is a second year postgraduate Orchestral Artistry student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London where she studies with Jacqueline Ross. At the Guildhall she has played in many prestigious concerts and projects including performances with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Hall and Milton Court, and performances as concertmaster for the Guildhall Opera Orchestra. As member of the European Union Youth Orchestra (EUYO) since 2012, Dora has toured Europe and Saudi Arabia, and has compered concerts and projects with the orchestra in her native Greece. Dora is also the leader of the Amersham based Misbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Dora graduated with a BMus (Violin) degree with Honors from the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music in the USA in June 2013 where she studied with Milan Vitek. At Oberlin she was the recipient Danenberg Chamber Music Prize, and was a member of the Oberlin Orchestra with whom she had toured Asia, she also took part in the New York Illumination tour with a final concert in Carnegie Hall and she was also the concertmaster for the Opera Orchestra. Prior to her studies in the USA, Dora graduated with the Greek National Diploma in Violin Performance from the Kodaly Conservatory of Music in Athens, winning the First Prize and Gold Medal, having studied with Georgios Demertzis. Dora has performed as a soloist with the Greek National Orchestra in the Megaron Concert Hall in Athens and the Rostov Symphony Orchestra during the 3^rd International Festival – Premieres of Rostov
(Russia December 2006)
Dora is the current scholar of the Alexander Onassis Foundation, and previously received the Achillopouleio Institution Scholarship, the Raphael Scholarship, the Oberlin Conservatory Dean’s Talent Award, the Guildhall Award and the Leverhulme Arts Scholarship.  Dora has recorded for the Greek National Radio and Television and Cleveland Radio,Ohio,USA.