Biography / Repertoire Professional Career Recordings Live recordings on CDs of solo piano and chamber music from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods as well as contemporary and modern music. A great number of video and audio recordings. All are live events, during the concerts. Each CD includes a complete piano recital including the encores, exactly as the audience experienced it. State Consultancy – Memberships – Arrangements Advisor of the German Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs, Advisor of the Chinese Government for Culture & Education in Southern China. Long lasting Membership by the European Piano Teachers Association (EPTA) and the German Tonkünstlerverband DTKV (German Musicians' Association). Cooperation with contemporary composers. Artistic director of multinational music projects. Chamber music: Cofounder of numerous different formations with strings, woodwinds and brass in duo, trio, quartet, quintet combinations. Numerous self made Arrangements of music from the classic literature as well as the modern music styles. Amongst others, 32 compositions of the famous Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis, which were arranged with great success for small, medium and large chamber music ensembles, performed in the biggest German cities. Educational activity Educator of piano since 1984 and of song interpretation since 1988. Concert preparation, arrangement of repertoires and interpretation for pianists, chamber musicians and singers in the various, different styles of the classical and modern music. Long lasting Leadership of the Greek Children and Adult Choir in Aachen. Many years of involvement and vast experience in the fields of ergonomics, body awareness, stage-fright, mental training, meditation, yoga, physical and mental stress reduction, physiology and time management. Sotirios Dimitriadis exercises meditation and yoga since his 22th year, daily. Media Presence - Performances He gave his first public concert at the age of 10 in Athens. Since then, vast concert activity throughout the world. Guest performances at international fairs, festivals and congresses. Concert tours, radio and television programmes, interviews, artistic portraits and articles in Europe, Asia, Far East, North and South America (for example at the German television channels West German and Bavaria Broadcast, as well as on Chinese, Greek and South American television, radio and printed media). VIP guest of honour of the government of People΄s Republic of China. Public lectures on issues such as music, medicine, philosophy, body - mind - spirit balance. Guest performances at the biggest cultural events in Asia. Special performances at: Berlin Philharmonic hall, Salzburg festival, Vienna City Hall, International Peace Conference in Munich, Munich Philharmonic hall, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Hamburg Concert hall, Stuttgart Concert hall, in honour of the former president of Poland and Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Walesa. The President of the Human Unity Conference and the World Religions Community His Holiness Param Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj, the 14th Dalai Lama, the German ambassadors in Greece (Athens Residence) and Latin America, the Greek ambassadors in Germany and Belgium, the American ambassador to Brussels. At the World Peace Congress in Delhi, for the Orthodox Archbishop of Germany and Exarch of Central Europe, the Foreign Office, the Millennium celebrations in the United States, the Hilton Towers and the Drake in Chicago, the Palacio de Communicaciones La Paz, Palacio de Simon I. Patiρo Cochabamba, Teatro Gran Mariscal Sucre, and Teatro Casa de la Cultura Santa Cruz Bolivia. The international Music Festival at Plakentia Castle in Athens, at the Ceremonial hall of the Universities in Athens and Thessaloniki, the Large concert hall of the Athens Conservatory, North Rhine Westphalia State Music Academy and Remscheid, in the Dom Forum and St. Pantaleon church in Cologne, in the Eurogress concert hall, Aachen, at the International Cultural Summer of the city of Aachen, in St. Michael's church and at the official opening celebrations of Aachen opera theatre.
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