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In collaboration with the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestrea, we are are pleased to introduce a remarkable young talent. Georgia Lazaridou was born in Greece in a musical family. Her first formal piano education started at the age of six. She gave her debut solo recital at the age of eleven at the Athens Museum Concert Hall. Georgia has performed extensively as a soloist with orchestra, recitalist, and chamber musician.

She has participated in summer festivals, including Chetham’s International Piano Festival, Kutztown University Summer Music Festival, FIMCE Festival Internacional de Música de Cámara del Elqui in Chile, and others. Georgia Lazaridou has been praised for “showing a mastery of technical difficulties and soulful expression” (Reading Eagle.)

Georgia is honored to have been the recipient of the President’s International Piano and String Quartet at the Kutztown University of Pennsylvania and the MSM International Advisory Board scholarship awards. Georgia has been teaching since 2015, she was the teaching assistant to Dr. Maria Asteriadou at the Kutztown University Summer Music Festival in 2023 teaching piano and chamber music, and she currently teaches at The Trinity School and holds tutoring sessions for Required Piano and Keyboard Skills at the Manhattan School of Music.

Georgia received her Bachelor of Music degree from the Kutztown University of Pennsylvania under the guidance of Dr. Maria Asteriadou, her Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music, and she is now pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Manhattan School of Music studying with Dr. Joanne Polk.

Georgia will perform music by Silvestrov, Schuman, Haydn and Liszt-Schubert on Sunday October 13, 3034 3:00 PM at Christ Lutheran Church, 1245 West Hamilton Street, Allentown PA.