page_title: Nikos Athineos
section_title: Career
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context_page_description: Nikos Athineos is a Greek conductor, composer and pianist with a long career as conductor in significant theaters and orchestras of Germany, first Artistic Director of Thessaloniki Concert Hall for ten years, director of Athens Conservatory.
context_section_description: He started his conducting career as assistant conductor at the Mannheim National Theatre (Opera). In the next years he served as opera conductor at the theaters of Pforzheim, Ulm and Darmstadt where he enriched his opera repertory and experience having conducted more than seventy (70) operas.  In 1990 he was appointed as General Musical Director of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Frankfurt Oder. With this orchestra he assimilated a vast repertory of symphonic music and carried out numerous tours In Germany performing in Berlin, Köln, Bonn, Bremen etc. and abroad (Latvia, Israel, Russia, Spain, France, Holland, Belgium) appearing in major European cities such as Moscow, Madrid, Paris, Amsterdam, The Hague, Brussels, Tel Aviv etc. Furthermore, with said orchestra he recorded a considerable number of CDs some of which obtained international prizes and acclaims.
  Under his direction this ensemble has been developed to the main symphonic orchestra of the Federal State of Brandenburg being upgraded and renamed to State Orchestra of Brandenburg Frankfurt (Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt).
  In May 2000 he was appointed as the first Artistic Director at the newly established Thessaloniki Concert Hall. There, in a ten-year period he presented a remarkable work with a multifarious program including operas, symphonic music, educational programs and performances exalting this foundation to a cultural center of international recognition.
  During the years of his management as Artistic Director he put on many operas such as Traviata, Rigoletto, Madama Butterfly, Cavalleria rusticana, Le Nozze di Figaro, Abduction from the Seraglio, the basset Romeo & Juliet of Prokofiev etc. having conducted most of them. He also, put on and conducted “avant-garde” music works such as War Requiem of Benjamin Britten, Metropolis of Fritz Lang (silent film with orchestra live music) as well as other music masterpieces like Beethoven's Missa Solemnis or J. S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion and the great Mass in B minor.
  As invited conductor, he has conducted various many great European orchestras like London Philharmonic in two performances during the Athens Festival (1989), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Munich Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, Gustav Mahler Orchestra of Prague, Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra etc. cooperating with great soloists as Rostropovich, Agnes Baltsa, MIsha Maiski, David Garet, Lars Vogt, Kolja Blacher etc. He has also repeatedly collaborated with all the significant Greek Orchestras as the Athens State Orchestra, Thessaloniki State Orchestra, National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Greek National Opera's Orchestra, Camerata of Athens, Athens Symphony Orchestra, Thessaloniki Symphony Orchestra and Patras Symphony Orchestra.
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