Zoe Zeniodi

Zoe Zeniodi is Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Broward Symphony Orchestra and the Alhambra Orchestra. She is cover conductor for the Florida Grand Opera and has conducted the Brno Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the City of Thessaloniki Symphony Orchestra, the Palm Beach Symphony, the Stockholm Sinfonietta, the New Philharmonic Orchestra of Florida, the Frost Symphony Orchestra, the Florida Youth Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra of Spain (JONDE). Along with her intense work in standard repertoire, Zoe is a strong advocate of contemporary music, collaborating often with living composers, such as Thomas Sleeper and Giorgos Koumendakis. She has released three CDs on Albany Records. As a pianist, Zoe has appeared in the Purcell Room and St. Martin in the Fields (England), the National Opera House, the Athens and Thessaloniki Concert Halls, and the Onassis Cultural Centre (Greece), the Montpelier Festival (France), the Lisinski Concert Hall (Croatia), the European Union Hall (Belgium), and the Internationales Theater Frankfurt (Germany) among others. She holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts and an Artist Diploma in Orchestral Conducting and Master and Bachelor Degrees in Piano Performance and Accompaniment. During her studies, she won all the piano accompaniment prizes at the Royal College of Music, where she was named a Junior Fellow in 2003. Zoe was born in Greece and currently lives between the USA and Europe.

Reviews

‘…the equally confident FSO is expertly handled by Zoe Zeniodi, who a mere eight years back was a Junior Fellow at the Royal College of Music in London; now she has a doctorate and two conducting positions with American orchestras: this one and the volunteer Broward Symphony, also based in Florida. You can confidently expect to see her climbing up the ladder very shortly.’ The Classical Review, Martin Anderson, 2 September 2011 – on Albany Records CD “Frank Ticheli: An American Dream” – TROY 1258

‘Zeniodi coolly rose to the occasion, drawing stupendous playing from the students of the university’s Frost Symphony Orchestra…. Drew maximum tension from the opening sequences, bringing the quiet dreamlike section to a great climax. In Shostakovich’s Ballet Suite No.1, Zeniodi drew some of the best playing the orchestra has ever produced. Ensemble playing was knife-edge precise.’ South Florida Classical Review, David Fleshler, 22 November 2009

“The most important surprise of the evening was the young pianist Zoe Zeniodi. She is a young, talented Greek pianist with brilliant studies in England and Austria, where she specialized in the demanding musical type, the piano accompaniment. The role of the accompanist is not only to support the music of the soloist, but also to understand his interpretative spirit, the details of his expressive fluctuation and to participate with the same spirit in order to contribute to the expressive completion of the work. And Zoe Zeniodi has this ability. She understands the psychological vibrations of the soloist, she transfers them into her own speech and with her wavy sound brings to completion the expressive singularities of the works performed”

—Uncommited Press, Athens – 7 November 2001 – Costas Charalambidis

“Zeniodi plays with sensitivity and gives to the songs a calm, colorful expression…

…and while Zeniodi in Debussy’s ‘Chansons de Bilitis’ produces delicate dynamical transitions and lets the sound wave tenderly…”

—Göttinger Tageblatt, Göttingen – 6 March 2000 – Torsten Brandt

References

External links

• Homepage
• Conducting "A Trip Into American Music" for Greek TV