Vassilis Christopoulos
CONDUCTOR
Bio
Greek conductor Vassilis Christopoulos has been Artistic Director of the Athens State Orchestra from May 2011 to May 2014. He is Chief Conductor of the Southwest German Philharmonic Orchestra of Constance since 2005.
He has conducted prestigious orchestras including the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Bremen and Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestras, the NDR-Radiophilharmonie Hannover, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, and the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra.
As a regular guest conductor of the Greek National Opera in Athens between 1999 and 2005, Vassilis Christopoulos has conducted Tosca, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, La Traviata, The Mother’s Ring by Manolis Kalomiris, the Greek premieres of Handel’s Serse and Vivaldi’s Orlando furioso, as well as Lysistrata by Mikis Theodorakis in its first worldwide productions in Athens and Thessaloniki. He has also conducted opera productions at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Dusseldorf (Rigoletto, Die Zauberflote), and in Constance (Die Gartnerin aus Liebe, Die Kluge, Dido and Aeneas).
His discography includes the premiere recording of Concertos by Nikos Skalkottas with the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra which was released on BIS in 2008. His CD “Mozart Arias” featuring French Soprano Geraldine Casey and the Southwest German Philharmonic was awarded a golden Orpheus by the Academie internationale du disque lyrique in Paris for the best Mozart recording in 2009.
He was born in Munich in 1975. He began his musical studies with oboe and music theory at the Athens Conservatory. From 1993 to 1995 he was an oboist with the Greek Radio Symphony Orchestra.
From 1995 he studied orchestral conducting with Professor Hermann Michael at the “Hochschule fur Musik” in Munich, graduating with distinction in 1998 and obtaining a “Meisterklassendiplom” two years later. He had also the chance of working with Sir Colin Davis, Zubin Mehta, and Reinhard Goebel.
In 1999 he was nominated “Young Musician of the Year” by the Greek Music and Drama Critics’ Association. In 2000 he won First Prize at the 1st Bad Homburg Conducting Competition in Germany and Second Prize at the Dimitri Mitropoulos International Conducting Competition in Athens.
Partnerships with the Athens State Orchestra
Symphonic Concerts
2025 05 16 Vasilis Christopoulos in “Pictures at an exhibition”
Fri. 16 May 2025, 20:30
Shostakovitch Year
Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall
Ticket prices: €35, €25, €20, €15 and €10 (concessions)
Advance sales from Tuesday, 25 July
Symphonic Concerts
Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 2 – Denis Matsuev
Fri. 21 November 2025, 20:30
20 years from the death of Yorgos Sicilianos
Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall
Ticket price: 60€, 45€, 35€, 25€ and 15€ (concessions)
Symphonic Concerts
Music from the New World (IV)
Fri. 22 November 2013, 20:30
Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall
Prices:
Student/Concessions: € 5
Zone C: € 10
Zone B: € 15
Zone A: € 20
Grand Tier: € 30
The purchase of tickets for all the concerts of a cycle will entitle the ticket holder to THREE FREE OF CHARGE tickets (of the same price zone) of his choice for other concerts of the Athens State Orchestra at Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall. In case the purchased tickets are of different price zones, the complimentary ones will be of the lowest price zone. This offer does not apply for the co-productions with Megaron.
Grand Tier: € 30
The purchase of tickets for all the concerts of a cycle will entitle the ticket holder to THREE FREE OF CHARGE tickets (of the same price zone) of his choice for other concerts of the Athens State Orchestra at Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall. In case the purchased tickets are of different price zones, the complimentary ones will be of the lowest price zone. This offer does not apply for the co-productions with Megaron.
Symphonic Concerts
Celebrating the 200th anniversary since the birth of Richard Wagner
Fri. 18 October 2013, 20:30
Co-production with Megaron – the Athens Concert Hall
Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall
Prices:
Student/Concessions: € 8,5-6,5
Zone C: € 11
Zone B: € 20
Zone A: € 28
Grand Tier: € 40
Symphonic Concerts
Event to mark the 60th anniversary of the “Friends of Music” Society
Mon. 25 November 2013, 20:30
Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall
Prices:
Student: € 10
Zone C: € 15
Zone B: € 25
Zone A: € 35
Grand Tier: € 45
Symphonic Concerts
A French scented partnership with the Onassis Cultural Centre (I)
Mon. 17 February 2014, 20:30
Prices:
Unemployed: € 5
Concessions: € 10-12-15
15 – 18 – 28 €
Prices:
Student/Concessions: € 8,5-6,5
Zone C: € 11
Zone B: € 20
Zone A: € 28
Grand Tier: € 40
Prices:
Student/Concessions: € 8,5-6,5
Zone C: € 11
Zone B: € 20
Zone A: € 28
Grand Tier: € 40
The purchase of tickets for all the concerts of a cycle will entitle the ticket holder to THREE FREE OF CHARGE tickets (of the same price zone) of his choice for other concerts of the Athens State Orchestra at Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall. In case the purchased tickets are of different price zones, the complimentary ones will be of the lowest price zone. This offer does not apply for the co-productions with Megaron.
Prices:
Student/Concessions: € 5
Zone C: € 10
Zone B: € 15
Zone A: € 20
Grand Tier: € 30
The purchase of tickets for all the concerts of a cycle will entitle the ticket holder to THREE FREE OF CHARGE tickets (of the same price zone) of his choice for other concerts of the Athens State Orchestra at Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall. In case the purchased tickets are of different price zones, the complimentary ones will be of the lowest price zone. This offer does not apply for the co-productions with Megaron.
Prices:
Student/Concessions: € 5
Zone C: € 10
Zone B: € 15
Zone A: € 20
Grand Tier: € 30
Symphonic Concerts
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony 28-02-2014
Fri. 28 February 2014, 20:30
Festive concert under the auspices of the President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso, in collaboration with the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Athens and the Cultural Foundation EUROPAMUSICALE on the occasion of the Greek Presidency of the E.U.
Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall
Prices:
Student/Concessions: € 5
Zone C: € 10
Zone B: € 15
Zone A: € 20
Grand Tier: € 30
Advance bookings from: 3 February 2014