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Konstantinos Diminakis

Conductor
He was born in Thessaloniki. He studied music theory and piano at the New Conservatory of Thessaloniki and piano at the Faculty of Music and Art of the University of Macedonia under Domna Evnouchidou. She moved to Austria, on a scholarship from the Academy of Athens, where he studied orchestra conducting under Uroš Lajovic as well as chorus conducting and accompaniment at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He served as conductor with Vienna’s Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. He attended masterclasses on conducting under Mehta, Rattle, Harding and Metters. He has conducted many major orchestras in Austria, such as the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Graz Chamber Orchestra and Pre Arte Orchestra of the University of Vienna. He has also worked with the Rzeszow Philharmonic Orchestra (Poland), the Cyprus State Orchestra, the Orchestra of Colors, the Ploiești Philharmonic Orchestra (Romania) and City of Athens Symphony Orchestra. He has received major awards in music contests: Second International Conducting Competition (second place, Schwaz, Austria), Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester (2013) and International Dimitri Mitropoulos Competition for Conductors (2010). In 2012 he was selected by the London Symphony Orchestra among the 20 most talented young European conductors. At the GNO, he conducted the orchestra in the opera Cinderella [La cenerentola] (Olympia Theater, 2013-14)