Aliki Diamanti was born in Athens in 2002. She graduated from the Music School of Alimos with honors and studies at the Department of Music Studies of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens in the direction of Historical and Systematic Musicology.
She began her piano studies at the age of 15, with a scholarship from the Orpheion Conservatory of Athens and professor Stavros Kollias, and received her diploma in January 2023, at the age of 20, with Honorable Mention and First Prize.
She also studied Advanced Theory at the Orpheion Conservatory of Athens and received a degree in Harmony (2017-2020), with Honors, with Christos Alexopoulos and a degree in Counterpoint (2019-2022), with Honors, with Konstantinos Telakis. She is also studying violin at the Orpheus Conservatory of Athens in the class of Margarita Plesti (undergraduate).
She has participated in piano seminars with the pianist and pedagogue Yekaterina Lebedeva (05/2022), with the pianists Karolos Zouganelis, Lorenda Ramou and Dimitris Vasilakis, as part of the ELLS Piano Festival (10/2022), as well as with Vassilis Varvaresos ( 02/2023). She has trained under the guidance of Daniel Blumenthal in Athens and Belgium, as well as under the guidance of Dimitris Toufexis.
She is a scholarship holder of the International Gina Bachauer Association, participating regularly in its concerts. In September 2023, she participated in the Association's concert in Hydra. Since 2023, she regularly collaborates with the classical singer Ioanna Vrakatseli. Together they performed a recital, as well as a recording for a collection of works dedicated to Thomas Tambakos, under his supervision.
She has also contributed to most of the concerts and workshops of the Department of Music Studies of the University of Athens, from her admission to the department until today, mainly performing works by Greek composers.
In April 2024, after excelling at the auditions for the concert series "The young for the young" of the Philippos Nakas conservatory, she held her first solo recital, in the concert hall of the conservatory, performing works by C.Ph.E.Bach and Robert Schumann.
Aliki Diamanti already has two years of teaching experience as a piano and theory teacher at the New Conservatory of Alimos. Her collaboration with the Philippos Nakas Conservatory in the field of piano teaching began in 2024.
Competitions and awards:
- 11/2021: Praise at the 6th pan-Hellenic music competition of the Group for UNESCO Arts
- 04/2022: 1st Prize in the 8th Panhellenic music competition of Maria Hairogiorgou-Sigara
- 11/2022: 1st Prize in the 7th pan-Hellenic music competition of the Group for UNESCO Arts
- 07/2023: Final round in the 5th International Competition De Bach au Jazz
- 12/2023: Awarded with the "Rising Soloist Award" by the International Gina Bachauer Association, under the chairmanship of Mr. Karabelas-Sgourdas.