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Panagiota Tsoka was born in Thessaloniki. She started piano lessons at the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Kalamaria with Marisol Samanidou. She graduated from the class of conductor Nikos Astrinidis at the Macedonian Conservatory of Thessaloniki, receiving a piano diploma with honors and first prize. She is a graduate and holder of an Integrated Master of the Department of Music Studies of the School of Fine Arts of the University of Athens with Honors. As part of his university studies, her thesis was on "Th. Antoniou, N. Astrinidis, G. Kouroupos, V. Tenidis: Music for ancient drama performances of the State Theater of Northern Greece", which was graded with a grade of Excellent. She is a graduate of theory (class of Theodoros Grounis, Macedonian Conservatory of Thessaloniki) and Byzantine music (class of Petros Papaemmanouil, State Conservatory of Thessaloniki) with Honors. She was honored with the 1st prize at the 5th HELEXPO Chamber Music Competition.
Participated in seminars on piano (G. Hatzinikos, S. Barova, G. Vakarelis, O. Szabo), music pedagogy (E. Damianos), piano teaching methodology (M. Lewander) and music technology (K. Tsougras) in Greece and abroad (Orff Schulwerk/Salzburg Austria, Kodaly Seminar/Kecscemet Hungary).
She participated in concerts, recordings, television and radio broadcasts individually and with musical ensembles, with a repertoire from the baroque to the modern era. She also participated in numerous music-philological and music-making events.
She recorded and presented in concerts the works of the following Greek composers of the 21st century, some of them in premieres: Nikos Astrinidis, Vassilis Bakopoulos, Nestor Tailor, Michalis Andronikou, Evangelos Karafyllidis, Manolis Androulidakis, Athanasios Papadimitriou. She collaborated with the professional women's choir Voci Contra Tempo, conducted by Sofia Yoldasi at the Guidoneum Festival in Arezzo, Italy and the International Festival of Fano, Italy.
She collaborated with various artists from the field of artistic Greek music, both in the context of her personal musical creation, as well as in Greek and international repertoire. Her original compositions, several of them inspired by her collaboration with violinist Kyriakos Gouvedas, are online. She has also collaborated with
the singers Anthi Tatsiouli, Manolis Chatzimanolis, Dimitris Pratsinakis, Eleni Eljona Siniaris and the lyricist-poet Stergios Polyzos.
The completion of a cycle of songs in her own music and lyrics, alongside her collaboration with the singer Anthi Tatsiouli, was sealed by the release of the record entitled "The light colors come alive".
She collaborated with the piano workshop of Panos Ioannidis "Handmade piano" in Nea Gonia, Halkidiki participating in concerts and recordings. She composed music for children's books and comics ("Varfi" and "Molvi" editions) and for the documentary "Life and State of George Zorba" directed by Babi Tsoka. Improvisation on the piano occupies a special place in her musical activity.
Since 1997 she has been a teacher in Secondary Public Education. Since 2002 she has been working at the Music School of Thessaloniki, where she has organized numerous student concerts inside and outside the school (Vafopoulio Spiritual Center of the Municipality of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki Piano Festival), seminars, presentations, cultural programs and concerts with distinguished artists (N. Astrinidis, I. Valet , L. Liatsou) and participated with her students in artistic competitions of the Ministry of Education and in the organization of concerts and CD recordings with original musical creations of students of the Music School of Thessaloniki. She was a founding member of the Hellenic Union for Music Education and participated in conferences of the International Society for Music Education (Amsterdam and Thessaloniki). From 2024 she teaches at the Philippos Nakas Conservatory of Thessaloniki.
Participated in seminars on piano (G. Hatzinikos, S. Barova, G. Vakarelis, O. Szabo), music pedagogy (E. Damianos), piano teaching methodology (M. Lewander) and music technology (K. Tsougras) in Greece and abroad (Orff Schulwerk/Salzburg Austria, Kodaly Seminar/Kecscemet Hungary).
She participated in concerts, recordings, television and radio broadcasts individually and with musical ensembles, with a repertoire from the baroque to the modern era. She also participated in numerous music-philological and music-making events.
She recorded and presented in concerts the works of the following Greek composers of the 21st century, some of them in premieres: Nikos Astrinidis, Vassilis Bakopoulos, Nestor Tailor, Michalis Andronikou, Evangelos Karafyllidis, Manolis Androulidakis, Athanasios Papadimitriou. She collaborated with the professional women's choir Voci Contra Tempo, conducted by Sofia Yoldasi at the Guidoneum Festival in Arezzo, Italy and the International Festival of Fano, Italy.
She collaborated with various artists from the field of artistic Greek music, both in the context of her personal musical creation, as well as in Greek and international repertoire. Her original compositions, several of them inspired by her collaboration with violinist Kyriakos Gouvedas, are online. She has also collaborated with
the singers Anthi Tatsiouli, Manolis Chatzimanolis, Dimitris Pratsinakis, Eleni Eljona Siniaris and the lyricist-poet Stergios Polyzos.
The completion of a cycle of songs in her own music and lyrics, alongside her collaboration with the singer Anthi Tatsiouli, was sealed by the release of the record entitled "The light colors come alive".
She collaborated with the piano workshop of Panos Ioannidis "Handmade piano" in Nea Gonia, Halkidiki participating in concerts and recordings. She composed music for children's books and comics ("Varfi" and "Molvi" editions) and for the documentary "Life and State of George Zorba" directed by Babi Tsoka. Improvisation on the piano occupies a special place in her musical activity.
Since 1997 she has been a teacher in Secondary Public Education. Since 2002 she has been working at the Music School of Thessaloniki, where she has organized numerous student concerts inside and outside the school (Vafopoulio Spiritual Center of the Municipality of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki Piano Festival), seminars, presentations, cultural programs and concerts with distinguished artists (N. Astrinidis, I. Valet , L. Liatsou) and participated with her students in artistic competitions of the Ministry of Education and in the organization of concerts and CD recordings with original musical creations of students of the Music School of Thessaloniki. She was a founding member of the Hellenic Union for Music Education and participated in conferences of the International Society for Music Education (Amsterdam and Thessaloniki). From 2024 she teaches at the Philippos Nakas Conservatory of Thessaloniki.
