Ensemble Generabilis: 'Meet the Conductor'

Georgios Galanis has a distinguished place among the most talented Greek conductors of his generation. Having been elected as the orchestra's favorite during the 1st and 2nd Pan-Hellenic masterclasses for conductors he was chosen to debut with Athens municipality symphony orchestra in July 2014.
His debut with the National Symphony orchestra of the Greek radio (E.R.T) came in autumn 2015, in a concert celebrating 70 years since the liberation of Athens. Among his most recent successes was the 2016 new year's concert with the prominent lyric artists Vassiliki Karayianni, Tasos Apostolou and Athens youth symphony orchestra. Georgios Galanis has also cooperated with several orchestras abroad, including Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra in Germany, the Pardubice chamber Philharmonic in Czech Republic, the “Academic Chamber Soloists” in Prague and the "Prague Strings", which he founded in 2013 together with a number of advanced students of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. From 2015 – 2017 he was chief conductor at Patras Municipal and Regional theater in Patras, Greece. During his tenure there he prepared and conducted several operas such as Purcell’s “Dido & Aeneas”, Gluck’s “Orphee” and Verdi’s “La Traviata”.
Georgios Galanis was born in 1987 in Patras, Greece. He studied violin and music theory at several conservatories in Athens. He later studied Musicology at the University of Athens, where he was also an active violinist playing in various orchestras such as the Athens youth symphony orchestra, the University of Athens chamber orchestra and the Greek-Turkish youth orchestra. After graduating he participated in conducting seminars with Mo Fred Buttkewitz in Berlin and in 2011 he was accepted in Tomas Koutnik's conducting class at the academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where he also studied with professors Hynek Farkac and Leos Svarovsky. Last but not least Georgios Galanis is an active Musicologist and has written essays about music in several music magazines in Greece and abroad. Currently, Georgios Galanis is an MA student of orchestral conducting at Lucerne music academy guided by Prof. Howard Arman.

Footage taken from the orchestra's inaugural concert on November 10. 2018