Kosmas Lapatas

In 1995 he developed a lifetime aversion to public performance and committed himself entirely to private and group teaching, composition and recording. His students have been accepted to Berklee, Brown, Cass, CUNY, ETH, Freiburg, Harvard, Hunter, Kingston, Leeds, Royal Academy, Strasbourg, Trinity, Tufts, UCL, among many others and have excelled in auditions, certificates, diplomas, masterclasses and the Eurovision Junior.

Prof K. Lapatas attended piano pedagogy lessons with Bavouzet, Berman, Bernstein, Biegel, Borisovna, Buechner, Chiu, Dinnerstein, Dunn, Fei-Fei, Graffman, Huangci, Kholodenko, Korepanova, Kramer, Kudo, Lowenthal, Namoradze, Nissman, Ohlsson, Oppens, Osterkamp, O’Conor, Parker, Penneys, Schwizgebel, Sergeevna, Shinners, Speidel, Talgam, Toufexis, Traganas, Tyson and Vardi among others.

He also attended School Pedagogy, Music Pedagogy, Music Technology, Sonic Arts, Early, Modern and Post-Modern Music, Chamber Music & Ensemble Conducting lessons with Brooks, Coopersmith, Creviston, Cuthbert, Di Paolo, Evans, Greenberg, Harrell, Hatzinikos, Hilton, Humberstone, Lawrence, Lubov, Ludwig, Robison, Shinn, Whittington, Williams and Wright.

His tutors were trained by iconic classical musicians such as Arrau, Ax, Baumgartner, Berman, Boulanger, Boulez, Brailowsky, Corigliano, Cortot, Curcio, Curzon, Enescu, Fleisher, Gornostaeva, Janis, Hindemith, Horowitz, Horszowski, Hubert, Kapell, Kaplinsky, Kempff, Kocsis, Lhevinne, Lateiner, Marcus, Markevitch, Messiaen, Moravec, Musulin, Naumov, Neuhaus, Neumann, Oborin, Ogdon, Orff, Pires, Samaroff, Schnabel, Sebok, Serkin, Skoda, Slenczynska, Svetlanova, Stockhousen, Taubmann, Tocco, Vengerova, Vlassenko and Xenakis.