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“Alexia showed the best native grasp of gracefulness and a fine judgment balancing firmness and freedom, with the imagination to produce sounds ranging from elfin grace and mystery to genuine violence”

Irish Times, Dublin

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     Alexia Mouza is a Greek-Venezuelan pianist who is known for her extraordinary energy, clarity of sound and precision.

 

      She won the prestigious Chopin Prize in Rubinstein International Piano Competition 2021 and the 3rd Prize at the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition 2015.
 

     She is the first prize winner of the Cittá di Cantú Competition 2005, the “Giorgos Thymis” Competition 2008, the Delia Steinberg Competition Madrid 2015, the Manhattan International Music Competition 2018, and the Berliner Music Competition 2019. In 2015 she was honored with a special prize from the Academy of Athens for her achievements in the field of piano performance.

 

     Singled out even from her early years as an explosive talent with a captivating artistry, she has given performances in Europe, Asia and the Americas. She has appeared as a soloist with the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra Sinfonica del Estado de México, the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano, and the State Symphony Orchestras of Athens and Thessaloniki.

 

     She has given concerts at the Carnegie Hall, the Hong Kong Concert Hall, Konzerthaus Berlin and Berlin’s Philharmonie, the Sala Verdi di Milano, the Sala Simon Bolivar, Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna and the Mozarteum Salzburg.

     In the 2016-2017 season she was chosen as a young artist in residence at the L’ Europe du piano European project.

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     Alexia has been invited to multiple international festivals such as the Fazioli Concert Series,

 the Maggio Fiorentino, the Paderewski Festival of Raleigh, the Sächsisches Mozartfest, the Semaines Musicales, the Si-Chuan International Piano Festival and the International Mozart Festival in Hokkaido.

   

     An avid chamber musician, she has performed with musicians such as Leonidas Kavakos, Mario Brunello, Felix Froschhammer, Timotheos Gavriilidis-Petrin and many others.

 

     Alexia began her piano lessons with her mother at the age of five and enrolled at the International Piano Academy of Imola, Italy, when she was just 8 years old. There, she studied with professors Leonid Margarius and Anna Kravtchenko. She continued her studies at Boston University with Boaz Sharon, where she received her Artist Diploma degree. She concluded her studies at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv under professor Arie Vardi.

     She has recorded two DVD/CD's, both released by Domovideo Multigram, Italy.

 

     Embracing the importance of communication through the Arts, Alexia is also a prolific visual artist, always incorporating elements of her Latin American heritage.

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