Pianist Panos Karan at Sydney's Opera house

Panos Karan, an internationally renowned Greek classical pianist, performs Chopin and Schumann at the Sydney Opera House for charity.

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Panos Karan is an internationally renowned Greek - British classical pianist. Born in 1982 in Greece, he began piano lessons at the age of 7. His love for classical music led him to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He has lived in the British capital for 20 years.

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Despite having performed three times at New York's Carnegie Hall, Boston's Symphony Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Tokyo's Suntory Hall and Tokyo Opera City, Panos Karan was seeking a deeper meaning in the question. " why play music? " Looking for the answer, he left the large concert halls. He traveled from the Amazon to Sierra Leone. Playing music for people isolated, destitute or wounded by civil wars. There he found the answer to the question that tormented him. "He was playing music to change the world."

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In September 2010, Panos Karan founded the "Keys of Change" charity helping children and young people living in tragic conditions around the world learn and love music. He has been on music missions to the most remote parts of the world, such as Siberia, Uganda, Nepal, Northeast Japan. He taught music to orphaned children in India and in 2014 he founded the Sinfonietta Youth Fukushima Orchestra. In all, Panos Karan has traveled to 130 countries, lived in Athens, Barcelona, ​​Buenos Aires, Tokyo and London, and speaks six languages.

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As a pianist Panos Karan has performed Rachmaninov's Concerto for Piano No. 3 and most recently 24 Chopin Etudes at a live recital in London's Cadogan Room.

On Monday, February 3, at 7.30pm, Panos Karan will give a single concert at the Utzon Room, at Sydney Opera House, where he will perform with violinist Vov Dylan Chopin Etudes Op. 25 Nos. 1, 2, 12, Schumann Kreisleriana Op. 16, Franck Sonata in A major. 

Sydney Opera House is very symbolic, but as Panos Karan mentioned in an interview wirh SBS radio Greek, communicating with viewers is more important. During the concert, they will share fascinating classical music and stories from Panos Karan's travels, adventures and charity work around the world. Proceeds from the concert will go to the Keys of Change charity.