Yesterday’s concert at Kourkoumelata was a double celebration of the “excellents”.
It began with the amazing concert of the Olympus Trio, a young chamber music group consisting of Regi Papa (violin), Ben Capps (cello) and Konstantinos Vallianato (piano) – who are proud of their origins, as the name of the group “Olympus” indicates (Ben Capps’ mother is Mrs. Leonora Kouri). All three are young, multi-award-winning musicians, graduates of the famous Juilliard School in New York with a Master of Music, where they met. Their first public appearance in Greece was in January this year at the Athens Concert Hall and their second at Kourkoumelata, where they enchanted the audience by presenting works by Shostakovich, Hatzis and Beethoven.
The second part of the evening, the Georgios & Maris Vergotis Foundation awarded the top three students from each Track in the recent Panhellenic exams. The Foundation’s guests at the concert were their parents and siblings, as well as the Education Inspectorate of Kefalonia and the Region. The awardees, who received a total amount of €13,000, were:
Science Track
- Eris Ntylgia – 18.78 – Ithaca General High School
- Barbara-Maria Markatou – 18.42 – 2nd General High School (Argostoli)
- Angeliki Vrettou – 18.28 – Sami General High School
Theoretical Track
- Eleni Maratou – 19.55 – Kerameies General High School
- Paraskevi-Antigoni Theotokatou – 18.55 – 2nd General High School (Argostoli)
- Angeliki Marouli – 18.33 – Lixouri General High School
Technological Track
- Aristeidis Bakouros – 18.93 – Lixouri General High School
- Dimitrios Volteras – 18.33 – Lixouri General High School
- Nikolaos Dellaportas – 18.02 – Lixouri General High School
Special mention was made of the teachers Mr. Zervos (Ithaca), Mr. Christoforato (Kerameies), and Mr. Pliakis (Lixouri), who were chosen by the top student of each track respectively as the teachers who contributed the most to their personal success.
The Georgios & Maris Vergotis Foundation congratulates all the students and wishes them health and success in their studies of choice.
Sunday, July 14, 2013