Vaudeville de Lucile / Pietro Denis ca.(1720-1790)

About George Hadjineophytou

George Hadjineophytou was born in London, England and began music lessons when he was five. In 2002 he went to Trinity College of Music in London to study the mandolin under Alison Stephens. During his studies he took part in a master class given by the renowned German mandolinist, Caterina Lichtenberg. While at Trinity he gained a post-graduate diploma in performance with distinction and was the first person in the college’s history to win its prestigious Gold Medal on the mandolin over all other mainstream instrumentalists.

George now divides his time between performing, teaching, composing and theatre work. He has performed music in plays with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre and the Globe in London.
George's repertoire includes original mandolin compositions from the baroque to the modern era as well as pieces originally for other instruments. Besides his activities involving the mandolin, George is also a performer of folk music from Greece and neighbouring countries on a variety of traditional string, wind and percussion instruments.

George performs on two mandolins: for early music a mandolin by Alfred Woll after Antonio Vinaccia (1760) and for romantic and modern music a Roman mandolin by Pasquale Pecoraro/Embergher (1982).

© 2004 George Hadjineophytou