BIOGRAPHY

Klio began her studies in Greece. She continued with Catherine Cantin and Pierre Dumail at the Paul Dukas Conservatoire in Paris where she gained a Premier Prix at the U.C.E.M 92 flute competition. Meanwhile she completed an Aesthetics / Philosophy of Art  Degree, at the Paris I - La Sorbonne University. She was then awarded a scholarship for Trinity College of Music where she successfully completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Performance and a Master in Music Degree in the classes of Alan Baker and Wissam Boustany. 

Since the beginning of her career Klio has performed extensively both as a soloist and ensemble player in France, Greece, Bulgaria, Ireland and the UK. She has appeared with orchestras and ensembles such as the Wallace Ensemble, Classical Soloists, Haydn Chamber Orchestra, Orion Orchestra, Tempus Orchestra and the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Denmark. Festival appearances include the Mayfield Festival collaborating with Theatre Alive! and theatre director Andrew Visnevski, the Festival of Dodekanison, Demetria Festival and the International Music Festival of Cyclades in Greece. In 2006 she gave with Blaue Reiter Ensemble a first performance of Shoenberg’s masterpiece Pierrot Lunaire in Drill Hall, Lincoln.

In 2007 Klio completed Glimpses of Japan with Pandora Ensemble, a series of concerts in the UK inspired by Japanese traditional and contemporary artforms. Her special interest in contemporary music has led her to work with new composers and artists such as the SPMN shortlisted composer Evelyn Ficcara and Japanese composer Yoko Kubo. She has commissioned and premiered works at the Queen Elizabeth Hall/Foyer, Blackheath Halls, St James’s Piccadilly, St Martin-in-the-Fields and the Hellenic Centre in London.

Klio together with clarinetist Shelley Levy is a co-founder of the Leto Ensemble. Recently broadcasted by BBC Radio 3 Leto has given performances in the U.K. and abroad with most recent appearances at the Norwegian Church in London and the St John's Notting Hill Church. In 2010 Leto commissioned and gave a World Premier of Kubo's piece Reflet for flute and clarinet at the Sani International Festival in Greece. Klio also performs with pianist Gareth Owen and is a member of the Persephone flute and cello Duo with Rebecca Hewes, represented by Alive Network. Other performances include concerts in Nevers, France, the Royal Festival Hall, St John's Smith Square, the American College of Thessaloniki, Greece, Burgh House and the Foundling Museum in London in collaboration with the Beethoven Society of Europe.

As an educator Klio has been very busy for the past few years teaching the flute, leading workshops and coaching chamber music ensembles in the U.K. and abroad. She is currently teaching  the flute at the Blackheath Conservatoire, the Thomas's Day School and the Blackheath High School in London.Specialising in the early years music education Klio is also working as an early years outreach project leader for Trinity College of Music, providing training for BMus Trinity students and delivering early years music workshops in schools, museums and children's centres.  

 Contact: klio@klioblonz.com