"One of the most compelling young talents today"
Guitar Review Magazine
Antigoni Goni has performed extensively in Europe, Russia, Canada, the Far East and the United States.As a recitalist she regularly performs in concert Halls such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and the Juilliard Theater in New York City, Spivey Hall in Atlanta, Benaroya Hall in Seattle and Herbst theater in St. Francisco, the Covent Garden in London, Gasteig Hall in Munich and the Athens Megaron as well as the Cappella Sale in St. Petersburg and the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. Regularly featured on National Greek Radio and Bavarian Radio her music can also be heard on NPR as well as on two of New York City’s most prominent classical music stations, WQXR and WNYC.
As a guest artist and a lecturer she regularly participates in numerous USA festivals such as the Aspen Music Festival, the GFA Festival and Eastman’s Guitar Fest, the Portland Guitar Festival, the Banff summer festival and the Stetson International workshop as well as International Guitar Festivals in Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, Mexico Japan, Malaysia, Russia, Tokyo and Greece.
Antigoni Goni was the First Prize Winner at the
1995 International Guitar Foundation of America Competition, her success leading to a sixty-five North American concert tour and a contract with NAXOS records.
A NAXOS recording artist, her CD’s are praised for demonstrating “supple musicality and vigorous temperament” as well as for being “expressively poetic and technically exciting”.
Ms. Goni studied with Evangelos Assimakopoulos at the National Conservatory in Athens and with John Mills and Julian Bream at the Royal Academy of Music in London and subsequently with Sharon Isbin at the Juilliard School of Music from where she received her Masters degree.
These days, Ms. Goni resides in New York, where she currently heads the Guitar Department of the Juilliard Pre-College Division. In addition to her academic positions at the Juilliard School of Music and Columbia University, she is also an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in London, England.