Soloist, chamber musician and pedagogue, Christos Kanettis plays on a violin by Giovanni Grancino from 1697.
Born in Salonica, Greece, he completed performance studies at the Athens Conservatory (Ismini Karter) and the Music University in Vienna, Austria (Franz Samohyl), receiving soloist diplomas with highest awards.
As a "masters degree" student in the class of Dorothy DeLay, Felix Galimir and Robert Mann (Juilliard Quartet), he graduated 1984 the Juilliard School of Music in New York.
Sandor Vegh, Itzak Perlman Josef Gingold also had a tremendous influence on his artistic development.
Price winner of the international violin competitions in Willmington, Delaware USA and Sondrio, Italy, Christos Kanettis was praised by the press internationally.
A performance of the Igor Stravinsky violin concerto with the Aspen Festival Orchestra under George Mester in 1986 has been his North American debut, followed by a Duo-recital at Carnegie Recital Hall.
Since then, he has toured extensively Europe, U.S.A., South America and Canada as a recitalist, soloist with
orchestras and chamber musician with well-known partners like Michael Webster, André Watts, Alfons Kontarsky,
Rolf Plagge, Emil Rovner and Enrico Bronzi.
Chamber music works by Stravinsky, Szymanovsky, Respighi as well as a world première of a violin – piano duo and a piano trio by the austrian composer Paul Engel were presented on his latest CD recordings with the german pianists Alfons Kontarsky and Rolf Plagge.
Christos Kanettis has lectured and gave repeatedly master classes at Oberlin Conservatory, Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, CSU Festival in California, Delaware University and in numerous major institutions in
Europe and Asia.
After a five years teaching experience at the Hofstra University of Long Island, New York, he was appointed 1996 Professor of Violin and Chamber music at the State Conservatory in Innsbruck, Austria and at the University "Mo-zarteum" in Salzburg.