About

Performer, Pedagogue, Arts Entrepreneur

Greek flautist and Trevor James Low Flutes Artist Dr. Eftihia Arkoudis leads a multi-faceted career as a performer, teacher, and arts entrepreneur. The Director of West Virginia University’s Community Music Program, a Music Business & Entrepreneurship faculty at University of Florida, and Global Outreach Coordinator of the 2024 Tampere Flute Festival, Eftihia is passionate about arts advocacy and community-building, and committed to empowering the next generation of musicians. An interdisciplinary “natural performer who conveys her ideas and narrative very well” (Pittsburgh Concert Society), her collaborations with living composers have led to benefit concerts, seven studio albums, and the delivery of over fifty world premieres. She has performed and recorded with several ensembles and orchestras in Greece, Turkey, Austria, Germany, and the United States, including the award-winning and recording artists 3Pirouetten (Germany) and BETA Quartet (USA), with whom she has won first place in France Music Competition 2° (2020) and Flute Society of Kentucky Flute Quartet Competition (2017) and were the first flute quartet in the semifinals of the renowned Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition (2017). Dr. Arkoudis earned her doctorate at West Virginia University (Nina Assimakopoulos) and holds artistic diplomas from Prayner Konservatorium Wien (Reza Najfar) and Athens Conservatory (Urs Rüttimann), where she received the first Urs Rüttimann Award for Excellence in Performance (2012). Her doctoral research, “Contemporary Music Notation for the Flute: A Unified Guide to Notational Symbols for Composers and Performers,” has surpassed 13,000 downloads.

About

Performer, Pedagogue, Arts Entrepreneur

Greek flautist and Trevor James Low Flutes Artist Dr. Eftihia Arkoudis leads a multi-faceted career as a performer, teacher, and arts entrepreneur. The Director of West Virginia University’s Community Music Program, a Music Business & Entrepreneurship faculty at University of Florida, and Global Outreach Coordinator of the 2024 Tampere Flute Festival, Eftihia is passionate about arts advocacy and community-building, and committed to empowering the next generation of musicians. An interdisciplinary “natural performer who conveys her ideas and narrative very well” (Pittsburgh Concert Society), her collaborations with living composers have led to benefit concerts, seven studio albums, and the delivery of over fifty world premieres. She has performed and recorded with several ensembles and orchestras in Greece, Turkey, Austria, Germany, and the United States, including the award-winning and recording artists 3Pirouetten (Germany) and BETA Quartet (USA), with whom she has won first place in France Music Competition 2° (2020) and Flute Society of Kentucky Flute Quartet Competition (2017) and were the first flute quartet in the semifinals of the renowned Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition (2017). Dr. Arkoudis earned her doctorate at West Virginia University (Nina Assimakopoulos) and holds artistic diplomas from Prayner Konservatorium Wien (Reza Najfar) and Athens Conservatory (Urs Rüttimann), where she received the first Urs Rüttimann Award for Excellence in Performance (2012). Her doctoral research, “Contemporary Music Notation for the Flute: A Unified Guide to Notational Symbols for Composers and Performers,” has surpassed 13,000 downloads.