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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 the UK and abroad. She has been broadcast by BBC Radio 3 and has appeared in Festivals and Concert Series such as Brighton Festival, Hurst Festival, Barnes Festival, Mayfield Festival, Prokofiev Festival, Peckham Arts Festival, Adur Arts Festival, Les Theophanies International Festival in the South of France, Festival of Dodekanison, Demetria Festival, Sani Festival, International Music Festival of Cyclades in Greece, the Blenheim Music Circle, Blackheath Halls Recitals, the International Wind Festival/Megaron Concert Hall, Thessaloniki, Greece, the Villelongue Abbey International concert series in Carcassonne, France, Lincoln Music Club, St Luke’s Music and Wine, Brighton to name but a few. She has performed in venues such as St John’s Smith Square, Royal Festival Hall, Blackheath Halls, St James’s Picadilly, St Martin-in-the-Fields, the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the Brighton Dome and the Marble Hall at the Holkham Estate amongst others.
Klio has toured extensively for many years with AMALTHEA flute and harp duo in Festivals and Concert Series such as Brighton Festival, Deverills Festival, Hurst Festival, Adur Arts Festival, King’s Lynn Music Society and St Luke’s Concert Series, as well as for Rural Arts schemes such as Pound Arts in Wiltshire, Villages in Action in Devon and Artsreach in Dorset.
She is a founding member of MELYNTHIA Trio, along with cellist Rebecca Hepplewhite and pianist Grace Mo, with a special interest in showcasing works by female composers. MELYNTHIA has recently performed at The Lights Theatre in Andover as part of their yearly concert series, where last year they enjoyed a short residency at the Megaron Concert Hall in Thessaloniki Greece. 2026 will see them perform for the Sevenoaks Music Club amongst others. Other collaborations include performing with harpist Gabriella Dall’Olio, clarinettist Shelley Levy, as well as contemporary music specialist Jane Beament, with whom she gave a number of World Premieres for the New Music Brighton Concert Series in 2022 and 2023. Klio and Jane will be giving another concert for NMB in June 2026.
Klio’s interest in contemporary music has led her to work and record with many composers throughout the years, commissioning and giving numerous premieres in the U.K. and abroad. Composers include E.Ficarra, B.Athanasiadis, N.Luckett, Y.Kubo, I.Stewart, J.Carmichael, V. Bakopoulos, J.Hawkins, B. Mills, R.Grabner, C.Gander, J.Petley, G.Richardson, to mention but a few. She has also been involved in cross-art projects such as the multi-media performance, FANTASMATA at Peckham Arts Festival, along with artist Laurence Louisfert, actress Amanda Douge and visual artist Peter Carey. This was followed by INTERCONNECTIONS ET DIALOGUES, a performance for solo flute and poetry, for the inaguration of Louisfert’s most recent exhibition Myselyum: nous sommes la nature, at the the Chateau of Carrouges, Normandie, France.
Passionate about her educational and outreach work, Klio is professor of flute and a chamber music coach at the Thomas’s Day School and the Blackheath High School in London. She has worked extensively 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. She has toured for Bach to Baby, devising concert programmes for families with babies and young children and has led successfully the early years department at Blackheath Conservatoire for many years. One of her most successful projects, along with pianist Grace Mo and soprano Mairead Sheerin, has been the developement of a narrated concert series for young children, promoting classical music through the art of story telling. Projects incude The Nutcracker Suite, Aesop’s Fables, Alice in Wonderland, The Emperor’s Nightingale and A Christmas Carol, which they have been touring regularly for the past few years in theatres and art centres, such as WAC Arts, Blackheath Conservatoire and St George’s Guildhall in Kings Lynn amongst others.
In 2017 Klio started touring for Classical Music Rocks, a Charity based in West Norfolk which brings high quality live classical music to primary schools and financially accessible concerts within the community. From 2019 and till 2023 she took the role of Creative Director and along with the Chair she helped raise funds develop and expand CMR’s programme.
Gabriella Dall’Olio was born and grew up in her home town Bologna, Italy, whom she dearly loves. She trained in Italy, France and Germany with Anna Loro, Pierre Jamet. Jacqueline Borot, Fabrice Pierre and Giselle Herbert. All are still her dear friends now, or live on in the legacy they left and grateful memory.
Gabriella delights audiences with her solo recitals around the globe. Her critically acclaimed recordings span solo, chamber and orchestral works on the Claves, Koch, Toccata Next, Naxos, Da Vinci, Stradivarius, Dal Segno and Ambitus labels. Her album ‘Harp Recital’ (from 2000 on Claves) won a Five Diapasons Award and was described as “five quarter hours of poetry”.
Gabriella has recorded live for French, German, Italian and Swiss radio and television, and was the winner of numerous prizes, awards and scholarships, including the 1989 Victor Salvi Competition (Italy), and the 1992 Junge Kunstler Prize (Switzerland).
Her wide and varied repertoire covers most solo, concerto and chamber music repertoire as well as orchestral works (symphonic, operatic and ballet).
Recent solo engagements include recitals in Singapore and Australia, as well as Spain, Italy and the UK. She has performed Ginastera’s Concerto with the Whitehall Orchestra; Mozart’s Flute and Harp Concerto with flautist Anna Noakes and The London Virtuosi; Panufnik’s Sinfonia Concertante for flute, harp and orchestra and the premiere of Tim Jackson’s ‘Be Not Afeared’ for harp and orchestra with the St Paul Sinfonia; as well as solo and chamber music performances with the Gabrieli Consort and St John’s Orchestra at Kings Place. In July 2022 she performed the UK premiere of the harp concerto ‘Mascaras’ by Arturo Marquez in St David Hall, Cardiff, with the WHC Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Sylvain Blassel.
Gabriella has a long standing relationship with Hebrides Ensemble, with whom she premiered James MacMillan’s Since it was the day of Preparation… , the 2015 recording of which reached number 1 in the Classical music speciality charts. Further repertoire with the Ensemble includes Berio’s Folksongs, Takemitsu’s ‘And then I knew ‘twas Wind’, Debussy’s ‘Danse sacrée et danse profane’, and Ravel’s ‘Introduction et Allegro’.
Gabriella has inspired and commissioned composers to write for the harp (Benati, Jackson, Marson, Knott, Nicolson, Thomas, Lewis, MacMillan). She recorded Paul Lewis’ works for solo and chamber music with harp, a yearlong project to celebrate his seventieth birthday.
Gabriella freelances with some of the most outstanding UK and European orchestras: London Symphony, BBC Symphony, Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, English Chamber, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, as well as the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna State Opera, Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Bavarian Radio Symphony orchestras. Conductors she has worked with include Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Claudio Abbado, Mariss Janssen, Valery Gergiev, Simon Rattle, Lorin Maazel, Sir Colin Davis, Antonio Pappano, Bernard Haitink, Seiji Osawa, Esa Pekka Salonen and Donald Runnicles.
On a lighter tone, Gabriella played with Tina Turner in occasion of her sixtieth birthday concert, as well as with with Sting, Phil Collins, Elton John at the Royal Albert Hall, and with Kasabian, The Petshop Boys, Faith SFX, and world champion DJ Switch!
Gabriella is committed to teaching and is Head of Harp Studies at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, where she teaches and mentors vibrant and enthusiastic young harpists and musicians. She has given lectures and masterclasses in harp scoring, extended techniques and new repertoires, and promotes contemporary music amongst audiences and students.
She has worked extensively in outreach and community projects and worked in hospitals and schools with LSO Discovery, City of London Sinfonia, Harefield Hospital, Old Brompton Hospital and Music for Life.