EU Ambassador Stavros Lambrinidis Gala Event

One day, two events

The European American Chamber of Commerce Texas

is honored to present

EU Texas Economic Leadership Forum

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The Debate Chamber at Old Parkland        8am to 12pm

&

EACC Texas Ambassador’s Gala

Belo Mansion & Pavillion     6:30pm VIP Reception      7:30pm Gala Dinner (Black tie optional)

Guest of Honor & Keynote Speaker

His Excellency, Stavros Lambrinidis

Ambassador of the European Union to the United States

Honorary Chair

Ambassador Jeanne L. Phillips

Former Ambassador to the OECD & Senior Vice President, Hunt Consolidated, Inc.

Mark Markham, Pianist

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HE Stavros Lambrinidis is Ambassador of the EU to the United States as of March 1, 2019. From 2012 to February 2019, he served as the European Union Special Representative for Human Rights.In 2011, he was Foreign Affairs Minister of Greece. Between 2004 and 2011, he was twice elected Member of the European Parliament (MEP) with the Greek Social Democratic Party (PASOK). He served as Vice-President of the European Parliament (2009-11), Vice-President of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee (2004-09), and Head of the PASOK Delegation (2005-11). Between 2000 and 2004, he was Director-General of the International Olympic Truce Centre, an International Olympic Committee organization. He served as Ambassador ad personam of the Hellenic Republic (1999-2004); Secretary-General of the Greek Foreign Ministry, responsible for Expatriate Greeks (1996-99); and Chief of Staff to the Greek Foreign Minister (1996). Between 1988 and 1993 he worked as an Attorney at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C., specializing in international trade, transactions, and arbitration. Mr. Lambrinidis was born in Athens, Greece in 1962. He studied Economics and Political Science at Amherst College (Bachelor of Arts degree, 1984) and Law at Yale Law School (Juris Doctor degree, 1988), where he was also Managing Editor of The Yale Journal of International Law. He is a 1980 graduate of the Athens College High School in Greece. He is married and has a daughter.

Mark Markham, Pianist

Pianist Mark Markham is equally at home as a soloist, a collaborator with great singers, a chamber musician, a jazz pianist, or a vocal coach, and his interpretations have been praised by the public and press alike. His international career encompasses performances in North and South America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, while the artistry of his playing has been described as “brilliant”, “exquisitely detailed” and “in full service to the music”.

Starting in 1995 for twenty seasons, Mr. Markham was the recital partner of American Opera Singer Jessye Norman, giving nearly 300 performances in thirty countries, including recitals in Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Philharmonie in Berlin, La Palau de la Musica in Barcelona, London’s Royal Festival Hall, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Salzburg Festival, Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo, Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv, the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus in Greece, the Baalbek Festival at the Temple of Bacchus in Lebanon, and at the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize presentation to President Jimmy Carter in Oslo. His recording with Jessye Norman of “Roots: My Life, My Song” was nominated for a Grammy Award.

In the 2021-22 season Markham begins with a solo recital, “Dances and Improvisations” and a recital with soprano Leah Crocetto for the Lexington Bach Festival. In October he opens Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra’s season with the Prokofiev Piano Concerto no 3 and then heads to Honolulu for a solo recital and a vocal recital for the Alliance Française of Hawaii. November he gives a special solo performance in Dallas for a gala evening honoring the European American Chamber of Commerce, a benefit concert for his foundation Singing in Sicily and then recitals with Limmie Pulliam in Kingsport TN and Baltimore. Born in Pensacola, Florida, Mr. Markham made his debut in 1980 as soloist with the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra and in the same year was invited by the renowned Boris Goldovsky to coach opera at the Oglebay Institute.

A former faculty member of Morgan State University, the Britten-Pears School in England, and the Norfolk Chamber Festival of Yale University, he has presented master classes for pianists and singers throughout the US, Europe, and Asia and has been a guest lecturer for the Metropolitan Opera Guild and the Johns Hopkins University. Mr. Markham currently resides in New York City.

Learn More: markmarkhampianist.com

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