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Born in Mitilini and at the age of thirteen, he started studying music by
receiving guitar lessons from Andreas Avagianos, then ninety two years old,
a notable trumpet player at Athenian light operas. At 1977, whilst a
student at the Science and Mathematics Faculty of the University of
Thessaloniki, he continued his music studies at conservatories having as
teachers the following guitar players: Mironas Kenigalakis, Babis
Kourkoudialos, Dimitris Ioannou and Kostas Kotsiolis. He attended national
seminars in Cuba, Hungary and Greece by L. Brower and H. Kappel. At 1987 he
received
his guitar diploma with a unanimous «Excellent» grade.
He followed lessons of advanced theory by the composer Christos Samaras,
whose piece «Monologos» (monologue) he performed for the first time. He
attended a full course of «Music and Education» studies at the Music College
of Thessaloniki. In 1992 he created a seminar of «Musical and Educational
approach to the guitar» at the Modern Conservatory of Thessaloniki of which
he was a co founder.
He performed in theatrical plays of the «Experimental Scene» of Northern
Greece’s National Theatre and has also given individual recitals in Northern
Greek towns, performing programs of chamber music with the guitarist
Stergios Zigouras, the violinist Stergios Gargalas and the singer Georgia
Silaiou. He composed music for the plays «Poison of Theatre» and «Faidra»
for the theatrical scene «Leki Vethou».
He studied Byzantine Music with Eleftherios Georgiadis (1998 Diploma) and
was involved with traditional music by playing oud and dulcimer. Helped by
his studies of Mathematics, he attempted to give another interpretative
explanatory of the theoretical system of Greek music, using the monochord
canon as teaching tool. He was a founding member of the Traditional Music
School «EN CHORDAIS». At the same time, he played violoncello in the
learned oriental music ensemble «EN
HORDAIS», participating in concerts and recordings. He taught general music
at several conservatories in N. Greece and at the level of Secondary Music
Education. He researches, performs and keeps archives of the music of Lesbos.
Indeed at the same time he was a founder member of the band «ARNAMOUS» which
was active in Thessaloniki, studying and recreating the tradition of music
from Lesbos. He has cooperated with the program «Aegean Ark» of the Aegean
University and
participated in the collective publication «Aegean Crossroads / Lesbos
19th-20th
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