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Alexandros Mouzas

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Alexandros Mouzas (born 1962) is a Greek composer. He studied composition with Theodore Antoniou, advanced theory with Haris Xanthoudakis and electronic music with Dimitris Kamarotos. He has composed for various ensembles and has received commissions from organizations and orchestras. He has collaborated with the choreographer Konstantinos Michos and the Lathos Kinissi dance group in many productions, among them Trisha Never Left Home, Days of Vironas, Papageno and Calamity till the Dawn and with Airesis Dance Company. His professional activities include image-related music. He has written original music for short films, television series, documentaries and commercials for most of the Greek television channels. He was the artistic director of the Greek Section of the European programme New Media Edge Project (2003). In 2004, he composed under commission by the Athens 2004 Organizing Committee, original music for the Athens Olympic Games corporate videos. His recent professional activities include production management of various important CD releases of Greek orchestral music. He is the manager and founding member of the Ergon Ensemble. He runs his own production company, Anax – Cu

Alexis Agrafiotis

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Alexis Agrafiotis (born 1970) is a German-Greek composer, conductor and pianist. Life Alexis Agrafiotis was born the son of conductor Dimitris Agrafiotis and Evangelia Syngelakis. Soon after his birth in Salzburg, the family moved to Reutlingen, where his father became principal conductor of the . In 1978, the family moved to Ettlingen, where he attended primary school and the Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium Ettlingen. He attended the last two years of secondary school at the German School of Athens (Abitur 1989). He graduated in piano at the Athens Conservatory “Athenaeum” and studied Orchestra Conducting with Uros Lajovic and Composition with Erich Urbanner (magister artium 1995 and 1996) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He attended courses with Roland Seiffarth, Péter Eötvös and Karl Österreicher and was assistant to Gunther Schuller, Rüdiger Bohn and Hans Drewanz. Stations as a solo répétiteur and conductor took him to the theatres in Görlitz, Lübeck, Bern, the Zeitgenössische Oper Berlin and the Theater Bielefeld. From 2011 to 2017 he was engaged as director of studies and Kapellmeister at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg. Since December 2017, he has been engag

Antonios Liveralis

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Antonios Liveralis or Liberalis (Greek: Αντώνιος Λιβεράλης or Λιμπεράλης, Italian: Antonio Liberali; 1814 in Corfu – 1842 in Corfu) was a Greek conductor and composer of the early Ionian school. He was the son of Italian conductor Domenico Liberali and one of Nikolaos Mantzaros’ favorite students. He later continued his studies at the Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella in Naples. When he returned to Corfu he was joyfully received into the circle of national composers, where he was considered a musician of great talent. He then began working as assistant to his teacher Mantzaros, who left him very little time for his own compositions. He was among the first teachers of his younger brother Iosif and served as vice director of music to the Philharmonic Society of Corfu. Liveralis’ compositions are largely limited to minor forms. He wrote a series of fixed funeral marches, which were later published in two volumes. The march O Kambouris (Ο Καμπούρης, ‘The Hunchback’) achieved great popularity in Corfu. He also devoted himself to composing piano music and to the creation of a rich song repertoire. His one-act opera is the only sure finished work for the stage by the composer. He was b

Apostolos Paraskevas

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Apostolos Paraskevas is a Grammy nominated composer and guitarist. He was born in Volos, Greece. Parents of Apostolos were Panayiotis Paraskevas (1925-1990) and Chrysoula Paraskevas (1929-2002). Career Apostolos Paraskevas is a published recording artist and recently an award-winning Film Director/Producer. Gold Level Award at the 2010 California Film Awards, Silver Screen Award in the 2010 Nevada Film Festival. Classical Guitar Magazine/London acknowledged him as the only guitarist ever to have a major orchestral piece performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall and the international press as the only musician who performed at Carnegie Hall in a Grim Reaper’s outfit He has received five First Prizes in International Composition Competitions. “Lukas Foss” Composition Competition 2000/USA, “Pappaioanou Composition” 1997/Greece, as well as performing with Lukas Foss at Carnegie Hall, Paraskevas has performed at Weill Hall/New York, Wertheim Performing Arts Center/Miami, Jordan Hall/Boston, Capella Hall/Russia, and the Athens Concert Hall/Greece etc. His eclectic compositional style arises as an idiosyncratic integration of seemingly conflicting influences – from avant-garde approaches to h

Calliope Tsoupaki

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Calliope Tsoupaki (; born 27 May 1963) is a Greek pianist and composer. Biography Calliope Tsoupaki was born in Piraeus, Greece. She studied piano and music theory at the Hellinicon Conservatory in Athens and composition with Yannis Ioannidis. She continued her studies with Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, and graduated in 1992. After ending her studies, Tsoupaki settled in Amsterdam and began a career as a pianist and composer. Her works have been performed in Europe and in the United States and at international music festivals. In 1993 she lived and worked in Budapest on a three-month residency from the Pepinières Foundation for young artists. In 2007 she took a position teaching composition at Koninklijk Conservatorium. Since 2018 Calliope Tsoupaki is the composer laureate of the Netherlands. Works Selected works include: *Enigma for viola solo (1999) *Medea (Μήδεια) for viola and 3 female voices (1996); words by Euripides *When I Was 27 (Στα 27 μου χρόνια) for viola and double bass (1990) *Music for Saxophones *Greek Love Songs *Vita Nova chamber opera for solo voice, baroque violin, viola da gamba and harpsichord *Sappho’s Tears for female voice, tenor

Christos Hatzis

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Christos Hatzis (; born 1953) is a Juno Award-winning Greek-Canadian composer. Many of his compositions are performed internationally, and he is a professor at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. Early life and education Hatzis was born in Volos, Greece, and received his early music instruction at the Volos branch of the Hellenic Conservatory. He continued his musical studies in the United States, first at the Eastman School of Music (B.M 1976 and M.M 1977) and later at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo (PhD 1982). His composition teachers include Morton Feldman, Lejaren Hiller, Wlodzimierz Kotonski, Samuel Adler, Russell Peck, Joseph Schwantner and Warren Benson. Career Hatzis immigrated to Canada in 1982 and became a Canadian citizen in 1985. He composed music related to Christian spirituality, particularly his Byzantine heritage, and the Canadian Inuit culture. In addition to composing and teaching, Hatzis has written extensively about composition and contemporary music. He won the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music in 1996. In 1998, Hatzis received the Jean A. Chalmers National Music Award. He won two Juno Awards in 2006, including Best Classical

Dimitri Terzakis

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Dimitris Terzakis (; born March 12, 1938) is a Greek composer. His father was the author Angelos Terzakis. Biography Terzakis was born on March 12, 1938 in Athens. From 1959 to 1964, Terzakis studied composition with Yannis Papaioannou at the Athens Hellenic Conservatory, followed by five years spent at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, Germany where he studied composition with Bernd Alois Zimmermann and electronic music with Herbert Eimert. Works by Terzakis have been performed at the International Society for Contemporary Music Festival in Basel (1970), the Darmstadt Artists’ Colony summer courses (1970) and the Hamburg Das Neue Werk series (1972). He taught counterpoint and fugue (1974–94) and Byzantine music and composition (1989–94) at the Musikhochschule, Düsseldorf. In 1980, he began to organize summer courses in Western and south-eastern European music in Nafplion. In 1985–6 he was guest professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler. From 1994 to his retirement, he held the chair for composition at the Leipzig Felix Mendelssohn College of Music and Theatre. He has been a German citizen since 1985 and is living and composing in Leipzig, Germany, and Na

Dimitri Voudouris

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Dimitri Voudouris (Greek: Δημήτριος Βουδούρης), is an electroacoustic, new music composer, scientific researcher and pharmacist living in South Africa who pioneered UNYAZI,the first electronic music festival and symposium on the African continent in 2005 that took place at University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa. He lectures part-time at Witwatersrand University in electronic music composition. He composes for acoustic instruments, electronic sound sources, multimedia, including dance and theatre. He bases his technical and theoretical compositional approach in scientific research e.g. Study of traffic flow patterns, biochemical dynamics of energy formation, flow / resistance of fluids travelling through various transport systems, cognitive psycho-acoustic behavioural patterns in humans and the behaviour of sound in relationship to continued environmental changes. His sociocultural interests have led him to research the survival of music in the 21st century and the impact that media and technology have on the composer. These theories help to create moments of isolation allowing for the morphological study of each individual sound source, a strategic necessity

Dimitrios Levidis

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Dimitrios Levidis (; 8 April 1885 or 1886, Athens - 29 May 1951, Palaio Faliro) was a Greek composer, later naturalized French (1929). Background He descended from an aristocratic family with Byzantine roots in Constantinople. Levidis studied in Athens, Lausanne and Munich. His teachers included Friedrich Klose, Felix Mottl and Richard Strauss, the latter being his composition teacher from 1907 to 1908. Levidis won the Franz Liszt Prize for his Piano Sonata op.16. After a short period in Greece he settled in Paris (1910–1932), served in the French Army during World War I and took French nationality in 1929. Career He wrote abundantly, in many genres, with a refined technique combining Straussian harmony and Ravelian impressionism, also exploiting Greek modes, in an appealing style of greater homogeneity than that of many of his Greek contemporaries. Levidis was more impressed by Debussy’s harmonic brevity as shown in his last works. He was a notable experimenter with novel combinations and new instruments: His interest in new sounds led him to be among the first to write for the Ondes Martenot (his Poème symphonique, a modernistic Symphonic Poem for Electrical Instrument and Orches

Dimitris Dragatakis

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Dimitris Dragatakis (Greek: Δημήτρης Δραγατάκης; 22 January 1914 – 18 December 2001) was a Greek composer of classical music and Greek art music. He was born in Platanoussa, Epirus in 1914 and studied the violin from 1930 to 1939 at the Greek National Conservatory in Athens. Later on, he switched to the viola and from 1949 started composition lessons with Leonidas Zoras and Manolis Kalomiris, receiving his diploma in 1955. Chamber music for mixed ensembles Sources: ) *Dragatakis: Piano Works (complete) (Naxos 8.570789 ) *Dimitris Dragatakis: Chamber Music I (Irida Classical: IRIDA 001 ) *Ballades for saxophone and orchestra (along with works by Tomasi, Ravel, Piazzola and Iturralde) (Naxos 8.557454 ) External links *Dimitris Dragatakis Archive Official Website * Dragatakis biography at Naxos.com *“Dimitris Dragatakis” Music Grove Online article References

Dionysis Savvopoulos

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Dionysis Savvopoulos (; 2 December 1944 – 21 October 2025) was a Greek singer-songwriter. As a musician and songwriter, he made significant contributions to modern Greek music as part of the Greek New Wave. Early life and career Savvopoulos was born in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece, in a middle-class family. He passed his university entrance exams and enrolled in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki to study law, but after his first year of his studies, his passion for music and politics led to an argument with his father and he dropped out in 1963. Savvopoulos then hitchhiked on a truck to Athens and took various odd jobs, including working as a nude model for students in the Athens School of Fine Arts and as a journalist in a newspaper. In Athens, he began singing and playing guitar in various night clubs and became closely associated with the so-called Greek New Wave. Although Savvopoulos was not famed for his voice, his talent in songwriting impressed Alekos Patsifas, the director of the Lyra record company in Greece which was specializing in artists of the Greek New Wave, who signed him. Savvopoulos remained with this label until 1983. His debut album To Fortigho (“The

Eleni Karaindrou

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Eleni Karaindrou (; born 25 November 1939) is a Greek composer. She is best known for scoring the films of the Greek director Theo Angelopoulos. Biography Karaindrou moved with her family to Athens when she was eight years old, and she studied piano and theory at the Hellenikon Odeion (Hellenic Conservatory). She also attended history and archaeology classes at the university. During the time of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974 she lived in Paris, where she studied ethnomusicology and orchestration, and improvised with jazz musicians. Then she began to compose popular songs. In 1974 she returned to Athens where she established a laboratory for traditional instruments and broadcast a series on ethnomusicology on Radio 3 of the Greek national broadcasting company. In 1976 she started collaborating with ECM Records. This was a period of high productivity for her, during which she worked extensively on music for the theater and the cinema. Karaindrou has stated that her style emerged in working on soundtracks and that the relationship between images and movements created a new space for her to express emotions. Her first soundtrack album was released in 1979 for the movie Periplan

Eleni Lambiri

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Eleni Lambiri (, 9 February 1882 – 30 March 1960) was a Greek conductor and composer. She is often regarded as the first female Greek composer. After completing her studies, she worked in Milan as a conductor. On 15 January 1915 she registered the author’s rights of the opereta «Isolma», at the Milan regional registry (number of registry 64794). «Isolma» was an operetta in three acts fully composed and written by Eleni Lambiri. This opereta has been recorded in 1958, by Totis Karalivanos as conductor and Spiros Kapsaskis as choir director. In about 1925 she returned to Patras, Greece, where she worked as director of the Patras Conservatory until 1953. At the same time she wrote the music criticism for the local newspaper of Patras «Neologos Patron». She died at the Municipal Hospital of Athens. Works Selected works include: * To apokriatiko oneiro (A Dream in Carnival) 1913, opereta * Isolma 1915, opereta * Serenata for flute violin and viola * Symphony for large orchestra in B minor * Iratzi N, opera, in libretto L.Orsini References

Eugenia Manolidou

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Eugenia Karagiannidou (; born in Athens, Greece), better known as Eugenia Manolidou (Μανωλίδου) or Manolides, is a Greek classical composer, conductor and is married to politician and Minister for Health of Greece Adonis Georgiadis. Biography Eugenia Karagiannidou was born in Athens, Greece. Eugenia married painter Theodore Manolides, in 1995. They separated in 2002 but Theodore denied filing the divorce for quite a while. Afterward she lived with the editor, New Democracy party Vice President and former Minister Adonis Georgiades. She has given birth to 4 children, 2 of which with Theodore (Alexandros, 1996 and Olympia Theodora, 1998) and 2 with Adonis, called Perseus (2005) and Alcaeus (2014). Eventually Eugenia and Adonis got married on June 22, 2009. Education and career as conductor Eugenia Manolidou started piano lessons at the age of 5 and she kept practising all along, though her goal has always been composing. During her childhood, her father died. At some point, she paused her piano studies in Conservatory J.S. Bach, with Russian teacher Alla Halapsis. After graduation from high school, she began to study management but soon enough she pursued her dream overseas. In New Y

George-Emmanuel Lazaridis

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George-Emmanuel Lazaridis (born 1978, Thessaloniki, Greece) is a Greek classical pianist, composer and mentor. Biography Early life Born in Greece, Lazaridis started composing at the age of four. At the age of six, he began to attract public attention, appearing in various TV art programs and a special 45-minute radio broadcast on the Greek National Radio. Mentored by Yonty Solomon at the Royal College of Music in London, Lazaridis also worked with Alfred Brendel, Ruth Nye, Domna Evnouhidou, Paul Badura-Skoda, Noretta Conci Leech and Douglas Finch. Since the age of eleven, he has received prizes, honorary awards like the Jeunes Solistes D’ Europe and the Steinway & Sons Grand Prix, scholarships from the Hattori, Onasis and Levendis Foundations, the RCM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother award and the Chappell Medal 2000. He has also received a TCM Fellowship, medals from the prestigious Academy of Athens, the Worshipful Company of Musicians and many more. Solo performance and composition career Lazaridis enjoys an international career that has taken him from the United States and Mexico to Europe, Russia, Egypt, and the Middle East. During the past 20 years he has performed in some o

Georges Aperghis

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Georges Aperghis (; born 23 December 1945) is a Greek-French composer working primarily in the field of experimental music theater but has also composed a large amount of non-programmatic chamber music. Career Aperghis worked with Pierre Schaeffer and Iannis Xenakis and founded the music and theater company ATEM (Atelier Théâtre et Musique). He was a “composer in residence” in Strasbourg, France. In 2011 he was the first recipient of the Mauricio Kagel Music Prize. Aperghis is honored with the 2015 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Contemporary Music for his reinvention of music theater, using sound, gesture, space and technology and involving performers in the compositional process. Selected works * Il gigante Golia (1975/1990) for voice and orchestra * Histoire de loups (1976), opera * Récitations (1977–78) for solo voice * Le Corps à Corps (1978) for solo percussion (voice with Zarb) * En un tournemain (1987) for viola solo * Cinq Couplets (1988) for voice and bass clarinet * Triangle carré (1989) for string quartet and three percussionists * Simulacre (1991–95), series of four pieces for voice and small chamber groupings * Sextuor: L’Origine des espèces (1992), op

Georgia Spiropoulos

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Georgia Spiropoulos () (born in Greece, 1965) is a composer. She is also an arranger, instrumentalist, Biography She was born in Athens in 1965. “Marseille-Provence Cultural Capital of Europe 2013”, Sacem, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Paris and by herself. Her music has been released by Eole Records, Subrosa, Collection QB, ArsPublica labels and Conservatoire de Paris - Cité de la Musique. Performances and multimedia work Her works are performed internationally at Centre Pompidou, Cité de la Musique, IRCAM, Louvre Auditorium (Paris), Symphony Space (New York), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Radial System V (Berlin), Gasteig München (Munich), ZKM (Karlsruhe), AOI Concert Hall (Shizuoka), Pollack Hall, Le Gesù, Le Vivier (Montreal), Felicja Blumenthal Music Center, Hateiva Hall (Tel Aviv), Concert Hall of the Academy of Music (Krakow), Onassis Stegi, French Institut, and the Goethe Institut (Athens). She participated at festivals such as Manifeste, Agora, Ars Musica, enso Days Berlin, Présences - Radio France, Athens & Epidaurus Festival, In Transit - International Festival of Performing Arts - Berlin, Seamus, Extension, Musiques Libres de Besançon, Gegenwelten Festi

Georgios Poniridis

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Georgios Poniridis (26 September 1892 – 31 March 1982) was a Greek composer and violinist. Life and career Georgios Poniridis was born in Chalcedon in what is today Kadıköy, Turkey on 26 September 1892. In his youth he studied the violin and was influenced by the Byzantine music of the Eastern Orthodox Church. As a young adult he trained at the Brussels Conservatory where he was a pupil of Paul Gilson, Alfred Marchot (violin), and Michel Brusselmans (music theory, composition). This was followed by further studies at the Schola Cantorum de Paris with Vincent d’Indy (counterpoint) and Albert Roussel, and private studies in violin with Eugène Ysaÿe. In Paris he befriended Igor Stravinsky and Erik Satie. After completing his studies he worked as a violinist in Brussels, Paris, and Cologne in the 1920s and 1930s, and also conducted a choir in Paris. During this period he wrote art songs, chamber music, and works for solo piano in a French neo-classicism style which were published by Éditions Maurice Senart and Francis Salabert in France and Oxford University Press in London. In 1938 he moved to Greece where he had significant music posts with the Athens State Orchestra, the Ministry of

Giorgos Hatzinasios

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Giorgos Hatzinasios (also spelled Hadjinasios; , ; born 19 January 1942) is a Greek songwriter and composer. Early life Hatzinasios was born in Thessaloniki. His father was Agapios Hatzinasios, a native of Nigrita, Serres and a music professor of Thessaloniki’s State Conservatory and a renowned saxophonist. His mother was Anna Zografou, a native of Galatista in Chalkidiki. His paternal grandfather, also Georgios Hatzinasios and a graduate from the Phanar Greek Orthodox College, was a merchant and visited the Holy Land at a young age with his father, Athanassios. This is the source of the surname (‘Χατζής’ - Hajj and Αθανάσιος - Athanasios combined). His maternal grandfather, Themistoklis Zografos, was a hagiographer from Mount Athos. Giorgos Hatzinasios began piano lessons at the age of six at the Macedonian Conservatoire and later moved on to the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki and then the Athens Conservatoire. He later studied in Paris where he studied composition, orchestration and conducting. Career By the age of fourteen, he had already achieved notability as a pianist, with a particular interest in jazz and Greek music. Since 1972, he has achieved much recognition in Gree

Harilaos Perpessas

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Harilaos Perpessas (Greek: Χαρίλαος Περπέσσας) (10 May 1907 — 19 October 1995) was a Greek-German composer of the Postmodern period. Life and career Born to Greek parents in Leipzig, he moved to Berlin to study with Schönberg but opposed the latter’s compositional methods. More influential, as it turned out, was Berlin-based Nikos Skalkottas who urged Perpessas to emigrate to his parents’ homeland, which he did at the age of twenty-seven. He was to remain in Greece for fourteen years, through World War II, and gradually achieved success there as a composer, partly helped by conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos who championed his works. But in 1948 he moved decisively to the United States, settling in New York, where he enjoyed moderate success over a period of four decades and pursued a lifestyle of much seclusion. In 1992 he was transferred by friends to a residential home in Sharon, Massachusetts; there he died. Music Perpessas is seen as one of the first Greek composers to have moved away from the school of Musical Nationalism, often being grouped with Mitropoulos and Skalkottas. His orchestral works display chromatic polyphony and wide-leaping melodic lines with dramatic climaxes whic

Iannis Xenakis

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Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; , ; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and engineer. After 1947, he fled Greece, becoming a naturalised citizen of France eighteen years later. Xenakis pioneered the use of mathematical models in music such as applications of set theory, stochastic processes and game theory and was also an important influence on the development of electronic and computer music. He integrated music with architecture, designing music for pre-existing spaces, and designing spaces to be integrated with specific music compositions and performances. Among his most important works are Metastaseis (1953–54) for orchestra, which introduced independent parts for every musician of the orchestra; percussion works such as Psappha (1975) and Pléïades (1979); compositions that introduced spatialization by dispersing musicians among the audience, such as Terretektorh (1966); electronic works created using Xenakis’s UPIC system; and the massive multimedia performances Xenakis called polytopes, that were a summa of his intere

Jani Christou

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Jani Christou (, Giánnīs Chrī́stou; 8 or 9 January 1926 – 8 January 1970) was a Greek composer. Biography There is some disagreement about Christou’s birth, the date of which is given by some authorities as 8 January; while others state 9 January. Most sources agree that he was born in Heliopolis, Egypt, though one states he was born in Alexandria, and it has recently been reported that a birth certificate has been found stating that the composer was born in Nicosia, Cyprus, though this certificate is suspected of being a forgery. His parents were Eleutherios Christou, a Greek industrialist and chocolate manufacturer, and Lilika Tavernari, of Cypriot origin. He was educated at the English School in Alexandria and he took his first piano lessons from various teachers and from the important Greek pianist Gina Bachauer. In 1948 he gained an MA in philosophy after having studied with Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell in King’s College, Cambridge. During that time he also studied music with Hans Redlich (then living at Letchworth) and in 1949 travelled to Rome to study orchestration with Angelo Francesco Lavagnino. He briefly attended lectures by Carl Jung in Zurich. In 1951 he r

Konstantia Gourzi

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Konstantía Gourzí (Greek Κωνσταντία Γουρζή, born 31 March 1962 in Athens) is a Greek composer and conductor. She is professor of ensemble conducting and new music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. Life and studies Born in Athens, Konstantia Gourzi received her first piano lessons at the age of seven. At thirteen, she joined the conservatorium in Athens, where she studied composition and conducting as well as piano. From 1987 to 1992, she continued her studies at Hochschule der Künste Berlin. There, she founded her first ensemble attaca berlin. During her studies in Berlin, Konstantia Gourzi completed masterclasses with composers such as Péter Eötvös, Hans Werner Henze, Wolfgang Rihm, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Walter Zimmermann; and with conductors like Michael Gielen, Carlo Maria Giulini, Bernard Haitink, Giuseppe Sinopoli and Günter Wand. An important mentor was Diether de la Motte. From 1988 to 1992, Gourzi assisted Claudio Abbado with the Berliner Philharmoniker. From 1993 to 1996, she worked closely with György Kurtág. In 1992 and 1994 she was a laureate of Deutscher Musikrat and in 1995, she won second prize at the International Competition for Conductors of

Kostas Tournas

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Kostas Tournas (; born 23 September 1949 ) is one of the pioneers of modern Greek rock. He is a singer and composer of many hits in the ’70s including Ti Na Mas Kanei I Nychta (What Can The Night Do For Us). He shaped Greek rock music in the late ’60s along with groups such as Socrates Drank the Conium, Peloma Bokiou, Nostradamos and Hexadactylos. He is also one of the founder members of the pioneering Greek rock group Poll along with Robert Williams. Tournas along with Robert Williams and Stavros Logarides, as members of the legendary rock group Poll, created a music wave which met with great success and took the music scene of Athens under the colonels by storm. Their music resonated with the young and created songs which still remain in the history of Greek rock. His 1972 progressive-psychedelic solo album, rock opera Aperanta Horafia (Infinite Fields), is considered a landmark of Greek rock and an act of resistance against the junta which ruled Greece at the time. His songs often deal with Space and Time and one of his greatest hits from his album Astroneira (Star Dreams) was I Michani Tou Chronou (The Machine of Time). Tournas was included in the electoral list of New Democrac

Lila Lalauni

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Lila Lalauni (; 9 June 1918 – 12 February 1996) was a Greek pianist and composer who frequently performed in Greece and around Europe. She was also the first person to teach Manolis Kalomiris’ Symphonic Concerto for piano and orchestra. Early life and education Lila Lalauni was born on 9 June 1918 in Athens and was the daughter of music critic Alexandra Lalauni (1894–1974) and musician Alexandros Xanthopoulou. She was the granddaughter of composer Timotheos Xanthopoulos (c. 1864–1942). She expressed a talent for music at an early age and became a piano child prodigy. From the age of six, she began studying piano in Vienna. Three years later, aged nine, Lalauni performed as a soloist with the Vienna Symphony orchestra as well as performing with the Athens Conservatory Symphony orchestra aged twelve. From 1927 to 1930 she studied piano at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and then afterwards studied composition under Robert Konta, before graduating from the academy in 1934. Afterwards, Lalauni travelled to Paris where she was taught to play the organ by Marcel Dupré. She was also taught by the composer Karl Weigl and the pianist Artur Schnabel. Career Lalauni made her debut as a concer

Manos Hatzidakis

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Manos Hatzidakis (also spelled Hadjidakis; ; 23 October 1925 – 15 June 1994) was a Greek composer and theorist of Greek music, widely regarded as one of the greatest Greek composers of all time. He was one of the main proponents of the “éntekhno” form of music, along with Mikis Theodorakis, and he is credited as the founder of the Orchestra of Colours, an ensemble performing lesser-known works and the music of Greek composers, and influenced a broad swathe of Greek culture through his writings and radio broadcasts. With his theoretical and compositional work, he is considered to be the first to connect post-war the worded music with traditional music. In 1960, Hatzidakis won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for “Never on Sunday” from the film Never on Sunday, but he refused the award because he felt that Athens was misrepresented in the film. Early life Emmanouil Hatzidakis () was born on 23 October 1925 in Xanthi, Greece, to lawyer Georgios Hatzidakis, who came from the village of Myrthios, Agios Vasileios, in the Rethymno prefecture in Crete; and Aliki Arvanitidou, who came from Adrianoupolis. The family prospered from sales of tobacco grown locally, but the boy’s father d

Margaritis Kastellis

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Margaritis Kastellis (Castellis) () (1907–1972 ) was a Greek composer and army officer known for his work in military music. His arrangement and adaptation of the Hymn to Liberty for military band is still played Greece today. He was born in Chrysoupoli (a city in northern Greece) and died in Athens. He joined the Greek Army at an early age, as a musician, and upon completion of a full career, he left with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, having served as Chief Inspector of Military Bands nationwide. Selected works Compositions For orchestra *Introduction and Round Dance from Epirus *Prelude and Dance from Epirus *Greek Dances (on motives taken from Greek Island tunes) For military band *Introduction and Round Dance from Epirus *On the Mountain Slopes of Zagori *The Booted Eagle *Thessaly (march) Chamber music *Little Suite for clarinet and bassoon *Elegy for two clarinets Piano music *Greek Dances *Little Greek Suite (4 hands) Songs *Listen to my Secret *The Hazelnut Tree *The Sailor *The Shepherdess’ Lover *The Heart of a Woman (for 4 voices) Arrangements and transcriptions For Orchestra *Little Lemon Tree *The Zalongo Dance *Vassiliki (Gives the Orders) *Farewell, ye Fair Maids *

Marielli Sfakianaki

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Marielli Sfakianaki-Manolidou (born 12 January 1945) is a Greek writer, singer and composer. Biography Marielli Sfakianaki was born in Athens, Greece, the daughter of Cretan pianist, composer and musicologist Kostas Sfakianakis. She studied vocal music and graduated from the Athens Conservatory in 1971. Her daughter is composer Tatiana Manolidou. Works Sfakianaki composes opera, orchestral and sacred choral music. Selected works include: *To mikro kai to megalo i kai t’ antitheta *The MINOS opera *Cretan tale opera She wrote the novel Echoes which received an award from the Society of Greek Writers in 1984. References

Michalis Souyioul

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Michail Sougioultzoglou ( ; 1 August 1906 – 16 October 1958), known professionally as Michalis Souyioul ( ) was a prominent Greek composer of light music in the early 20th century. Biography He was born in Aydın, in the Ottoman Empire on 1 August 1906. His family were wealthy skinners. They emigrated to Athens in 1920. He was a relative of well-known Greek photographer Nelly’s. He initially worked as a self-employed pianist and later went to Marseille to study music. From 1931, he toured Europe with an Argentinian orchestra. During the Interwar period and the 1950s, he was extremely prolific, writing over 700 songs in different styles (tango, waltz, serenades, folk, laiko, romances amongst others). He composed also music for the Greek theatre (45 productions) and for Greek movies (ten films). His compositions were among some of the most popular pieces of the time. He co-worked with some of the most well-known lyricists (such as Alekos Sakellarios) and singers (Sofia Vembo, Nikos Gounaris, Tony Maroudas, Kalouta sisters, Stella Greka) of the time. Souyioul had four children: daughters Maria, Iro and Aliki and son Thanos. Thanos (born 1942) was an actor (who worked alongside famous a

Miguel Ablóniz

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Miguel Ablóniz, also known as Michelis Ablonitis (29 May 1917 – 19 July 2001) was a Greek-Italian guitarist and composer who composed and performed in diverse styles, including classical and Bossa Nova. Career Ablóniz began playing the guitar at the age of eight in self-study. He began his musical career as a teenager when he appeared on the radio and gave concerts in Cairo. Later he studied music theory, piano, violin and guitar at the Barcelona Conservatory. He was taught by Emilio Pujol, Juan Díaz del Moral, and Pujol’s wife Matilde Cuervas, from whom he learned to play flamenco. After he moved to Italy, he initially continued his career as a concertizing musician, but in 1953 he founded his own music school in Milan. He also taught the master class at the School of Music at Ithaca College in New York City for many years. He had great success as a teacher: his ideas on technique and performance aesthetics proved influential in the international guitar scene; he held renowned annual masterclasses in New York, and was the teacher of musicians such as Aldo Minella and Riccardo Zappa. As a composer, he collaborated mainly with the publishing houses Casa Ricordi and Bèrben. Among his

Mikis Theodorakis

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Michail “Mikis” Theodorakis ( ; 29 July 1925 – 2 September 2021) He scored for the films Zorba the Greek (1964), Z (1969), and Serpico (1973). He was a three-time BAFTA nominee, winning for Z. For the score in Serpico, he earned Grammy nominations. Furthermore, for the score to Zorba the Greek, with its song “Zorba’s Dance”, he was nominated for a Golden Globe. He composed the “Mauthausen Trilogy”, also known as “The Ballad of Mauthausen”, which has been described as the “most beautiful musical work ever written about the Holocaust” and possibly his best work. Up until his death, he was viewed as Greece’s best-known living composer. He was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize. Politically, he was associated with the left because of his long-standing ties to the Communist Party of Greece (KKE). He was an MP for the KKE from 1981 to 1990. Despite this, however, he ran as an independent candidate within the centre-right New Democracy party in 1989, for the country to emerge from the political crisis created by the numerous scandals of the government of Andreas Papandreou. He helped establish a large coalition between conservatives, socialists and leftists. In 1990, he was elected to the parl

Nicolas Panagopoulos

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Nicolas Panagopoulos (born 1954, in Athens) is a Greek composer of contemporary music. He studied piano and music theory at the National Conservatory of Athens. He continued his studies with a scholarship from the French government at the National Superior Conservatory of Paris for Music and Dance (CNSMDP). Studies He studied music analysis with Betsy Jolas (1973–1975), electroacoustic music with Pierre Schaeffer (1975–1978) and composition with Olivier Messiaen (1974–1978). He received a first place award for composition unanimously by the jury. Additional studies * Acoustic courses in the laboratory of E. Leip at the University of Jussieu Paris VI * Seminars on “Image and Sound” at the École Normale of Paris * Practical training in composition and computer music at IRCAM (Institute de recherche et coordination acoustique/musique) * Orchestral conducting at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg with Jean-Sébastien Béreau Music In 1979, subsidized by the French Ministry of Culture, Panagopoulos conducted research on new music notation and dealt with the potential relations between vision and hearing, a method adapted on his compositions. One of his most significant works is Five Seasons

Nikolaos Mantzaros

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Nikolaos Chalikiopoulos Mantzaros ( ; ; 26 October 1795 – 12 April 1872) was a Greek-Italian composer, born in Corfu. He was a major representative and founder of the so-called Ionian school of music (Επτανησιακή Σχολή). Recent research and performances have led to a re-evaluation of Mantzaros as a significant composer and music theorist. Biography Mantzaros was of noble Greco-Italian descent, coming from one of the most important and wealthy Venetian families of the “Libro d’Oro” di Corfu and therefore he never considered himself a “professional composer”, The first and second stanzas were adopted initially in 1864 as the Royal Anthem of Greece and on 28 June 1865 as the Greek national anthem. However, recent research and performances have proved that Mantzaros had broader activities as a significant composer and music theorist, which go beyond the established perception of him as the mere composer of the National Anthem. Recordings * Mantzaros-Solomos: The Hymn to the Liberty (Lyra, CD0064, 1991) * Music of the Ionian School. N.Mantzaros, N.Lambelet, P.Carrer (Motivo, NM1049, 1996). The ‘Nikolaos Mantzaros Chamber Music Ensemble’ performing arrangements from piano Sinfonias by Ma

Nikos Gounaris

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Nikos Gounaris (; 1915 – 5 May 1965) was a Greek tenor who was enormously popular as a light music singer in the 1950s. Biography Gounaris was born in 1915 in Zagora. He began playing the mandolin at the age of four. He attended the Athens Conservatoire. Gounaris was a Greek elafró/light music singer and among the foremost Greek composers and musicians of the 1950s and 1960s. He was especially popular in the Greek community in America. A great deal of his entertainment was at two Greek resorts in the Catskills in upstate NY, the Sunset and the Monte Carlo. He mainly sang about the sad side of love and betrayed lovers. Hit songs included “Ena vradi pou ‘vrehe,” “Glikia mou matia agapimena,” and “Omorfi Athina”. He composed about 400 songs and played with the Trio Bel Canto during the 1960s. He died in 1965 in Athens of cancer. Famous songs *Αγάπη μου όμορφη - My beautiful love *Από τότε, την Άνοιξη - Since then, in Springtime *Αυτός ο άλλος - That other man *Γλυκά μου μάτια αγαπημένα - My sweet, beloved eyes *Είναι αργά πια τώρα να χωρίσουμε - It’s too late for us to split up *Εκεί ψηλά στον Άη-Λια - On top of St Elias’ hill *Ένα βράδυ που ‘βρεχε - On a rainy night *Θυμήσου - Rememb

Nikos Papazoglou

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Nikolaos “Nikos” Papazoglou (in Greek: Νίκος Παπάζογλου; 20 March 1948 – 17 April 2011) was a Greek singer-songwriter, musician, and producer from Thessaloniki. Papazoglou began performing in a number of Greek local groups in the 1960s. In 1972, he moved to Aachen, Germany with the group Zilotis (, “Zealot”) in an attempt to break into the international music scene. The group recorded six songs in Milan, Italy. Shortly afterwards, he returned to Greece. In 1976, Greek songwriter Dionysis Savvopoulos invited him to participate in Acharnees, a cycle of songs and stage acts based on the ancient comedy The Acharnians by Aristophanes. There Papazoglou met Manolis Rasoulis and in 1978 the two, along with Dionysis Savvopoulos and Nikos Xydakis, produced the influential Ekdikisi Tis Gyftias (, “Revenge of the Gypsies”). The work received critical acclaim. Papazoglou and Rasoulis cooperated the following year on another successful work, Ta Dithen (Τα δήθεν, “The so-called”). Since 1984 the artist organized his tours by himself. He and his band known as Loxi falaga (, “Oblique order”), played in small venues in villages and on small islands, gaining huge popularity with the general public. H

Petros Tabouris

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Petros Tabouris (born 1964) () is a Greek musician, composer, and musicologist, known for his contributions to the preservation and interpretation of ancient and traditional Greek music. Biography Petros Tabouris was born in Athens in 1964 and studied both music and information technology (the latter at the National Technical University of Athens). From a very young age he showed an interest in Greek music and instruments used in popular music. After discovering Byzantine ecclesiastical music and the theory of Greek popular music, and meeting musicians, he became involved in composition and research. Works In the 90s, Tabouris released many records in Greece and in Europe and has made a study of ancient and medieval/post-Byzantine music and instruments used in Greek popular music. He has experimented in the reproduction of ancient Greek instruments and their playing techniques. He has supervised series of digitally remastered 78 rpm recordings of Greek light music, rebetiko, Smyrna and folk songs, and has worked on recordings of traditional music of Balkan peoples and Greek folk songs. At the same time, he has released his own songs to lyrics by Thodoris Gonis in two song cycles, a

Spyridon Xyndas

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Spyridon Xyndas or Spiridone Xinda (; June 8, 1812 – November 25, 1896) was a Greek composer and virtuoso guitarist. His last name has also been transliterated as “Xinta”, “Xinda”, “Xindas” and “Xyntas”. Biography Xyndas was born in Corfu in 1812. In 1823, he was a student of Nikolaos Mantzaros in music theory. After the completion of his studies in Corfu, he continued them in Naples and Milan under various teachers including Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli. This was the first full-scale opera based on a libretto in Greek and the only one of Xyndas’ operas that exists today. The libretto was written by Ioannis Rinopulos (with contributions by Nikolaos Makris and Xyndas himself) and it was performed at the Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfù. Its seemingly comic plot is a severe criticism regarding the living conditions of the Ionian Islands’ rural society, against the morality of the indigenous politicians, both during the period under British occupation (1815–1864) and after it. Xyndas also composed other operatic works, the most notable of which was Anna Winter (based on Dumas’ The Three Musketeers), which is the earliest use of a Dumas work in the modern Greek theatre. The 1888, th

Stavros Xarchakos

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Stavros Xarchakos (Greek: Σταύρος Ξαρχάκος ; born 14 March 1939) is a Greek composer and conductor. Internationally he is known as the composer for the Rembetiko film score, composing the music for the Werner Herzog film Signs Of Life, and composing the music for the 1983 BBC TV mini series, The Dark Side of the Sun. Biography Stavros Xarchakos was born in Athens, where he studied at the Athens Conservatoire. He has family origins from the Mani Peninsula. He emerged in the Greek music scene around 1963, composing music for the theatre and cinema. Among his collaborators was lyricist Lefteris Papadopoulos and singer Nikos Xylouris. In 1967, he went to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger. He stayed in Paris for four years, and then studied with David Diamond at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. He served as director of the National Orchestra of Greek Music. He was later involved in politics and was elected Member of the Greek Parliament twice, before becoming a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2000 to 2004. He was again a candidate for the European Parliament with New Democracy, in the elections of 25 May 2014, but was not elected. References External links * *

Takis Mousafiris

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Takis Mousafiris (; 1936 – 11 March 2021) was a Greek composer, lyricist and songwriter. He collaborated with several notable Greek singers such as Stratos Dionysiou, Dimitris Mitropanos, Rita Sakellariou and Tolis Voskopoulos, among others. He sometimes used two pseudonyms for his works, Antonis Zannas () and Nikos Michael (). although he later moved to Athens, feeling great affinity for both cities. Mousafiris was an ethnic Aromanian, with his parents originating from ethnic Aromanian villages. Mousafiris stated on an interview that traditional Aromanian music influenced him and that both of his parents played musical instruments. from a cancer he had been fighting against for 6 months. He had been diagnosed with COVID-19 shortly before and managed to recover from it prior to his death, according to a statement from Mousafiris’ family. References

Thanasis Deligiannis

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Thanasis Deligiannis (; born 1983) is a Greek transdisciplinary artist, composer, and director based in Amsterdam. His work blends installation and performance, acoustic and electronic music, urban and rural culture. Early life and education Thanasis Deligiannis was born in Larissa, Greece. He studied composition and music theatre at the Department of Music Science and Art at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, with Dimitris Terzakis, Giorgos Kyriakakis, and Sofia Karakantza. In 2007 he moved to the Netherlands to pursue his Master’s degree in composition with Wim Henderickx at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, part of the Amsterdam University of the Arts. Career Deligiannis’ work that combines music, performance and visual composition has been described in the NRC Handelsblad noting that his creative process “does not begin with a sound idea, but with images”. In 2013, Deligiannis and colleagues, co-founded Foundation I/O, a platform for interdisciplinary art and research. He collaborated with theatre director and archaeologist Efthimis Theou on works situated at the intersection of performance and archaeology. Their project The Meal, first presented at the Neolithic site

Thanos Mikroutsikos

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Athanasios “Thanos” Mikroutsikos (; 13 April 1947 – 28 December 2019) was a Greek composer and politician. He is considered one of the most important composers of the recent Greek musical scene. Biography Personal life He was born on 13 April 1947 in Patra. He was the older brother of Andreas Mikroutsikos, who is also a musician/composer and a television show host. His wife was children’s author Maria Papagianni, whom he married in 1996. He died on 28 December 2019, after a long fight with cancer, at age 72. Music He studied piano and composition in the Philharmonic Society of Patras, in the Hellenic Conservatory, and privately with Yiannis Papaioannou. In addition, he studied Mathematics in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He began composing at the end of the 1960s but only officially debuted in 1975, with the release of his album Politika Tragoudia (‘Political Songs’). He continued on this compositional path, setting to music the poems of Giannis Ritsos, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Manos Eleftheriou and Bertold Brecht, amongst others. His albums Kantata gia ti Makroniso (Cantata for Makronisos), Fouente Ovehouna (Fuenteovejuna), Troparia gia Foniades (Hymns for Murder

Theodore Antoniou

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Theodore Antoniou (, Theódoros Andoníou; February 10, 1935 – December 26, 2018), was a Greek composer and conductor. His works vary from operas and choral works to chamber music, from film and theatre music to solo instrumental works. In addition to his career as composer and conductor, he was professor of composition at Boston University. His education included studies in violin, voice, and composition at the National Conservatory of Athens, the Hellenic Conservatory, and conducting at both The Hochschule für Musik and the International Music Centre in Darmstadt. He was a member of the Academy of Athens. In 2004, he was awarded the Herder Prize from the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S. Career Antoniou was born in Athens, Greece. He held teaching positions at Stanford University, the University of Utah, and the Philadelphia Musical Academy. He was professor among the composition staff at Boston University, where he served since 1978. He also led and conducted the new music ensemble Alea III, which holds residence at Boston University. The ensemble performs frequently with new and premiering compositions, has worked with numerous renowned artists, and has toured Europe on numerous occ

Titos Xirellis

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Stavros Xirellis, known as Titos () (27 March 1898 - 24 January 1985) was a Greek operatic baritone and composer. Xirellis was a native of , Lesbos; the date of his birth is uncertain. He was born into a poor family, the son of a blacksmith. Early in life he was a cantor; he also took violin lessons in Mytilene before traveling to Athens for study at the Conservatory, where his vocal instructor was Nina Foka. Other instructors there included Philoctetes Economides, for harmony, and Armand Marsik, for theory, with whom he worked from 1917 until 1919. In the latter year he began studies with George Lombianikos, with whom he stayed until 1920. Throughout this time he remained a pupil of Foka. Xirellis graduated from the Conservatory with a Gold Medal for Excellence in Solo Work and Opera in 1920. Originally intending to be a tenor, he debuted instead as a baritone in 1918 with the Kyparissis troupe. Two years later he bowed at the Greek National Opera in the title roles of Rigoletto and Der fliegende Holländer. A scholarship allowed him in 1925 to move to Milan where he undertook lessons with Giuseppe Borghi; he also studied in Berlin with Mattia Battistini from 1926 to 1928, and was

Tolis Voskopoulos

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Apostolos “Tolis” Voskopoulos (; 26 July 1940 – 19 July 2021 ) was a Greek singer. He was renowned for his mastery of laika, a Greek music style. He also starred in many films and played in the theatre in Athens. One of Voskopoulos’ greatest theatrical hits was Oi Erastes tou Oneirou (Dream Lovers), which he performed opposite Zoe Laskari. Voskopoulos was married to former minister Antzela Gerekou. Discography This is a partial list of Tolis Voskopoulos’ discography: Albums *1967: Doukissa & Voskopoulos – Anamnisis *1968: Agonia *1970: Adelphia Mou, Alites, Poulia *1970: Se Iketevo *1971: Mia Agapi *1972: Stigmes Agapis *1972: Tolis Voskopoulos (Stichimatizo) *1973: As Imaste Realiste *1974: Marinella & Voskopoulos *1974: Marinella & Tolis Voskopoulos - Ego Ki’ Esy *1975: Ego Ti Eho Ke Ti Tha ‘Ho *1976: Smyrneika Ke Laika *1976: Otan Tragoudo *1977: Ine To Kati Pou Meni *1977: I Anamnisis Xanagyrizoune *1978: Tragouda Theatrine! *1979: Mera Nihta Pantou *1980: 80 *1981: Kardia Mou Moni *1982: Den Thelo Na Thimame *1983: Eisai Dikia Mou *1984: O Tolis Voskopoulos Tragouda Manoli Chioti (Perasmenes Mou Agapes) *1985: Tote *1985: Tora *1986: Ametrita Giati *1987: 16 Ap’ Ta Oraiotera T

Vangelis

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Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (, ; 29 March 1943 – 17 May 2022), mainly known professionally as Vangelis ( ; , ; also credited as Vangelis Papathanassiou), was a Greek composer, arranger, performer and record producer. He released material of wide musical genres such as electronic music, progressive rock, ambient, and classical orchestral music. He is primarily known for his film scores, composing the Academy Award-winning score to Chariots of Fire (1981), as well as composing the scores of (among many) Blade Runner (1982), Missing (1982), Antarctica (1983), The Bounty (1984), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), and Alexander (2004), and the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan. Born in Agria and raised in Athens, Vangelis began his career in the 1960s as a member of the rock bands the Forminx and Aphrodite’s Child; the latter’s album 666 (1972) is recognised as a progressive-psychedelic rock classic. Vangelis settled in Paris and gained initial recognition for his scores to the Frédéric Rossif animal documentaries , , and . He released his first solo albums during this time and performed as a solo artist. In 1975, Vangelis relocated to London, whe

Vassilis Tsabropoulos

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Vassilis Tsabropoulos (in Greek: Βασίλης Τσαμπρόπουλος) is a Greek pianist, conductor, and composer. Career Tsabropoulos’s initial training was in classical piano. As a child prodigy, he won the UNISEF Competition. He studied at National Conservatory of Athens, from which he graduated with honours at the age of fifteen, having received a scholarship from Alexandro’s Onassis Foundation. He continued to study at the Paris Conservatory, the International Music Academy of Salzburg and the Juilliard School. He has performed with the London Philharmonia and Czech Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Vladimir Ashkenazy in piano concertos of Beethoven and Rachmaninoff. In October 2019, he performed Beethoven’s Emperor piano concerto and Mozart’s concerto No. 20, appearing both as a soloist and as conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London. Tsabropoulos has collaborated with the German cellist Anja Lechner, performing classic repertoire and his compositions. Tsabropoulos and Lechner achieved significant recognition for their two albums, Chants Hymns and Dances (2004) and Melos (2008). He has formed a piano duet with Vovka Ashkenazy, playing concerts in France, Iceland and

Yanni

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Yiannis Chryssomallis After touring with Chameleon from 1980 to 1984, Without financial backing, Yanni risked $2 million of his personal fortune in the Acropolis production Yanni later related that he had become depressed, and returned to Greece to live with his parents for three months before traveling the world. Influences, music and concerts Musical influences From childhood, Yanni accepted a wide variety of musical styles, listening to radio stations from Northern Africa, Arab countries, and Europe. two videos for which topped Billboard’s Top Facebook Live Videos chart before other Yanni videos topped the same chart in October December 2019, and February 2020. Honors, awards and distinctions In addition to performing at venues such as Royal Albert Hall (London; 1995 & 2014), Yanni has performed at such world landmarks as the Acropolis of Athens (Greece; 1993), the Taj Mahal (Agra, India; 1997), the Forbidden City (Beijing, China; 1997), the Burj Khalifa (the world’s tallest building; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; 2011), the Kremlin (Moscow, Russia; 2011), the Castillo San Felipe del Morro (“El Morro” UNESCO World Heritage Site, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, U.S. territory; 2011), th

Yannis Markopoulos

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Yannis Markopoulos (; 18 March 1939 – 10 June 2023) was a Greek composer. Biography Early life and education Yannis Markopoulos was born in 1939 in Heraklion, Crete. Born into one of the old families of the island — his father was an attorney and later a Prefect — he spent his childhood in the seaside town of Ierapetra. The Byzantine liturgy heard regularly from the church opposite his family home, Cretan traditional music, with its rapid dances of repeated small motifs, played by local instruments at the town’s weekly festivities, but at the same time the sound of the waves, and the detonation of land-mines in the aftermath of World War II, all these formed part of the acoustic universe of the composer as a child. He took his first lessons in music theory and the violin at the local conservatory and played the clarinet in the municipal band. Other musical experiences of importance were classical music as well as the music of the wider Eastern Mediterranean and that of nearby Egypt, which he heard either over the radio or from musicians and travellers passing through his hometown. Due to his father’s extensive private library he had the opportunity to deepen his knowledge, beyond s

Yorgos Foudoulis

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Yorgos Foudoulis is a Greek classical guitarist and composer. His professional activities include performing, master classes, editing, and recording. He is the director of the Examination Center of Trinity College London in Volos, Greece, and the conservatory bearing his name. Yorgos Foudoulis is also the president of the International Examination board / center of the International Art Academy in Volos. He is an artistic director in the Winter Guitar Festival of Volos and the Porto Heli International Guitar Festival, and chairman of the International Art Society. Biography Foudoulis was born in Volos, Thessaly, Greece. He obtained his Teaching Diploma from the Philharmonic Conservatory of the Municipality of Volos and his Soloist Diploma from the New Conservatory of Music in Thessaloniki by Costas Kotsiolis. He also obtained his postgraduate diploma, Fellowship Diploma of Trinity College London (FTCL). As a young guitarist, he won many first prizes in international guitar competitions and attended a number of seminars including those with Leo Brouwer, Alirio Diaz, and David Russell. He has given many concerts in Greece as well as abroad (Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Bulgaria,