born in Athens, he studied piano, advanced theory, jazz improvisation-composition, musicology and english literature.
he has performed with Athens and Attikon conservatory orchestras, OMA and Tirana SO, and has appeared as pianist-accompanist @ Pallas, Parnassos, Evelpidon, M. Merkouri, A. Minotis, PKDN, PKDK, PKDA, PKNI and TEI concert halls.
since 1998 he has held professorships & assistant professorships @ Deree College, Ziridis, D - Tsettos & 16th Aigaleo schools, Nakas, Apollon and I. Sygelaki conservatories.
he has attended a great number of master classes in piano performance, chamber music and conducting.
In 2006 he was accepted by prestigious US & UK music institutions for MPhil/PhD work. meanwhile, he founds the group Apollo Players with recording & live concert engagements.
He shares his free time composing & studying music, film music, discography, drama, poetry & philosophy
education
2006 FRCM Candid 2004 BAMus (hons), musicology 2001 BALitt, english literature 1998 Ptychion, radars 1997 HonPianoDip 1996 TheoryCert 1994 PianoCert
further education
2006 conducting
1991 jazz composition/improvisation, markos alexiou
affiliated institutions
institute of piano art attikon conservatory london college of music lcm royal schools of music rsm music colors conservatory sygelaki conservatory apollon conservatory nakas conservatory st martin’s college deree college acg
distinguished tutors
giorgos tryfonas, dimitris toufexis, danae kara, marcos alexiou, ioannis christophilos, vasilis dellios, marios molandonis, tatiana papageorgiou, efi minacouli, theodoros haralabopoulos
influencing mentors
dionissis psilopoulos, miltos gikas, leslie jones, mary economou, nikos falagas
references
dimitris toufexis, danae kara, ioannis christophilos, ioannis mandronis, evgenia stasinopoulou, erato tsettos, natalie tsaldarakis, bernard archontides