Paxos Festival

Artist Category: Festival 2019

Nikos Ziaziaris

Nikos Ziaziaris is a Greek performer born in 1987. He studied piano, harmony of music and monody. He has also attended acting and dancing lessons. He plays the accordion and the soprano recorder. He has a variety of participations as a soloist in concerts, opera, operetta productions, in musicals and theater performances in Greece and […]

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Gogo Xagara

Gogo Xagara is principal harpist in the Athens State Orchestra since 2001. She studied harp at the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki and at the Atheaneum Conservatory with Professor Maria Bildea. She received a scholarship by the State Scholarship Foundation and continued her studies next to Prof. Eira Lynn Jones at the Royal Northern College of […]

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Katherine Wise

During her childhood her family moved almost every 18 months so she was brought up in many different countries mainly in Asia and in particular Malaysia. It was a hugely influential time for her as a child and teenager, which guided her through the paths of visual creativity and art. Familiar with packing up and […]

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Dimitra Trypani

Dimitra Trypani studied composition at the University of Edinburgh with Nigel Osborne and greek literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. As a composer she focuses on the creation f interdisciplinary music performance, using strictly structured polyrhythmic and heterophonic patterns both in music and speech. She has collaborated with acclaimed orchestras, chamber ensembles and […]

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Dimitris Travlos

Dimitris Travlos was born in Berlin, Germany. He started learning the cello at the age of four (4) with Teacher Dana Chatzigeorgiou and received his diploma next to Professor Renato Ripo. He continued his music studies at the music academy of Vienna next to Professors Josef Luitz and Johannes Meissl. He has attended many seminars […]

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Alexandros Psichramis

Alexandros Psichramis graduated from the Music High School of Ilion. He has studied classical guitar and yukalili, took singing lessons next to his brother Apostolis Psichramis and Panos Dimas, he received his degree in acting from the Mary Tragas Higher Drama School and completed his studies in the Graham, Laban technique. He has also taken […]

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Vasilis Pelandakis

Vasilis Pelandakis was born in 1973. He received his degree in Harmony at the Conservatory of Zografou, Athens and his Monody Diploma at the Conservatory “Athena”. He simultaneously studied law at the Law School and music at the Music Department of Athens University and received his post graduate diploma on “Music Culture and Communication, Anthropological […]

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Raphael Kritoulis

Raphael is an actor and singer. He studied sociology at the Pandion Athens University and at the same time he studied Theory and Harmony of Music. He plays the electic base and piano. He also studied Monody at the “New Melody” Conservatory with professor Giannis Filias. He also studied Acting, Improvisation, Body Theater, Ancient Drama, […]

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Giorgos Kassavetis

Giorgos Kassavetis was born in 1987. He graduated from the Ilion Music School in 2005, received his Harmony diploma in 2007 and graduated from the Music Department of the Ionian University in 2015 after specializing in composition. He plays percussion, guitar and accordion. He has worked as a percussion teacher in various Athens Conservatories and […]

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Padelis Boukalas

Padelis Boukalas is a poet, a writer, a translator, a columnist and a reporter. Born in 1957 in the village of Lessini, Messologki, he moved at a young age to Athens. He graduated from the Athens Dental School. He started writing in newspapers and magazines since 1979. From 1987 to 1990 he edited the book […]

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