Born in Kaunas, Lithuania, Martyna Jatkauskaite had become recognised as one of the leading Lithuanian pianists from the younger generation. Winner of several important international competitions, Jatkauskaite has consistently impressed critics with both her technical skills and masterly sense of interpretation in a broad range of repertory that takes in works by Scarlatti, Mozart,Beethoven, Schumann, […]

Simos Papanas was born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1979. He has studied violin, baroque violin, composition and mathematics at the New Conservatory of Thessaloniki, Oberlin College and Yale University. He studied violin with Petar Arnaoudov, Taras Gabora and Erick Friedman, baroque violin with Marilyn McDonald and composition with Christos Samaras. He has played as a […]

Vassilis Saitis has been holding the position of principal cellist of the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra since 2002. His performing activity includes regular engagements, as a soloist, with the main Greek orchestras and chamber music concerts in Greece, England, France, Turkey and The Netherlands. He is a member of dissonArt ensemble, a chamber music group […]

Popi Malapani took piano lessons at the Municipal Conservatory of Kalamata from where she graduated in 1998 and received her piano diploma in 2000. After graduating from the History and Archeology Department of the Athens Kapodistrian University she continued her piano studies at the Essen Academy (Germany) from where she graduated in 2005. She then […]

Nikos Mandilas was born in Corfu. He studied violin at the Philharmonic Society and the Conservatory of Corfu. In 1990, he received his violin diploma with honors, first prize and a medal of distinction at the Hellenic Conservatory. He studied there with the distinguished professor Stelios Kafantaris and continued studies with him until 2000. In […]

Konstantinos Karamesios was born in 1997 in Athens. He started studying drums since the age of 8. While studying at Ilion Music School, he focused on traditional percussion. He has systematically studied darbuka, bendir, defi, along with davul and kajon. He continues studying and improving himself as percussionist with well-known musician Yannis Gevgelis and with […]

Panagiotis Stathakis was born in 1998 in Athens. At the age of 13, he started lute lessons at the Ilion Music School. At the age of 15, he began lute lessons with Christos Zotos. In 2014, he attended a seminar of traditional music and chose to focus on the lute in the summer seminars: “THE […]

Panagiotis Skouteris was born in Athens in 1997. Due to his special background, he began learning the clarinet since the age of 12. At the age of 16, he began studying the several types of bagpipes which are played in numerous rural Greek areas. He has studied next to distinguished folk musicians such as Nikos […]

Harry Lygkos was born in 1998 in Athens, and grew up there. From the age of 12 he began his studies at the Music School of Ilion, where he acquired his first knowledge on the fiddle. He was much stimulated by participating in the traditional festivals of Ikaria, a place where he spent his summers […]

Aggeliki Pardali was born in 1997 in Athens. She comes from a family with experience and knowledge of her origins (Asia Minor and Karpenisi). She began piano lessons at 6, continuing through the present day along with the study of music theory. She has been learning santouri since the age of 10 next to renown […]