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Kostas Makrygiannakis
Kostas Makrygiannakis Kostas Makrygiannakis studied music in Thessaloniki, Greece (Synchronon Conservatoire) and in the UK (Trinity College of Music in London). He also attended several masterclasses and workshops with acclaimed musicians like Leo Brouwer, David Russel, Manuel Barrueco and Carlo Domeniconi. He has been distinguished in international competitions as prize-winner or finalist. Since 1993 he has widely performed in venues and festivals in Greece, UK, Germany, Denmark, Romania and Czech Republic. His broad area of interests includes chamber music, new music for guitar, historically based performance as well as improvisation, pop and conceptual music. He has premiered a number of new works for solo guitar as well as for chamber ensembles, promoting contemporary music in Greece and abroad. He has also broadcasted for State Greek Radio and Television and has participated in several album recordings. Kostas has received great reviews from international press such as Classical Guitar Magazine (UK), Neue Presse (Germany) and from Greek newspapers and magazines. Kostas is the artistic director of Guitar Plus Festival in Thessaloniki, the only Greek festival entirely focused on chamber guitar music from Renaissance to the present day. He is also member of the organisation team of Music Village Festival, together with Thimios Atzakas and George-Emmanuel Lazaridis, one of the most important cultural societies in Greece, which brings together artists from all over the world in the context of performing, education and cultural cross-breeding. |
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