Masters of classical guitar

Elena Papandreou studied the guitar with Evangelos Boudounis and with Oscar Ghiglia. She also studied with Gordon Crosskey at the Royal Northern College of Music, England, on a British Council scholarship, obtaining the Diploma in Advanced Studies in Musical Performance. She has won the First Prize...

Today, we will be listening to modern Greek guitar music drawn from three exquisite albums: In the first one, guitarist Aristotelis Vrettakis plays music of Diamandis Andromidas. The second one is titled Dama dama and involves Stathis Skandalidis playing music of Michalis Koumbios. And the third one...

With a celebrated career spanning over 40 years and highly-acclaimed concerts and tours all over the world, Costas Cotsiolis is nowadays recognized as one of the greatest guitarists of our time. His career took off at the young age of 15, when he performed Joaquín Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez wi...

Gerasimos Miliaresis was born in Braila, Romania in 1918 to Kefalonian parents. In 1947 he received diplomas in guitar and harmony from the Hellenic Conservatory, both with honors. In 1950, with a scholarship from the Italian government, he attended advanced courses with professor Andres Segovia in...