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Solo Oud player - member of the band 'Hainides'. |
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| Periklis Tsoukalas born in 1970 in Attica. He began to learn guitar from ten years old and in the age of thirteen he gave his first concert. Grown in musical family (his father was former musician in the known groups "Crowns" and "Semprini"), he was helped by his parents in his musical studies. Very shortly he left with his parents for Arabia where on fifteen roughly years he travelled between various Arabic states and Greece. There he was met with Arabian Oud players and Indian immigrants Sitar players. He learned various categories of the Arabic and Indian musical tradition. He has dealt with a lot of and various musical types and instruments as well as with the composition of mainly organic music near various occasionally professors. -Education: Byzantine Music With Manolis Sourgiadakis and Ioannis Aronis. European Music: With Kostas Spiropoulos. Classical singing: In Ottoman classical music, with Güzin Deismez. -Musical Instruments: Oud- - Private lessons with Yurdal Tokcan, Necati Çelik. - Master classes with Yurdal Tokcan, Omar Bashir, Charbel Rouhana, Kamel Ferjani, Necati Çelik. Sarod - with Vigit Singh. Bansuri - with Chandra Kant Prasad. Saz- with Mehmet Erenler.. Rabab(Afghan)- with Mohammad Rahim Kushnawaz and Khaled Arman . Sitar - with Raul Phasawanti. -Professional Experience: 1.Lecturing Music High-school of Heraklion as a teacher of Greek traditional music Oud and Tambura, since 2001. 2.Private music lessons, since 1994. 3.Music school of the municipality of Ierapetra, 1997-1999. -Seminars: About the Oud and Ottoman Classical Music, music of East-Mediterranean, at music schools and unions in Crete. -Organization of: Symposium on the Music of Greece & Turkey Journey through Modes and Makam, as program manager artistic director, in collaboration with the Centre for Inter-Mediterranean Cooperation. Participation of top Greek and Turkish musicologists and musicians. -Concerts: of Loudovikos ton Anogion, Psarantonis, Claudia Delmer (Spain), Istanbul Sazendeleri (Turkey), Eastern Musical Workshop, Trio Roberto Brandan (Argentina). -Radio productions: Radio-broadcasting with musicological analysis of world music, since 1994. -Article writings: on music In journals and newspapers. -Concerts (in Greece and abroad): 1.World Music Institute,New York, Manhattan Town Hall, 19/03/2005 With the music group Psarantonis and Hainides ensemble. 2.Solo Oud Recitals: 15/5/2004, 27/6/2003,3,4,5/5/2001, 8/12/2001 3.Performances with compositions of Greek, Turkish, Persian, Romanian, Armenian and Arabian composers. And decades of concerts every year with 'Chainides' around Greece and abroad. As a group member: 2003 - today 1.As a main member of Hainides.. 2000 - today 2.As a main member of Endofonon. 12.08.2000 3.With the group he formed, in Smyrne Turkey.. 1986 1990 4.As a main member of Asfyx.. -Discography Participations: 1.'O Karagiozhs sthn Eurovision' band 'Chainides'. M.B.I. 2007 2.'O giteftis ke to Drakodonti' band 'Chainides'. M.B.I. 2006 3.Odyssey, 2003 Composition for the introduction of N. Kazantzakis Rapsody A by M. Mountakis. Record label Sistron. 4.En ergo ke logo, 2003 Participation at the record of the traditional cretan band Axegnii Perates. Record label Aerakis Cretan Musical Workshop. 5.Crete-Land-maritime, 2000 Music composed for the sculpture of Pantelis and Nikos Sotiriadis. Ag. Nikolaos. Independent production. 6.Sweetness of the angels, 2000 Folk-religious hymns and traditional Greek songs about Virgin Mary.Independent production. Prize by the Ministry of Education. 7.Greece attacks, 1989 With the band Nightmare. Record label FM records. 8.And many more around. -Compositions: 1 Music for paintings by French painter Bruno and for a sculpture-installation by N. and P. Sotiriadis. 2 Music for theatre Prize for music composition and performance for the traditional theatre play Karagkiozis paraligo Veziris, 1999. 3 Performance at the International Oud Meeting of his own improvisations taxim and compositions of classical Ottoman composers, Thessaloniki 29,30,1/12/2002 funded by the Medi Muses European program. -Cooperations: Hainides, Ross Daly, Necati Çelik, Ömer Erdodular, Mehmet Erenler, Mohammad Rahim Kushnawaz, Halil Karaduman, Mariza Koch, Manos Mountakis, Andreas Tsekouras, Vassilis Yannisis, Papa-Giorgis Tzavlas, Ioanis Aronis, Psarantonis, Kostis Avissinos, Giorgos Psaroudakis, Hristos Baltsidis, Dimitris Sgouros, Vangelis Vardakis, Alexandros Arkadopoulos, Giorgos Kontogianis, Andreas Skandalos, Eleni Kallimopoulou, Mihalis Nikopoulos, Nikos Oikonomidis, Kostas Sideris, Kostas Kalaitzakis. -Interests: Music therapy Through workshop participation of Thanasis Rikakis. -Psychoacoustics: Through workshop participation of Thanasis Rikakis. -Musical theory: Traditional instruments from all over the world. -Musical instruments study: Of (a) the classical and folk music of the East-Mediterranean and (b) Indian Classical Music (Hindustani). Hobbies:Astronomy (skywatching), Modelism (Helicopters). | |
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Music:Member Since: 9/24/2006Band Website: geocities.com/periklistsoukalas Band Members:My Oud,Sarod,Rabab,fretless Guitar fan group.Join it! http://groups.myspace.com/periklistsoukalasMy 'You Tube' videos.Check out my 'favourites' collection for excellent musicians videos. http://youtube.com/periklistsoukalas"; I edited my profile at Freeweblayouts.net , check out these Myspace Layouts! Websites of my bands: 1.www.chainides.gr 2.www.myspace.com/hainides 3.www.myspace.com/endofonon 4.www.virtualstrangers.net.. Pledge to go fur-free at PETA.org. Influences: -Hindustani (north Indian classical music), -Ottoman classical music, -Japanese classical (contemporary) music,Hariprasad Chaurasia, Kinshi Tsuruta, Cinucen Tanrikorur, Jordi Savall, Amjad Ali Khan, Yurdal Tokcan, Necati Celik, Iannis Xenakis, Maki Ishii, Erkan Ogur, Robyn Miller, Jack Wall, Tim Larkin, Einsturzende Neubauten, Dead Can dance, The The, The Residents, Voivod, Celtic Frost, Kiss, Pink Floyd,Sade... My profile at musician-manager.com.. Sounds Like: 1.Classical Ottoman Music- Yurdal Tokcan,Necati Celik.Solo Oud.2.Atmospheric musical trips Record Label: M.B.I. Music Box International Type of Label: Major |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Classical / A'cappella / Acoustic) |
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About Ouds (in Turkish) |
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Eminim ki Faruk'un bir udunun "tadn" alm olan birisi bu deneyimi ile ilgili bir eyler yazmak isteyecektir.
Faruk Trnz belki de gnmzn en nemli ud yapmcsd... Posted by Periklis Tsoukalas on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 05:07:00 PST |
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