| Artist ArchiveANDREAS STERGIOU
Musician - Guitar
He was born in Athens. In 1999, he received his Classical Guitar diploma (Dimitris Karatzas’s class), graded Excellent and First Prize and took his Specialist on Harmony diploma (Gerasimos Voutsinas’s class), also graded Excellent, from the Municipal Conservatory of Patras. He continued his studies attending master classes with R. Dyens, D. Russell, F. Hand, H. Kappel, V. Mikulka, V. Boudounis, E. Papandreou et al. In 2003 he did his post-graduate studies at the Academia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy, as a scholarship student of Oscar Ghiglia, and participated in the Koblenz International Guitar Festival in Germany. Since 2004 he is a member of Spiros Sakas’s Vocal Art and Research Studio. He is a graduate of the Department of Engineering Science of the University of Patras with a diploma in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics and also a graduate of PATES/SELETE Pedagogical School.
He received awards in two of the most significant pan-hellenic guitar competitions (in Patras and Chalkida) and has given recitals in many Greek cities (Athens, Patras, Iraklion, Nafpaktos et al.)
In 2003, he and Katerina Fotinaki produced the musical theatre performance Pegniodos (Playfully), featuring children’s songs and addressing both a younger and an adult audience. The performance was successfully staged for three years in a row in Athens (Embros Theatre), and in other Greek cities. In December 2005, collaborating with Natassa Zouka’s dance theatre company, he presented his own guitar adaptation of Mikis Theodorakis’s Romancero Gitano with Savina Gianatou, in Greece and Cyprus. In 2006 he and Evangelia Tsiara created Musica Mista, a music performance with songs from various parts of the world (Greece, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Latin America, Germany et al.), which is still being staged in theatres, music and concert halls in and outside Athens. In winter 2008-09 it was staged in “To Treno sto Rouf” (Train at Rouf) Railway Theatre, in Orient Express Music Wagon. In 2007 he worked with Spiros Sakas and Natassa Zouka as guitarist and performer in the Attiko Alsos Theatre –Athens Festival, City of Athens Cultural Centre, Roes (“Flows”) dance theatre. In 2008, Andreas Stergiou, participated in the performance of G. Verdi’s opera Trovatore, conducted by Charalambos Goyos, in a five-member orchestra. In the same year, he performed in a tour with Nikos Ksidakis and the Encardia music and dance ensemble, as a member of Nikos Platirahos’s Istron quartet.
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