Adonis Aletras is a composer/multi-instrumentalist with several IMDB credits.He graduated Berklee college of music in 1991 and he is a member of  BMI and PRS. The following testimonials are an indication of the level of ...

Dr. Andreas G. Orphanides is a university professor. He has served and has taught at universities in the U.S.A. and in Europe. His research and publications have concentrated in the Hellenic civilization, with emphasis on that of Cyprus, ...

Andreas Moustoukis was born in Nicosia in 1971. He studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory (1994-2001) under professor Boris Tishchenko, one of the favourite students of Dmitri Shostakovich who succeeded him as composition professor. ...

Andreas Tsiartas was born in Limassol in 1986. At a very young age, he received a soloist education in piano by Dr. Nefen Michaelides and composition and orchestration lessons by Maciej Zoltowsky. In 2004 he was awarded a Diploma ABRSM ...

Andreas Yangopoulos was born in Cyprus. He studied the violin and music theory at the National Conservatory in Nicosia and later furthered his studies in London at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In 1962 he was awarded first price ...

Andys Skordis was born in Lefkosia, Cyprus in 1983. He liked music from a kid but didn’t really enjoy learning it till the moment he started playing electric guitar and composing songs for his bands “Off Tone Thieves” and “Spirits”. Andys ...

Antonis Antoniou is a composer, sound artist and phonographer born in Nicosia, Cyprus in 1978. He studied music at Goldsmiths University of London and he holds a master’s degree in studio composition and a BA in music. He is currently a ...

Argyro Christodoulides was born in Nicosia (Cyprus) in 1982. She began studying piano at the age of six and theory of music at the age of ten. Having obtained the Royal School of Music diplomas in both piano and theory she then attended ...

Aris Antoniades has composed the original soundtrack for the Cannes listed short-film Not Now (2013), directed by Myrsini Aristidou, as well as three other films. His concert music has been performed in venues such as the Chinese Culture ...

Artemis Aifotiti was born in Nicosia, Cyprus, in 1986. At the age of 11 she began her musical training on the piano with Mrs Elena Matsa. She performed/took part in several concerts and events around Cyprus organized by her teacher and ...

Through his thirty year long international experience Ayis Ioannides, Artistic Director of the Cyprus State Youth Orchestra, has conducted a wide spectrum of musical genres and has universally received high critical acclaim both as ...

Brice Catherin has a Masters Degree in Cello performance and teaching from the Haute Ecole of Lausanne (Switzerland, 2004) and a Masters Degree in Composition from the Haute Ecole of Geneva (Switzerland, 2006). He later taught in these two ...

The work of the composer-conductor Christina Athinodorou has been described as “rich” and “intensively interpreted” by international press. Her music has been performed by Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble Wien, Jyväskylä Sinfonia, Sentieri ...

Christodoulos Georgiades has been involved with music since an early age. He composed as a child, but when he moved from Cyprus to study and live in Vienna at the age of fourteen, his aspirations as a composer were put on hold and he ...

Constantinos Lyras was born in 1984 in Nicosia, Cyprus. He started guitar and music lessons at the age of 11 years, in "Contemporary Conservatory" in Nicosia, with guitar Professor Antonis Koizas. In 2000, he participated in the ...

Greek Cypriot composer Constantinos Stylianou was born in 1972. He studied composition in London, where he now lives. His works have been performed by numerous ensembles and orchestras including the Jeunesse Musicale World Orchestra and ...

David Pentecost was taught to play the piano from age six, but did not want a career in music until he was inspired to begin composing for the piano in 1999, shortly after he was taught also to play the church organ. He composes largely ...

Dimitris Savva was born in Cyprus, 1987. He received his Bachelor degree (distinction) in music composition from the Ionian University of Corfu and his Master degree (distinction) in Electroacoustic composition from the University of ...

Music teacher, composer, lute player. He grew up in Tsada-Paphos in 1957. In 1982 he went to the USA where he studied music at the Aaron Copland School of Music (City University of New York) with Allen Brings and Leo Kraft (1981-1988). In ...

Evis Sammoutis's works have been commissioned by festivals and organizations such as the Venice Biennale, Klangspuren, Royaumont, the Royal Philharmonic Society, Athens Concert Hall and ARD and performed in more than 30 countries around ...

Faidros Kavallaris was born in Lapithos, Cyprus, in 1950. He has studied architecture and music. From an early age he showed an interest in composing, painting, poetry and ancient Greek drama. While still a student in London he writes ...

Gabriel Karapatakis was born in Limassol, Cyprus in 1968. He studied music at Mannes College ,New York1989-1990 and at Rotterdams Conservatorium 1995-1999,(BA of music). In the Netherlands he performed with various professional ...

Cypriot born composer George Christofi, shortlisted by the SPNM (Society for the Promotion of New Music) wherein he has participated in various projects and workshops, has been selected as a composer by the British ISCM on several ...

George Hadjimarkou was born in Famagusta, Cyprus in 1971 and started his musical studies at the age of six learning to play various stringed instruments including mandolin, bouzouki and, a few years later, guitar. His early formal guitar ...

George Kallis specializes in cinematic music composition and production. He orchestrates and conducts his scores, whose trademarks are memorable lyrical melodies and lush musical arrangements. George grew up on the Mediterranean island ...

George Kolias was born and raised in Cyprus. He attended Berkley College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, from where he graduated with honors with a major in Contemporary Writing and Production, specializing in film scoring. He composed ...

Georgia Christoforou comes from Derynia, Famagusta district. She studied music theory and piano until 2003, at which year she was accepted at the Music Department of the Ionian University having scored the highest average grade over Cyprus ...

Born in Limassol.She started be playing music at the age of nine years old . 1990 : He leaves to study in Thessaloniki . 1996 : Participates in the Choral Festival Kefallonias winning praise for the playing of the instrument. The late ...

Georgina Strati was born in Lefkosia in 1977. She studied composition at Bowling Green State University, USA with Marilyn Shrude, Burton Beerman, Donald Wilson and guitar with Chris Buzzeli. She has been teaching classical guitar, ...

 Born in 1970 in Cyprus, Georgios Stavrou began guitar lessons with G. Himonidis. He studied Electric Bass, Electric Piano and Improvisation with Eric Simoniants while he was a member of the Zenith Rock Band. He took part in many ...

Born in Larnaca in 1964, he studied musicology at the Charles University in Prague where he also undertook studies in composition.  He has composed symphonic, chamber and vocal works as well as music for theatre,television and cinema. ...

Graduated at the University of Hertfordshire with the degree of BSc Music Composition and Technology. Able to play the guitar, saxophone, oboe, sing, percussion and bass.

Haris Sophocleous (1977- ) B.A, M.A in acoustic composition, PhD in Electronic Composition. His research interest focuses on the spectral aspects of sound and its manipulations as well as on the interaction between acoustic and electronic ...

Kemal Belevi, guitarist-composer, was born into a musical family in Nicosia in 1954.He began learning the guitar at the age of eleven.3 years later he joined his brother’s band playing pop and rock music. In 1972 Kemal moved to ...

Larkos Larkou was born on February 6th, 1973. He comes from Kondea village, Famagusta. 1993-2001: Studies at the Department of Music Studies in the University of Athens and had his masters on music anthropology and on the traditional ...

Lefteris Moumtzis is a Cypriot musician, composer and producer, reciting in Lefkosia, Cyprus. Apart from his solo releases, and various collaborations, he is the founder of the independent record label Louvana Records and the artistic ...

Maria Andreou (b.1982) began her musical studies at the age of 9. In 2004, she graduated from the University of Hull (U.K) obtaining a BMus degree having as major modules: Performance (singing), Composition, Historical Style Composition ...

Born in South Africa, Marilena Solomou showed her musical interest and talent at an early age. She started her musical studies as a pianist and she completed a Bachelor of Arts in Music specialized in performing (singing) and piano ...

Marina Kountouridou was born in Nicosia in February 1981. She graduated from The English School, Nicosia, and acquired fundamental musical knowledge studying piano with Pitsa Spyridaki and harmony with Maro Skordi. She studied at Hofstra ...

Marina Panayiotou was born in Larnaca (Cyprus) where she studied theory, piano and guitar at the Helinicon Odeon. She continued her music studies in Greece (Athens) and Germany. During her studies in Germany, Marina gained a BA in ...

Marios Joannou Elia (*1978) studied composition with Adriana Hoelszky at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and with Klaus Huber in Basel as well as musicology in Vienna. For being the best student at Mozarteum the Austrian Federal Ministry for ...

Marios Takoushis is a music composer and pianist. After studying composition and filmscoring at the Berklee College of Music and at the Conservatoire National Superiur de Lyon, he moved to London where he currently resides and began ...

Michalis Andronikou has a PhD in composition from the University of Calgary. He graduated from the Department of Music Studies, University of Athens, Greece. He also holds a Diploma in Classic Guitar, Clarinet and Music Theory from the ...

Born in a musical family in the island of Cyprus, the violinist Michalis Kouloumis developed a strong musical conception and sensitivity from his early years. Today he is one of the most important world music violinists (specialised in ...

Mikis Costeas was born in occupied Lysi village (Cyprus) on the 27 November 1967. After the Turkish invasion in 1974 he moved to Larnaca with his family as a refugee. He graduated the “Pancyprian Lyceum”(secondary school) in 1985 and in ...

Nicolas Melis was born in Larnaca, Cyprus in 1982. During his childhood he received piano lessons from George Arvanitakis and Eleni Gerani. At the age of 16 he attained the Piano Soloist Diploma summa cum laude from L.E.A Academy of Music ...

Nicos Troullos was born in Paralimni – Cyprus and had his first guitar and theory lessons on the island. He later goes to Athens where he studies High Music Theory and Composition for ten years. During the same period, he attended ...

A prize-winning composer, soloist, conductor of global acclaim, ex-double bass leader and literary translator from and to Hungarian, French, English, Italian, Modern and Ancient Greek, dramaturg. One of the very rare conductors who conduct ...

Olivios Karaolides is a versatile composer and a musicologist. He has a Licence in Music and Musicology from the Sorbonne University and an MFA from the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Musical ...

…”If there is anything interesting in composing -with or without computers- is the opportunity to deal with abstract concepts while manipulating concrete material. In particular, computer-based compositional systems provide extended ...

Persia Panayiotou is a composer and music analyst working as a theorist at the University of Nicosia. Her PhD in Musicology at the University of Birmingham examined temporal processes in Debussy’s late music. Her research areas lie in the ...

  Savvas Houvartas is a guitarist and songwriter. He was born in Pentayia, Cyprus in 1968. His compositions are influenced by jazz or rock, and are instrumental or with greek lyrics; overall are close to the mediterranean music; ...

Savvas Savva is a composer, professor of musicology and pianist. Born in 1958 in Nicosia (Cyprus), Savvas Savva started playing the piano at an early age with Olga Mavronicola, at the local branch of the Hellenic Conservatory. Later, ...

Composer, musicologist, maestro, instructor, judge and congress participant, director and trade unionist, Solon Michaelides had a charismatic personality enjoying the glamour of a world wide reputation, having dominated the music world in ...

Tasos Stylianou was born in the island of Cyprus. He moved to New York at the age of 19 where he studied Music at Mannes College of Music, Jazz Performance at the New School for Social Research where he received his BFA. He studied ...

Ο Θεόδουλος Καλλίνικος γεννήθηκε στο Λευκόνοικο Μεσαορίας στις 5 Μαΐου 1904.  Πατέρας του ήταν ο Καλλίνικος και η Μαρικκού.  Αποφοιτά από το εννεατάξιο σχολείο του χωριού του και μαθητής ακόμα ψάλλει κοντά στους ψάλτες του χωριού ...

Vasos Argyridis was born in Lemesos of Cyprus in 1960 and from 1980 up to 1986 studied composition and instrumentation in Tchaikovsky Moscow state Conservatory. In May of `86 the Moscow state Symphony Orchestra interpreted his symphony ...

Born in Cyprus in 1971, Vassos Nicolaou started playing piano at the age of nine and began composing almost immediately. As a student of musicology, composition, electronic music and orchestration, he attended the University of ...

Yannis Kyriakides was born in Limassol, Cyprus in 1969 and in 1975 emigrated with his family to Britain. After travelling for a year with his violin in the near east, learning traditional music, he returned to England to study musicology ...

Born in Nicosia, Cyprus, Yiannis Christofides is a composer, sound artist and sound designer. Much of his work investigates our experience of place, through the use of field recordings as principal material. His interest in field recording ...

Born in Nicosia in 1976, Yiannis Hadjiloizou started piano lessons at the age of four with his father Michael Hadjiloizou and continued with ms Maro Sarri. He graduated from the Cyprus Academy of Music (class of ms Despo ...