2019
Georgia Kombou
Cyrpus bouzouki soloist Awarded composer
georgiakombou@cytanet.com.cy
+0357 97776787
She was born in Limassol. She studied at the Thessaloniki Contemporary Conservatory.
She is the only woman master / soloist in the bouzouki in Cyprus.
She has won awards World Competitions such as the Global Music Awards 2019 in California.
For years she has been part of the group of bouzouki by Thanassis Polykandriotis EPOMENOI ” by participating in performances with important Greek artists such as Kraounakis, Aslanidou, Andreatos, Natasa Theodoridou, Pitsa Papadopoulou, Babis Stokas etc. in big theaters in Athens and on shows such as on the show ” Stin ygeia mas ” with Spyros Papadopoulos, Costas Chardavellas and Yiannis Zouganelis.
Orchestration
Costa Papadouka
copap@club-internet.fr
+30 6948 566 128
Born in Athens-Greece, he studied piano and theory at the Athens Hellenic Conservatory. He continued his studies in Musicology at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and graduated with the undergraduate degree and postgraduate title of the 3rd cycle of study (DEA). At the same time, he studied music composition for cinema and conducting at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris from where he acquired the Diplôme supérieur. He studied orchestration, composition and theory (harmony, choral, counterpoint, fugue) with Professor Julien Falk, at the Consevatoire de Paris, followed by Jazz studies at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. For a decade he had a composer exclusivity with Sony Music Publishings in Paris.
He has performed as the pianist and orchestrator of the Greek artists: Haris Alexiou, Alkistis Protopsaltis, Dimitra Galani, Manolis Mitsias, Mario Fragoulis, Eleftheria Arvanitaki, George Perris and others.
He is currently extensively working with symphonic, electronic and light music orchestrations.
Press Release
The record company FM Records, with which I have the honor to collaborate, prepares a great tribute to Mikis Theodorakis, both with Zorbas and with his newer works.
Production / tribute to the internationally acclaimed composer will be featured mainly abroad and especially in the USA. Mr. Nikos Kourtis, personally asked me to play in this tribute, representing the musical culture through Mikis Theodorakis, Greece, my native place, Cyprus, but also the long-standing tradition of playing female stringed musical instruments of the family of the tamboura, as is today the bouzouki.
Although the ancient pandurrians and the women of the Byzantine and Ottoman period were playing these instruments, in the modern era the practice diminished. . To me, FM Records, a master / soloist of the bouzouki, and commissioning me to play Zorba for a worldwide re-presentation of the work, with a sense of aesthetic woman, on the one hand, is a maximum personal honor, on the other hand, I am honored by all women Pandourites of the story, but also all the modern women who broke the stereotypes and regained the pandora / tamboura / bouzouki in their hands with claims.
For all the above, I personally thank Mr. Kourtis and FM Records.
Text: Dr. Dimitris Stathakopoulos (Sociology of History – Panteion University,Ottoman society / history and culture – Diploma of Byzantine music ).
The recording of the album was made in the studio of George Synnos: “my concert recording studio”, Limassol, Final master at High-End Studio R-Mic Athens by Dr. Makey (ASCAP) 2019.
The photograph of the cover belong to Ricos Gregoriou.
Graphic designer: Roots Creative Studio.
Georgia Kombou
Cyrpus bouzouki soloist Awarded composer
georgiakombou@cytanet.com.cy
+0357 97776787
She was born in Limassol. She studied at the Thessaloniki Contemporary Conservatory.
She is the only woman master / soloist in the bouzouki in Cyprus.
She has won awards World Competitions such as the Global Music Awards 2019 in California.
For years she has been part of the group of bouzouki by Thanassis Polykandriotis EPOMENOI ” by participating in performances with important Greek artists such as Kraounakis, Aslanidou, Andreatos, Natasa Theodoridou, Pitsa Papadopoulou, Babis Stokas etc. in big theaters in Athens and on shows such as on the show ” Stin ygeia mas ” with Spyros Papadopoulos, Costas Chardavellas and Yiannis Zouganelis.
Orchestration
Costa Papadouka
copap@club-internet.fr
+30 6948 566 128
Born in Athens-Greece, he studied piano and theory at the Athens Hellenic Conservatory. He continued his studies in Musicology at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and graduated with the undergraduate degree and postgraduate title of the 3rd cycle of study (DEA). At the same time, he studied music composition for cinema and conducting at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris from where he acquired the Diplôme supérieur. He studied orchestration, composition and theory (harmony, choral, counterpoint, fugue) with Professor Julien Falk, at the Consevatoire de Paris, followed by Jazz studies at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. For a decade he had a composer exclusivity with Sony Music Publishings in Paris.
He has performed as the pianist and orchestrator of the Greek artists: Haris Alexiou, Alkistis Protopsaltis, Dimitra Galani, Manolis Mitsias, Mario Fragoulis, Eleftheria Arvanitaki, George Perris and others.
He is currently extensively working with symphonic, electronic and light music orchestrations.