He was born in Athens in 1971.

He has been involved in music from an early age. He discovers percussion at the age of 16 and, at the same time, studies Byzantine Music, obtaining his diploma from the Hellenic Conservatory.

Since 1993, he has been professionally involved with percussion, having in his portfolio many collaborations, in concerts and recordings, with Greek and foreign composers and singers (Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Dionysis Savvopoulos, Giorgos Dallaras, Thanos Mikroutsikos, Socrates Malamas, Alkinoos Ioannidis, Nikos Kipouris, Giorgos Andreou, Nikos Xydakis, Orfeas Peridis, Haig Yazdjian, Ara Dinkjian, Theodossi Spasov, Ross Daly, Domna Samiou etc.ά.).

In 1997, he creates together with Petros Kourtis and Andreas Pappas the percussion group ‘Krotala’.

He participated in the opening and closing ceremonies of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.

Since 2005 and for two years, he has been participating in the Medi Muses educational program for concerts and seminars in Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia, Kuwait, England, Jordan and Turkey.

In 2006 and 2016, at the invitation of composer John Psathas, he travels to New Zealand for concerts and seminars.

 

Personal discography:

Percussion (FM Records, 1995)

Krotala (2002)

Voices of Percussion (Metro Magazine, 2005)

Percussion Pictures (ANTART MUSIC, 2011)