Periklis Tsoukalas (Single Musician)
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| Member since: |
20.06.2007, 0 signed-up member(s).
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| I am a We are |
Professional musician(s)
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| Profession |
Performing musician Music teacher Accompanist Band leader Composer |
| Instruments |
Oud (Soloist / Principal) |
| Current engagements |
not specified |
| Symphonic-, Opera Orchestras |
Classical Ottoman music
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| Other Forms |
not specified |
| Bands |
Hainides,Endofonon
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| Style |
- 20th century, contemporary worldmusic |
| Repertoire |
Opera / Ballet / Concert
not specified Entertainment not specified Other Classical Ottoman music,Contemporary,New age,Traditional music from eastern Mediterranean |
| Description |
Background: Periklis Tsoukalas was born in Attica, 1970. He began to learn the guitar from the age of 10 and gave his first concert at 13. Brought up in a musical family (his father was in a member of "Crowns" and "Semprini" - both well-known bands), his parents helped him with his studies. After leaving home, he began his travels, which took him around various Arabic states and Greece for 15 years. He met Arabian Oud players and Indian Sitar players whilst learning various aspects of the Arabic and Indian musical traditions. Periklis has experience in a variety of musical genres and with numerous instruments, having had both informal and formal training. Education: Byzantine Music chant: with Manolis Sourgiadakis and Ioannis Aronis. Musical Instruments: 1. Oud- Private lessons with: Yurdal Tokcan, Necati Çelik. Master classes with: Yurdal Tokcan, Omar Bashir, Charbel Rouhana, Kamel Ferjani, Necati Çelik. 2. Sarod - with Vigit Singh. 3. Bansuri - with Chandra Kant Prasad. 4. Saz- with Mehmet Erenler. 5. Rabab (Afghan)- with Mohammad Rahim Kushnawaz and Khaled Arman. 6. Guitar (fretless, electric) -with various teachers. Professional Experience: 1. Lecturing Music Heraklion High School as a teacher of Greek traditional music Oud and Tambura. 2. Private music lessons 3. Music school. 4. Seminars: About the Oud and Ottoman Classical Music, music of East-Mediterranean, at music schools and unions in Crete. 5. Symposiums: Music of Greece & Turkey. Journey through Modes and Makam. 6. Program Manager / Artistic Director, in collaboration with the Centre for Inter-Mediterranean Co-operation with the participation of top Greek and Turkish musicologists and musicians. Includes concerts: Psarantonis, Claudia Delmer (Spain), Istanbul Sazendeleri (Turkey), Eastern Musical Workshop, Trio Roberto Brandan (Argentina), Loudovikos ton Anogion. 8. Radio productions: Radio-broadcasting with musicological analysis of world music, since 1994. 9. Author: Articles on music in journals and newspapers. 10. Concerts (in Greece and abroad): 1. World Music Institute, New York, Manhattan with Psarantonis and the Hainides ensemble. 2. Solo Oud Recitals - Performances with compositions of Greek, Turkish, Persian, Romanian, Armenian and Arabian composers. 3. Decades of concerts every year with 'Hainides' around Greece and abroad as band member (2003 - end of 2008) and as a main member (2000 present). 4. Main member of Endofonon from 12.08.2000 5. With the group he formed in Smyrne Turkey (1986- 1990) 6. Main member of Asfyx Discography: 1. H Katodos ton Saltimpagkon band Hainides 2008 2. 'Kano tin riza mou ftero' by Christos Konstantinou 2008 3.'O Karagiozhs sthn Eurovision' band 'Hainides'. 2007 4.'O giteftis ke to Drakodonti' band 'Hainides'. 2006 5. Odyssey, 2003 Composition for the introduction of N. Kazantzakis Rapsody A by M. Mountakis. 6. En ergo ke logo, 2003 Participation at the record of the traditional cretan band Axegnii Perates. 7. Crete-Land-maritime, 2000 Music composed for the sculpture of Pantelis and Nikos Sotiriadis. Ag. Nikolaos. 8. Sweetness of the angels, 2000 Folk-religious hymns and traditional Greek songs about Virgin Mary. Awarded a prize by the Ministry of Education. 9. Greece attacks, 1989 With the band Nightmare. 10. And many, many more Compositions: 1. Music 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. Collaborations: Glykeria, Hainides, Necati Çelik, Ömer Erdodular, Mehmet Erenler, Mohammad Rahim Kushnawaz, Halil Karaduman, Psarantonis, Pantelis Thalassinos, Miltos Pashalidis, Sokratis Malamas, Martha Frintzila, Christos Konstaninou, Mariza Koch, Manos Mountakis, Andreas Tsekouras, Vassilis Yannisis, Papa-Giorgis Tzavlas, Ioanis Aronis, 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, Ross Daly. Interests: Music therapy - workshops with Thanasis Rikakis. Psychoacoustics -workshops with Thanasis Rikakis. Music theory: (a) Classical and folk music of the East-Mediterranean and (b) Indian Classical Music (Hindustani) Musical instrument study: Traditional instruments from eastern Mediterranean, Asia. Hobbies: Astronomy, Modelism. |
| Countries / Places |
Cape Verde Libya Jamaica Canada Armenia China, People's Republic of India Iran Japan Kuwait Mongolia Nepal Thailand Belgium Greece Italy Spain Turkey Cyprus Bermuda Hong Kong |
| Contact |
"Periklis Tsoukalas"
Periklis Tsoukalas Eleodexamenes 72200 Ierapetra Greece |
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