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Lesson timetable: 17:00 - 20:00 in the afternoon (total of 21 hours)
This workshop focuses on exploring the role of the guitar in the repertoire of rebetiko and early Greek popular music. Whether as part of a full orchestra, a duet, or even as a solo instrument, the guitar presents an orchestration challenge worth investigating.
Key topics include:
How does the guitar technique adapt to different orchestration demands?
Bass and treble interplay, melodic playing, and pick techniques.
The study of Near Eastern melodic modes and their evolution into Greek folk scales.
Harmonic accompaniment in folk scales: chord selection and construction.
Rhythmic accompaniment as a means of shifting tonal centers: open tunings in specific rhythmic patterns (havades).
Rhythmic motifs and their variations.
Taximi (improvisation).
The workshop will function as a musical ensemble and is aimed at intermediate guitarists who have a basic familiarity with the instrument and wish to play alongside others. It is also open to musicians playing other instruments who want to expand their accompaniment and orchestration skills.
* This lesson will be taught both in Greek and English.
At the age of 6, she began to study the bouzouki as a self-taught musician and later the folk guitar and the baglama, participating in school orchestras. At the age of 19, she began to work professionally as an instrumentalist in live music clubs, mainly as a guitarist, while for the last fifteen years she has been systematically studying the musical modes (makams) of the East on the political lute and the bowed tambour.
She completed a five-year course of studies at the Department of Greek Music and Instruments of the Municipal Conservatory of Patras (2003 – 2008), with teachers Christos Tsiamoulis and Evgenios Voulgaris.
From 2004 to the present, she has attended seminars on the technique and repertoire of the political lute (2005) with Pericles Papapetropoulos, as well as on other musical traditions of the East (Afghan rabab, 2004/ Khaled Arman, Persian radif 2006/ Darius Talai), at the Labyrinth music workshop.
She has also attended a seminar on the special technique and classical repertoire of the yaili tanbur by Evgenios Voulgaris in 2007 (Musical Village, Agios Lavrentis, Pelion)
She has taken speech and physical voice training lessons from the director Maria Panoutsou (Tomi Theater, 2006) and has played in theatrical performances as a musician and performer.
She holds a diploma in Byzantine church music under Professor Athanasios Paivanas (Hellenic Conservatory, 2013).
She studies classical guitar with G. Koutras. She holds a special degree in harmony (Tonic Conservatory, 2017), Counterpoint (2021) and Fugue (2024), in the higher theories of European music with teacher Kostas Dimouleas.
For at least twenty years she has been systematically teaching lessons and seminars on technique, repertoire and corresponding theories on the folk guitar, the Istanbul lute (lavta) and the three - stringed instruments, as well as theories of Eastern and European music, focusing mainly on the broader repertoire of the eastern Mediterranean regions.
From 2009 to the present, she has established and presented, in collaboration with notable young artists of the Greek music scene, numerous groups with an active presence and wide acceptance at home and abroad.