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[vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/4"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="6829" img_size="full" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]Eleftherios Veniadis, son of painter Kyrillos Veniadis and musician Niki Veniadi, grew up in Chios. He studied acting at Veaki Drama School and piano, violin and music theory in Athens. With a scholarship from the Ioannis D. Pateras Foundation,  he continued his studies in composition at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin), from

[vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/4"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="6838" img_size="full" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]Born in Athens, she graduated from the Theater Department of the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She continued her studies in London (MA in Theater Directing, Middlesex University and MA in Lightening Design, CSSD) and since 2000 she has collaborated with the biggest Greek theaters, including the National Theater of

[vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/4"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="6845" img_size="full" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]SoundRoutes is a project launched in 2017 on the initiative of the Marmaduke production company, based in Seville, Spain and in collaboration with the Italian NGO Un Ponte Per

[vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/4"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="6879" img_size="full" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]Ghays Mansour is a singer and songwriter from Damascus. In recent years he lives in Mannheim, Germany, where he is studying interpretation and composition at the World Music Department at Popakademie Baden-Württemberg. The song is his only way to express his feelings and thoughts to the public. For Ghays Mansour, the main themes of expression

[vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/4"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="6877" img_size="full" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]He was born in 1988 in Katerini but spent his first years in Bruchsal, Germany. Since 1995, upon returning to Katerini, he has been involved with Byzantine Music and in 2008 he received his Diploma. During the same period, he began his activity regarding the oral music of the wider southeastern Mediterranean. He graduated from

[vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/4"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="6875" img_size="full" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]Maria Melachrinou graduated from the Music School of Pallini. She studied Developmental Psychology (Rouen, France) where she was trained in Music Therapy, in the Education of Blind and Deaf Children and specialised in Special Education. She studied tambura under Periklis Papapetropoulos, Mehmet Erenler and Erdal Erzincan. She has taken oud lessons under Antonis Apergis, Necati

[vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/4"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="6873" img_size="full" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]She is a graduate of the Music School of Pallini, studied advanced theory and monody with the soprano Marina Krilovic and graduated from the Athens Conservatoire with a degree in monody, with top marks. She has been involved with traditional, Byzantine and western music and plays tambura, traditional wind instruments and Constantinople lute. She first

[vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/4"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="6871" img_size="full" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]Martha Mavroidi is a singer, musician and composer. She sings and plays traditional lutes since she was a child, performing music from Greece and the Balkans. Later she developed an interest in contemporary music, blending elements of traditional music with contemporary harmony and improvisation. Her critically acclaimed debut album “The Garden of Rila” established her

[vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/4"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="6869" img_size="full" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]Dimitris Emmanouil was born in Athens. He is a graduate of the Music School of Pallini where he studied with leading musicians in Greek and Balkan percussion as well as Ethnic, Latin and Multi Percussion. In 1997 he participated as a student in the Panhellenic student music competitions where he was honoured with a special

[vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/4"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="6867" img_size="full" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]Dimitris Tsekouras was born in Athens. He grew up in a family environment with intense musical activity, as his father is a pianist-arranger and his mother a modern dance instructor. He started playing the piano and the violin as a preschooler. Growing up, he got in touch with Greek traditional instruments and later, in adolescence,