Film Music Composer

Basil Poledouris (1945 Kansas/Missouri) Music Film Composer, Conan the Barbarian, Conan the Destroyer, The Hunt for Red October (1990) , Celtic Pride (1996), Les Miserables (1998), For Love of the Game(1999), Mickey Blue Eyes (1999)

Nikos Mamangakis (Νίκος Μαμαγκάκης) (3.3.1929 Rethymno/Crete)

Eleni Karaindrou (Ελένη Καραϊνδρου)(25.11.1939) (Info) Real Audio Samples of various films (Images)

Evanthia Reboutsika (6.11.1958) To Asteri kai i Euhi Music for the film Politiki Kouzina

Argyris Kounadis (Αργύρης Κουνάδης) (14.2.1924 Constantinople) Der Gummisarg, Tειρεσίας , Der Sandmann

Various other artists

Thanasis Polykandriotis (Θανάσης Πολυκανδριώτης ) (27.12.1947)(Bouzouki Player, Composer), Brahms and Bouzouki

Petro–Loukas Chalkias (1934 Delvinaki/Epirus) Clarinetist folk–Music

Vasilis Saleas Clarinetist

Krotala Their name derives from Ancient Greek Mythology – the myth of Hercules who received from goddess Athena a pair of wooden plates in the form of rattles, the krótala, crafted by the god of Fire Hephaestus in order to help the mythic hero face the monstrous Birds of Stymphalus. By clashing the krótala together, Hercules applied the divine power of their sound that scared the Birds and sent them away.

Kostis Marayevas (1974) Radiopeiratis

Poetz4Peace Steffen Franz, Zeki Ali, Haji Mike, Mike Minas, Kyppa Ranks and Mike Cherry A Pair of Olive Leaves

Comedians

Harry Klynn ( Χάρρυ Κλυνν) My comment about Klynn: “UKAKABUMBUMKI KABAKUMKIRIKAKA AUKIKI AUKIKI BAKALAKAUKAKA!” (Read as German text)

Foreign Artist and relation to Greek Musicians

Nicola Piovani student of Manos Hadjidakis

Ross Daly After a six month period of wandering from village to village (in Crete) encountering local musicians, He settled in the town of Hania on the west of the island and began studying the Cretan Lyra with it's great master Kostas Mountakis. This apprenticeship was to last for many years. “If you say to a foreigner that the most widespread Greek instrument is the clarinet, you will pass for insane! “ (Stigmes)

Andromeda

Musicologists

Simon Karras (Σίμων Καράς) (21.5.1905 Olympia, 26.1.1999), a important Greek musicologist (see also byzantine music), Σύλλογος προς Διάδοσιν της Εθνικής Μουσικής (1929) Info in Greek

MTV, VIVA et al

Anastasia Zampounidis