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Periklis Tsoukalas born in 1970 in Attica. He began to learn guitar from ten years old and in the age of thirteen he gave his first concert. Grown in musical family (his father was former musician in the known groups "Crowns" and "Semprini"), he was helped by his parents in his musical studies. Very shortly he left with his parents for Arabia where on fifteen roughly years he travelled between various Arabic states and Greece. There he was met with Arabian Oud players and Indian immigrants Sitar players. He learned various categories of the Arabic and Indian musical tradition. He has dealt with a lot of and various musical types and instruments as well as with the composition of mainly organic music near various occasionally professors. Musical Education: * Byzantine Music With Manolis Sourgiadakis and Ioannis Aronis. * European music : Theory, jazz , blues, rock. * Musical Instruments: Oud - Private lessons and masterclasses with Necati Çelik ,Yurdal Tokcan. * Sarod: with Vigit Singh. * Bansuri: with Chandra Kant Prasad. * Saz: with Mehmet Erenler. * Rabab (Afghan): with Mohammad Rahim Kushnawaz and Khaled Arman. * Guitar (fretless, electric): with various teachers. Professional Experience: * Lecturing Music High-school of Heraklion as a teacher of Greek traditional music Oud and Tambura. * Private music lessons. * Music school. Seminars: About the Oud and Ottoman Classical Music, music of East-Mediterranean, at music schools and unions in Crete. Organization of: Symposium on the Music of Greece & Turkey Journey through Modes and Makam, as program manager artistic director, in collaboration with the Centre for Inter-Mediterranean Cooperation. Participation of top Greek and Turkish musicologists and musicians. Concerts of : Psarantonis, Claudia Delmer (Spain), Istanbul Sazendeleri (Turkey), Eastern Musical Workshop,Trio Roberto Brandan (Argentina),Loudovikos ton Anogion . Radio productions: Radio-broadcasting with musicological analysis of world music, since 1994. Article writings: on music In journals and newspapers. Concerts (in Greece and abroad): World Music Institute,New York, Manhattan with the music group Psarantonis and Hainides ensemble, Cyprus, Turkey. Solo Oud Recitals in Beograd , Crete , Ahtens , Porto Heli , Thessaloniki (Performances with compositions of Greek, Turkish, Persian, Romanian, Armenian and Arabian composers.) With Glikeria and 'Hainides' around Greece and abroad. As a band member: 2003 - end of 2008 as a main member of 'Hainides'. 2000 -- Today as a main member of 'Endofonon'. 12.08.2000 with the group he formed, in Smyrne Turkey. 1986 - 1990 as a main member of 'Asfyx'. Discography - Participations: 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.O glykasmos ton Aggelon (Sweetness of the angels), 2000 Folk-religious hymns and traditional Greek songs about Virgin Mary. Prize by the Ministry of Education. 9.Greece attacks, 1989 With the band Nightmare. 10.Constellations, 11.O karagiozis paraligo Veziris, 12,Endofonon live, 13.Periklis Tsoukalas, 14.Psychonautis. Compositions: * Music for paintings by French painter Bruno and for a sculpture-installation by N. and P. Sotiriadis. * Music for theatre Prize for music composition and performance for the traditional theatre play Karagkiozis paraligo Veziris, 1999. * Performance at the International Oud Meeting of his own improvisations (taksim) and compositions of classical Ottoman composers, Thessaloniki 29,30,1/12/2002 funded by the Medi Muses European program. He is currently working with Diamanda Galas, Glykeria and forming a new band as well as giving Oud and Guitar lessons. Cooperations: Diamanda Galas, 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.