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Apostolos Paraskevas is a
Grammy-nominated composer and guitarist. Classical Guitar
Magazine/London acknowledged him as the only guitarist
ever to have a major orchestral piece performed at New York’s Carnegie
Hall and
the international press as the only musician who performed there in a
Grim
Reaper’s outfit! Dr.
Paraskevas, a Lukas Foss protégé of the early 90's has been for decades
a multi-published and recording artist. As a soloist and composer he
collaborated with orchestras
around the world including the ALEA III, Hingham Symphony Orchestra,
Hellenic Contemporary
Orchestra, Boston University Symphony Orchestra, Odessa
Philharmonic/Ukraine,
Solisti di Patras/ Greece, Cyprus Symphony Orchestra, National Festival
Orchestra in New York/ Carnegie Hall, Orchestra of the Corfu
Festival/Greece,
Newton Symphony, Wind Ensemble at Berklee College of Music, Atlantic
Symphony
Orchestra, Athens Municipality Orchestra, Russica Antigua Players of
St,
Petersburg/Russia, Florida International
University Symphony Orchestra. Thessaloniki
Municipal Symphony Orchestra (Greece), the Orpheus Ensemble in Fresno
CA, Albany Symphony
Orchestra, and the Greek Polytechnic Choir.
Major publishers: Centaur and Bridge
Records, Santerrelle Verlag/Germany, Berben/Italy, Clear Note, and
PaNas/Greece. He received five First
Prizes in International Composition Competitions. His teachers incluse Leo
Brouwer and Theodore Antoniou. He is the
Founder and the Artistic Director of the International Guitar Congress/Corfu.
Major performances with Lukas Foss at Carnegie Hall/New York, Weill Hall/New
York, Wertheim Performing Arts Center/Miami, Jordan Hall/Boston, Capella
Hall-St. Petersburg/Russia, Athens Concert Hall/Greece, etc. He is an Associate Professor at Berklee
College of Music. Apostolos
Paraskevas, performs on guitars made by Karl Heinz Rommich and by Alan Chapman
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