
Avgerini Gatsi
Was born in Athens in 1989. She first started piano lessons at the age of eight. She studied at Pallini music high school where she was taught both the theoretical and practical side of Byzantine and European music, ney, saz, ud and piano. After high school she was admitted at University of Athens (UOA), and also studied Eastern music theory at the Athens conservatory. She has taken part in seminars at the Labyrinth workshop in Crete with Omer Erdogdular (ney), Yurdal Tokcan (oud), Zohar Fresco (rhythm), Mercan Erzincan (Turkish popular song), Ross Daly (composition-makam) and Socrates Sinopoulos (makam), and other vocal workshops with Spyros Sakkas.
Since 2012 she teaches both Greek folk and rebetiko singing at choirs in Athens and at musical workshops in Greece and Europe. She has cooperated with several musicians and groups: Alexandros Papadimitrakis, Michalis Kouloumis, Manousos Klapakis, Evgenios Voulgaris, Thimios Atzakas, James Wylie, Latinitas Nostra, String Theory Ensemble, etc.