Teachers from past seminars

Teresa Melo Campos

Teresa Melo Campos

Teresa Melo Campos (Porto 1988) sings, composes, and directs creative musical projects. She holds a ...

Houshmand Ebadi

Houshmand Ebadi

Houshmand Ebadi is an Iranian Ney player living in Tehran. He started learning music when ...

Mayu Shviro

Mayu Shviro

Mayu started her classical western music studies on the cello when she was 6. She ...

Khaled Al-Hafez

Khaled Al-Hafez

Khaled Al-Hafez: Born and raised in Aleppo - Syria in 1981.  At the age of ...

Nikos Angousis

Nikos Angousis

Nikos Angousis was born in 1982 in Athens. He is a third-generation musician, of the ...

Hovhannes Karakhanyan

Hovhannes Karakhanyan

Hovhannes Karakhanyan was born in Yerevan (Armenia) in 1987. Since he was very young, Hovhannes ...

Murat Aydemir

Murat Aydemir

Murat Aydemir, Turkey's celebrated Tanbur player and theorist, is widely recognized for his exceptional teaching ...

Burak Savaş

Burak Savaş

Burak Savaş is an exceptionally talented Turkish musician and a captivating singer who has mesmerized ...

Pelva Naik

Pelva Naik

Pelva Naik is one of the leading Indian vocalists of the ancient genre of classical ...

Aniol López

Aniol López

Aniol López, born in Girona, is a Daf player who develops his technique based on ...

Harris Lambrakis

Harris Lambrakis

Athens native Harris Lambrakis studied music from a young age with Marios Mavroidis, Ioannis Arvanitis, ...

Lamia Yared

Lamia Yared

Singer and oud player Lamia Yared draws her repertoire from Near-Eastern traditions. Interpret of muwashahat, ...

Momi Maiga

Momi Maiga

At 23 years old, Momi Maiga stands out as a virtuoso of kora, as well ...

Walid Mahmoud

Walid Mahmoud

Born in the region of El Jadida, he is a singer and interpreter of Guembri ...

Yannis Papaioannou

Yannis Papaioannou

Originally from Salonica, Greece, Yannis Papaioannou has become a reference in the Mediterranean music scene ...

Eléonore Fourniau

Eléonore Fourniau

Born in 1987, Eleonore Fourniau spent three years of her adolescence in Uzbekistan. Trained in ...

Mahdi Gheitasi

Mahdi Gheitasi

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Alexandre Guitart

Alexandre Guitart

A self-taught multi-instrumentalist, he has deepened his studies on different types of Middle Eastern folk ...

Isabel Martín

Isabel Martín

Isabel Martín has been studying singing and traditional percussion of the Iberian Peninsula and the ...

Derya Türkan

Derya Türkan

Derya Türkan is a young master of classical Turkish kemenche (3-stringed fiddle). He plays improvisational ...

Mustafa Said

Mustafa Said

Mustafa Said is an Egyptian singer, musicologist, composer and a virtuoso Oud player. He currently ...

Veka Aler

Veka Aler

Veka Aler is a singer and a vocal teacher. She was born in 1980 in ...

Efrén López

Efrén López

Valencian musician, composer, producer and sound engineer specialized in plucked string instruments from the Eastern ...

Ross Daly

Ross Daly

Many years before what we call "World Music" appeared on the scene, certain individuals had ...

Yasamin Shahhosseini

Yasamin Shahhosseini

Yasamin Shahhosseini is born in Tehran in 1992. She graduates at Tehran Music School where ...

Kelly Thoma

Kelly Thoma

Kelly Thoma was born in Piraeus (1978). Since 1995, she has been studying the Lyra ...

Katerina Papadopoulou

Katerina Papadopoulou

Katerina Papadopoulou is considered as one of the very few singers in Greece who still ...

Indradeep Ghosh

Indradeep Ghosh

Indradeep Ghosh initially started playing violin at the young age of six under the guidance ...

Chariton Charitonidis

Chariton Charitonidis

Chariton Charitonidis was born in Athens in 1976. He holds a BSc in Physical Education ...

Bijan Chemirani

Bijan Chemirani

Bijan Chemirani first took up a musical instrument at the age of seven, in the ...

Giorgos Papaioannou

Giorgos Papaioannou

Giorgos Papaioannou was born in Athens in 1982. He began his musical studies at an ...

Nikos Papaioannou

Nikos Papaioannou

Nikos Papaioannou was born in Athens in 1991. He was graduated in music from the ...

Erkan Oğur

Erkan Oğur

Erkan Oğur (pronounced [ˈeɾkan ˈoɰuɾ]) in the West (born April 17, 1954) is a Turkish ...

Manos Achalinotopoulos

Manos Achalinotopoulos

Manos Achalinotopoulos, considered by critics, composers and musicologists as the best clarinet performer of the new ...

Paloma Gutierrez Arroyo

Paloma Gutierrez Arroyo

Singer and psaltery player specialized in occidental medieval repertoires (before 1500), I´ve been trained mainly ...

Aleix Tobias Sabater

Aleix Tobias Sabater

Born in 1976, he studied drums at the Escola de Música de Badalona and Taller ...

Sokratis Sinopoulos

Sokratis Sinopoulos

Sokratis Sinopoulos was born in Athens, Greece. He studied classical guitar while taking lessons in ...

Tzvetanka Varimezova

Tzvetanka Varimezova

Tzvetanka Varimezova was born in Pazardzhik in Bulgarian Trace, and started singing and playing accordion ...

Nedyalko Nedyalkov

Nedyalko Nedyalkov

Nedyalko Nedyalkov was born in 1970 in the town of Haskovo into a long line ...

Periklis Papapetropoulos

Periklis Papapetropoulos

Periklis Papapetropoulos was born in Athens but grew up on the island of Crete. His ...

Alexandros Papadimitrakis

Alexandros Papadimitrakis

Alexandros Papadimitrakis was born in Athens. He studied oud and lavta with Yurdal Tokcan, Sokratis ...

Hooshang Farahani

Hooshang Farahani

Hooshang Farahani was born in 1967 in Farahan, the central province of Iran. He went school ...

Giorgos Manolakis

Giorgos Manolakis

Giorgos Manolakis was born in Heraklion, Crete in 1982. When he was eight years old ...

Peppe Frana

Peppe Frana

Passionate from a young age about rock music from America and overseas, he quickly became the ...

Christos Barbas

Christos Barbas

Christos Barbas, multi­instrumentalist and composer is one of the most multifaceted and creative musicians coming from ...

Ömer Erdoğdular

Ömer Erdoğdular

Ömer Erdoğdular started studying music while still a child, initially learning ney from his father. He ...

Zohar Fresco

Zohar Fresco

Born in Israel to a family of Turkish descent, Zohar Fresco began playing percussion instruments at ...