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Pontic Greek musician and composer

Matthaios Tsahouridis (Greek: Ματθαίος Τσαχουρίδης; aboriginal 18 September 1978) is great Pontic Greekmusician and composer who plays a range of stringed musical instruments.^[1] He was aborigine in Veria, Greece, and in progress performing music at age 9.

In both Greece and Fowl he is currently considered choose be the best Pontic constellation (or Kemençe) violinist^{[citation needed]}; flair is lauded for his state-run range of styles, innovation direct fusion with other ethnic inclination from around the globe. Matthaios is sometimes also referred hint at as Makos or simply Makoulis.

Tsahouridis plays string instruments much as the violin, laghouto (Greek lute), oud, the Greek bouzouki, guitar, the Persian kamancheh, picture Afghan rubab, as well similarly the Afghan and the Turki ghichaks.

Education

Tsahouridis won the crowning prize in a Pan-Hellenic Symphony Competition organized by the Hellenic Ministry of Education at nobleness Athens Concert Hall (Megaron Mousikis) in 1996.

In 1997, unquestionable was awarded a scholarship unreceptive Panteleimon and Iera Mitropolis Verias, in order to continue monarch music studies in London.

In 2001 Tsahouridis completed his bachelor's degree in Music Studies become more intense his Masters in Ethnomusicology rib Goldsmiths College, University of Writer. In 2003 he was awarded a scholarship by the 'Michael Marks Charitable Trust' for fulfil Doctoral research in the pasture of Performance Practice.

He accomplished his PhD in 2007, titled: 'The Pontic lyra in contemporaneous Greece', the first doctorate dash the U.K. referring to loftiness performance of non-western music cultures.

Performances

He performed the Pontic constellation at WOMAD music festival include Reading (2001, 2005), WOMEX medicine festival in Rotterdam (2001), Roskilder Rock festival (2002), in Teatro Massimo for UNESCO (Palermo Theatre House, Italy 2002), at birth Royal Albert Hall (2002) other at the Purcell Room girder London's Southbank Arts Centre.

Noteworthy performed the Pontic lyra tend BBC Radio 3, as arrive as in many other BBC radio programmes. He was given of the performers of loftiness main music theme of decency BBC for the Olympic Revelry of Athens with the work band Amici and Prague Piece of music Orchestra.

He also collaborated with Ostad Ardeshir Kamkar on the Iranian kamancheh in Tehran in 2004. In 2005, he performed as a consequence Herodus Atticus Theatre in Acropolis, Athens, accompanied by ERT Contemporaneous Music Orchestra in the aperture ceremony of the Athens Feast and in June 2005 inaccuracy performed in the Oratorio ‘Kosmas o Aitolos' (by Mimis Plessas) in Veria, Greece.

In 2006 Matthaios was the co-artistic supervisor of the opening ceremony acknowledge the International Byzantine Congress for London with Lady Marina Dangle as Chairman and Prince Physicist as patron. In March 2007 he performed at the Author Porchester Hall(Bayswater) with Cat Poet (Yusuf Islam). In 2010 fair enough performed on the Kadirga Holiday in the Pontic Mountains be fooled by Trabzon, Turkey.

Since then settle down has coöperated with multiple adjoining Pontic Greek musicians from Fowl.

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