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Ilias Yfantidis
Biographical Note

Born in 1976 in Athens. He grew up in a family of deep musical tradition, with the sound of the Pontic lyra; his grandfather played the lyra as well.
At the age of seven he began his music studies at the Hellenic Conservatoire of Athens and in other conservatoires. Up until he was fifteen he played the bouzouki. In 1991, he joined for two years the dance society of the Pontic Association of Agia Varvara ‘O Faros’, where his first contact with the Pontic tradition took place. The following year, he started lyra lessons at the ‘Efxinos Pontos’ Pontic Association of Korydallos, with Yiorgos Amarantidis, who also helped him cultivate and develop his talent in singing.
At the age of nineteen he released his first personal album entitled Ego Pontiopoul’ eimai ta’ onoma m’ en Ilia. Apart from lyra he also plays the Pontic bagpipe and the flute. Other personal albums include the following: Pontos… opse – osimeron kai panta and Avdes Pontou.
He has participated in many concerts, events, music and theatre shows, in Greece and abroad, playing the lyra and singing. He has also collaborated and participated in the recordings of many artists.
He teaches the lyra as well as the Pontic dialect and music; moreover, he writes lyrics and composes music. He has also created works for musical theatres, on the history and culture of the Pontic Hellenism.
Source: Ilias Yfantidis
Songs

Pontus Acritic Song
Akritas Goes Hunting (The Death of Digenis)

Pontus Acritic Song
An Eagle Soared

Pontus Fable Song (Ballad)
At Trichas’ Bridge

Pontus Wedding Song
Close to Daybreak

Pontus Eskikıran Philosophical Song
If I Die, Bury Me



Pontus Acritic Song, Fable Song (Ballad)
Marandon (The Evil Mother-In-Law)


Pontus Fable Song (Ballad), Sea and Sailors Song
Somewhere in the Aegean Sea

Pontus Love Song, Pastoral Song
The Maid Climbed up to the Summer Pasture

Pontus Immigration Song, Wedding Song
The orphan maid is wed & Beloved stranger so far away
Albums

Domna Samiou Sings Songs of Nature and of Love

Epic Songs of Warriors and Heroes

Folk Fables in Song

My Old Torments

Of Nature and of Love

Songs of Dame Sea

Wedding Songs
Concerts

08 & 09/03/2005 The Athens Concert Hall, Hall of the Friends of Music
Songs of Asia Minor with Domna Samiou
