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Nikos Oikonomidis
Biographical Note

Born on the Cycladic island of Skinoussa into a musical family of many generations, Nikos drew his first musical inspiration from his grandfather and father.
He studied western classical violin at the Athens Conservatory and at the National Conservatory. At the age of fifteen, he began collaborating professionally with Dora Stratou. He participated in making both audio and film recordings of traditional music from Evros (northeastern Thrace) all the way to Cyprus.
He has been active in the systematic recording of the musical tradition of Kythira in the album: Perasma sta Kythira (Passage to Kythira), produced in collaboration with the cultural association 'Myrtia Kythiron', as well as of the traditional music of Amorgos in the album: Perasma stin Amorgo (Passage to Amorgos), in collaboration with the cultural and artistic syllogos 'Simonidis'. He completed the research and recording of the musical tradition of the northeastern Aegean islands, and presented it in the album Anatolika tou Aigaiou (The Eastern Aegean). Other recordings include three albums with his own songs: Archondissa tou Limaniou, Antikeri and Choros sta Kymata, as well as two recordings with singer-interpreter Eleni Legaki: Agapi kai Thalassa and Otan akouo to violi.
He has participated in international festivals and won the third prize in the International Festival of Traditional Music 'Sharg Taronalari' (Melodies of the East), organized in Samarkand under the aegis of UNESCO.
In 1990, together with other leading musicians, he formed the musical group 'Keros', which has performed in concerts, both within Greece and in other countries.
He has collaborated with leading performers of Greek traditional music, as well as with composers and singers, in the musical genre known as 'entechno'.
He has taught traditional music at the University of Southern Μaine. In 2001, he founded the recording company 'Keros Music' which has as its goal the systematic recording, documentation, and advancement of traditional Greek music.
Source: www.oikonomidis.gr
Songs

Macedonia Historical Song
A Brave Young Lad Set Out

Central Greece Euboea, Agios Dimitrios Fable Song (Ballad)
A Fair Maid Did Sing

Sporades Skiathos Fable Song (Ballad)
A Little Shorty (Skiathos)

Peloponnese Klephtic Song
A Maid Decided

Propontis Table Song Fable Song (Ballad)
A Maid Was Singing (The Wife Scorned)

Propontis Table Song Fable Song (Ballad), Immigration Song
A Maid Was Singing Longingly

Asia Minor Fable Song (Ballad)
A Maid from Evripο

Dodecanese Rhodes Love Song, Wedding Song
A Partridge I Did Tame

Central Greece Fthiotida, Amphicleia Wedding Song
A Slender Girl Is to Be Wed

Eastern Aegean Chios Fable Song (Ballad)
A Trader Made His Way

Eastern Aegean Chios Fable Song (Ballad)
A Trader Made His Way


Peloponnese Immigration Song
All Turn Their Gaze upon the Sun

Peloponnese Love Song
All the Birds, Two by Two

Peloponnese Arcadia, Pera Melana Love Song
Along the Shore

Ionian islands Kythira, Livadi Couplets Love Song
An Orange Joined the Dance

Epirus Klephtic Song
At Tserítsiana’s Well



Peloponnese Processional Tune Love Song
Beam, Dear Moon

Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Processional Tune Wedding Song
Bless Us, Christ and Holy Mary (1)

Eastern Aegean Lesvos, Mandamados Wedding Song
Bless Us, Christ and Holy Mary (2)


Peloponnese Love Song
Come Out, My Sun, Come Out

Dodecanese Sea and Sailors Song
Couplets About the Sea





Eastern Aegean Chios Couplets Sea and Sailors Song, Love Song
Dear Mother, I Am Awfully Tired

Thrace Acritic Song
Digenis Is Dying (The Death of Digenis)

Asia Minor Smyrna, Baindiri Couplets Love Song
Do Not Nurture Any Doubts

Propontis Mudania Love Song
Early last summer

Dodecanese Kalymnos Work Song, Sea and Sailors Song
Exile Is the Greatest Hardship


Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Love Song
Forty Five Lemon Trees

Klephtic Song
Forty Klephts Are We

Epirus Fable Song (Ballad)
Four, Five, Nine Brothers

Propontis Couplets Love Song
Giannoula

Asia Minor Makri - Levissi Table Song Wedding Song
Golden Table, Silver Plates

Peloponnese Historical Song
Great Joy Across the Land

Central Greece Table Song Klephtic Song
Great Sorrow Was Expressed


Constantinople Couplets Love Song
Health to You, O Holy One

Macedonia Klephtic Song
Hey Mountains of Grevená

Peloponnese Historical Song
How Joyous Are the Mountains

Ionian islands Corfu Wedding Song, Wish Well
I Climbed up the Cherry-Tree

Central Greece Historical Song
I Passed by One Saturday

Dodecanese Couplets Sea and Sailors Song, Lampoon
I Sold My Boat

Propontis Sea and Sailors Song
I Want to Savour All the Months

Thessaly Love Song
I Went up High on Olympus

Propontis Sea and Sailors Song
I Wish for All the Months in Turn

Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Sea and Sailors Song, Immigration Song
I Wish to Climb a Mountain Height

Propontis Couplets Love Song
I gave up all I had & What’s wrong, Theonitsa?

Cyclades Sifnos Love Song
I'd Have Come Last Night

Asia Minor Smyrna, Baindiri Couplets Love Song
I'll jump from the battlements

Peloponnese Love Song
If I Had an Bitter Orange

Peloponnese Arcadia, Pera Melana Love Song
If I Had an Orchard


Asia Minor Couplets Love Song
If I want black eyes

Asia Minor Makri - Levissi Couplets Lampoon
If you want to marry

Peloponnese Arcadia, Pera Melana
In Vervena, in Doliana

Cyclades Paros Love Song
In a Fine Orchard

Constantinople Couplets Love Song
In the workshops of Constantinople


Sporades Skyros Processional Tune Love Song
January Violet





Epirus Acritic Song
Kostantis and Kostantas (The Death of Digenis)

Thrace Acritic Song
Kostantis the Only Son

Asia Minor Couplets Love Song
Like the Marble of the City (Constantinople)

Constantinople Fable Song (Ballad)
Little Apple Tree Perched on the Brink

Eastern Aegean Chios Couplets Sea and Sailors Song, Love Song
Little Ship, Where Are You Going

Cyclades Kythnos, Dryopida Couplets Love Song, Spring Song
May Is Come

Cappadocia / Konya Sinasos
Mother, spring is here





Dodecanese Couplets Immigration Song
My Precious (Tzivaeri)

Eastern Aegean Lesvos, Loutra Couplets Wedding Song, For the Groom
My Royal-Born Pearl Pod

Asia Minor Erythraea, Kato Panagia Couplets Love Song
My old torments

Peloponnese Wedding Song, For the Bride
O Bitter Orange in Full Leaf

Sporades Skiathos Table Song Sad and Plaintive Song
O Black Dawn, Won't You Break

Peloponnese Sea and Sailors Song
Off Tsirigo

Dodecanese Nisyros Sea and Sailors Song
Oh Yes, Indeed Did Boreas

Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Historical Song, National Legends and Laments
Old Nun A-Cooking

Peloponnese Klephtic Song
On Tríkorfa Peak

Cappadocia / Konya Sinasos Love Song
On my way to the mountains of Prussa


Central Greece Love Song
Ploughed Garden of Mine

Asia Minor Smyrna Couplets Love Song
Poor sad love


Dodecanese Rhodes Couplets Immigration Song
Ribbon Interwined

Eastern Aegean Love Song
River, Dear River of Mine

Peloponnese Historical Song
Rock of Monemvasiá

Propontis Bithynia, Michalitsi Couplets Love Song
Roumbalia - Carnation


Central Greece Euboea, Kymi Couplets Sea and Sailors Song
Should You See a Vessel Pass

Eastern Aegean Ikaria, Fournoi Lampoon, Children's Song
So Many Lies



Central Greece Attiki Love Song
Sweet Perfumed Lemon

Peloponnese Love Song
Sweet Slender Panagiota



Peloponnese Klephtic Song
The Arcadian Lass

Cyclades Paros Love Song, Wedding Song
The Boastful Partridge

Peloponnese Arcadia, Pera Melana Historical, Recent
The Captains of Trípoli

Central Greece Hydra Fable Song (Ballad)
The Glass Well

Central Greece Hydra Fable Song (Ballad)
The Glass Well

Sporades Skiathos Sea and Sailors Song
The Great North Wind Blew



Dodecanese Leros Couplets Sea and Sailors Song
The Sea Has Made Me Old

Sporades Skyros Couplets Sea and Sailors Song, Love Song
The Sea Pounds Me

Peloponnese Klephtic Song
The Snow Shines White on the Mountain Tops

Thrace Evros, Karoti Fable Song (Ballad)
The Son of the Armenian

Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Couplets Love Song
The Water of Life (Olmaz)

Cyprus Sea and Sailors Song
There Were Three Monks


Peloponnese Sea and Sailors Song
Three Slender Girls

Eastern Aegean Samos, Karlovasi Processional Tune | Couplets Wedding Song
Tonight Is the Wedding Feast


Epirus Immigration Song
Turtledove

Peloponnese Love Song, Wedding Song
Up Upon the Rose


Sporades Skiathos Love Song
We Kissed Each Other in the Night




Eastern Aegean Ikaria, Fournoi Couplets Love Song
What Ails You, Crow

Central Greece Klephtic Song
What Ails You, Poor Plane-Tree?

Eastern Aegean Ikaria, Fournoi Couplets Love Song
What Did I Do to You, My Sun


Macedonia Klephtic Song
When You Dream of Brave Deeds

Dodecanese Immigration Song
When You Go off to Foreign Lands

Ionian islands Kefalonia Lampoon
Where To, Master Ant

Asia Minor Erythraea, Kato Panagia Couplets Wedding Song
Who Was the Matchmaker

Sporades Skiathos Love Song
Whoever Saw a Tree of Green

Asia Minor Erythraea, Alatsata Couplets Love Song
Yatzilariani


Love Song
You Dare to Speak Like That

Cyclades Couplets Sea and Sailors Song
You Quench Your Thirst... O Sea

Propontis Marmara Couplets For the Bride, Wedding Song
You wear white

Sporades Skiathos Acritic Song
Young Kostantakis (The Evil Mother-In-Law)


Eponymous Composer Modern Composition
Zonaradiko - Here Upon the Grassy Meadow
Albums

Carnival Songs

Carnival Songs (LP)



Epic Songs of Warriors and Heroes

Folk Fables in Song

I Tread the Earth Gently

Kaneloriza

Music from Greece: Domna Samiou

My Old Torments

Of Nature and of Love

Songs About Greeks Far From Home

Songs About Greeks Far From Home (LP)

Songs of Asia Minor 2

Songs of Dame Sea

Songs of History and Heroes

Songs οf Asia Minor

The Earth’s Three Bounties

The Great North Wind and Other Traditional Songs for Children

Wedding Songs
Concerts

29/10/1998 The Athens Concert Hall, Hall of the Friends of Music
The Known and the Unknown Domna

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