All the people who have collaborated with Domna are presented alphabetically. The information included in their biographical note, which have been adapted to the website’s requirements, was either provided by the collaborators themselves or by other sources. For each collaborator there is a detailed list of collaborations, including related media clippings and photographs.
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Musician (lute)
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A musician of Armenian descent, she was born in France. After a trip to former Soviet Armenia in 1980, she began studying the kanun with Aram Kerovpyan, a student of Saadettin Öktenay. From 1984 to 1986 she lived in Istanbul, where she continued her studies and took part in […]
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(1928–2023) | He was born in Karoti, Evros, and died in Athens. While still a student, he studied Byzantine music — first with his father and later with the protopsaltis (lead cantor) Michalis Kefalokoptis. In 1950, he moved with his parents to Athens, where he completed his studies in […]
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(1944 – 2013) Yiorgos Amarantidis was born in Kapnohori, Kozani; his parents were refugees from Ano Matsouka of Pontus. At a young age, he started playing the Pontic lyra, in the company of his father Stathis Amarantidis and of local musician refugees from Pontus. Between 1973 and 1984 he […]
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(1924 – 1989). Kevin Andrews was a scholar, writer, poet, musician and philhellene. He lived in Greece for several years and studied Greek history, as well as the Greek language and tradition. He became close with Simon Karas, with whom he also collaborated. He worked with Domna Samiou in […]
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(1955-2015). Joanna Andrews was born in 1955 in New York and died on 29/12/2015 in Switzerland. She was the daughter of writer, scholar, poet and philhellene Kevin Andrews, who collaborated with Domna Samiou. She studied the oud in London and Egypt. Apart from Domna Samiou, she worked with Ross […]
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(1906–1983) | He was born in Keratea, Attica. He was self-taught on the violin and performed with many traditional ensembles of his time. He collaborated with the Lykeion ton Ellinidon and, from 1955 to 1968, he was a permanent member of the traditional orchestra of EIR. In 1956, he […]
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(1941-2014) | A distinguished cantor and professor of Byzantine music. Born in Pyrgos, Ilia (Peloponnese), he studied law at the University of Athens and Byzantine music under Simon Karas. He served as the protopsaltis (lead cantor) of the Church of Agia Irini in Athens, founded and directed the Greek […]
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Antonis Apergis was born in 1963 in the suburb of Nikea in Piraeus. A composer as well as a song writer, he also plays the guitar, oud, kanun and double bass. He has collaborated with some of the leading figures of contemporary Greek music. Following his first record, a […]
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Born in Ioannina in 1977, where he was also raised, Alexandros Arkadopoulos started his theoretical and practical musical education at the age of seven. The first instruments he was taught were keyboards, guitar, bouzouki and percussion. At the age of ten he started studying the flute and soon after, […]
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Born and raised in the Kallipoli area in Piraeus, Eleftheria Arvanitaki’s family’s origins can be traced to the islands of Ikaria and Paxoi. Her first collaboration was with the ‘Opisthodromiki Kompania’, a group of amateur Rebetika musicians who played songs by Tsitsanis, Papaioanou, Vamvakaris and others. Her first appearance […]
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(1932–2012) | He was born in Agrinio, Central Greece, and came from a family of musicians. In 1952, he settled in Athens. He was the older brother of Christos Athanasopoulos-Mortakis. He played various folk instruments, including the clarinet, flute, lute, oud, zournas, and goblet drum. His repertoire includes traditional […]
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Musician from Epirus (violin).
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Born in Agrinio, he is the younger brother of Petros Athanasopoulos-Kalyvas. He plays the clarinet, the lute and the guitar with various bands in Athens and elsewhere in Greece.
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Born in 1946 in Thessaloniki. He is an actor and a singer. He studied at the G. Theodosiadis Academy School of Drama and has collaborated with various troupes and groups. He has also been active as a singer, taking part in many artists’ concerts in Greece and abroad. He […]
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[1912-1987]. Self-taught musician, born in Istanbul. He played the goblet drum, the daouli (davul), and all the traditional percussion instruments. He participated in the recordings of more than ten thousand songs, and took part in more than a thousand musical programs and events. He died in 1987.
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Singer of Pontic songs, daughter of Christos Bayraktaris.
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(1906-1981). Christos Bayraktaris was a Pontic lyra-player and singer. He was born in the village of Kromni, Pontus (Turkish Eskikıran), and died in Athens. His name was Simaioforidis, and Bayraktaris was his nickname.
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She was born in 1920 in the village of Roda on the Kyzikos peninsula, Sea of Marmara. After the Catastrophe (1922), her family moved to the village of Nea Roda, Chalkidiki. There, in 1984, Domna Samiou met her and recorded her.
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(1925-2021) Mrs. Marigo Bouziou, nee Chrysogeni, was born in Astros, Peloponnese. She was a farmer. She lived and worked “like the suffering of the olives”, as she used to say, raising three children alone. Kind-hearted and smiling to everyone, she always spontaneously had a song in her mouth for […]
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The Byzantine Choir “Kalophonarides” (Good voiced ones) was formed by Yiorgos Remoundos. It is composed of twenty members and has participated in many performances in and outside of Athens as well as in radio and television broadcast programs on the state radio and television stations. The choir has presented […]
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(1937-2015) Born in Epirus. He comes from the renowned musicians’ family Chalkias and is the brother of Petro-Loukas Chalkias. He plays the violin and his repertoire mostly includes tunes and songs of Epirus. He has participated in numerous musical events, as well as in various albums, among which are […]
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(1914-1992) Prominent clarinetist. Born in the village Fotino of Ioannina, Epirus, and died in Piraeus. He was the youngest member of the Chalkias music troupe, which he joined at the age of seventeen. The troupe played in feasts of Epirus during the summers and in Athens during the winter. […]
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Holds a BSc in Physical Education and Sport Science, majoring in “Greek Traditional Dance”, and MSc in “Folklore-Dance Anthropology” from the School of Physical Education and Sport Science (SPESS) of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). Ηe is a PhD candidate in “Dance Studies” at the same […]