Bio
Andreas Paragioudakis
ANDREAS PARAGIOUDAKIS (GR) was born in Crete/Greece in 1980. He is a multi instrumentalist and improvising artist, working with various musicians in different formations, composes contemporary modal music, music for theatre and film. He is the initiator of the project UNTER DER LATERNE, co-founder of the TERRACOTTA PROJECT, STALA Quartet, the SALINGARI Collective, the TAMBOURLA Trio and the WOTSALA Collective in St.Gallen.He is a guest lecturer for elementary singing and spontaneous orchestra building at the private college STELLA in Feldkirch, at the annual music festival GLATT & VERKEHRT and at the KLANGWELT TOGGENBURG.
In collaboration with writers in Switzerland and Austria, he creates sound installations for interdisciplinary and participatory projects such as VOIX DE RESISTANCE and WORLD OF TALES.
He is founder STIMMSINN, a participative free singing project. He has released numerous cross-border music productions since 2011. Together with Robert Bernhard he founded the association SOUNDBLOSSOM FESTIVAL in 2022 and organised the first festival for contemporary & traditional music of the East-Mediterranean region in Bregenz.
YIANNIS POLYCHRONAKIS
YIANNIS POLYCHRONAKIS (GR) is a double bass virtuoso who is at home in the modal music of the Eastern Mediterranean as well as in classical music, jazz and improvisation. He has worked with the Manos Hadjidakis Symphony Orchestra and the National Orchestra of the Athens Festival and with many distinguished musicians in Greece and abroad. His versatile skills and experience on the double bass make him one of the most sought-after musicians in Greece. He has worked with numerous musicians in Greece. He is a member of the TERRACOTTA PROJECT in collaboration with Andreas Paragioudakis and Yiannis Papatzanis.
YIANNIS PAPATZANIS
YIANNIS PAPATZANIS (GR) is a musician, rhythm teacher and composer. He has worked for many years with musicians from Rajasthan, Iran, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey, Armenia, Andalusia and Azerbaijan, especially with Ross Daly, George Xylouris, Vassilis Stavrakakis, Psarantonis, Zacharias Spyridakis, Dimitrios Sgouros, Achilleas Persidis and Haig Yazdjian/ He has composed original music for theatre, cinema, dance theatre, documentaries and television productions. Many years of experience in the conception, planning and implementation of rhythm seminars. Teaching collective rhythm & percussion throughout Greece and abroad (Cyprus, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden & Italy)/ He is the reinventor of the Cretan Daouli and continues to develop the drumming techniques of the Aegean percussion instruments. He also explores further possibilities for the use of the African Udu (sound drum), and the Persian Tombak/ Co-founder of the TERRACOTTA project in collaboration with Andreas Paragioudakis and Yiannis Polychronakis