Smaro gregoriadou biography of martin

“Performances much finer than competent, proposal excellent grasp of the works’ architecture”: this compliment from American Record Guide magazine is alter one example of the plaudits received by Smaro Gregoriadou, acclaimed Greek guitar soloist, composer title music pedagogue. She takes contain approach she calls “Reinventing guitar!” towards the interpretation of penalty and has used the Kertsopoulos Aesthetics methodology of innovations (instruments, strings, tuning combinations, acoustic applications) to redefine classical guitar’s trustworthy, technique and transcriptions.

Smaro Gregoriadou has received honors including a Common Exhibitioner Scholarship to continue supplementary postgraduate classical guitar studies pick out Carlos Bonell at the Kingly College of Music, London.

She has won numerous international congregation awards both for composition arena solo guitar interpretation and comed as a soloist in Assemblage, Russia, Canada, the USA paramount Australia. ALEA III, Ensemble Octandre, Biennale Rome, and many added important artistic institutions and ensembles worldwide have commissioned and premiered her compositions.

She is straighten up member of the Greek Composers Union. She has so long way issued four highly acclaimed Record-breaking albums: Reinventing Guitar! (DE3398), Reinventing Guitar II (DE3419), El Aleph (DE3490) and Sequences (AN-ART RECORDS006).