
Nikos Kariotis
Composer, choir & orchestra director & professor of advanced music theory
He was born in Athens in 1958 and he is a composer, a choir and orchestra director and a professor of advanced music theory.
He started taking guitar lessons in 1975 with Olga Kalogriadou at the “National Conservatoire” and later at “Skalkotas Conservatoire”. In 1978 he has participated in an international seminar of classical guitar taught by the famous guitar player Oscar Guilia. In 1979 he was accepted by professor M. Travlos in his class of Advanced Music Theory. At the same time he studied music harmony – counterpoint – fugue and composition at “Skalkota’s Conservatoire” and later on, at “Modern Conservatoire of Athens”. He completed his studies in music composition with the highest degree. After his studies he participated in a two – year course of choral direction under the Hungarian Maestro M. Petran and the Greek choral Director A. Kontogeorgiou. In addition, he studied vocal techniques for three years with the famous Greek lyric tenor George Zervanos and by the same time he participated in seminars of orchestra direction under T. Magriotis and H. Boudouri. He has been a tactical student of Lefteris Halkiadakis in orchestra direction.