Tasos Diakogiorgis (

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: Τάσος Διακογιώργης; 1924 – 12 March 2007) was a Greek virtuoso santurist and music teacher. He is regarded as one of the greatest Greek santurists of all time.

Biography

Tasos Diakogiorgis was born in 1924 in

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, a village of

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. At the age of 10, began to study music and from 1939 to 1941 was attending violin lessons at the National Conservatory of Rhodes. In 1954 moved to

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to participate at the

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and classical music theory with

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and Leonidas Zoras. In 1962

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introduced him to Yannis Markopoulos. After this, he became a member of the ensemble that recorded the music of the film '' Young Aphrodites''. In 1964 he acceded to the ERT Contemporary Music Orchestra and

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subsequently, which he remained until 1989. Diakogiorgis died on 12 March 2007, in Athens.

References

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