Paxos Festival 2022

Concert

Classical Guitar Delight

21 August 2022


Michalis Kodaxakis has been a professional guitarist for more than twenty years. He graduated from the Municipal Conservatory of Piraeus and then studied at “Robert Schumann” University, Düsseldorf with Professor Joaquín Clerch. He won first prize at the "Francisco Tárrega international competition, after which he performed in numerous venues in Greece and in Europe. He has cooperated as a soloist with many orchestras among them, the Athens State Orchestra, Orchestra AUKSO (Poland), Arad Philharmonic Orchestra (Romania), Filarmonia das Beiras Orchestra (Portugal), Orquesta Sinfonica de Vallés and Collegium Instrumental de Valencia (Spain) and the Bucharest Radio Orchestra.

 

He has premiered many works written for guitar, many of which were dedicated to him personally like “Estudio deligados” by Joaquín Clerch, “Dance Νο 2” and “Swirl” (Strovilos) by Efi Markoulaki, "Hadjidakis Suite" by Leonidas Kanaris, "States of mind" by Dinos Konstantinidis and the work "Nocturne for Michalis" by Michalis Andronikos.

 

He recorded for NAXOS in 2006 with works by M.M.Ponce, F.Martin, E.Krenek, F.Tárrega, A.Khachaturian, and the work by J. Clerch “Preludios de Primavera” in a premier recording. In 2008 he recorded the work “Summer Night’s Dream” by Periklis Koukos based on the famous ballet - opera.

 

He has been touring the world since 2004 with guitarist Dejan Ivanovich interpreting works for two guitars. The guitar duet recorded works by J.S.Bach, M.Castelnuovo-Tedesco, J.Rodrigo and F. Sor under the title ““Les Deux Amis” for the German Record Company KSGEXAUDIO.

 

He is a regular member of the renowned music group ENCARDIA. He also teaches in various festivals, universities and conservatories in Greece and abroad.

Konstantinos Avlonitis (Born in Corfu, 1993) started guitar lessons at the age of seven at the National Conservatory of Corfu. He graduated from the Music High School of Corfu where he studied guitar and mandolin. While being a university student in Athens he continued his guitar studies in Athens, while attending university, with Professor Michalis Kodaxakis at the Contemporary Conservatory of Athens from which he graduated in 2018 at the top of his class.

 

He participated in various guitar competitions and won first prize at the First Paros International Guitar Competition. He has performed in festivals in Greece and in Europe. He has participated in seminars of internationally distinguished guitar soloists, among which were Hubert Käppel, Dejan Ivanovic, Leo Brouwer, Łukasz Kuropaczewski, Duo Melis and Gabriel Bianco. Since September 2018 he has been studying with guitarist Carlo Marchione in Maastricht.