Listed 48 sub titles with search on: Biographies for wider area of: "IONIAN ISLANDS Island complex GREECE" .
LIXOURI (Small town) KEFALLONIA
1901 - 1974
MESSOVOUNIA (Village) KEFALLONIA
1909
LIXOURI (Small town) KEFALLONIA
1940
Son of Evangelatos Antiochos.
The family came from Trapezous and settled on the island of Kefalonia after the fall of Constantinople (1453). A member of this family, Katsaitis Petros, was an important writer of the 17th century.
ARGOSTOLI (Town) KEFALLONIA
1790 - 1860
Politician
ITHAKI (Island) IONIAN ISLANDS
1788 - 1825
MADOURI (Island) TILEVOIDES ISLANDS
LIXOURI (Small town) KEFALLONIA
1903
ZERVATA (Settlement) KEFALLONIA
1878 - 1952
Professor of the university and academician.
LEFKADA (Island) IONIAN ISLANDS
1787 - 1856
He wrote poetry.
CORFU (Town) IONIAN ISLANDS
1861 - 1917
Spyros Mavropoulos was born in Corfu (Kerkyra), one of the Ionian
Islands, in northwest GREECE, in 1956. He graduated with diplomas in trumpet,
harmony, counterpoint, fugue & orchestration from the "Hellenic Conservatory"
and composition from the "Orpheus Conservatory". A proficient pianist and classical
guitarist, he has been composing since 1980. Many of his works have been performed
in Greece, Germany, Russia, USA, Italy & Australia by well-known ensembles, especially
brass. In 1979 he began teaching music in a high school in Corfu. From 1995 up
to 1998 he taught music harmony at the Music department of "Ionian University"
and the "Ionian Conservatory".
He has participated with original works or arrangement in more than
80 concerts. He has composed original works and arrangements for: Brass Quintet,
Brass Band, Wind Band, Symphonic Orchestra, Chorus, Woodwind quintet, Brass Trio,
Trio (piano, violin, clarinet), Duo (Clarinet - piano, tuba - piano, violin -
guitar).
His works and arrangements have been performed by "Melos Brass Quintet",
Brass Quintet", "Victorian Brass Quintet", "Tal Quintet", "Quintetto Sinihin",
"Trio Koryfo", "Wind band of Wurzburg", "Radio T.V Symphony Orchestra of Albania", "Philarmonica
wind orchestra of Corfu", "Chamber Woodwind Quintet", "Athens Brass Ensemble",
"Pindaros Brass Quintet", "Corfu Chorus", "Athens Philharmonia", "Wind Orchestra
of Moscow". Works of his have been presented in solo performances by Roger Bobo
(tuba) & David Cambell (clarinet). He has taken part in international composing
competitions, such as "Georgia University Composition Competition for trio brass"
(1994), the "Louis and Virginia Sudler International Wind Band Composition Competition"
(1999), the "Philadelphia Youth Quintet Composition Contest" (1999), the "International
Guitar Festival" (1997), the "Wisconsin Sesquicentennial Brass Band Festival"
(1998), the 1st & 2nd "International Brass Course" of Kalavrita (1998-1999) and
the "1st Festival of Ionian Islands Composers" in Corfu (1999). Spyros Mavropoulos
along with other contemporary Corfiot composers is considered an advocate of the
renowned "Ionian Music School". Some of his composition and arrangements have
been recorded by famous ensembles. The "Music House Vryoni" has also published
a series of educational music books.
This text is cited Apr 2003 from the Friends of Music Society "Lilian Voudouri" URL below, which contains image.
ITHAKI (Island) IONIAN ISLANDS
1849 - 1982
LEFKADA (Island) IONIAN ISLANDS
LIXOURI (Small town) KEFALLONIA
1903 - 1981
KERAMIES (Village) KEFALLONIA
LIXOURI (Small town) KEFALLONIA
1811 - 1901
Poet, critic and one of the most important satirists in modern Greece.
CHAVRIATA (Village) KEFALLONIA
1700 - 1752
LIXOURI (Small town) KEFALLONIA
1802 - 1882
Follower of the utopian socialism.
ITHAKI (Island) IONIAN ISLANDS
Editor’s Information:
Biography, reports and essays on Homer can be found at his birthplace the island of Ios, one of the places that claim the honour of his origin and where is his tomb. There are also other places among the claimants, which are mentioned in an epigram (Gell. III, 11), including the island of Ios: the island of Chios, Smyrna, Rhodes, Colophon, Salamis in Cyprus, Argos, Athens, Cyme in Aeolis, Pylos and Ithaca.
KEFALLONIA (Island) IONIAN ISLANDS
KERKYRA (Ancient city) IONIAN ISLANDS
Chaeris, a very ancient poet of Corcyra, mentioned by Demetrius of Phalerus (ap. Tzetz. Prolegon. ad Lycophr.)
LEFKADA (Island) IONIAN ISLANDS
1884 - 1951
LIXOURI (Small town) KEFALLONIA
1811 - 1901
MADOURI (Island) TILEVOIDES ISLANDS
ZAKYNTHOS (Town) IONIAN ISLANDS
1792 - 1869
GRIZATA (Village) KEFALLONIA
1814 - 1894
Legist and writer. He played a leading role in the radicalism in the Ionian Islands.
KASTRO (Settlement) KEFALLINIA
1816 - 1888
CORFU (Town) IONIAN ISLANDS
1776 - 9/10/1831
LIXOURI (Small town) KEFALLONIA
1844 - 1917
CHAVRIATA (Village) KEFALLONIA
1728 - 1788
CORFU (Town) IONIAN ISLANDS
1825 - 1905
ITHAKI (Island) IONIAN ISLANDS
1880 - 1947
LIXOURI (Small town) KEFALLONIA
1850 - 1927
CORFU (Town) IONIAN ISLANDS
1784 - 1837
Sculptor and painter, who studied at the Academy of St. Lucas in Rome, and was pupil of Antonio Canova. In 1812, he founded the first private School of Fine Arts in Greece, which became public in 1815 under the High commission of Thomas Metland, and Prosalentis was the director.
AGII DOULI (Village) CORFU
1887 - 1981
CHAVRIATA (Village) KEFALLONIA
1850 - 1927
KERKYRA (Ancient city) IONIAN ISLANDS
Dracon. Of Corcyra, a writer, whose work peri lithon is quoted by Athenaeus (xv.). Casaubon (ad loc.) proposes peri Deon as a conjecture.
LIXOURI (Small town) KEFALLONIA
1669 - 1714
Eminent preacher and bishop of Kernitsa and Kalavryta.
SPANOCHORI (Village) LEFKADA
1907
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