Notis Mavroudis ( el, Νότης Μαυρουδής; 15 July 1945 – 3 January 2023) was a Greek composer, songwriter, guitarist, columnist and radio producer. He had been active in music creation (composition and songwriting),

classical guitar The classical guitar (also known as the nylon-string guitar or Spanish guitar) is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles. An acoustic wooden string instrument with strings made of gut or nylon, it is a precursor o ...

performance and discography since 1964.

Biography

Notis Mavroudis was born in

Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

on 15 July 1945. He spent the first two years of his life in prison with his mother, who was a political prisoner after the

Greek Civil War The Greek Civil War ( el, ο Eμφύλιος �όλεμος ''o Emfýlios'' 'Pólemos'' "the Civil War") took place from 1946 to 1949. It was mainly fought against the established Kingdom of Greece, which was supported by the United Kingdom ...

. In 1958 he started

lessons at the National Conservatory of Athens under the tutelage of

Dimitris Fampas Dimitris Fampas (Δημήτρης Φάμπας, Dimitris Fabas) (22 December 1921 – 3 May 1996) was a Greece, Greek classical guitarist and composer. Life and career Fampas was born in Milina, a small village on Pelion, Mount Pelion near Vol ...

and graduated in 1969 with honors. In 1970 he settled in Italy, where he was assigned the classical guitar chair at the Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado, Milan, where he taught until 1975. In 1970 he also attended the

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Academy in Spain as a pupil of

José Tomás José Tomás Pérez Sellés (26 August 1934, in Alicante – 7 August 2001) was a Spanish classical guitarist and teacher. Considered a major influence on the evolution of classical guitar technique in the second half of the 20th century, he traine ...

. In 1975 he settled permanently in

, and from that year onwards he taught classical guitar at the National Conservatory. In 1975, 1977, and 1979 he gave recitals at the Esztergom Classical Guitar Festival in Hungary. In 1978 he took part in the International Festival of Political Song in

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and the 11th World Youth Festival in Havana, Cuba. As a composer/songwriter and guitar soloist, he performed in Greece, Italy, Finland, Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, Austria, and Cuba. As a professor at the National Conservatory of Athens, he was the teacher of several popular Greek musicians, such as Manolis Androulidakis, Socrates Malamas, Panagiotis Margaris, Giorgos Melas, Lambros Ntousikos and Dimitris Sotiropoulos. He was one of the most distinguished contemporary Greek songwriters and composers of orchestral music, with the classical guitar featuring as the main instrument. His discography is remarkable in volume and distinctions, and his influence on contemporary Greek music is significant. He was the founder and director of the Greek music magazine ''TaR''. Since 2006, and in collaboration with the guitarist-composer Kostas Grigoreas, he published its digital version, under the name ''TaR online music magazine''. Mavroudis died from a fall on 3 January 2023, at the age of 77.Θρήνος για την ελληνική μουσική-Πέθανε ο μεγάλος συνθέτης και κιθαρίστας Νότης Μαυρουδής

References

External links

Interview to tetragono.gr (in Greek)

Interview to ogdoo.gr (in Greek)
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