Vassilis Gratsounas
FINALIST OF THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN COMPOSITION 2009
Composer's Biography
Vassilis Gratsounas
Vassilios Th. Gratsounas was born in Athens in 1955. He hold a diploma in guitar and advanced theory of music. In 1988, he founded a music school with his wife, Maria Galani, supervising since 2002 the conservatory ‘en-organis’.As a musician, he has been into pedagogy and improvisation, showing his musical and virtuosic skills in guitar and other traditional Asian string instruments. Very important in his musical career has been his guitar teachers Stathis Michalopoulos, Dimitris Fambas, Notis Mavroudis, and Kostas Kotsiolis. Since 1990, he is into Greek traditional music and its instruments, Constantinople lute, ud, tabouras, tabouras with bow, flutes with open mouthpiece. Besides studying and practicing the instruments, he also did a research on the way they are made, especially in the case of the Constantinople lyre. His compositions for theater, ballet and films, have been played from the national radio & television musical ensembles. His arrangements on symphonies for much smaller ensembles gave him the opportunity to fully understand the “shrink and grow” capability in a music creation. He also published books which deal with pedagogy of guitar, from Greek and German publishers.
Finalist Work: Advanced Level
| Violin and Guitar Sonata (violin part) |
| Violin and Guitar Sonata (guitar part) |
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