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Evangelos Boudounis

Evangelos Boudounis was born in Athens. He studied the guitar with Dimitris Fambas at the National Conservatory of Athens from where he graduated with honors. He continued his studies on a scholarship under the supervision of Jose Tomas in Spain, Alirio Diaz in Italy and Alexander Lagoya in Canada.

In 1968, he won Second Prize in the International Guitar Competition in Czechoslovakia and the following year he was honored with the “Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco” award at the International Competition “Violti” in Italy. He was also honored, with first prize in the Competition of the Andres Segovia class in the Academy of “Santiago de Compostella” in Spain. Finally, a year later he won the first prize at the International Guitar Competition in Milan. In 1969 he met Andres Segovia and had the privilege, at the invitation of the great guitarist, to attend private lessons with him in Granada and Madrid for two years.

Evangelos Boudounis has performed in Spain, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Lebanon, Sweden, Hungary, Canada, the United States, The Soviet Union as well as all over Greece.

He has performed as a soloist with National Orchestra of Athens, Camerata of Athens, Greek Radio Symphony Orchestra, the “Patras Soloists”, “Colors Orchestra”, Philarmonia Orchestra of Istanbul. He has also recorded for the Radio and has appeared repeatedly on T.V.

His relationship with Manos Hatzidakis and his long-lasting and close cooperation with him, which started in 1975, was so constructive, that Evangelos Boudounis considers him the most significant teacher he has ever had.

For many years now, he has been working on guitar compositions, many of which were included in several of the CD’s he has recorded for companies as “LYRA”, “MOTIVO” and “SIRIOS”. All his compositional works, transcriptions, tutorial works, including this guitar method, are published in cooperation with the “Papagrigoriou-Nakas” company.

Along with his artistic career, he has been teaching guitar for many years, at the National Conservatory of Athens, having created a school of many outstanding and some of them famous guitarists.

In 1993, he set up an orchestra which consists solely of guitarists and is unique in Greece, and one of the few of its kind in Europe.

A combination of his artistic and teaching activity has been a series of Guitar Festivals and Seminars in Rethimno (1985-1986) and Ioannina (1988-1993), in which Evangelos Boudounis has been the animating spirit as well as the main teacher.