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Petros Zaranis was born in 1969 in Athens, Greece. He studied classical guitar at the ‘Greek Musical School’ for 5 years with Charalambos Ekmektsoglou and for 3 years with Costas Gregoreas. He graduated with a Diploma in Classical Guitar (grade A) and he won the first prize in 1993. He participated in two national classical guitar contests, where he won the second prize. He worked as a music-teacher in the Athenian and other music-schools. He took ud and ney lessons with Christos Tsiamoulis and he studied Byzantine music for 4 years with father Strategopoulos and Tryphon Tsatsaros, professor of Byzantine music. He attended seminars of instrument-construction with the famous violin and stringed-instruments constructor Giorgos Psilakis. He works as a musical-instruments constructor since 1997. He has collaborated with many musicians and he is currently recording his first album (click here to listen to a music clip – Dancing, mp3 File) He owns a musical instruments workshop at Argyroupoli.
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