Alkinoos Ioannidis
Alkinoos Ioannidis (Greek Αλκίνοος Ιωαννίδης, born September 29, 1969 in Nicosia ) is a Greek Cypriot singer, songwriter and composer. He grew up in an artistic family. His father Antis Ioannidis is a painter, his mother Marilena studied theater and worked at Cyprus Broadcasting, his brother Linos is a poet. In addition to attending school, he studied classical guitar at the European Conservatory in Nicosia.
In 1989 he went to Greece, where he studied at the Drama School of the National Theatre and at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Athens. As an actor he appeared twice in lead roles Festival in the ancient theater of Epidaurus; 1993 Samia of Menander and 1997 as Apollo in Alcestis of Euripides, as well as occasionally in film and television.
As a musician, he has published 11 albums, most of which are in Greece Gold or Platinum status achieved. His debut album from 1993 Stin agora tou kosmou with lyrics and music by Nikos Zoudiaris, he recorded with the participation of well-known Greek singer Dimitra Galani, who also directed the production. This was followed by another album in collaboration with Zoudiaris, entitled Opos mystika ke isycha.
Since the published 1997 third album O dromos, o chronos ke o ponos lyrics and music by Alkinoos Ioannidis come themselves for the characteristic graph Gestatltung his studio albums are paintings of his father used.
Guest musicians Alkinoos Ioannidis looked at more than 40 albums with other artists, since 1993 he went regularly on tour, with band or solo, sometimes in collaboration with other artists, such as singer Eleftheria Arvanitaki of. He collaborated with many Greek and international orchestras and Greek musicians. In 2011 he collaborated with Mary Farandouri in a concert program in honor of the 100th birthday of poet and lyricist Nikos Gatsos.
His main instruments alongside his singing, the acoustic and the electric guitar, but he also plays the lute, flute and percussion instruments. His musical influences include -traditional Cypriot music, Greek music of the last decades, Byzantine music, Middle Eastern music, classical music, rock and jazz.
Since 2005, he studied at the State Conservatory in St. Petersburg classical composition and created in the consequence also symphonic works which meet in St. Petersburg, Berlin, Athens and Limassol performance. His tours have taken him to the USA, England, Germany, Russia, France, Belgium and the Balkans. 2002, he joined the occasion of the opening of the new Library of Alexandria on there. An album with a selection of his songs appeared in January 2012. For the spring of 2013 several concerts in Germany and one in Austria are planned.