Pericles Papapetropoulos

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Karsilamas dance from Megara 00:00 Tools
If I knew where the eagle live 00:00 Tools
Pentozali Dance of Crete (Pentozali Irakliotiko) 00:00 Tools
Karsilamas [Greece] 00:00 Tools
Karsilamas (Karsilamas) 00:00 Tools
Syrtos Dance of Thrace (Thrakiotiko syrto) 00:00 Tools
Mysterious Zeibekiko (Mystirio zeibeikiko) 00:00 Tools
Prison's Zeibekiko (Zeibekiko tis fylakis) 00:00 Tools
Camel Driver's Zeibekiko (Kamilieriko zeibekiko) 00:00 Tools
Nigriz Syrtos (Nigriz syrtos) 00:00 Tools
Dance of Thessaly (Karagouna) 00:00 Tools
Prison's Zeibekiko (Zeibekiko Tis Filakis) 00:00 Tools
Mysterious Zeibekiko (Mistirio Zeibekiko) 00:00 Tools
The Jug (Stamna) 00:00 Tools
Swords' Dance (Horos ton maherion) 00:00 Tools
Zeibekikos (Zeibekikos) 00:00 Tools
tsakitzis 00:00 Tools
Syrtos of Crete (Kritiko syrto) 00:00 Tools
Round Dance of Thessaly (Gaitanaki) 00:00 Tools
Zeibekiko Tourna 00:00 Tools
Mysterious Zeibekiko - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Strange Zeibekiko (Mistirio Zeibekiko) 00:00 Tools
Galani galaziani 00:00 Tools
Turning Zeibekiko (Zeibekiko Tourna) 00:00 Tools
Camel Driver's Zeibekiko (Kamilieriko Zeibekiko 00:00 Tools
Thomais 00:00 Tools
Cretan Syrtos Dance I (Kritiko Sirto I) 00:00 Tools
Kalamatianos Dance (Kalamatianos Horos) 00:00 Tools
If I Knew Where the Eagle Lived (Na Kateha Pou Menei Aitos) 00:00 Tools
Boom! (Bam) 00:00 Tools
Dance of the Spoons (Horos Ton Koutalion) 00:00 Tools
Dance of the Knives (Horos Ton Mahairion) 00:00 Tools
Prison's Zeibekiko - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Karsilamas Dance from Megara (Megaritikos Karsilamas) 00:00 Tools
Nigriz Syrtos - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Karsilamas Dance from Thrace (Thrakiotikos Karsilamas) 00:00 Tools
Gaitanaki 00:00 Tools
Cretan Syrtos Dance II (Kritiko Sirto Ii) 00:00 Tools
Zeibekikos - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
I Broke My Tambouras (Ton Taboura Mou Espasa) 00:00 Tools
If the Mountains Weren't So High (Na Hamilonan ta Vouna) 00:00 Tools
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Περικλής Παπαπετρόπουλος (Periklis Papapetropoulos) was born in Athens but grew up on the island of Crete. His first musical experiences were with Cretan traditional music, and at the age of 16 he participated in village festivals as part of the group of Psarantonis playing laouto and bulgari. In 1985 he met Ross Daly and studied saz and tanbur with him for several years before becoming a regular member of his ongoing musical workshop "Labyrinth". As a member of Labyrinth he participated in concerts, recordings, and television productions in Greece and abroad. He is also a very experienced and renowned teacher of saz and lavta having taught at the Experimental Musical Gymnasium-Lyceum of Pallini, the society for the dissemination of National Music, and the Musical Workshop Labyrinth. He has many accomplished students who are today amongst the finest instrumentalists in Greece. He has also recorded two solo CDs, as well as his most recent project, Saz Grubu, an orchestra of saz players who play music from Turkey, Greece, and Bulgaria. He has collaborated with many great musicians of the traditional music scene such as Mehmet Erenler,Talip Ozkan, Paco Penia, Djamchid Chemirani, Kabul Ensemble, Huun-Huur-Tu, Naseer Shamma, Dariush Talai, Hamid Reza Khabbazi, Pedram Kahavar-Zamini, Dhruba Ghosh, Rufus Cappadocia, Vassilis Soukas, Kostas Mountakis, Nikos Saragoudas, Chronis Aidonides, Stelios Petrakis, Giorgos Kotsinis, Domna Samiou, Christos Tsiamoulis, Christos Sikkis, Petros Tambouris, and many more. He is a permanent member of the Stelios Petrakis' ensemble, of the "Letter from Istanbul" group, and leader of the group Passed Isolated, which performs innovative compositions of young and talented Greek musicians. He has also performed in a lavta duet with Sokratis Sinopoulos since 2003, when they first presented this project in Labyrinth Musical Workshop. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.