larkoslarkou

Cyprus

Composer, singer-songwriter, multi instrumentalist and teacher from Cyprus He was born on February 6, 1973. He studied musicology in Greece (Athens University), focusing in music anthropology, Cyprus traditional music and world music. He created the Cyprus Ethnic - alternative project "Kyprogeneia" and he set in music a large part of the poetry of the two national poets of Cyprus, Vasilis Michaelides and Dimitris Lipertis. He composed music for more than fourty theatre and dance productions. As a performer he is a skilled musician on a variety of plugged instruments such as guitar, greek lute, mandola, mandolin, banjo, greek bouzouki, tzoura, baglama and oud. Also he participate in treatre and dance productions with movement and improvisation. He is married to the singer Atys (Hatice Ardost) and have a son, Arion.