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Thymios Atzakas was born in Thessaloniki in 1971. He studied the classical guitar with Costas Cotsiolis, Hubert Käppel and Carlo Marchione. He was taught the oud and modal music by Ziad Radjab, ?ehnam Manadjedi and Ross Daly.He is a graduate of the New Conservatoire of Thessaloniki, the Music Academy of Köln and the Academy of Music and Drama of Leipzig.As a classical guitarist and up until 1996, he was a laureate in four international competitions and gave recitals in many guitar festivals.He lived in Berlin from 1998 until 2004. During the last decade, his main avocations have been the performance and exploration of the oud and other lute instruments, music composition and improvisation. Moreover, as a guitar player, he also performs early and contemporary music.Thymios has so far performed at international festivals and attended to and participated in many projects in Greece, Cyprus, Romania, Spain, Portugal, England, France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Morocco and Syria. He has broadcast and recorded for the Greek Radio and Television, the WDR, Deutsche Welle, MDR, Arte and the BBC.He has recorded music and appeared with many distinguished musicians such as ?ijan Chemirani, Madjid Bekkas, ?ehnam Manahenji, Chris Dahlgren, Ara Malikian, Gareth Lube, Hayden Chisholm, Kemal Dinc, Taner Akyol, Socrates Sinopoulos, Antonis Anisegkos, Costas Theodorou, Socrates Malamas, Thanasis Papakonstantinou, Maria Thoidou and others. He has also founded music groups, amongst others: the Armos Ensemble, the Tropos Quartett Berlin, and, in collaboration with Antonis Anissegos, the SOMA.As of 2005, Thymios teaches the oud and co-ordinates music groups in the sector of Traditional Greek Music at the Department of Musical Arts and Sciences of Makedonia University whilst pursuing his doctoral studies at the Cultural Technology department of the Aegean University in Mytilini.In 2006 he undertook the artistic adminitration of the international musicians’ and artists’ forum “Music Village “ (www.music-village.gr), which takes place every summer in Agios Lavrentios, Pilio.He is actively involved in the area of digital sound production and digital reproduction of artistic events.