Michael Willow

Michael Willow is a song writer born in Thessaloniki (Northern Greece) in 1982. He started playing guitar and sing at the age of 10 in Alexandrio and Macedonian Conservatory of Thessaloniki. He had voice lessons with the American opera teacher Heather Karen Helinger, and one of the most promising rock singers of Greece John Jeff Touch and then Jena Harris (Ireland) Since November 2006 he has moved to Dublin (Ireland) where he has his own home studio. Curently he is guitar teacher and voice trainer in Dun Laoghaire music centrel. He has worked with the Ozanam House community resources for the summer project doing choir arrangments.Collaborations: 1)With the Greek rock band ‘Bemol’: One of his songs included in their album "GIATI DEN ISE SIOPI" (WHY YOU ARE NOT SILENCE) 25 May 2007 (lyrics: Vasilis Barlakas) 2)With the second best seller famous Greek band “The Olympians Live” (known also as “The Olympians”). Some of his songs will be included in their next album. He also helped them in some demoworks using his own studio equiqment 3) Since the summer of 2005 he collaborate as a composer and singer with the publishing house «Idrogeios» and the Non-Governmental Cultural Organization «Argonautes», setting poems to music and performing them at the Poetry Festivals organised by «Argonautes» and the «Music Company of Northern Greece». In view of the 2nd Poetry Festival Of Thessaloniki that took place on the 4 of November 2006 a cd album has been released (3.000 pieces) with the title “Olive” in which he and two other composers set to music some of the poems of the participants. He set to music poems of the American song writer Lee Pinkerson and other Greek poets (the daughter of the famous Greek poet Giannis Koutsoheras, Leta Koutsohera). For more information about ”Argonautes” visit www.argonautes.gr. 4)With Italian poets, setting their poems to music 5) From May 2004 until November 2006 he broadcasted the radio show “Sound and Vision” on City International 106,1 FM, Thessaloniki, Greece, sponsored by the electronic music-promotion company www.music-city.gr. Special guest in his shows in City International was the British singer/sonwriter Nikki Sudden (who had collaborated among others with R.E.M and the Rolling Stones) on the 15 and 22-11-2004. More interviews followed with the local groups “I Knew Them” and Stefan Schwerdtfeger's “Big Sleep” (May 2005), while Sudden returned for the third time in November 2005 with Baron Anastis Ban Hustler. 6)Live performances in Thessaloniki, Dublin and in the 1st poetry festival of Thessaloniki (15 of October 2005), in the Poetry Festival May of Love (24 of May 2006),in the 2nd Poetry Festival of Thessaloniki (3 November 2006) that was dedicated to the Worldwide famous Greek poet and Translator Takis Varvitsiotes. He also undertook the presentation of the festivalSOPHIE. Born in Thessaloniki – Greece 1981. She had 1) Piano, singing, theory and history of music lessons (Ampelokipi and Macedoniko Conservatory, Greece – Waltons New School of Music Dublin, Ireland) 2) Collaboration with the famous greek groups Pix Lax and Onar (lyrics writer). Some of her lyrics set to music in the albums “Are ther goldfish here?”(Pix Lax) and “From the edge of the earth” (Onar). 3) Member of the greek company of copyright (AEPI) since 1999. 4) Participation in the Poetic Festivals of Thessaloniki (1st and 2nd Poetry Festival 2005 – 2006). Backing vocals in the cd “Olive” of the 2nd Poetry Festival. 5) Member of the “Choir of Thessaloniki” (2004 – 1 year) with participations in concerts in the Music Hall of Thessaloniki and Athens. Most important concerts: ‘Madama Butterfly’ Puccini, ‘Requiem’ Mozart.OTHER ARTISTIC ACTIVITIES: 1)Participation in the 12th Biennale of Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean – Naples 2005, as a poet. 2)Member of the theatre group of Migdonia, Thessaloniki 2002. Performances in Greece and Spain.CONTACT DETAILS: [email protected]
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