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About Me

Studies music from his early years: Ney with Omer Erdogdular and Markos Skoulios, Kaval with Nedyalko Nedyalkov, Blockflute with Kostis Papazoglou and Bernard Bohm, theory of western tonal music with Nikos Solomonidis and Vasilis Kitsos, courses in piano an cello, Byzantine music with Panagiotis Neohoritis, Bansuri and North-Indian music with Shiam Sunders and Nicolas Magriel, courses in Shakuhachi with Kiku Day, Mbira with Linus Wengara Magaya, self-taught in whistling, accordion, galician bagpipe, tin whistle, guitar and more.
Holds a degree in Musicology from the School of Fine Arts of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a Mmus in Ethnomusicology from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is interested in a variety of music generes ranging from contemporany and electroacoustic, medieval music, renaissance, baroque, classical, music for theater and cinema, modal jazz, to greek, turkish traditional music, turkish ritual and classical, bulgarian, indian, afghan music.
His occupations with music includes composition, interpretation, performance and teaching. He is teaching the ney in the Technological Educational Institute of Epirus/ Faculty of Music Technology/ Department of Traditional and Popular Music in the city of Arta from April 2007 , and from October 2007 in the University of Macedonia/ Department of Music Science & Art, in the city of Thessaloniki.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/26/2007
Band Members:L'HAM DE FOC (original compositions of E.Lopez/Lyrics of M.Aranda):
Efren Lopez:Ud, Lute from Crete, Saz, Rabab, Tzouras, Zanfona, CÃ¼mbÃ¼s Tanbur, LaÃºd Medieval,
Mara Aranda: Voice, Didjeridoo
Diego Lopez: Darbuka, Panderos, Riq, Davul, Redoblante, Zarb, Kanjira,
Eduard Navarro: DolÃ§aina, Gralla, Mizmar, Clarinete de CaÃ±a, Tarota, Gaida, Punteiro, BaghÃ¨t, Mandolina, Moraharpa
Costantino Lopez: Divan Saz, Mandola, Ud, Buzuki IrlandÃ©s,
Juan Manuel Rubio: Arpa Medieval, Zanfona, Saz, Santur Turco.
Osvaldo Jorge: Darbuka, Panderos, Riq, Tabla, Ghatam,
Christos Barbas: Ney, Kaval, Blockflute

AMAN AMAN (Sephardic music/ traditional Greek/Turkish): Eleni Kallimopoulou: Kemence, Matthieu Saglio:Cello, Aziz Samsaoui: Qanun, Efren Lopez, Mara Aranda, Diego Lopez, Christos Barbas: Ney

DUO PENELOPE (Original music for Solo Dance): Panagiotis Andreoglou: Bayan, Christos Barbas: Kaval, Blockflute

BERDELIDES (Tradtional Music from Crete/Dodekanisa/Asia Minor): Matina Mastora: Voice, Hlias Andreoulakis: Voice, Cretean Lyra, Kemenche, Nikos Tzanis: Cretean Laouto, Saz, Boulgari, Kemenche, Loukas Metaxas: Daul, Stamna, Bendir, Req, Darbuka, Thimios Atzakas: Lafta, Oud, Christos Barbas: Hampioli, Mantoura, Askomantoura, Ney, Kaval

NO NAME (still)(Original music Modern Modal-Improvisation): Thanos Goudanos: Fretless Guitar, Dimitris Tasoudis: Drums, Giorgos Polixroniadis: Bass, Christos Barbas: Kaval

TURKISH TRIO (Classical/Sufi and Popular music from Anatolia): Baris Bal: Tanbur, Lafta, Saz, Dimitris Panagoulias: Percussion, Christos Barbas: Ney

YEDEN QUARTET (Compositions of Eleni Kalimopoulou and Christos Barbas, Traditional music from Azerbaitzan, Bulgaria, Turkey): Eleni Kalimopoulou: Kemenche, Efren Lopez: Tar, Oud, Lafta, Tanbur, Lukas Metaxas: Percussion, Christos Barbas: Ney, Kaval, Bansuri
Influences:
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New Myspace for "Pinelopi" with Videos, Photos, Music

Hi all, we just created a new myspace for"Pinelopi" a performance of dance-music-scenography-photography,you can see videos, photos from the presentations in Thessaloniki and Madrid last year, and als...
Posted by christos barbas on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:02:00 PST

Aman Aman in Womex, http://www.womex.com/virtual/aman_aman

We are accustomed to listen to the Sephardic repertoire interpreted from a prospect of the world of the classical musicians, with all its tics: artificial voices, musicians corresponding with score an...
Posted by christos barbas on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:32:00 PST

Video of 'Encara' in YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewwRKW4cFro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewwRKW4cFro and more videos of 'L' Ham de Foc' in YouTube
Posted by christos barbas on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 05:51:00 PST

INTERNET LINKS...

www.dunav.org.il webplace with Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek, Hungarian, Macedonian, Rom, Romanian, Serbian, Turkish music and videos of dances! Downloadable samples!www.galile...
Posted by christos barbas on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:35:00 PST

Musica I Cants Sefardis dOrient I Occident of AMAN AMAN reviewed in fRoots April 07

click here http://www.frootsmag.com/content/issue/reviews/ and you can read a review of "Musica I Cants Sefardis d'Orient I Occident" ...
Posted by christos barbas on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:14:00 PST