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VICTOR was born in Athens in 1972. He is a music composer of instrumental music. He plays the keyboard,acoustic & electric guitar & the bass.His debut album is called "MEDITERRANEAN BRIDGES" an instrumental album, where the artist tries to reveal all the different musical styles that have emerged from the Mediterranean and have influenced most of today's music, internationally. His musical studies started when he was at the age of six by learning classical guitar and piano. At the age of seventeen he had completed his studies on both instruments and soon after he began to study recording engineering. Two years later after being a qualified engineer he continued his studies at the University of Lyon, in France, by following a postgraduate course ..board programming. The next step and probably the most important one for VICTOR'S music career was that at the age of 22, when he became an orchestra conductor. For his debut album VICTOR says..."The Mediterranean, with its history, culture and the unspeakable beauty of its landscapes have been the inexhaustible source of my inspiration. Born and bred in this land, I felt the need to express my feelings through my present work, in the hope that others will share, in their own way, the beauty of this musical voyage". Listening to songs like, "HYMN OF THE APOCALYPSE","TENDER LOVE","WITHOUT FRONTIERS", "METEORA", you can easily discover some of the most characteristic elements of the Mediterranean. "MEDITERRANEAN BRIDGES" has been released simultaneously in GREECE, SPAIN, ITALY, SLOVAKIA and PORTUGAL.. Two tracks from the album ( ‘Without Frontiers’ - ‘The Hymn Of The Apocalypse’) were included in the Spanish ‘New Age’ compilation PIANOS Y PIANISTAS DE LA NUEVA ERA with tracks from artists like SUZANNE CIANI, MICHAEL NYMAN, KEITH EMERSON, KLAUS SCHULZE and others. VICTOR’S video clip was TV advertised.S.G.A.E. , the Spanish society for the artist’s rights together with the Spanish Music Publisher’s Association included the track ‘Without Frontiers’ in their promo CD MUSIC FROM SPAIN for all MIDEM and relevant exhibitions for the year 1996. Due to the good results, they included another track from the same album in their promo CD for 1998, again."WORLD MUSIC", one of the leading Italian magazines had included two of the albums tracks (‘Tender Love’ & ‘Southern Breeze’), in the compilation CD that had been released in the June’s 1996 issue also included a special presentation of the artist. The Editor of the American magazine “KEYBOARD”, had asked our permission in writing to publish the music sheet of various tracks from the album.A video clip of the track ‘The Hymn Of The Apocalypse’ is available for promotional use. It had been filmed in the actual location of the St John’s Monastery at the Greek island of Patmos. Also, another video of 7 minutes duration had been made, showing highlights from the artist’s second concert at the historic lake of Athens (Greece). Victor’s music has been extensively used for documentary films, radio and TV commercials. It has also received a tremendous amount of airplay in Spain and Greece. Nine out of ten album tracks have been used so far for synchronization in the film industry and five tracks have been continuously played for nine years on the radio & TV commercial. Record companies and the music press had classified him in the same line as Yanni,Vangelis and Jean Michel Jarre. The artist has a “long term exclusive worldwide recording and publishing agreement” with ODES INTERNATIONAL S.A.