In 1992, after successfully completing his studies in the Aristotle University, he travels in Sevilla of Spain in order to study near the Flamenco guitar-player, Carlos Heredia.
In 1995 he begun having courses of Eastern music, rhythmical education and Eastern solfez in the "Centre of Musical Education", under the monitoring of Ross Daly, while in 1996 he meets the composer and soloist of the oud Haig Yazdjian, by whom he is being taught the Oud and arabic maqam theory. The same season he receives Ney courses and lessons for the system of 53 commas, from Yiorgos Symeonidis. In November of 2002, he had an Oud master classes from the soloists Ara Dinkjian, Ziad Rajab, Hussein El Masry and Sakher Hattar, participating at the "International Meeting on the Oud", that was organised by the Cultural Organisation "En Chordais " in Thessaloniki. He is a founding member of arabic music ensemble “ Al Mahabba â€, which from 2003, has given various performances in musical scenes of Athens, as well as in Concert Halls.
Pericles Pantoleon lives and works in Athens. For the time being, he is developing a home recording project, with his own compositions.
Track Info
Sunset: It was a nice evening, when i just wanted to free up myself through Oud playing
Strange Things: Many things in this life are so strange
Human Wind: The Ney sounds like wind. After I had recorded this piece, i noticed that i had used "Nakriz" maqam
Symbnia: Symbnia in Greek means "at the same mood". That was the case with Nektarios, so we recorded this piece
Purpose: The rythm Saidi and this piece, remind me that we have to set up a purpose for achieving things
Way Out: We are all looking for a way out...
Percussion: Programming with Kontakt Sampler
Mics used: AKG Perception 200 and a dynamic Sennheiser Mic
Mixing Console: Soundcraft Compact 10
DAW Software: Nuendo 3, FL Studio and a few VST plugins
HTML/CSS Programming: Just me