Mihalis Kalkanis

Mihalis Kalkanis was born in Athens (1980). He studied at the Experimental Music High school of Pallini. In the Conservatory of Athens, he studied the piano with professors Vicky Stulianou and Lenia Erodiadou, until the preparation for the diploma. In 2004 he graduated from the department of Music Science and Art of the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki. The same year he received his Diploma in Double Bass from the Conservatory of Phillipos Nakas with Grade A unanimously having studied with professor Panagiotis Kapogiannis. Moreover, in 2006 he received his master's in Creative Music Technology from the University of Hull, England. He has participated in various orchestras in and outside Greece. He has also collaborated as a double bass and electric bass player with various artists in record productions, projects for Greek television, and concerts in Greece and abroad. Nowadays, apart his participation in the Orchestra of the Municipality of Athens, he is working on music composition and he performs lives as a bassist with Nikos Portokaloglou.I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4