Takis Farazis

Born in 1964 in Athens, got involved in music at an early age. In 1977, he started classical piano studies at the Hellenic Conservatory, graduating in 1984 with Piano and Harmony diplomas with honors.
In addition to his studies on classical music, he was engaged in Jazz and has cooperated with many acclaimed Jazz musicians of the Greek Jazz Scene.

In 1983, he attended the classes of the Hungarian jazz pianist Bela Lacatos and in 1984 he co-founded the ISKRA group with which he released two albums (“A new day” and “Parastasis”).
He first composed music for the group and he later got involved in other ventures and music styles. He has also been composing music for the National Theater of Greece, mainly for Ancient Greek Drama Productions in the Festival of Epidaurus (Euripides’: “Alkestis” and “Ion” – Sophocles’: “Antigone” and “Oedipus” – Aeschylus’: “Persians”).
Besides he has also composed music for the cinema and he has worked with a great number of Greek composers, singers and musicians, as an arranger and pianist in a large number of recordings and concerts in Greece and abroad.
He has participated in festivals (Brugges Festival-2001, International Festival of Jazz Piano in Prague-2005) and theatrical performances as a multi-instrumentalist in Europe, Australia, Africa, North and South America, China and Japan.
His musical idiom combines a wide range of music styles, balancing between classical, jazz and world music. His first personal cd “Spells of musing” has been praised in reviews and has made an impact in Greece. “Spells of musing” has also had an exceptional acceptance in Japan.
He has also released two cds with theatrical music: Euripides’ ”Alkestis” and B.Brechts’ “The Caucasian chalk circle” and one cd with Manos Hadjidakis’ music under the title “24 songs of M. Hadjidakis”.
Beside his career as a composer and a performer he also occupies himself by teaching piano.

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