About Me
Dimitris Lambrianos was born in Pireas, Greece where he started studying classical piano at the age of 5. Simultaneously, he studied guitar and bouzouki, a Greek ethnic instrument. In the course of his life, he traveled extensively and studied several other instruments such as kanun, violin, cello, flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, drums; and he also learned sitar in India. He has played most of the cited instruments professionally in concerts and recordings. He also studied jazz and improvisation on piano. Then, his interest started changing to 12-tone and atonal music, which he studied with Nikos Panagopoulos who was a student of Olivier Messian and Pierre Schaeffer. He studied tuning systems through computers and synthesizers. That includes all the equal divisions such as 13-tone, 15-tone, 17-tone, 19-tone, quarter-tone scale, 31-tone, Harry Partch Scale and historic scales such as Pythagorean mean-tone, etc. Concurrently, He experimented with computer and electronic sounds.
At the age of 15, he began touring across the globe and performed around Europe, the Middle East, India, Australia, Africa, and North America. At 16, He eventually graduated from the Athens Conservatorium in Greece. In 1997, he went to Paris to study concrete music, computer electronic music, and conducting where his work was published. In 1999, he was commissioned by the Athens Concert Hall to compose contemporary music. While in the U.S.A., he has taken classes in conducting and composition at the Queens College, New York University NYU and Julliard School of Music. He also studied under Hubert Howe, Jeff Nichols, Vincent La Selva and Dinu Ghezzo. He also assisted Dr. Ghezzo in teaching a course in electronic music at Lehman College. Presently, he is completing his Master's Degree in composition at Queens College, N.Y. Besides classical music, he regularly performs jazz and Greek ethnic music. He is a recipient of The 2004 Jack Kreiselman Award from the International Music consortium INMC, Inc for outstanding activities as performer, composer and supporter of new music.
