They have taken part in concerts of the Municipal Conservatory of Veria, in the 3rd 4th and 5th Panhellenic meeting of guitar orchestras organized in March 2013, March 2014 and March 2015 in Kozani by the Municipal Conservatory of Kozani, in the Panhellenic meeting of guitar orchestras organized by the Municipal Conservatory of Veria. They have collaborated in summer of 2012 with the guitarists’ orchestra in the 1st Summer International Music Academy of the Municipal Conservatories organized in Volos, as well as in the 2nd Summer International Academy again in Volos in the summer of 2013, where the summer academy program closed with a big concert. In the summer of 2014, they took part in the 3rd International Summer Academy organized in Kavala. In the spring of 2015, they participated in the two-day guitar festival organized by the Municipal Conservatory of Veria together with other guitar orchestras. In summer of 2015, they participated in the 3rd Karditsa Guitar Festival in Lake Plastira, and received rave reviews for the concert they gave, a tribute to film music.

In the winter of the same year, he participated in the meeting of guitar orchestras organized by the municipal conservatory of Larissa and in the 4th international guitar festival in Volos.

In April of the same year he participated in the meeting of guitar orchestras organized by the Municipal Conservatory of Veria

In the summer of 2016, he participated in the 4th Karditsa Guitar Festival in Lake Plastira. In the spring of 2016 and spring of 2017, he participated in the 1st and 2nd Macedonian Festival organized in Kastoria and in the 7th Panhellenic Meeting of Guitar Orchestras and Ensembles organized at the Municipal Conservatory of Veria.

In the summer of 2017 and summer of 2018, he participated in the 5th and 6th Karditsa Guitar Festival in Lake Plastira. In November 2017 he participated in the 2nd Guitar Festival held in Corfu, as well as in the 4th Guitar Festival Peloponnese which took place in Nafplio in March 2019.

In the summer of 2019, he participated in the 7th Karditsa Guitar Festival in Lake Plastira. In the summer of 2022 and summer of 2023, he participated in the 28th and 29th Hermoupolis Guitar Festival in Syros giving a big concert at the Apollon Theater.

In the summer of 2024, he participated in the 6th music festival in Rethymno, Crete. In the summer of 2025, he participated with great success in the 10th festival in Sifnos.

Their repertoire includes works by As. Piazzolla, En. Morricone, N Rota, R Aubry, M.Hadjidaki, M Theodoraki, St Xarchako, M.Plessa, P.Rista, G. Bregovic and other composers.

Founder and conductor of the orchestra is the composer Petros Ristas.

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In recent years he has been writing music and songs for musical theater performances. Some of them in “Moonlight”, “Simigdalenios” and “Egoistis Gigantas” as well as the music for the mini-opera by Evt. Varlamis for Alexander the Great. He has conducted orchestral ensembles as well as orchestrated a series of works of Greek and foreign music. Orchestrator and conductor in the tribute to Manolis Mitsias with the singer himself as soloist. with the collaboration of musicians from the State Orchestra of Greek Music of S. XARCHAKOS, in the summer of 2011, in the summer grove of Veria. Orchestrator and conductor in the tribute to S. Xarchakos at the Veria Arts Center. He has also collaborated with renowned soloists in concerts mainly at the Veria Concert Hall, Ch. Nikolopoulos, St. Dionysiou. Zoi Papadopoulos, N. Ziogalas, G. Andreatos and others. His works have been played in many cities in Greece as well as at the Athens Concert Hall. He is artistic director and teaches classical guitar and advanced theory at the Municipal Conservatory of Veria, Founder and Conductor of the orchestral guitar ensemble Artguitaristas.

He has taught as a professor of theory-choir and classical guitar at the music schools of Katerini – Serres – Amyntaio – Siatista – Ptolemaida, He is artistic director at the Aristotle Conservatory and teaches as a professor of advanced theory and classical guitar. Founder and conductor of the vocal-instrumental ensemble Monogramma. He participates in Trio Anima with participation in many concert projects.

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Duo Sonoma stands for a crossover of many genres, combined to create stylistically limitless, expressive and imaginative sound worlds. Their musical journey began in childhood and developed over 20 years into a unique ensemble.

Having grown up with a wide range of musical backgrounds, the two musicians are always open to new things and their enthusiasm is reflected in the different styles. Making music together has been an important part of family life since childhood and so the sisters have developed musically over 20 years and, as Duo Sonoma, have refined this unique interplay with their own sound and compositions. In 2018 they began to present their own compositions to a wider audience and gained a lot of attention in the Austrian music scene with our debut album “I”, released in spring 2021, which led to numerous invitations and coverage in the Austrian media.

As ambassadors of the Carinthian-Slovenian music and culture scene, they have already had successful concert tours at home and abroad and are part of the “New Austrian Sound of Music” (NASOM) funding program for 2025/2026. Their own compositions combine classical, jazz, Carinthian folk music and more into a harmonious whole. The non-verbal communication and the immediate sense of togetherness when making music create a unique musical dialogue. The music of Duo Sonoma is characterized by an intensive engagement with different playing techniques and sounds, which leads to a distinctive musical expression. Their composing process is characterized by an improvisational approach and the processing of personal experiences. Spontaneous ideas and emotional experiences flow into their music, often inspired by Carinthian-Slovenian melodies.

With their new album “II”, presented in July 2024, they combine classical instruments with new sounds, which contributes to a rhythmic diversity and a distinctive sound.

Sara Gregorič 

She received her first guitar lessons from her father at the age of four and was a student at the “Glasbena šola na Koroškem / Carinthian Music School” until she enrolled at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. There she laid the foundation for her impressive career, which later led her to a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in instrumental pedagogy in the guitar subject under Professors Ahmed Baluch and Gunter Schneider – both with distinction.

Parallel to her work as a guitar teacher, she completed the part-time master’s degree in “Music Education – Music in Context” at the Anton Bruckner Private University, which she also completed with distinction. Since 2023, Sara has been part of the management team of the Tonspiele music education department of the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria. In this role, she sees music education as an indispensable part of the contemporary music scene and is active as a freelance music educator in a wide variety of areas.

Sara Gregorič has been playing a Kreul-Carlevaro guitar with a double bottom and diverging string lengths since 2016. Her artistic enthusiasm lies in concert activities in various chamber music formations, especially with her sister and jazz violinist Mira as “Duo Sonoma”.

Sara Gregorič is not only the musical director of the event “Trivium | Tri poti | Drei Wege”, but is also heavily involved in the Sonus chamber music week as a lecturer and organizer. As co-founder of the highly acclaimed “Sonus Outreach” series, she is actively committed to promoting art and culture in Carinthia. Her commitment also extends to leading workshops in the cross-school area and conceptual involvement in various interdisciplinary and interactive events.

Mira Gregorič

Born in Carinthia/Koroška, has been surrounded by music since she was a child.
At the age of four, she received her first violin lessons at the “Glasbena šola na Koroškem / Carinthian Music School” and then went to the Carinthian State Conservatory with Prof. Helfried Fister. She completed her bachelor’s degree in music and movement pedagogy/rhythm with a focus on the first instrument violin and musical improvisation at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with distinction.
During her studies, she also completed the course “Improvisation in String Lessons” at the Anton Bruckner Private University, where she then completed her master’s degree in instrumental pedagogy jazz and improvised music – violin with Prof. Andreas Schreiber in 2021 with a focus on improvisation 2, interdisciplinary module and world music.
As a musician and composer, she plays in several formations, including Duo Sonoma, with whom the debut album “DUO SONOMA I” was released in spring 2021. She is also active in the field of performing arts, and in summer 2020 she created the artistic short film “UNSHACKLED EPISODES” with the dancer Mirjam Sadjak.

Photos: Stefan Reichmann

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Eva has given numerous recitals and concerts around the world with great success, performing in music – guitar festivals, in prestigious concert halls and cultural centres, in the Radio and the TV, in Greece, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Russia, UK, Belarus, Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, Lithuania, Switzerland, Cyprus, Albania, Thailand, Nepal, India, China, Zimbabwe, Mexico, Peru, Paraguay, Bolivia, Brazil.  She has also performed with the Athens Municipality Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of Russia (Dudarova), the Athens State Orchestra string ensemble, the ARCO Moscow chamber orchestra, the Bombai chamber orchestra, the Kalamaria Youth Symphony, the UAEH Symphony Orchesta of  Mexico, the Hellenic Group of  Contemporary  Music and more .

She has premiered lots of marvellous guitar pieces including the “FOR EVA” concerto by Yiu-kwong Chung and the “Baião Lunar” by Andersen Viana, both dedicated to her as well as the GREEK SUITE   by Dim.Fampas orchestrated for guitar and Symphony Orchestra by An. Viana.

Eva is also a distinguished editor and author of many musical books collaborating  with  MEL BAY (USA), Les Productions D’Oz (Canada), BERBEN (Italy), Lathkill Music Publishers (UK), BALKANOTA – Collection Eva Fampas (Bg), Nakas(Gr), Liolios (Gr), Nikolaidis-Orpheus (Gr).

Eva was born in Athens  and studied guitar with her father, the excellent  guitarist – professor Dimitri Fampas as well as music harmony, counterpoint and  fugue with the composer Dimitri  Dragatakis, at the National Conservatory of  Athens graduating with honours.  She also studied orchestra  conducting with composer Theodore Antoniou and attended  master classes by Leo Brouwer.                                                                                                                         .   She is the Founder and President of the GUITAR FRIENDS ASSOCIATION  “DIMITRIS FAMPAS”. In addition she serves as the Artistic Director of the Fampas International Guitar Festival and Competition in Athens.  In  2023 she was awarded the Honorary Gold medal of the 1^st Guitar Olympiad / Unesco in Volos.

Recently she started to write music and songs. In 2022 was released her 1^st album with songs titled   MY RED ROSE

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He began studying guitar at the age of nine under the guidance of Gianluca Sabbadin, later continuing with Carla Vazzola, Andrea Bolinelli, and Franco Saretta. He has won prizes in numerous national and international competitions, including the “Mercatali” in Gorizia, the “Paganini” in Parma, the “Città di Padova,” the “Rospigliosi” in Lamporecchio, the “Concorso di Piove di Sacco,” the “Diapason d’oro” in Pordenone, among others.

As a soloist, he has performed at major festivals such as the “Castelnuovo-Tedesco” Festival in Treviso for Asolo Musica, Imola Summer Music, Sei Corde d’Autunno, the Festival d’Albe in Avezzano (L’Aquila), Ateneo Musica Basilicata, Piccolo Opera Festival, Trieste Prima, the Music Academy of the University of Novi Sad (Serbia), and the Áureo Herrero Festival in Ávila (Spain). Thanks to a recent collaboration with CIDIM, he has performed for the Italian Cultural Institutes of Istanbul (Turkey), Athens (Greece), and — in duo with flutist Euridice Pezzotta — at the Arab Music Center in Cairo (Egypt).

He has attended advanced courses at the Praeneste Academy in Rome with Arturo Tallini, later becoming his assistant for the Omniaguitar summer courses. He was also awarded the Diploma of Merit for two consecutive years at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena in Giovanni Puddu’s class.

He is currently working on the revision of Mauro Giuliani’s music for voice and guitar and has recently published the collection Le Troubadour du Nord by the same composer, featuring both previously unpublished works and transcriptions (Patron, 2025).

Alongside his guitar studies, he has pursued orchestral conducting, recently completing the two-year program under Marco Angius at the “Tartini” Conservatory in Trieste. As a conductor, he has worked on several operatic titles, including Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw.

He plays a cedar guitar built in 2022 by the luthier Mirko Migliorini  from Lecco.

With the support of “Istituto Italiano di Cultura”

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He regularly collaborates with ensembles such as the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, Ludovice Ensemble, Segréis de Lisboa, Sete Lágrimas, Casa da Música Baroque Orchestra, and Divino Sospiro, among others. He has recorded 18 albums with some of these groups and has performed in leading concert halls and music festivals around the world.In 2012, together with Filipe Faria, he founded the early music ensemble Noa Noa with which he has released four albums. In 2021, he recorded and released his first solo album, Cifras de Viola, featuring previously unpublished Portuguese works for viola (baroque guitar). The album was one of four nominated for the Play Awards in the category of Best Classical/Art Music Album that year. In 2023, he released Sospiro, an album for vihuela featuring transcriptions and arrangements of Portuguese Renaissance music. In the same year, he published a book of the same name, containing the tablatures and scores of the pieces recorded on the album. Fantasia, released in 2024, features contemporary music for solo theorbo composed specifically for him by five Portuguese composers. The accompanying book with the music scores was also published in 2024. Fantasia is the first album worldwide to consist entirely of contemporary music for solo theorbo. Also in 2024, he released Cordovil, dedicated to the complete surviving works for baroque guitar by José Ferreira Cordovil (c.1687–1761), marking the first ever recording of this repertoire. A book with transcriptions of the recorded works was published alongside the album. In 2025, he released his fifth solo album, Sombras, featuring the complete unpublished works for baroque guitar by António Marques Lésbio (1639–1709).

During the 2025/2026 season, he embarks on his first solo world tour, with 26 concerts across 12 countries.

As a pedagogue, he has given masterclasses in lute and guitar and has taught both instruments at the Aveiro Calouste Gulbenkian Conservatory of Music and the National Conservatory in Lisbon. He served as director of Quartel das Artes (Oliveira do Bairro) from 2018 to 2024. He is currently a researcher at the Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies and a PhD candidate in Artistic Studies at the University of Coimbra.

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He has participated as a performer and listener in various seminars with musicians from Greece and abroad: George Hatzinikos, Roland Dyens, Oscar Ghiglia, David Grimes, Hubert Kappel, Royal College of music and drama of Scotland, Pavel Steidl, George Mouloudakis.
He has written music for school performances, documentaries, advertising, medium-length films, fairy tales, theater and educational magazines.

In January 2013, the album “Whistling on the Road” was released with his own compositions for solo guitar. In the summer of 2016, the book was also published by Cambia Publications.

He is a member of the “Echovolli Group” where they present arrangements of traditional and art songs and has given various concerts throughout Greece (Athens, Arta, Naxos, Evia, Southern Italy). He has created the group “Mousiki Valitsa”, presenting mainly his own music and songs, as well as arrangements from the Greek and international repertoire. The group has appeared in various music scenes and art venues in Athens.

In September 2022, his first album “That which remains in the end” was released with his own songs. In February 2025, his book, “Orchestra in six strings” was published by Philippos Nakas Publications. It is a selected collection of arranged pieces for an ensemble of 3 to 6 guitars. He has been teaching classical guitar since 2007, at the music school of the municipality of Dionysos. He is the founder of its Guitar Orchestra, “Hordeles”, where he also conducts it.

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Today she is a guitar teacher at the Kodaly Conservatory where she has created a  group of young talented guitarists who, through lessons, seminars, games, concerts and competitions, have won not only national awards, but also creative expression, noble starches and solidarity through the art of the guitar.

In 2015 she created the guitar ensemble Piratas de la guitarra which was presented at guitar festivals and concerts in Greece and was honored with the 3rd Chamber Music Prize in 2019 at the Paleo Faliro guitar competition.

She is also a writer with an intense artistic and publishing career. To date, he has published 13 children’s books and 3 adult books by Minoas, Kedros, Papadopoulos, Ellinika Grammata, Pnoe and 24 Grammata, as well as 3 children’s CDs with songs by the Acroasis record company.

She has made the Greek translation of the libretto of the Czech opera Brudibar by Krása and Hoffmeister, which was released on CD by the Acroasis record company with the participation of the ERT youth orchestra and the children’s choir of the Kodaly Conservatory, which was performed in various cities in Greece by music schools in the country and by the Corfu Chamber Opera.

Her children’s musical “Mimis the Patousa” was honored with 3rd prize in the 39th Literary Competition of the Panhellenic Union of Writers in the theatrical work category and 3rd prize in the 2nd Panhellenic competition for a debut playwright at the amateur theater festival of the municipality of Monemvasia, while her fairy tale “Children of the Sea” was honored with 1st prize in the 1st Literary Competition of the Agia Paraskevi Municipal Library – Alekos Kontopoulos Museum.

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Chamber music and collaborating the guitar with other instruments in various music styles, from Renaissance to contemporary improvisation and stimulating composers to write new works, are characteristics of his music activity. He was a founding member of the ensembles, “Strings & Stones” (Guitar-Lute, Stones-Percussion), “Arte a Tre” (Flute – Violin – Guitar) and “Duo Epigonos” (Flute-Guitar).

His assets include 4 cds, recordings for radio and television, concerts in various countries and participations in festivals and international competitions juries.  The long involvement with teaching gave as fruit a series of books for learning the guitar to small children under the title “Kitharozografies” (www.kitharozografies.gr).

For 24 years he is the artistic director of “Hermoupolis Guitar Festival” and conductor of the festival orchestra. He was director also of “Spring musical days” and “Guitar Ode” festivals.
For 20 years he was responsible for operation and web development of “Books Archway”, a cultural center in the heart of Athens.

In addition to his life-long obsession with music he is engaged with creative photography and web design.
He has participate in numerous exhibitions and has built websites for various organization and companies.

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He has attended classical and jazz guitar seminars with Greek and foreign guitarists.

Since 2005 he has been teaching classical, acoustic and electric guitar, and gives theoretical and musical workshops at conservatories in Athens (Athenian Conservatory, Rizopoulos Conservatory). His students have participated in competitions, winning awards and good reviews. He has appeared as a guitarist in various venues and has collaborated with well-known artists of the art and pop scene, playing in important music scenes. He has taken part in recording albums as well as in music for theater.

Since 2020, he has permanently settled in Syros where he works as a guitar and theory teacher at the Attikon Conservatory of Syros.

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