Dimitris Fampas

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Fampas was born in Milina of Lafkos, a small village on Mount Pelion near the Northern harbor city of Volos, Greece. As a child he played traditional music on lute and mandolin. In 1939 he pursued musical studies in Athens. He studied Advanced Musical Theory with Theodore Vavayiannis and counterpoint with Costa Kydoniatis at the Athens Conservatory. He begun his studies of classical guitar with Nicholas Ioannou, and by 1953, he received a diploma in classical guitar performance 'Com laude' from the National Conservatory of Greece. In 1955 and 1956 he received a scholarship from the Italian government to study guitar with Andres Segovia and musicology with Emilio Pujol at the “Academia Chigianna” in Sienna. In 1959 he attended classes with Segovia once more, this time at the Academy of Santiago, Spain, receiving a scholarship by Segovia himself. Fampas' performing career spanned almost four decades. He has performed hundreds of personal recitals worldwide. He toured extensively in England, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Turkey, USA, Canada, USSR and Vatican. He has also appeared in most major cities of Greece as well as in the Ancient Theater of Epidauro. He recorded wonderful guitar concertos such as the L. Boccherini-G. Cassado concerto, and he played the World Premier recording of the "Concerto Para Tres Hermanas" by Carlo Pizzini with the National Radio Symphony Orchestra of Greece. He often performed live TV recital

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