Petros Tabouris

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Petros Tabouris (Greek: Πέτρος Ταμπούρης; b. Athens, 1967) is a Greek musician, composer and musicologist. He is a professional player of the kanonaki and other instruments. Petros Tabouris was born in Athens in 1967 and studied both music and information technology (the latter at the National Technical University of Athens. From a very young age he showed an interest in Greek music and instruments used in popular music. After discovering Byzantine ecclesiastical music and the theory of Greek popular music, and meeting musicians, he became involved in composition and research. In the 2000s, Tabouris released many records in Greece and in Europe and has made a study of ancient and medieval/post-Byzantine music and instruments used in Greek popular music. He has experimented in the reproduction of ancient Greek instruments and their playing techniques. He has supervised series of digitally remastered 78 rpm recordings of Greek light music, rebetiko, Smyrna and folk songs, and has worked on recordings of traditional music of Balkan peoples and Greek folk songs. At the same time, he has released his own songs to lyrics by Thodoris Gonis in two song cycles, and has set to music the poem "The Twelve Words of the Gypsy" by Costis Palamas, His songs have been sung by Gerasimos Andreatos, Eleni Tsaligooulou, Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Anastasia Moutsatsou, Alexandros Hatzis, Costas Pavlidis and Christiana, among others. He has played at concerts in Greece and abroad, appearing with th

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Ancient Greek Musical Instruments

Sacred Music of Greek Antiquity (Melos Arheon - Mousiki Ton Theon)

Fragments of Ancient Greek Music

3000 Years of Greek Music

Mousiki Apo Tin Elliniki Arheotita

Secular Music of Greek Antiquity Vol. 1

The Hellenic Art of Music: Music of Greek Antiquity

Music Of Ancient Greece & Music Of Greek Antiquity

The Revival of the Ancient Olympic Games

Music of Ancient Greece

Secular Music of Greek Antiquity, Vol. 1

The Odes of Anakreon

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