Thanassis Moraitis

about

Singer – Composer – Researcher He was born at Vaghia (Kaznesi), a village near Thebes. He has studied political sciences at Pantion University, Byzantine music under instructor and master cantor of the Athens Cathedral Spyros Peristeris; he has chanted under the direction of the latter from 1983 to 1993 as a regular member of the Athens Cathedral choir. He has been studying Western music on his own. Since 1992 he has been working with Markos Dragoumis at the Melpo Merlier Music Folklore Archive of the Centre of Asia-Minor Studies, on subjects related to Greek Demotic and Byzantine music. Recordings as a singer: During the years 1984-1989 he worked with Mikis Theodorakis, taking part in concerts in Greece and abroad, as well as in the composer’s recordings: Dionysus (solo album, music and lyrics by Mikis Theodorakis, first production of Sirius by Manos Hadjidakis, Sirius-EMI 1985; re-issued in CD form, Minos-EMI 1995 & 2007); Mikis Theodorakis all time greatest hits –77 songs performed in his world tour 1986-87 (CBS 1986); Faces of the sun (on poetry by Dionyssis Karatzás, Ioulianos-CBS 1987); Memory of stone (lyrics by Michalis Bourboulis, Ioulianos-CBS 1987); 30 Years of Mikis Theodorakis (WEA 1989). In 1988 he shared album Lieder (songs by Mikis Theodorakis) with German singer-actress Gisela May (BMG-Ariola; re-issued in CD form and first release in Greece, Protasis 2003). In the same year he released his first double album with unpublished Arvanitic songs

top songs

albums

Arvanitic Songs

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Arvanitika Tragoudia/Arvanitic Songs (Remastered)

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Ta Tragoudia Mou 1959-1986 (Meros 1o)

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40 xronia Mikis Theodorakis

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Ta Tragoudia Mou 1959-1986 (Part 2)

Messa Ap' Ton Astron Ta Kladia/Through Branches of the Stars

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Happy Holiday at the Mediterranian Sea - Ferien am Mittelmeer, Vol. 1

Gisela May -Thanassis Moraitis Singing Mikis Theodorakis

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My Age-Old Noons, My New-Flown Birds

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All Time Greatest Hits

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A Capella Reise

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Mikis Theodorakis Lieder

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