Our team

Costas Eliades
Conductor,Orchestrator
Costas Eliades is a musician with multiple activities. In recent years he has been performing regularly as an orchestra leader and artistic director. He is active as a composer and orchestrator and also works as a music producer. As a teacher he teaches classical guitar and theory.
In 2010 he creates the youth symphony orchestra The Underground Youth Orchestra which has had a brilliant artistic career in Greece and abroad. He has been the artistic director, arranger and conductor of the orchestra since its inception.

Franc Shestani
Strings teacher
Founding Member
He was born ( Shkoder) Albania
He took his first violin lessons at the age of 6 at the music school (Prenk Jakova)
Continued his studies at Jordan Misja Art Highschool

Michales Ramos
Woodwinds Professor
Michalis Ramos was born in Alexandria, Egypt, where he took his first flute lessons. He continued at the Athens Conservatory with Rosina Christopoulou and Urs Ruttimann with whom he received his Diploma. This was followed by studies in England at the Guildhall School of Music.

Costas Siskos
Brass Section Teacher
The cornetist Costas Siskos was born in Corfu in 1973. He studied in Athens, initially at the Raymondis Conservatory and then at the "Orfeio" Conservatory, where he received his Diploma in 1994, under the tutelage of Spyros Kaisaris and Vangelis Skouras. In 2000 he entered the Gratz Academy for Postgraduate Studies with Hector McDonald, where, in addition to the contemporary French horn, he studied the Viennese and natural horn.

Marinos Tranoudakis
Percussion instruments Teacher
He was born in Athens. He studied percussion with his teachers Konstantinos Vorisis and Konstantinos
Theodorakos.He continued his studies in Germany, at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold with a scholarship from the
Gesellschaft der Freunde und Förderer der Hochschule für Musik Detmold E.V με τους Prof. Peter Prommel, Nancy
Zeltsman, Fumito Nunoya και Sven Pollkötter.

Elli Papagrigoriou
UYO Kids Orchestra Director
Η Έλλη Παπαγρηγορίου είναι βιολονίστα και παιδαγωγός του βιολιού. Είναι απόφοιτος του
Κρατικού Ωδείου της Μόσχας P.I.Tchaikovsky, όπου σπούδασε βιολί υπό την καθοδήγηση
του Sergey Kravchenko, μαθητή και διαδόχου στην πανεπιστημιακή έδρα του Leonid Kogan
και αποφοίτησε με το βαθμό 9,53/10. Παράλληλα, μελέτησε μουσική δωματίου με τους T.
Alikhanov και A. Melnikov, κουαρτέτο εγχόρδων με τον A. Korchagin, και παιδαγωγική του
βιολιού. Είναι μεταπτυχιακή φοιτήτρια Μουσικής Παιδαγωγικής στο Ευρωπαϊκό
Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου.

Costas Giovanis
CHAMBER MUSIC TEACHER
I was born in Corfu and took my first music lessons at the Corfu Philharmonic Society. In July 2005 I received my diploma in oboe with an "A" unanimously and B' Prize from the class of Claude Chieleut at the Conservatory of Athens. I attended seminars as an active member with Maurice Bourgue, Hansjorg Schellenberger and Christian Schneider.
I have the pleasure of collaborating with the most important orchestras of the country, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the Onassis Cultural Centre, the Onassis Foundation's House of Letters and Arts, etc., as well as with ensembles such as the Ergon Ensemble, the ARTefacts Ensemble and the Hellenic Contemporary Music Ensemble.

"Music gives soul to the heart and wings to the mind."








