Tasos Diakogiorgis

Tasos Diakogiorgis Τάσος Διακογιώργης
Tasos Diakogiorgis playing in 1970.
Background information
Birth name	Anastasios Diakogiorgis
Born	1924 Maritsa, Rhodes
Died	12 March 2007(2007-03-12) (aged 82–83) Athens, Greece
Genres	Folk Classical
Occupation	Musician
Instrument(s)	Greek santur Percussion Violin
Years active	1954–2007

Tasos Diakogiorgis (Greek: Τάσος Διακογιώργης; 1924 – 12 March 2007) was a Greek virtuoso santurist and music teacher. He is regarded as one of the greatest Greek santurists of all time.

Biography

Tasos Diakogiorgis was born in 1924 in Maritsa, a village of Rhodes. At the age of 10, began to study music and from 1939 to 1941 was attending violin lessons at the National Conservatory of Rhodes.

In 1954 moved to Athens to participate at the Dora Stratou Greek Dances Theatre as a soloist and study percussion and classical music theory with Manolis Kalomiris and Leonidas Zoras.

In 1962 Nikos Koundouros introduced him to Yannis Markopoulos. After this, he became a member of the ensemble that recorded the music of the film Young Aphrodites.

In 1964 he acceded to the ERT Contemporary Music Orchestra and ERT National Symphony Orchestra subsequently, which he remained until 1989.

Diakogiorgis died on 12 March 2007, in Athens.