Periklis Tsoukalas born in 1970 in Attica. He began to learn guitar from ten years old and in the age of thirteen he gave his first concert. Grown in musical family (his father was former musician in the known groups "Crowns" and "Semprini"), he was helped by his parents in his musical studies. Very shortly he left with his parents for Arabia where on fifteen roughly years he travelled between various Arabic states and Greece. There he was met with Arabian Oud players and Indian immigrants Sitar players. He learned various categories of the Arabic and Indian musical tradition. He has dealt with a lot of and various musical types and instruments as well as with the composition of mainly organic music near various occasionally professors.
Musical Education
• Byzantine Music With Manolis Sourgiadakis and Ioannis Aronis.
• European music : Theory, jazz , blues, rock.
• Musical Instruments:
• Oud - Private lessons with Necati Çelik ,Yurdal Tokcan, - Master classes with Necati Çelik, Yurdal Tokcan, Omar Bashir, Charbel Rouhana, Kamel Ferjani.
• Sarod: with Vigit Singh.
• Bansuri: with Chandra Kant Prasad.
• Saz (Bağlama): with Mehmet Erenler.
• Rabab (Afghan): with Mohammad Rahim Kushnawaz and Khaled Arman.
• Guitar (fretless, electric): with various teachers.
Professional Experience:
Lecturing
Music High-school of Heraklion as a teacher of Greek traditional music Oud and Tambura.
Private music lessons.
Music school Seminars:
•About the Oud and Ottoman Classical Music, music of East-Mediterranean, at music schools and unions in Crete.
Concerts
• Solo Oud concerts
Performances with compositions of Greek, Turkish, Persian, Romanian, Armenian and Arabian composers in Beograd, Porto Heli, Ierapetra, Agios Nikolaos, Rethimno, Hania, Iraklio. Solo Oud concerts and workshops participation in the '1st international Oud forum of Egypt' - Cairo 2010, '1st International Yorgo Bacanos Oud Festival of Istanbul' - Istanbul 2010 and solo oud concert in 'International Oud meeting'- Thessaloniki 2002.
As a band member:
• 2003 - 2008 as a main member of 'Hainides' (concerts all over Greece, Cyprus, U.S.A.)
• 2000 – Today as a main member of 'Endofonon'.
•1986 - 1990 as a main member of 'Asfyx'.
With a group he formed, in Izmir – Turkey – 2000,
Latest with Baba Zula, Anna Goula me ta organa tis taxis and Glikeria.
Discography - Participations
1. 'H Katodos ton Saltimpagkon' - 'Hainides' ('live' recording concert – double cd) - 2008
2. 'Kano tin riza mou ftero' - Christos Konstantinou - 2008
3.'O Karagiozhs sthn Eurovision' - 'Hainides' - 2007
4. 'Periklis Tsoukalas' – Personal - 2006
5.'O giteftis ke to Drakodonti' - 'Hainides'. (double cd) - 2006
6.'Odyssey' - Composition for the introduction of N. Kazantzakis first rapsody by M.
Mountakis - 2003
7.'En ergo ke logo'- Participation for two songs of the traditional cretan band Axegnii
Perates – 2003
8. 'Endofonon' – live recording from various concerts - 2001
9.'Crete-Land-maritime'- Music composed for the sculpture of Pantelis and Nikos
Sotiriadis, Ag. Nikolaos – 2000
10. 'O glykasmos ton Aggelon' (Sweetness of the angels) - Folk-religious hymns and
traditional Greek songs about Virgin Mary. Prize by the Ministry of Education - 2000
11. 'O Karagiozis paraligo veziris' – Music for theatrical act (All-Kriti cultural competition)
prize – 1999
12. 'Constellations' – Personal – 1998
13. 'Psychonautis'- Personal – 1997
14. 'Greece Attacks' (compilation). Participation with the band 'Nightmare' - 1989
Organization of
Symposium on the Music of Greece & Turkey entitled 'Journey through Modes and Makam', as program manager artistic director, in collaboration with the Centre for Inter-Mediterranean Cooperation. Participation of top Greek and Turkish musicologists and musicians.
Concerts of :
Psarantonis (Greece), Claudia Delmer (Spain), Istanbul Sazendeleri (Turkey), Trio Roberto Brandan (Argentina), Eastern Musical Workshop (Greece), Loudovikos ton Anogion (Greece).
Radio productions
Radio-broadcasting with musicological analysis of world music.
Article writings
on music In journals and newspapers (Nea Kriti, Apopeira, I21).
Cooperations
musicians
Diamanda Galas, Baba Zula, Glykeria, Zoe Tiganouria, Hara Kolaiti, Hainides, Necati Çelik, Ömer Erdoğdular, Mehmet Erenler, Mohammad Rahim Kushnawaz, Halil Karaduman, Psarantonis, Pantelis Thalassinos, Miltos Pashalidis, Sokratis Malamas, Martha Frintzila, 'Mode Plagal'(Th.Rellos, A.Maratos, T.Kanellos, K.Antoniou), 'Sanades', Christos Konstaninou, Mariza Koch, Manos Mountakis, Andreas Tsekouras, Maria Stafilopati, Panagiotis Lalezas, Vassilis Yannisis, Papa-Giorgis Tzavlas, Ioanis Aronis, Kostis Avissinos, Giorgos Psaroudakis, Hristos Baltsidis, Dimitris Sgouros, Vangelis Vardakis, Alexandros Arkadopoulos, Alekos Kakepis, Giorgos Kontogianis, Andreas Skandalos, Eleni Kallimopoulou, Mihalis Nikopoulos, Nikos Oikonomidis, Kostas Sideris, Kostas Kalaitzakis, Nikos Katsarakis, Ross Daly.
others
Esma Şahin (dancer), Umi Deniz (dancer), Bahar Sarah (dancer), Camilo Betancor (acrobat, performer), Hristina Sougioultzi (acrobat, dancer), Antigoni Linardou (dancer), Athos Danellis (shadow theater player), Niki Papadaki (choreographer, dance teacher), Nikos & Pantelis Sotiriadis (sculpturers), Kaiti Manolidaki (director).
He is currently working with Baba Zula, Diamanda Galas, Voivod and forming a new band as well as giving Oud and Guitar lessons.
