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Giorgos Daskalakis

Guitar player

About Me

Born in Athens in 1970, started playing guitar at the age of 15. After having taken guitar lessons and played in several bands - rock, blues, funk, jazz and composing his own material, he followed, in 1994, a classical harmony course at Sychrono Odeio, Athens with Michalis Travlos. After his graduation in 1996, he continued on classical guitar with Iakovos Kolanian and graduated in 2001. In 2003 he moved to Holland and studied jazz guitar at DJam and in 2004 entered the HKU conservatory with main guitar teacher Eef Albers, where he graduated in 2008. He has taken lessons and participated in clinics with : Kai von Rosenberg, Kai Eckhardt, Jesse van Ruller, Marcus Miller, Richard Smith and others. From September 2008 until May 2009 he hosted a jazz session in Amsterdam while working on his own music which is being presented since September 2009 under the name Broken Fingers.