Giannis Zarias

Born in Athens in 1975. He has, for a long series of years, been performing as a violinist, in various music bands of traditional and popular Greek music, but also of Balkan and improvisational music on stage (festivals, concerts etc) in Greece and abroad. He is co-founder of the Rebetiko Trio “Skoutas-Mitarakis-Zarias”, the ZaPaTaVou Quartet, the contemporary trio of alternative strings “Frog String Trio”, the Rebetien band, the "Orchestra Violione" which perform repertoire of Greek, Balkan and Eastern Mediterranean music, a.o. Studied classical violin in Athens (diploma) and Jazz music in Netherlands (Conservatorium van Amsterdam). Obtained his PhD degree in Violin performance from the Department of Musical Science & Art, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece, where he has been also teaching Violin and other related classes of Traditional Greek music since 2007 (Assistant Professor). He also has a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.