Yiannis Dionysiou

He was born in Cyprus in 1990. At the age of five, he started taking piano classes and at the age of ten, violin classes at the Cyprus Olympic Conservatory, as well as classes of Music Theory and Harmony. At the age of eight, he started taking classes of Byzantine Music. He graduated from Music School of Nicosia, the Department of Music Science and Art in University of Macedonia, in Thessaloniki, in the major of Byzantine Music, with specialization in “Performance in Chanting Art” and he has a master’s degree in “Chanting Art” from the Department of Music Studies in National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Since 2019 he is an instructor of a workshop about Greek Urban Folk singing as well as a teacher of the course “Folk Song” in the Department of Music Science and Art in University of Macedonia. During his residency in Greece, he takes part in various music ensembles, performing and playing music with influences from the Greek Folk, Traditional and Urban music in the beginnings of 20th century. Since 2013 he has taken part in many theatre productions as a singer. Since 2014, he participated in various albums, radio and TV shows. In 2021, he released his first personal album “Proti Volta”, including compositions of seven different composers, while the lyrics are written by Kostas Fasoulas. Recently he released his second album "Lakouva", with Giannis Papageorgiou's songs.