NUKeLeus Trio Jazz Band Athens Greece Latin Folk Classic

SAMI

Piano

PERICLES

Kontra Bass

YANNIS

Drummer

Yannis Stavropoulos

Yannis studied as a scholarship holder at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He played live and in the studio with musicians such as Mike “Jonesy” Jones, Chris Jacob, Aydin Esen and Vasilis Tsambropoulos. Also with saxophonist Andy Sheppard, Jim Odgren, Lyn Dobson and Dimitri Vassilakis and bassist Manuel Orza, Xavier Padilla, Jack Kulp, Yotis Kiourktsoglou and George Fakanas. He also gave workshops together with George Kollias, Thomas Lang and Dom Famularo. He is currently recording and touring with the internationally acclaimed jazz quartet “NUKeLEUS”. Yannis works closely with the jazz masters Craig Bailey and George Kontrafouris and also teaches at the Modern Music School in Greece. His most famous student certainly is George Kollias.

Pericles Trivolis

Periklis Trivolis was born in Athens in 1975. In 1992 he started his music studies at the Conservatory Philippos Nakas with music theory, harmony and electrical bass. Between 1992 and 2001 he studied Jazz composition at Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he also accomplishes studies in acoustic bass.From 2003 he has been working in Athens as a professional musician and he is cooperating with many outstanding Jazz artists, Greeks and foreigners as well.

Sami Amiris

Sami Amiris studied Mathematics at the University of Crete. He also studied classical piano with Prof. Dimitri Toufexis, a concert pianist, conductor of international stature and Julliard Professor. He also took lessons in composition with Prof. Th. Antoniou and Dr. Ath. Zervas. Today, he is one of the best known jazz pianists in Greece. His style encompasses many influences, from classical and contemporary music to jazz and blues, to the music of Central and South America, Cuba, as well as Africa, India, Arabia, Maori and Ancient Greece. Sami Amiris is a founding member and co-leader, along with Yannis Stavropoulos and Periklis Trivolis, of the power jazz piano trio NUKeLEUS and co-leads, along with Antonis Ladopoulos, the highly interactive saxophone-piano duo Phos. He is also the pianist and current musical director of the Big Band of the Municipality of Athens.
He has appeared in many jazz festivals both inside and outside Greece with various collaborations, which include Bobby Shew, Craig Bailey, Chico Freeman, Ron McClure, Sean McGowan, Reiner Witzel, David Garibaldi to name a few. He has also lectured in seminars at various institutions.

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