Spyridon Tzekos

He took his first clarinet lessons at the Mantzaros Philharmonic Society under Nikolaos Dolianitis and continued at the Philippos Nakas Conservatory in the class of Stathis Kiosoglou. With scholarships from the State Scholarship Foundation and the Friends of Music Association, he studied in the class of Ronald van Spentonk at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Mons, Belgium; in the class of Walter Beckens at the Fontys School of Arts in the Netherlands; and in the course "Contemporary Music through Non-Western Techniques" at the Amsterdam Conservatory. He has collaborated with the most important orchestras, wind bands, cultural organisations and festivals in the country and is a founding member of two important Greek music ensembles, the ARTéfacts ensemble and the Ventus wind ensemble, with which he gives numerous concerts in Athens and in cities in Greece and abroad. Since 2007, he has been the principal clarinettist of the National Opera Orchestra and a clarinet teacher at the Acropolis Arts Centre Conservatory.