Fampas Dimitris (1921-1996)
Greece / More info in Enciclopedia de la Guitarra
Guitarist, pedagogue and composer, was born in Milino Volos.
English
Dimitris Fampas has been Greece's most celebrated classical guitarist. His artistry reached far beyond the borders of his country and for over thirty-five years he has been considered one of the world's leading performers.
Dimitris Fampas(December 22nd, 1921-May 3rd, 1996) was born in Lafkos, a small village on Pilio mountain near the harbor city of Volos,Thessaly. As a child he used to play songs and traditional music with a lute and a guitar. He was very talented and his father, Evangelos, a sea captain, bought him a guitar and took the decision to send the young Dimitris for serious musical studies in Athens. He studied theory with Th.Vavayiannis and counterpoint with K.Kydoniatis at the Athens Conservatory. He studied classical guitar with Nicholas Ioannou, and in 1953,he received a diploma in classical guitar performance 'Com laude' from the National Conservatory of Greece. In 1955-56 he received a scholarship to study guitar with Andres Segovia and musicology with Emilio Pujol at the Academia Chigianna in Sienna, Italy. In 1959 he again studied with Segovia at the Academy of Santiago, Spain, receiving a scolarship by Segovia himself.
As a composer D.Fampas has showed that he has a sound inspiration and research both harmonious and expressive for something new. Among his fine compositions we mention his Bolero and Greek dance. Simultaneously to his performing and teaching activities, Fampas composed over two hundred solos, studies and dances, enriching the guitar literature. Fampas' own compositions raised a lot of applause wherever they were being performed and became favorites in guitar circles. His music skillfully written for guitar, very romantic and lyric, richly dominated by Greek traditional elements, colors and rhythms expresses his love for the guitar and his country, his strong and passionate personality. His work has been published by Ricordi Milano, Ricordi Brazil, Max Eschig Paris, Columbia music USA, Lathkil music publishers London, Ph.Nakas, Athens and Papagrigoriou-Nakas Athens. These compositions are often mandatory repertoire of International Guitar competitions, are included in the repertoire of guitarists around the world and recorded for radio and TV programs and cds.
Fampas' international performing career spanned almost four decades. He performed hundreds of personal recitals worldwide. He often performed in England, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yogoslavia, Turkey, USA, Canada, USSR and Vatican. He has also appeared in most major cities of Greece as well as in the ancient theater of Epidavros. Besides many personal recordings he offered us through the years, Dimitri Fampas recorded some fine theater and film music for Greek composers such as Mikis Theodorakis and Manos Hatzidakis. For more than a decade through the 60's Fampas collaborated as a soloist to all the theatrical and film music productions of those two famous greek composers, being the first classical guitarist to perform on stage and to record this music, offering to the guitar a large popularity. He has been member of the Greek Composers' Union, the National Board of Music, president of the Union of the professors in Conservatories of Athens etc.
Web: http://www.evafampas.gr/fampasen.html
Dimitris Fampas(December 22nd, 1921-May 3rd, 1996) was born in Lafkos, a small village on Pilio mountain near the harbor city of Volos,Thessaly. As a child he used to play songs and traditional music with a lute and a guitar. He was very talented and his father, Evangelos, a sea captain, bought him a guitar and took the decision to send the young Dimitris for serious musical studies in Athens. He studied theory with Th.Vavayiannis and counterpoint with K.Kydoniatis at the Athens Conservatory. He studied classical guitar with Nicholas Ioannou, and in 1953,he received a diploma in classical guitar performance 'Com laude' from the National Conservatory of Greece. In 1955-56 he received a scholarship to study guitar with Andres Segovia and musicology with Emilio Pujol at the Academia Chigianna in Sienna, Italy. In 1959 he again studied with Segovia at the Academy of Santiago, Spain, receiving a scolarship by Segovia himself.
As a composer D.Fampas has showed that he has a sound inspiration and research both harmonious and expressive for something new. Among his fine compositions we mention his Bolero and Greek dance. Simultaneously to his performing and teaching activities, Fampas composed over two hundred solos, studies and dances, enriching the guitar literature. Fampas' own compositions raised a lot of applause wherever they were being performed and became favorites in guitar circles. His music skillfully written for guitar, very romantic and lyric, richly dominated by Greek traditional elements, colors and rhythms expresses his love for the guitar and his country, his strong and passionate personality. His work has been published by Ricordi Milano, Ricordi Brazil, Max Eschig Paris, Columbia music USA, Lathkil music publishers London, Ph.Nakas, Athens and Papagrigoriou-Nakas Athens. These compositions are often mandatory repertoire of International Guitar competitions, are included in the repertoire of guitarists around the world and recorded for radio and TV programs and cds.
Fampas' international performing career spanned almost four decades. He performed hundreds of personal recitals worldwide. He often performed in England, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yogoslavia, Turkey, USA, Canada, USSR and Vatican. He has also appeared in most major cities of Greece as well as in the ancient theater of Epidavros. Besides many personal recordings he offered us through the years, Dimitri Fampas recorded some fine theater and film music for Greek composers such as Mikis Theodorakis and Manos Hatzidakis. For more than a decade through the 60's Fampas collaborated as a soloist to all the theatrical and film music productions of those two famous greek composers, being the first classical guitarist to perform on stage and to record this music, offering to the guitar a large popularity. He has been member of the Greek Composers' Union, the National Board of Music, president of the Union of the professors in Conservatories of Athens etc.
Web: http://www.evafampas.gr/fampasen.html