guitar soloist, composer

"Γένοι' οίος εσσί"

"Become who you are"

Orphic epigram 

Greek guitar soloist and composer Smaro Gregoriadou studied Classical Guitar with Yorgos Kertsopoulos and Music Composition with Yorgos Sioras in Athens. In 1996 she was awarded a Senior Exhibition Scholarship as a postgraduate classical guitar student of Carlos Bonnel at the Royal College of Music, London. She participated in intensive master-classes worldwide led by distinguished specialists of our time, such as guitarists Jesus Castro-Balbi, Roberto Aussel and Paul Galbraith, composers Theodore Antoniou and Dinos Konstandinidis; and pianist-conductor George Hadjinikos, whose illuminating teaching has been an important influence on her way.

She was the recipient of numerous music awards both for composition and solo guitar interpretation, which allowed her to present her work in Greece, most European countries, Turkey, Canada and USA. Smaro has been soloist with major Greek symphony orchestras, ERT Symphony Orchestra of Contemporary Music, RCM Symphony Orchestra, and the Slovenic String Orchestra. Her compositions have been premiered by ALEA III (Boston 2005), Ensemble Octandre (Bologna 2003) and commissioned by Biennale Rome (1999) and the Byzantine and Christian Museum (Athens 2002).

Today Smaro Gregoriadou devotes her artistry to solo guitar performance, teaching, music composition and research on the musicality of ancient Greek speech and drama, leading diverse artistic activities and conducting workshops worldwide. She is the officially qualified artistic representative of Kertsopoulos Æsthetics worldwide.

She is member of Greek Composers Union.

Her recent cd entitled "Smaro Gregoriadou: reinventing guitar!" has been released in 2009 by DELOS INTERNATIONAL.