Nikos Adraskelas

Nikos Adraskelas was born in 1984 in Athens. He started his musical studies at the Ars Nova Conservatory and in 2004 he completed his piano diploma (class of Christina Tertipi). At the same time he studies and continues in theory with the corresponding titles: tonal harmony (with Yannis Pantazatos), baroque and renaissance counterpoint (with Panagiotis Adam), practical harmony (with Alexandros Kalogeras), fugue (with Yannis Karkala) while in 2018 he completes his studies in choir conducting with the corresponding diploma at the Dimitris Demopoulos Conservatory (Kozani) with Nikos Efthymiadis. His relationship with George Hadjinikos, whom he first met at the Horto seminars in South Pelion in 2003, was decisive for his musical development.

From 2006 to 2011, together with Christos Marinos, as a piano duo, they gave concerts in Greece, Austria, the Netherlands and England, many of them in collaboration with orchestras, chamber music ensembles and lyric singers.

In 2011 he settled permanently in Horto where he founded the social multicultural choir Hortodia whose activities are artistically and socially part of the life of the inhabitants of South Pelion. In 2014 and 2015 he composes the music for the performances of the Volos Theatre The Fusiliers of Katsipora by F.G. Lorca and The Little Prince by S. Exupery. From 2015 to 2021 he is the director of the choirs and piano teacher at the Volos Municipal Conservatory. In 2017 he became secretary of the Angelinis-Hadjinikou Foundation and main organizer of the Chortos Festival where he continues to this day, alongside piano teaching, the development of musical skills in young and old through group lessons and choir ensembles. In 2022 he also took over the Mixed Choir of the Municipal Unit of Agrias Volos, of which he is the conductor until today.

Source: Angelinis-Hadjinikou Foundation