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Apostolos Paraskevas
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Apostolos Paraskevas is a published recording artist and recently an award winning Film Director/Producer. Classical Guitar Magazine/London acknowledged him as the only guitarist ever to have a major orchestral piece performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall and the international press as the only musician who performed at Carnegie Hall in a Grim Reaper’s outfit.(Classical Guitar Magazine, January 2001)
"Lukas Foss" Composition Competition 2000/United States of America, "Pappaioanou Composition" 1997/Greece, as well as performing with Lukas Foss at Carnegie Hall, Paraskevas has performed at Weill Hall/New York, Wertheim Performing Arts Center/Miami, Jordan Hall/Boston, Capella Hall/Russia, and the Athens Concert Hall/Greece et cetera Paraskevas" profile is included in the State of the Axe publication by photographer Ralph Gibson as one of 80 most innovative living guitarists.
He is a Professor of Music at Berklee College of Music and a composer in residence at Northeastern University in Boston.
Paraskevas" compositions and performances are published by Centaur and Bridge Records/United States of America, Santerrelle Verlag/Germany, Berben/Italy, Clear Note/United States of America, and PaNas(Greece). Apostolos Paraskevas was struck by Focal Dystonia to his right hand in 2009.
He fully recovered in 2013 after 7,000 hours of work in re-constructing his technique. He was able to decode the condition as an unconscious behavioral habit and returned to performing professionally again.
His article A Classical Guitarist"s Story of Recovery from Focal Dystonia will be published in London in the Classical Guitar Magazine.
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Greece