Apostolos Paraskevas is a Grammy-nominated composer and guitarist

Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...

. He was born in Volos, Greece.

Apostolos Paraskevas is a published recording artist and recently an award winning Film Director/Producer. Gold Level Award at the 2010 California Film Awards, Silver Screen Award in the 2010 Nevada Film Festival.

Classical Guitar Magazine/London acknowledged him as the only guitarist ever to have a major orchestral piece performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall

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 and the international press as the only musician who performed at Carnegie Hall in a Grim Reaper’s outfit.(Classical Guitar Magazine, January 2001)

He has received five First Prizes in International Composition Competitions. "Lukas Foss" Composition Competition 2000/USA, "Pappaioanou Composition" 1997/Greece, etc..

As well as performing with Lukas Foss

Lukas Foss

Lukas Foss was a German-born American composer, conductor, and pianist.-Music career:He was born Lukas Fuchs in Berlin, Germany in 1922. His father was the philosopher and scholar Martin Fuchs...

 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 etc.

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

Berklee College of Music

Berklee College of Music, located in Boston, Massachusetts, is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known primarily as a school for jazz, rock and popular music, it also offers college-level courses in a wide range of contemporary and historic styles, including hip...

 and a composer in residence at Northeastern University in Boston. Paraskevas is the founder and the Artistic Director of the International Guitar Congress/Corfu

Corfu

Corfu is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the second largest of the Ionian Islands, and, including its small satellite islands, forms the edge of the northwestern frontier of Greece. The island is part of the Corfu regional unit, and is administered as a single municipality. The...

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Paraskevas' compositions and performances are published by Centaur and Bridge Records/USA, Santerrelle Verlag/Germany, Berben/Italy, Clear Note/USA, and PaNas(Greece).