Award-winning artist George Arkomanis (Tristan) is one of the most distinguished and talented people, in the field of art & entertainment. His unique capacity as a magician, composer and conductor, has made the legendary magician Michael Ammar, attribute to him the nickname “The Maestro Magician”. He was born in Athens and from a very young age he was in contact with arts, growing in a cultural home - open to many artists. He started early with his education as a musician with Jack Rogers (classical guitar), while at the same time he made his first self-taught steps in the world of magic. Then, he studied the Greek folk and eclectic music -in theory and in practice- with the help of important artists of this kind (Christos Konstantinou, Nikos Tatasopoulos, Ilias Lepeniotis, Kostas Vamvoukos and others) and from 1998 he started his professional path, as a composer, arranger and bouzouki soloist. At the same time he attended piano and theory lessons with Tasos Xirakis and then harmony, morphology, music analysis and singing with Grigoris Sourmaidis, as well as jazz harmony and orchestration with Nikos Kotaras. He studied “Special Harmony” with Philipos Hiou (Orpheus Conservatory), “Special Counterpoint”, “Fugue”, “Composition” with Nikos Kariotis (National Music Academy) and “Conducting” with Rafail Pilarinos (LCM, University Of West London). Furthermore, he is the first Greek who has received the title “FLCM”. He has taken part in conferences, seminars, workshops and master classes (magic, music, performance, kinaesthetic, philosophy, music therapy, psychology etc.) of distinguished people (Theodore Antoniou, Kevin James, John Howard, Jeff McBride, Spyros Sakkas, Dirk Losander, George Minas, Lee Alex, Michael Vincent and many others). He has taught in various art & culture halls, academic institutions etc. (Centre Of Classical & Contemporary Music, International Brotherhood Of Magicians, Thoukidideios Cultural Organization, Greek Academy Of Magicians etc.). He has also written articles, speeches, interviews, essays and poems of general content, but mainly about arts, society, supernatural, life etc. Many of those, have been published in newspapers and magazines (Ta Nea, Artefake, Magician, Ogdoo etc.). He has composed original music for movies, documentaries, TV shows, theater, advertisements, performances and more (Magic, Children Of Internment, Edgar Allan Poe, Almare, Cube, Al The Old Robot, Mirror Forrest, Marble Thoughts, Demon Of Logic and many others). He has brought out six music albums (Giati M’ Agapises 2011, Rainy Night 2013, Fake Truths 2014, Confessions 2015, Music Gallery 2016, The Magic Show 2020), one DVD (Shadows In The Dust 2016), as well as other music works, accompanying album of other artists (Martero - Back To The Future, ASMA - At Tonal etc.).

George Arkomanis

Award-winning artist George Arkomanis (Tristan) is one of the most distinguished and talented people, in the field of art & entertainment. His unique capacity as a magician, composer and conductor, has made the legendary magician Michael Ammar, attribute to him the nickname “The Maestro Magician”. He was born in Athens and from a very young age he was in contact with arts, growing in a cultural home - open to many artists. He started early with his education as a musician with Jack Rogers (classical guitar), while at the same time he made his first self-taught steps in the world of magic. Then, he studied the Greek folk and eclectic music -in theory and in practice- with the help of important artists of this kind (Christos Konstantinou, Nikos Tatasopoulos, Ilias Lepeniotis, Kostas Vamvoukos and others) and from 1998 he started his professional path, as a composer, arranger and bouzouki soloist. At the same time he attended piano and theory lessons with Tasos Xirakis and then harmony, morphology, music analysis and singing with Grigoris Sourmaidis, as well as jazz harmony and orchestration with Nikos Kotaras. He studied “Special Harmony” with Philipos Hiou (Orpheus Conservatory), “Special Counterpoint”, “Fugue”, “Composition” with Nikos Kariotis (National Music Academy) and “Conducting” with Rafail Pilarinos (LCM, University Of West London). Furthermore, he is the first Greek who has received the title “FLCM”. He has taken part in conferences, seminars, workshops and master classes (magic, music, performance, kinaesthetic, philosophy, music therapy, psychology etc.) of distinguished people (Theodore Antoniou, Kevin James, John Howard, Jeff McBride, Spyros Sakkas, Dirk Losander, George Minas, Lee Alex, Michael Vincent and many others). He has taught in various art & culture halls, academic institutions etc. (Centre Of Classical & Contemporary Music, International Brotherhood Of Magicians, Thoukidideios Cultural Organization, Greek Academy Of Magicians etc.). He has also written articles, speeches, interviews, essays and poems of general content, but mainly about arts, society, supernatural, life etc. Many of those, have been published in newspapers and magazines (Ta Nea, Artefake, Magician, Ogdoo etc.). He has composed original music for movies, documentaries, TV shows, theater, advertisements, performances and more (Magic, Children Of Internment, Edgar Allan Poe, Almare, Cube, Al The Old Robot, Mirror Forrest, Marble Thoughts, Demon Of Logic and many others). He has brought out six music albums (Giati M’ Agapises 2011, Rainy Night 2013, Fake Truths 2014, Confessions 2015, Music Gallery 2016, The Magic Show 2020), one DVD (Shadows In The Dust 2016), as well as other music works, accompanying album of other artists (Martero - Back To The Future, ASMA - At Tonal etc.).

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Award-winning artist George Arkomanis (Tristan) is one of the
most distinguished and talented people, in the field of art & entertainment.
His unique capacity as a magician, composer and conductor, has made the legendary magician Michael Ammar, attribute to him the nickname “The Maestro Magician”.

He was born in Athens and from a very young age he was
in contact with arts, growing in a cultural home - open to many artists.
He started early with his education as a musician with Jack Rogers (classical guitar), while at the same time he made his first self-taught steps in the world of magic. Then, he studied the Greek folk and eclectic music -in theory and in practice- with the help of important artists of this kind (Christos Konstantinou, Nikos Tatasopoulos, Ilias Lepeniotis, Kostas Vamvoukos and others) and from 1998 he started his professional path, as a composer, arranger and bouzouki soloist. At the same time he attended piano and theory lessons with Tasos Xirakis and then harmony, morphology, music analysis and singing with Grigoris Sourmaidis, as well as jazz harmony and orchestration with Nikos Kotaras.

He studied “Special Harmony” with Philipos Hiou (Orpheus Conservatory),
“Special Counterpoint”, “Fugue”, “Composition” with Nikos Kariotis (National Music Academy) and “Conducting” with Rafail Pilarinos (LCM, University Of West London). Furthermore, he is the first Greek who has received the title “FLCM”.

He has taken part in conferences, seminars, workshops and master classes (magic, music, performance, kinaesthetic, philosophy, music therapy, psychology etc.) of distinguished people (Theodore Antoniou, Kevin James, John Howard, Jeff McBride, Spyros Sakkas, Dirk Losander, George Minas, Lee Alex, Michael Vincent and many others).

He has taught in various art & culture halls, academic institutions etc.
(Centre Of Classical & Contemporary Music, International Brotherhood Of Magicians, Thoukidideios Cultural Organization, Greek Academy Of Magicians etc.). He has also written articles, speeches, interviews, essays and poems of general content, but mainly about arts, society, supernatural, life etc. Many of those, have been published in newspapers and magazines
(Ta Nea, Artefake, Magician, Ogdoo etc.).

He has composed original music for movies, documentaries, TV shows,
theater, advertisements, performances and more
(Magic, Children Of Internment, Edgar Allan Poe, Almare, Cube, Al The Old Robot, Mirror Forrest, Marble Thoughts, Demon Of Logic and many others).

He has brought out six music albums (Giati M’ Agapises 2011, Rainy Night 2013, Fake Truths 2014, Confessions 2015, Music Gallery 2016, The Magic Show 2020), one DVD (Shadows In The Dust 2016), as well as other music works, accompanying album of other artists (Martero - Back To The Future, ASMA - At Tonal etc.).

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Greek, Modern
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Bachelor of Composition at National Music Academy
July 17, 2013

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