Biography
Foudoulis was born in Volos, Thessaly, Greece in 1964.
He obtained his Teaching Diploma from the Philharmonical Conservatory of the Municipality of Volos and his Soloist Diploma from the New Conservatory of Music in Thessaloniki by Costas Kotsiolis. He also obtained his post graduate diploma, Fellowship Diploma of Trinity College London (FTCL) with the best of reviews.
As a young guitarist he won many first prizes in international guitar competitions and attended a number of seminars including those with Leo Brouwer, Alirio Diaz, and David Russell.
He has given many concerts in Greece as well as abroad (Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Bulgaria, Servia, Turkey, Cuba) and he has made recordings for the ERT (Greek Radio Television).
From 1989 he has participated as soloist and teacher in Greek and international Festivals, such as the Volos International Guitar Festival, International Festival of Istanbul, Zory International Guitar Festival, Corfu International Guitar Festival, Hermoupolis International Guitar Festival, Porto Heli International Festival Art & Culture, Chorton International Festival, etc.
He has performed, as a soloist, in a variety of ensembles, with the Symphonic Orchestra of the Bach Conservatory of Moscow, the Symphonic Orchestra of Larisa as well as in small ensembles of chamber music.
He participated in the activities "Youth for the Arts", that were organized by the Organization for the Cultural Capital of Europe, Thessaloniki 1997.
He has performed works of many famous composers at first performance and a number of composers have dedicated their works to him.
He has composed guitar soloist music, chamber music, music for theater etc. He has also written a number of books about the guitar teaching method.
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