(PREVEZA)
Kostas was born in 1975,
Munich Germany. In 1976 he moved to Greece in the area of
Preveza, Epiros, where his parents have their roots.
Kostas grew up in a farm life environment with the customs
of traditional farm family life, where traditional dance
and music were holding significant place in his every day
life.
He studied Agriculture in the “Aristoteleio” University of
Thessaloniki, and at this moment he is doing post graduate
studies at the University of Ioannina. Kostas speaks three
languages, Greek, English and German.
From 1982 he has been a member of the folk dancing groups
of the Preveza area, in addition to other areas of Greece
where he lived or travelled for this reason. He has also
attended numerous Greek dance seminars, symposiums and
conferences in the subject of Cultural studies.
From 1997 he has been teaching traditional folk dancing in
many folk dancing schools in Thessaloniki, Preveza and
Athens.
In 2000 Kostas started doing research in the areas of
Epiros, Preveza, Syrrako, Metsovo, Konitsa, Zagori and
Souli. In parallel he is doing research in the area of
Grevena and the refugees from Asia Minor in the region of
Preveza.
Kostas has conducted many seminars of traditional folk
dancing in Greece and the USA. He has also represented
Greece in folk dance festivals to more than 15 countries
around the globe.
In 2002 he created a festival in Preveza for the
preservation of the Hellenic Tradition. This was the first
ever festival in Greece that participants (groups and
musicians) should follow strict rules for presentation of
the Greek folk traditions.
He is also occupied with Greek traditional folk singing and
has studied songs in the Greek, Vlahiki, Albanian, and
Turkish languages.
In September 2006 he moved to Athens and joined the
performing team of "Lykeion ton Ellinidon" of Athens.
He is working as an Executive Consultant to the European
Organization for Strategic Planning. In March 2007, was one
of the main organizers in the 1st European Conference and
the biggest ever Exposition and Festivities for the “Greek
Folk Culture” in Greece, which took place in the Olympic
“Peace and Friendship” Stadium in Piraeus.
He is finally a member of the Cultural Commission of the
Panepirotiki Confederation of Greece and responsible for
the events concerning the tradition of Epirus.
