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Date and place of birth: 12.02.1966,   Evrychou, Cyprus

He started to play the drums when he was 16 years old.
Initially self-taught, his ears led him to such powerful rhythm. Playing club dates during his high school years, George attended to the technical aspects of drumming, but his primary focus was playing the “ groove”.
1988 - 1990 He studied in Germany (Bonn University).
1990 -1994 He studied in Boston, U.S.A There he took lessons with:
Alan Dowson, Jon Hazila, Skip Hadden and Dave Dicenso and performed with various local artists in different styles. In 1995, George relocated in Holland, where he graduated from the Rotterdam Conservatory.
In 1999 he got his BA and in 2001 MA. During his studying years he was performing and recording with local and international artists like:
Annelies de Jong, Ed Verhoeff, Ben van den Dungen, Paulino Vieira, Claudio Roditi, Larry Harlow, etc.
1997-2001 he created a privet drum school in cooperation with Annelies de Jong
1999-2001 he was teaching part time at Rotterdam Conservatory
1999-2001 he was main drum, percussion teacher at Utrecht Music School
2000 he was part of the band that represented the Rotterdam Conservatory at IAJE Conference in New Orleans.
2001 he was awarded with a scholarship from Rotterdam Conservatory for further studies in New York.
From 2002, George lives in Cyprus. He has been performing and recording with various artists from Greece and Cyprus like: George Dalaras, Cyprus State Orchestra, Diastasis, Faidros Kavallaris, Blink.
From 2002 he has been teaching in Kiriakidis Music School in Limassol
From 2003 he has been playing with Irineos Trio band and Havana Session band.
With these two bands he is regularly performing in Cyprus and Greece with various known musicians from Cyprus and abroad like: Offer Ganor, Andreas Georgiu, Evagoras Karageorgis, Jens Kerkoff, Eric Durrer, Lukas van Merwijk, Gilad Azmond 

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