User:Dionysis Theodorou

BOUZOUKI PLAYER/VOCALIST Performing since 1984.

Dionysis Theodorou is a Greek-Cypriot bouzouki player and vocalist who was raised in the UK and in Cyprus. He studied Jewish History, Biblical Criticism and Hebrew linguistics at Hunter College of the City University of New York and at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He currently lives in Israel with his family.

Dionysis started learning the bouzouki in 1984 when he was eleven years old and went on to study classical music theory, harmony, solfège, piano and guitar.

Dionysis has been performing with the bouzouki since 1984 when he first performed at his cousin's wedding.

He went on to perform as the band leader of a small wedding band, when he was twelve years old, and then to being the lead bouzouki player in a six member, five star hotel band--"The Grecian Band"--that performed five times a week.

When Dionysis was sixteen, he performed at the biggest and most popular bouzouki club in Cyprus, "The Gold Fish Bouzouki Club", performing in front of an audience of up to two thousand people. He was the second bouzouki in a five piece band that accompanied eight singers.

During his army service in Cyprus, he was in the army band as the lead bouzouki and he was also the lead bouzouki in a local wedding band.

On completing his army service, Dionysis travelled to the UK where he performed in clubs and restaurants in Cheltenham--where he had lived with his parents from 1974-1982--in Bristol, Birmingham, London, Wales and the North and South of England.

Dionysis returned to Cyprus and performed in top hotels in the Ayia Napa, Larnaca area. From Cyprus, Dionysis travelled to England where he worked at the Gresham Hotel in Birmingham and then on to New York where he performed at Ambrosia restaurant in the classy Bayside area.

In New York City, Dionysis also appeared on the large Greek community's cable television and he was a vocalist and the lead bouzouki player of Geminis Orchestra performing in New York City and in the Tri-State area.

In 2002 Dionysis left New York and moved to Israel.

Dionysis enjoys playing a wide range of styles of music such as: Classical, Big Band, Jazz, Blues, Latin as well as Greek music.

Look out for shows.

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