ABOUT APOSTOLOS LEVENTOPOULOS
A solo project of Apostolos Leventopoulos, using various guitars and live looping, with repertoire that ranges from jazz and blues to pop, world and cinema music.
Apostolos Leventopoulos is a guitarist with a classical guitar degree and a bachelor in jazz guitar from Berklee College of music. He has played with many Greek and internationally known musicians (Gilad Atzmon, Sean Corby, Alex Foster, Marek Patrman, Logan Richardson, Rex Richardson, Peter Slavov, Dayna Stephens, Erik Vermeulen, Jason Yarde), in Jazz, Funk and World music groups, has performed at festivals and clubs in Greece and abroad (US, Brazil, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Portugal, Singapore), and has an extensive discography as a session musician. He has three albums as a leader, “Songs for Acoustic Guitar” (ΠΚmusic), “After the Spirit” (BreezeHouse), and “The Hidden Beauty” (BreezeHouse).
He has also composed, arranged and performed music for a number of theatre and dance plays and performances for the Greek National Theatre, The National Theatre of Northern Greece, and many theatre and dance theatre companies (Oktana, Dameblanche, Fingersix, Theatre Company Polis, Creo Dance Company, etc..). He has taught guitar and theory classes for a number of years privately, at some of the most well known music conservatories in Greece (Philippos Nakas conservatory, Yiorgos Fakanas conservatory) and at the Musical Studies Department of Ioannina University (teaching Jazz Guitar, Jazz Theory and Jazz History)