Vasilis Zigkeridis

Kanun

General Modal, Greek

Greek

Vasilis Zigeridis was born in 1992 in Serres, Greece. He graduated from the music high school in Serres, where he focused on the kanun. In 2010, he began his studies at the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki in the Department of Musical Science and Art, with a specialisation in Greek traditional music and the kanun. Some of the projects he has taken part in are: Εx Silintio, Latinitas Nostras, Contra Tempo, Voici Contra Tempo, Iliodromio, Christos Papadopoulos Quintet, Alenti Quintet, Giannis Papageorgiou, Revans, Nikos Xidakis, Yiannis Dionisiou, Dilek Koc, Matoula Zamani, Μ.Chaniotis and more. Since 2018, he has been teaching the kanun in the Department of Music Science and Art at the University of Macedonia and at the Music High School of Thessaloniki.