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Nikos Stefanidis
Biographical Note
A renowned kanun virtuoso, he also played the oud and the Constantinopolitan lyra. Born in 1890 in Aksehir (Akşehir), Konya Province, Turkey, and died in 1983 in Nea Ionia, Athens.
He came to Greece after the Asia Minor catastrophe. During the German occupation, in 1941, he met Simon Karas; when the war ended, they started a long collaboration on radio shows and appearances with the choir of the ‘Association for the Dissemination of National Music’. He is considered to be the last great kanun virtuoso and a preserver of the original music tradition of Asia Minor Greeks.
In 1986 his personal album Nikos Stefanidis – kanonaki was released, part of the series Ellines dexiotechnes (Greek Virtuosos).
Nikos Stefanidis
Images
From the shoot of the French TV show "Le Grand Échiquier", Athens, 1977
Nikos Stefanidis and Yehudi Menuhin
From the shoot of the French TV show "Le Grand Échiquier", Athens, 1977
Mathios Balabanis with goblet drum and Nikos Stefanidis with kanun.
Kallithea, 1975
Concert for the refugees of Asia Minor, Pontos and Thrace pending
In Domna Samiou's Archive there is a discussion between Domna and Nikos Stefanidis, which took place on 19/12/1977.