Costas Cotsiolis : Agustin Barrios -Choro De Saudade



Costas Cotsiolis : Leo Brouwer - Un Dia De Noviembre



Costas Cotsiolis : A.Piazzola - Tango



Costas Cotsiolis : A.Piazzola - Campero



Costas Cotsiolis : Carlo Domeniconi - Koyunbaba 1 & 4 part



Costas Cotsiolis : Aldo Rodriguez - Cancion Y Danza



    
Costas Cotsiolis was born in Greece and he is considered to be truly one of the greatest guitarists
of our time. He gained popularity with his numerous tours all around the world being accepted both
by the audience and the music critics.

Cotsiolis has appeared in great concert halls like the Auditorium De Madrid, Grant Auditorium Radio
France, Concertgebow Amsterdam, Concert Hall BBC Alt Opera Frankfurt, Palais de Beaux Arts Brussels,
Concert Hall of Athens (Megaron),Palais de Congress (Paris), Herodium (the Acropolis Theater) etc.
collaborating with great symphonic orchestras like the ones of the Broadcasting of Frankfurt, Paris,
Brussels, BBC, The Junge Deutsche Philarmonie, the soloists of Sofia and Belgrade, the symphonic
orchestra Queen Sofia of Madrid, Cordoba, Cannes,Lithuanian and many others. He has appeared in
the biggest guitar Festivals of the world like Cordoba, Liege, Canarian Islands, Tijuana, Paris, Martinique,
Leverkuzen, Havana, Guitar Foundation of America, etc..

Cotsiolis has also worked with guitar giants and renowned artists such as John Williams,
John Mc Laughlin, Maria Farantouri, Milva, Jose Antonio Rodriguez, Patrice Fontanarosa, Al di Meola,
Larry Corryel, Jean Jacques Kantorow, Stanley Jordan, Vicente Amigo. Many distinctive composers like
Leo Brouwer, Ernesto Cordero, Sergio Assad, Dusan Bogdanovich, Anton Garcia Abril have dedicated
works to him while he premiered works of composers like Mikis Theodorakis, Theodore Andoniou,
Thanos Mikroutsikos, Dimitris Maragopoulos .etc.

Since 1978 he has been the Art Director of the International Festival of Classical Guitar in Volos (Greece)
where many fabulous guitarists appeared as well as young talented ones beginning an international
career. In 2000 he started the art monitoring of the Guitar Festival in the Concert Hall of Athens (Megaron)
where the most brilliant names of the guitar area perform.

He is directing the guitar sections of the Conservatory of Athens, the New Conservatory in Thessaloniki
and the Municipal Conservatory of Piraeus, creating a model school of excellent guitarists who have
been awarded and are having an international career. He has taught seminars in big Universities and
Music Academies abroad like the Manhattan School of Music, Weimar, Berlin, Dallas, Oslo, Mozarteum
of Salzburg etc.

His recording of Leo Brouwer’s is praised for bringing new musical ideas and concepts upon interpretation.