Andreas Smagadis

Composer-Environment and Physics Professor, Municipal Conservatory of Sykies (Thessaloniki-Greece)-Second Chance School of Leptokarya

Andreas is a Greek composer of contemporary instrumental music and he lives in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece. Combining synthesizers and acoustic instruments Andreas creates melodic and emotional pieces that describe his life experiences and emotions, aiming in the hearts of his audience. His songs follow the classic structure of pop songs, while they offer a broad variety of styles. Andreas has created his own unique style and signature sound with influences from Yanni, Vangelis and Jean Michel Jarre. His involvement with music started on January 1989 with the composing of the piece Melodic Winds and since then he has been constantly composing music and improving his Melodic Winds Studio. He has a degree in Music Harmony from the Macedonian Conservatory of Thessaloniki and the Yamaha Electone Method degree from the Yamaha Music Foundation, while he continues his piano studies at the Macedonian Conservatory of Thessaloniki. Andreas has a degree in Physics as well as a Master Degree in Environmental Physics (specializing in Atmospheric Pollution and Ozone Depletion) both received from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Andreas studied Environmental Physics under the guidance of the internationally renowned professor Christos Zerefos, who has received a UNESCO award for his groundbreaking research for ozone depletion. DISCOGRAPHY 1998: Melodic Winds CD 1999: Song For The Children CD Single 2001: Life Images CD 2004: When The Sea Remembers CD 20 May 2008: Summer Dreams CD 5 December 2008: Melodic Christmas CD 3 June 2010: Melodic winds (Revisited) Andreas has also composed the music for the short films Loss (2004), A World Made of Paper (2002) and Without Identity (2000).