Agathangelos Georgakatos

Chorus master of the GNO, conductor of the vocal ensembles ΜεĪZοΝ, Equábili, and the Athens Chamber Choir, as well as guest conductor of the Chorus of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation. He has appeared in prestigious venues (Odeon of Herodes Atticus, SNFCC, Athens Concert Hall, Acropolis Museum, National Gallery of Athens) and festivals (GNO Sacred Music Festival, Handel Festival in Göttingen, New York Film Festival, Athens Epidaurus Festival, etc). He frequently collaborates with Armonia Atenea and Athens State Orchestra. He founded the Chorus of Cephalonia, Musica Nova of Patras and the Chorus of the Municipal Conservatory of Patras. He holds diplomas in advanced music theory and choral conducting from the Kodály Conservatory (with honours and first prize) and from the Kodály Institute of the Liszt Academy (diploma with distinction in chorus direction, Peter Erdei’s class). In 2001-2012, as a teacher at the Chorus of the Municipal Conservatory of Patras, he created a model class for choral reading based on Kodály’s pedagogical method. As one of the leading exponents of this method in Greece, he holds masterclasses and lectures to promote the teaching of music reading in music education, contributing to the improvement of Greek choral practice.