Dimos Goudaroulis

Cellist Dimos Goudaroulis plays modern and baroque cello as well as four-string or five-string violoncello piccolo. During his thirty-year career, he has been invited to participate in numerous concerts, recordings and tours, playing with leading musicians and ensembles of both classical and baroque music, as well as jazz / improvised / folk music around the world. He was born in Larissa (Greece) in 1970 and raised in Thessaloniki, where he studied cello with Giorgos Manolas, Ivan Bianchi and Russi Dragnev. In 1988, he moved to Paris to continue his studies with Philippe Muller and Reine Flachot. There, he started playing jazz and improvised music. In 1996, he moved to Brazil. He taught cello at the State University of Campinas of São Paulo for a decade. In 2003, he received the Carlos Gomes Prize for best soloist of the year and, in 2008, his recording of Bach’s Suites for Cello Solo won the Prêmio Bravo de Cultura Award for best classical music CD of the year. In 2015, he returned in Greece. He teaches cello at the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki and is the artistic director of the Baroque Music Festival of the Thessaloniki Concert Hall. He performs regularly throughout Europe, Latin America, the USA and Canada. His discography includes about 40 CDs.