Kostas Argyropoulos

Born in Athens. He graduated from the Municipal Conservatory of Lamia (percussion diploma in the class of Dimitris Papadimitriou) and continued his studies at Hochschule für Musik Detmold in Germany with Peter Prommel, from where he obtained the Bachelor’s and Master’s specialising in chamber music. He was a regular collaborator of the Landestheater Detmold, where he participated in many opera productions. He has performed with orchestras and chamber music ensembles in Greece and Germany. Specifically, he has collaborated with Dortmunder Philharmoniker, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Philharmonie Südwestfalen, Landestheater Detmold, Ensemble Horizonte, GNO Symphony Orchestra, etc. With percussionist Kazuyo Tsunehiro, they form the percussion duo Kazukos Duo, with which they have performed many times in Europe and Japan, presenting mainly their own transcriptions for melodic percussion. He has attended masterclasses and percussion lessons from distinguished musicians, including Keiko Abe, Jean Geoffroy, Nancy Zeltsman, Marinus Komst, Momoko Kamiya, Andrey Doynikov. Since 2020, he has been a solo percussionist in the Thessaloniki State Orchestra and a member of the dissonArt contemporary music ensemble.