Session pianist / Organist

Piano - Organ - Fender rhodes - Hammond - Clavinet and whatever you need for your project.

ASTERIOS PAPASTAMATAKIS studied classical piano until the age of 19 and then attended Berklee
College of Music, from which he graduated with a diploma in Commercial Arranging. While there, he
studied jazz piano improvisation with Jerry Berconzi, arranging with Donny Nolan, jazz piano with John
Arcaro and jazz harmony with Jeff Friedman.
In his 25- year career as a professional piano-keyboard player, he has formed his own bands and
played with numerous famous Greek artists like Socrates drank the conium, Basilis Papakonstantinou,
Eleni Vitali , Vasilis Lekkas, Giannis Vardis, Eleni Peta, Haig Yazdjian, Yiannis Spathas and explored
different musical styles.
He has been the hammondist of choice for visiting artists from the US and Europe such as Richard
Smith, Tasha's World, Alex Foster and Kory-Clarke.
His composition ''Burn Out'' was included in George Kollia's (one of the best metal drummers in
the world) internationally distributed instructional dvd "INTENSE METAL DRUMMING''.
In 2012 he performed at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club during the London Jazz Festival.
He has being a music teacher in various music schools and clinician within the past 18 years. He
taught music theory, harmony, jazz piano and ensembles at “Filipos Nakas Conservatory” to native
students and exchange Berklee students.
He teaches systematically students from all over Greece and abroad

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