Alevizos Ted

Lyric tenor, folk singer, and Officer of Harvard University — Theodore (Ted) Alevizos deftly combines a classically trained voice with an inherent love of modern Greek culture. Milwaukee-born, he was vocally trained by Emma Kelly during his under-graduate days at Marquette University, and coached by Belle Julie Soudant while a student at the Juilliard School of Music, before receiving a Master's Degree from Columbia University. His family originated from the southern part of the Peloponnesus, and although Ted found some of these songs while working with the famous Greek Folklore Collection at Harvard, many are recollections from his childhoods when they were sung at family gatherings and picnics. Ted learned to play the guitar two years ago; since then he has shared these songs, as well as those of American and English origin, on WBZ-TV and at The Ballad Room in Boston, on Oscar Brand's radio show in New York and with audiences in the New England area.