Kaloudis Giorgos

Yiorgos Kaloudis is a modern cello player who uses his personal technique and different timbres of the instrument to produce a post-modern and ambient, alternative environment with classical and jazz elements.
On February of 2005, "DNA LAB_L records" released Yiorgos’ debut solo CD album, "Truth". The new album called “On the Wind” was released in July of 2009, with the kind support of The J. F. Costopoulos Foundation.
Yiorgos performs his compositions using the technique of “Live-loop-recording”, in duet with Ruth Hill on the kanun.
He was born in 1973 in Athens, Greece, and was raised in a musical family. He attended the Athenaeum Conservatoire in Athens, where he received his Diploma under the guidance of the cellist Claire Demeulenaere. He furthered his studies with the cellist Renato Ripo and also with the pianist and composer Stavros Lantsias in jazz improvisation.
The scholarship from the "Fulbright Foundation", in 2002, granted him the chance to develop his personal technique on the instrument and to study composition, arrangement and improvisation under the guidance of Ted Greene and James Mahlis in Los Angeles.