Rakopoulos Vasilis

Vasilis Rakopoulos was born in Athens Greece. He got his degree in Electrical Engineering in 1975 at METSOVION National Technical University of Athens (NTU) and had post graduate studies both in Wave mechanics at DIMOKRITOS NUCLEAR CENTER( 1976-78) and in Operational research a at NTU (1979-1980).
Throughout his academic training, he has been working as a guitarist and arranger for various record labels and performed with some of the greatest Greek composers (M.Theodorakis ,M.Chajidakis, N.Mamagakis etc) both in Europe and the United States.
At the same period he had been active within the uprising jazz scene of Athens performing with guests jazz musicians like Rudolf Dasek, Bella Lakatos, Johnny Labizy, winning the guitar player position of the European jazz big band of young musicians.
He lived in Bern-CH (1980-1990) and worked as session guitarist & trumpet player in small combos and bigger formations, attending the courses of the professional department of the SJS and dedicating most of his efforts in Composition.