Chrysostomos Sakellaropoulos was born in Volos (Greece) in 1999. At
the age of 8 he started music theory and classical percussion lessons
He graduated from the Music School of Volos in 2017. In 2015 he
obtained the degree in music harmony and in 2018 he obtained the
diploma of Classical Percussion with “Excellent”. He graduated from
the Department of Music Science and Art (TMET) of the
University of Macedonia specializing in percussion. In 2021 he won the “1st
prize” in the “4th Panhellenic Competition Orpheus Soloists 2021” in the
percussion category. In 2022 he participated as a soloist and member of
the orchestra in the 6th “Musa Hellenica” festival of Chios. In 2022-2023
he participated in the opera “La belle Helene of Offenbach” with the National
Opera. In the same year he won the “Yamaha Music Europe Foundation
YMEF” scholarship. Now he is studying jazz vibraphone at the Royal Conservatoire the Hague. He has participated in orchestras such as:
Mediterranean Youth Orchestra (MYO 2018), ERT Symphony Orchestra,
State Orchestra of Thessaloniki, Greek Youth Symphony Orchestra
(GYSO), Megaro Youth Symphony Orchestra (MOYSA), Cologne Youth
Orchestra (JSO Koln), Thessaloniki City Music Orchestra, University of
Macedonia Symphony Orchestra , Volos City Symphony Orchestra,
Symphony Orchestra of the Municipal Conservatory of Edessa. He has
collaborated with Greek and foreign musicians in composing, producing
and performing musical compositions.
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