PROGRAM 2026

Dimitris Kountouras

Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, he began his musical training on the recorder and flute with G. Gourdier and I. Macovei. He studied recorder, traverso and Early Music at the Utrecht School of the Arts, in the Netherlands, with H. ter Schegget and W. Hazelzet graduating with a Second Phase performer’s diploma. On a Marco Fodella Scholarship he continued his studies on historical flutes at the Early Music Institute in Milan under M. Gatti and D. Bragetti. Furthermore he concluded his studies on the traverso at the Conservatoire of Vienna and he got a Masters on Medieval Music from the Musikhochschule of Trossingen studying under K. Boeke. He got a PhD on historical musicology from the Athens University and was a post-doc scholar for the Centre of Humanistic Studies (2016) for his original research project “Music and poetry of the Troubadours at the Latin Kingdom of Thessalonica after 1204”.