ACA ACADEMY ONLINE MUSIC DEPARTMENT
Welcome to the Music section of the ACA Academy for Performing Arts.
ACA ACADEMY MUSIC DEPARTMENT
Welcome to the Music section of the ACA Academy for Performing Arts.
Meet some of the extraordinary individuals that contribute to making us such a unique platform.
We all believe that music is one of the first forms of emotionally expressing your own sound or silence and allowing it to evolve into art.
Music is as natural as breathing to all of us and has taught us that it creates some of the strongest bonds imaginable to man whether that is between groups working together, friends performing together or family members relaxing together.
Several of our Instructors are of Greek origin and are the embodiment of mousiki the « art of the muses ».
Join us to learn, have fun, entertain either by playing a musical instrument of your choosing individually or by participating in a group.
Techniques, respiratory control functions, motor control skills, dexterity exercises, fun methods for beginners and much more will be at your disposal.
Meet a few of our distinguished music instructors
Stacy Koulouris is director of the online platform the ACA – Academy for Performing Arts. She is a highly skilled, goal oriented and serious musician with the ability to successfully teach, perform, organize events and produce musical shows.
Stacy is experienced in helping all age students successfully achieve their goals. She has excellent communication skills and is highly efficient in developing methods which make learning fun at any age.
As an online music teacher, her responsibilities include the preparation of students for National examinations (ranging from ten-minute recitals to two-hour piano recitals).
Nikolaos Chalkias, flautist with the International Chamber Music AMBERLINK ENSEMBLE, studied with D. Fotopoulos.
His narrations and transcriptions are invaluable to the group’s continued success.He attended Masterclasses with Marion, Bennet, Fromanger, Pierlot, Gerard, Graff and has participated in numerous performances as orchestra member and soloist.
Contemporary Greek Composers Ioannidis, Varotsis, Papadopoulos, Travlos, Andreadis, Prosoparis have dedicated their work to him. A founding member and piccolo-player of the Piraeus Wind Orchestra, Nikos teaches flute and chamber music classes in state schools in Athens.
John Raptis is a producer, musician, composer and music teacher from Greece.
He has released three personal fusion albums (2004 CD :TRIP/ 2005 CD: THE CIRCLE/ 2013 CD: RIDE THE STORM) with his band JRB.
He has also been working as a session musician, producer and sound engineer since 1995 and has participated in many pop, rock and folk Greek music albums.
Nathalie Korniluk – Sdralis, violinist with the International Chamber Music AMBERLINK ENSEMBLE, completed her classical music training in France.
In 1994 she was awarded 1st prize by the Royal Conservatory in Brussels. She continued her post-graduate studies at the Vienna Music Academy with E. Zienkowsky and the A. Berg Quartet and obtained her Master’s Degree with I. Oistrakh at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.
Nathalie teaches violin and chamber music classes at the Nikolaos Mantzaros Conservatory in Athens.
Thanos Papadellis is a composer, orchestrator, producer and sound designer who specialises in contemporary music. He was born in Athens, Greece and he discovered music at the age of 6 when his parents gave him his first electronic keyboard.
Thanos is able to draw on his extensive knowledge of classical forms and structures while keeping the pulse of cinematic and popular music. He has studied traditional harmony and piano at the Greek National Conservatory in Athens and he continued his studies at Berklee College of Music, Boston, USA, where he graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Film scoring and orchestration.