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                 Profile                                                                

    Kleopas is a self-taught Greek cosmopolite musician. He has traveled, lived and played his compositions out of Greece in countries such as China, Thailand , India, Japan, France, Germany, Portugal, Holland, Cyprus...

    He is a Composer as well as a Singer and he plays the Apollon's Ancient Greek lyre ,the guitar and the bouzouki. Listening to Kleopas' melodies one can understand his Greek origins as well as his deep love for world music.

 

                         

          Professional experience

 

      2025

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In March , together with Thodoris Koumartzis from the family of instrument makers who craft Ancient Greek Lyres,"LOUTHIEROS" they travelled to Canada, where they spend about a month touring Vancouver and Vancouver island, giving concerts and presentations at places such as  UBC University, and the Public 

Library of Vancouver. 

 

      In May, together with Loukiani Pappadaki, they perform in the Braga Romana Festival in Portugal.

 

      In June he participates as a lyre teacher at the International Lyre School in Aegina.

He also participates  as a musician in the Poetry Seminar of Greek-Australian Luka Lesson.

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      In July ,as Kleopas Arcadia Project, they participated in the 

cultural ecents of the municipality of Sikinos, at the mini Festival of Healing Arts in Crete , where they toured playing in various venues including the Mythodia Theatre in Rethymno and the Sylamos Theatre in Heraklion.

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      In August Kleopas Arcadia participates in Mytilene , at Osho Afroz in the seminar "die before you die" organized by Heracles 

Kaifis.

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      In October , he performs as a musician in the play "Alexander"

at the Cultural Center of Heraklion ,Crete , Organized by the Roof

of Well- Being and Exhellence.

As Kleopas Arcadia , they performed in the World Congress of

Gnostic Anthropology and the Pan- European Congress of "Heart Math"in Crete. They also performed in the theatre of the Equestrian club in Heraklion and at the Antivaro theatre in Rethymno.

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       ​​ 2024

   

   In February together with George Livanos on the hand pan  and Loukiani Pappadaki dancing and singing they formed the group Kleopas Arcadia and  they tour around  Germany and Poland.

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       In April he performs in Texas Eclipse  Festival in Burnet.

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   In May 2024 he participates again in Braga Romana festival

in Portugal.In

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      In July he performs in Cosmic Convergence festival in Austria

as well as in the cultural events of the municipality of Keratsini in

Athens.

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     In August he performs at the Colibri Spirit festival in Corfu.

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     In September they perform as Kleopas Arcadia  in Thermopylea as part of the cultural events of the municipality of Lamia where together with his band they accompany the legendary singer of Greek folk  music Giota vei.

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    In October he plays for the inauguration of the 15th anniversary

of the German Archaeological Institute in the presence of the German President of the Republic  Mr Steinmeier.

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    In December together with Theodoros Koumartzis they perform

in the National Archaeological museum in Athens.

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        2023

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   In the course of 2023 he developed a new performance called : a Greek music Odyssey through time and space. It starts with the world's oldest written song " The Epitaph of

Seikilos " , passes through the music traditions of mountains and seas  and reaching to the present day with some of his own compositions.

   Among other places this performance was presented at the Symposium Cultural Center for Music and Mythology in Santorini.

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    In September 14th 2023 , Kleopas was chosen to be the Greek Ambassador of music at the BEIJING CULTURAL FORUM a 

huge national event at which the Chinese Prime Minister was assisting. There , he shared the stage with some of the most renowned musicians from Irak , India, Egypt...not to mention Dr Fang, China's uppermost World music artist.

     

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   In the meantime, Kleopas's circle of students for the lyre and for singing is growing as well as his Greek and international 

acknowledgment. He is on the teachers of Greek Lyre Academy and will be offering classes at the 2024 international

Lyre school organized in the island of Aegina in June.

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     In May 2022, together with Apostolos Preponis, Kleopas represented Greece at the Internetional Festival "Braga Romana" in the Portugese city of Braga.

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     In June 2022, Kleopas opened with his music the Congress of the political party Democratic Alarm in Cyprus.

 

     The same month, he performed with Preponis at the Symposium Cultural Center for Music and Mythology in Santorini.

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     In July 2022, he took part in the Festival for Alternative Therapies and Music "Eftopia"  in the mountains  of  Nafpaktia.

 

 

            2019

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     In  2019, Kleopas started a collaboration, Synapsys, with violin and yayli tabour player, Apostolos Preponis. Together they successfully toured  in different cities of Germany in the spring of 2019 .

   

    On July 6th 2019, in Sciacca Sicily, he played some of his 

compositions on the lyra, accompanied by 9 dancers at the 4 day event of DOLCE & GABBANA Fashion Show, Alta Sartori.

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      On May 2018, he opened with his lyre the 2nd Olympic Seed Festival in Greece and he also took part in a  Lyre festival in Drama with lyre players from all over Greece.

     The same year, he was invited with his lyre at the Seed Exchange Festival in Nicosia, Cyprus.

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     On June 21st  2018, in Santorini island, he performed

with his lyra at a meditation during a yoga seminar organized by the world famous yoga teacher Shiva Rea.

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         2017

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     In the summer of 2017, Kleopas took part in the   International Festival of Heraklion, Crete, "5+1 Civilizations".         

     Since 2017, he has been regularly playing lyre and singing at the Autistic Center Elpida in Thessaloniki, with great results in the psychic health of the children.

 

            2016 

 

    In 2016, Kleopas played  with his lyre at  the International Trial against Monsanto which took place in the Hague in the presence of Dr. Vandana Shiva.

 

            1996-2014  

 

      In 1996, during one of his trips to Thailand, Kleopas met with Alban Marc "Snoopy", ex drummer of the 60's American cult band "LOVE" and their friendship led to the realization in 2002 in Athens of an album called "Snoopy's Love". 

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     In 2000, he created the band NAMASTE with whom he performed in renowned clubs of Greece and at festivals such as the Ethnic-Jazz Festival "Dimitria" in Thessaloniki and the International Festival of Ohrid. 

     Besides, from 2007 to 2018, Namaste was the most beloved band of Santorini island.

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     Kleopas is also deeply involved with the Seed Freedom Movement which is embodied in Greece by the organization "PELITI". For this reason, he has been volunteering his music for the last 10 years to the Seed Exchange Festivals organized by Peliti every year around Easter time.

     In 2014, Namaste took part in the International Caravan for Seed Freedom which traveled from Greece to France. They met there with members of the German Seed Movement and as a result, Namaste performed for 3 consecutive years at the Nuremberg Seed Exchange Festival.

   

                                                                                                                               Discography

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                           2007 Namaste by Namaste

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                            2008 Feeling by Namaste

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                   2012 Shores of the soul by Namaste
 
                            2016 Ubuntu by Namaste
 
                   2017 Wandering Melodist by Kleopas

 

                            2020 Kleopas Synapsys

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