Dora Bacopoulos was born in Athens. She studied at the Athens Conservatory graduating with honors. She then enrolled at the Geneva Conservatory and studied with Louis Hiltbrand, obtaining the "Premier Prix de Virtuosité avec distinction".

She also studied in Salzburg with Friedrich GuIda and Vienna with Paul Badura Skoda. She has also been a prizewinner at international competitions in Munich and Vercelli.

She has given recitals worldwide, including London, Paris, Moscow, St. Petersburg, New York and she has toured in central Europe.

She has made a number of recordings of Greek composers (notably Manos Hadjidakis and Mikis Theodorakis) and from the foreign repertoire.

Dora Bacopoulos currently lives and works in Greece, where she is a piano professor at the Athens Conservatory.

The Athens Academy conferred on her the Motsenigos Award for her service to music.

Dora Bacopoulos was born in Athens. She studied at the Athens Conservatory graduating with honors. She then enrolled at the Geneva Conservatory and studied with Louis Hiltbrand, obtaining the "Premier Prix de Virtuosité avec distinction".

She also studied in Salzburg with Friedrich GuIda and Vienna with Paul Badura Skoda. She has also been a prizewinner at international competitions in Munich and Vercelli.

She has given recitals worldwide, including London, Paris, Moscow, St. Petersburg, New York and she has toured in central Europe.

She has made a number of recordings of Greek composers (notably Manos Hadjidakis and Mikis Theodorakis) and from the foreign repertoire.

Dora Bacopoulos currently lives and works in Greece, where she is a piano professor at the Athens Conservatory.

The Athens Academy conferred on her the Motsenigos Award for her service to music.

Maria Farandouri was born in Athens ïn November 28th, 1947, a harsh period, when Greece, like much of Europe, was recovering from the devastation of World War II and the German Occupation. However, it was also a period of readjustment and awakening, sentiments expressed by Aggelos Sikelianos in his poem March of the Spirit, a work of exaltation and heroic vision that would be sung by Maria Farandouri 23 years later in a setting by Mikis Theodorakis.

Maria's childhood was full of hardships. Her parents were both islanders, her father from Kefalonia, and her mother from Kythira. By the time she was born they were living in the working-class suburb of Nea Ionia, an area that had been settled by refugees from Asia Minor in the 1920's. One of the many children struck by the poliomyelitis epidemic that swept the world, she was separated, at two years old, from her parents and quarantined with other affected children in a sanatorium.

This painful experience and the effects of the disease made her childhood years difficult. Adolescence saw the beginning of Maria's creative experience; through her participation in the choir of The Society of Greek Music, she understood that singing would become not only a path to follow but a way of life. The Society's objective was to promote progressive music based on Greek culture and tradition and it was the spawning ground for many young artists who aspired to revive Greek music including Yiannis Markopoulos, Manos Loizos, Dionyssis Savvopoulos, Christos Leontis, Zakis and Panayiotis Kounadis.

In this inspirational environment, Maria took her first steps in music and because of her rich contralto voice, soon left the choir to become a soloist. It was while she was singing with the Society choir, in 1963 that Mikis Theodorakis first heard Maria singing a song of his own entitled Grief. The composer was deeply impressed by the young singer and at the end of the concert he met her backstage: «Do you know that you were born to sing my songs?» he told her. «I know» was the immediate response of the sixteen-year old singer.

In the summer of the same year, after school had broken up for the summer vacation, Maria became a member of Theodorakis's ensemble. Together with Grigoris Bithikotsis, Dora Yiannakopoulou and Soula Birbili, Maria encountered the magic of concert performance for the first time. Soon, her voice was heard at all important political and social events.

Theodorakis's new work The Hostage was performed at every peace demonstration, and with her militant young voice, Maria made the song The Laughing Boy known throughout Greece, and eventually, the world.

During the same period, two of the most famous actors of the Greek theater (Katina Paxinou and Alexis Minotis) were preparing a performance of Euripides' Phoenician Women at Epidaurus for which Theodorakis had composed the music.

Observing the rehearsals was an education in vocal practice and musical expression for the young Farandouri.

Alkinoos Ioannides was born and raised in Nicosia, Cyprus. He studied classical guitar at the European Conservatory and in 1989, aged 20, he moved to Athens, Greece.

He spent the next three years studying theatre at the National Theatre Drama School, and philosophy at the Athens University. In 1993 he was signed by Universal Music. Since then he has released many solo albums. All of them went gold or platinum. His work spreads from songwriting to symphonic music and from experimental to fusion. As a guest singer, he has recorded on more than 40 albums with various artists.

He has also written songs, arranged and produced albums for other artists, as well as music for dance and theater, while his symphonic work is played often often played by orchestras in Greece and abroad. He has been influenced by traditional Cypriot music, Greek composers of the last decades, Byzantine, Classical and Rock music. As a songwriter, he keeps his own band, formed by some of the best Greek soloists, giving 50-100 live performances per year, while he often appears solo in theatres or small clubs.

He combines electric music with choir, improvisation with written music, classical elements with progressive rock, Greek and Middle East influences with jazz. As a singer, composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist, he has collaborated with orchestras and ensembles including the Absolute Ensemble of New York, the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Greek Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra, the Athens Kamerata, the Cypriot State Orchestra, the Greek State Orchestra, the Thessaloniki State Orchestra, the Camerata Europaea, the Manos Hadjidakis Ensemble, the Yiannis Markopoulos' Palintonos Armonia, the Mikis Theodorakis' Popular Orchestra. In November 2009, the Academic Symphony Orchestra Dmitri Shostakovich of St. Petersburg and the choir "Lege Artis", gave a full house, concert performance with his music at the Glazunov theatre of the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory.

Four years earlier, he had attended composition lessons there, with legendary Russian composer Boris Tishchenko, to whom Alkinoos dedicated this concert. In April 2010, he had a full-house concert with his classical work at the Kammermusiksaal of the Berlin Philharmonie. The same program was also sold out in October 2010 at the Athens Concert Hall, in Greece, with the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra.

In May 2011, his works were the opening concert of the "White Nights" Festival of Petrozavodsk, Russia, with the Karelia Philharmonic Orchestra. Since December 2010, he is a member of the board of the Athens Concert Hall. Alkinoos pursued a career in acting before devoting himself to music. One of the youngest ever actors to play primary roles at the ancient theatre of Epidaurus, he played there twice, in 1993 and 1997.

He has also starred in television and on film. Among his diverse activities, he is the baroque-flutist, percussionist and singer of the cult, avant-garde group FMS (Friends of Miltos Sahtouris). He also gives annual seminars on creative writing to postgraduate literature students, at the Florina University.

He has performed in New York (Madison Square Garden, 1996, The Metropolitan Museum, 1999, The Lincoln Center, 2001, SummerStage Festival at the Central Park, 2002, The Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at NYU, 2004, 2007, BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 2009), Chicago, Indiana, many times in Germany (Munich - Carl Orff Saal, 2008, 2010, Berlin - Berlin Philharmonie, 2010, Quasimodo Jazz Club, 2005, 2007, 2009, KulturBrauerei 2006, Cologne – Stadtgarten, 2007, 2008, 2009, Nurnberg – Tafelhalle 2005, 2007, Stimmen Festival, 2006, Rudolstadt Festival, 2007, Studtgart, Frankfurt, Hamburg), Russia (St. Petersburg 2009, Petrozavodsk 2011), Argentina, UK (London - The Hellenic Center, 2000, The Queen Elizabeth Hall 2002, 2007, 2010, Manchester, Brighton, Birmingham), Australia, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Romania, Georgia, Slovakia, Serbia, France, Luxemburg, Egypt, several times at the Acropolis Theatre of Athens and the Athens Concert Hall.

Ioanna Seira was born in Athens, 1991 into a family of musicians. She started the cello at the age of 6 with Christos Sfetsas. At the age of 12 she won 1st Prize at the Panhellenic Competition of Music organized by the Greek Ministry of Education.

At the age of 14 she won 2nd Prize at the Eurovision Competition for Young Soloists in Athens. At the age of 15 she received her Diploma from the Attiko Conservatory in Athens with excellence , first prize and gold metal , class of Marina Kislitsina. In June 2008 , in the Cello Competition organized by Princess Irene of Greece, in memory of her friend M.Rostropovich she received 1st Prize ( Tzina Bachauer Prize) and a 2 year scholarship from the ''Mundo in Armonia'' Foundation. 2008-2009 she is studying in Cologne with Professor Claus Kanngiesser with a scolarship from the Onassis Foundation.

In April 2009 she was accepted in the Zuercher Hochschule der Kuenste (ZHdK) in the class of Raphael Wallfisch and from September 2009 she is studying there,also having chamber music lessons with Professors such as Rudolf Koelman ,Christoph Schiller ,Dominik Sackmann, Susanne Frank and M. Enderle (the last two are members of the famous Carmina Quartet) as well as Viola da Gamba lessons.

She participated in Masterclasses with Dimitris Patras, Philippe Muller , Gary Hoffman (in Kronberg Academy after audition) Claus Kanngiesser and Wenn Sing Yang. As orchestra player she took part in Tournees with chamber Orchestra ZHdK strings ( Konzertmeister and Conductor; Prof. Koelman) and with Animato S.O. as 2nd cello Principal (Conductor: Howard Griffiths).

As a soloist she has performed in concerts with the Academy Quartet ,the Total Arte Quintet and the Amnesty International Orchestra in Greece. In October 2009 she performed the Lalo Concerto with the Athens State Orchestra (Conductor: Andreas Pylarinos) . In February 2010 she performed the Beethoven Triple Concerto with the Orchestra of the City of Athens (Conductor: Michalis Economou).

In April 2010 she was invited by Princess Irene in Madrid to make a private concert infront of Her and the manager of musiespana Humberto Oran. In January 2011 she performed the Vivaldi double Concerto in Auditorio Manuel de Falla (Granada,Spain) with Orquestra Ciudad de Granada (Conductor: Andres Salado).

Takis Farazis was born in Athens and he took up music from an early age. In 1977 he attended classical piano studies at the Hellenic Conservatory from which he graduated in 1984 with top grades in his diploma and harmony diploma. In parallel with his classic studies he took up jazz music and worked occasionally with many musicians of the Greek Jazz stage scene becoming known as one of the most expressive pianists as well as a composer working in various fields: cinema, theatre, records.

"L' Anima" it is constituted from: Stella Tsani (Vln I), Eugenia – Brounilda Mallou (Vln II), Gerta Sinai (Vla), Leuki Kolovou (Vcl).

It was founded in April of 1996, after many years of collaboration at the chamber's room class (Professor: Tatsis Apostolidis) at the conservatory of Athens.

Stella Tsani is an awarded musician with 5 CD records and more than 40 record attendances and also numerous performances as a soloist as much in Greece as in abroad.

Eugenia – Brounilda Mallou is a permanent member of the Symphonic Orchestra of the city of Athens as a concert master.

Gerta Sinai is an excellent graduate of the Academy of Arts of Tirana she is a permanent member of the Athens State Orchestra.

Leuki Kolovou is characterized for an intense activity in chamber music. She has collaborated with the most of the Greek orchestras.

The L' Anima quartet has performed in some of the most important music halls in Greece (Megaron Athens & Thessaloniki Concert Hall, Herodeio, Archeological Site of Bergina, Presidential Residence, Maximos Residence, Stoa of Attalos, National Gallery, etc.).

It has collaborated with the Ministry of Culture for the "Full - moon events" and also with the company Attiko Metro S.A. giving numerous concerts in the metro stations of Athens.

It has performed at the Presidential Residence and Maximos Residence after the proposal of the Presidency of Democracy and the Government.

In april of 2003 the same quartet appeared at the Stoa of Attalos during the ceremony for the enlargement of the European Union. It took part in numerous transmissions of ERT and also in events of the 3rd Program of ERT.

The L' Anima quartet has also a great contribution in children music education. The repertoire of the quartet includes the most important works of the greatest composers (modern compositions, works of old and newer Greek composers and also, transcriptions of famous compositions of the international repertoire. In the Italian "L' Anima" means "The soul".