Floros Floridis was born in Thessaloniki in 1952. He studied Physics and obtained his diploma from the Aristoteleion University of Thessaloniki. After that, he studied classical clarinet as a student of the Romanian professor Konstantin Ugureanou and as a result he started his career as a professional musician in the 70's.
In 1979 he and
Sakis Papadimitriou recorded the legendary double modern jazz album "Improvising at Barakos". Since then he has released many recordings and has also participated in various music productions of other artists in Greece as well as abroad.
He has collaborated and recorded music with many famous artists of the impro scene, such as
Peter Kowald,
Günter "Baby" Sommer,
Paul Lytton,
Okay Temiz,
Nicky Skopelitis,
Paul Lovens,
Louis Moholo,
Vincent Chancey and
Ivo Papazov, as well as with Greek musicians:
Savina Yannatou,
Babis Papadopoulos,
Michalis Siganidis and many more.
In 1984, he founded the Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music of the Municipality of Thessaloniki and he has also been the artistic director and organizer of other music festivals too. Some of the international groups, in which he participated as a founder or a member, are the Black Sea Orchestra, the Inter-Balkanic Orchestra and the Florina Brass Band.
Floros Floridis has also been a member of the very well-known Greek group
Chimerinoi Kolimvites for more than 20 years and moreover, he participated in the Euro-American Orchestra of
Cecil Taylor in Berlin 1985. Also, he has worked as a radio producer.