Yermenoglou Christos

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Title

Yermenoglou Christos

Instrument

drums

Discography

As a leader:
27' (self-released) 2015
Birth (S7/Cue Productions) 2021

As a co-leader:
The Silver Measure: For my sake (The Silver Measure productions) 1998
Freecall: montage for the lost time (Polytropon) 2006
Orthopetalia (Defkaz Productions) 2008 - with Sakis Papadimitriou
Musica Lontana (Leo records) 2011
Plan 3, Makis Stefanidis, Lakis Tzimkas, Christos Yermenoglou: From Stockholm to Samothraki (Πολύτροπο studio) 2013
Act Up Trio: Yedi Kule / Reference to Soropis (Mr. Nakayasi) 2013
Mama Luma: Splendid (Music Chicken) 2014
Basenezmen: Basenezmen (Defkaz Productions) 2015
Christos Yermenoglou, Elias Zaikos: Blue Black Blues (Σαιξπηρικόν) 2017
Mama Luma: Mama Luma (Krapp's Tapes) 2017
Ping Pong (Defkaz Productions) 2018 - with Sakis Papadimitriou
Antonis Anissegos, Christos Yermenoglou: Intertitles (Creative Sources) 2018
Akira Sakata, Christos Yermenoglou, Giovanni Di Domenico, Giotis Damianidis:
Hōryū​-​Ji (Mr. Nakayasi) 2019
Orange Blue Green: Improvised Chamber Music (Orange Blue Green) 2020
Orange Blue Green: Skra's confession (defkaz productions) 2022

As a sideman
:
Lakis Tzimkas: Different faces (Κρουστόφωνο) 2004
Florian Mikuta: Romzil (Ankh productions) 2007
Lakis Tzimkas: The Meeting (Outlandish recordings) 2017

Compilations:
Jazz Society Thessaloniki 2006 (Ankh productions) 2006
Jazz Society Thessaloniki 2007 (Ankh productions) 2007
Jazz Society Thessaloniki 2008 - 2009 (Polytropon) 2009

Short Biography

Christos Yermenoglou started studying byzantine music and percussion and continued studying drums, classical and latin percussion and jazz in the USA. He has taught at University of Nevada and he is a founding member and teacher of Baby Artist, that was founded in Thessaloniki in 2001. He also teaches drums at various schools and conservatories and composes for silent movies, dance and theatre performances.
He has performed at many venues and festivals in USA an Europe and has collaborated among others with Milcho Leviev, Mark Whitfield, Sheila Jordan, John Russell, Graig Bailey, Fred Longberg-Holme and Σάκης Παπαδημητρίου.
He died in 2022 at the age of 53.

Short biography in greek

Ο Χρήστος Γερμένογλου ξεκίνησε να σπουδάζει βυζαντινή μουσική και τύμπανα και συνέχισε στις ΗΠΑ μελετώντας τύμπανα, κλασικά κρουστά, κρουστά της Λατινικής Αμερικής και τζαζ. Δίδαξε στο University of Nevada και είναι ιδρυτικό μέλος και διδάσκων στο Baby Artist, που λειτουργεί στη Θεσσαλονίκη από το 2001. Διδάσκει τύμπανα σε σχολεία και ωδεία και επίσης γράφει μουσική για ταινίες του βωβού κινηματογράφου, για χορευτικές και θεατρικές παραστάσεις.
Έχει εμφανιστεί σε διεθνείς μουσικές σκηνές και  φεστιβάλ στις ΗΠΑ και την Ευρώπη και έχει συνεργαστεί με καλλιτέχνες όπως οι Milcho Leviev, Mark Whitfield, Sheila Jordan, John Russell, Graig Bailey, Fred Longberg-Holme και Σάκης Παπαδημητρίου.
Πέθανε το 2022 σε ηλικία 53 ετών.

Item Relations

This Item dcterms:creator Item: Basenezmen
This Item dcterms:creator Item: Mama Luma: Mama Luma
This Item dcterms:creator Item: Orange Blue Green – Improvised Chamber Music
This Item dcterms:creator Item: Mama Luma: Splendid
This Item dcterms:creator Item: Act up Trio: Yedi Kule / Reference To Soropis
This Item dcterms:creator Item: Hōryū​-​Ji
This Item dcterms:creator Item: Four my shake
This Item dcterms:creator Item: 27'
This Item dcterms:creator Item: Birth
This Item dcterms:creator Item: Intertitles