Antonis Leontidis was born in 1996 in Athens. He comes from the village of Margarites, Mylopotamos, on his mother’s side and from Pontos, on his father’s side. He started learning Cretan lyre at the age of nine with teacher Panos Gotsis and then for a number of years with teacher George Skordalos. He has also been taught by many and remarkable teachers of Cretan and Eastern music and has attended classes with: Ross Daly, Kelly Thomas, Dimitris Sgouros, Chihan Turkoglu, Karolos Kouklakis, Irini Derebei and Maria Kotti. Also, he has participated in a lot of seminars in Labirinth Musical Workshop and the Music School of Meronas. He has been working professionally since 2015 with appearances in Crete and Athens as well as abroad in Italy and the Netherlands. He has also played in “Houdetsi Music Festival” 2016 and in “Kinono_1 Art Gathering” 2016 in Tinos with George Mavromanolakis.
He has composed the music for the documentaries: “More difficult years, happier years” 2018 (Production of Koin.S.Ep. “Rodakas”), “The threshold of memory” 2019 (Production of Koin.S.Ep. “Rodakas”) , “Daniel, a French ceramist in Crete” 2021 documentary
short film by director Theodore Markou) and “La route de l‘ argile” 2022 (by Sarah Georgel-Debedde and Kristen Durand).
In 2021 he released his first personal music album entitled “Hidden” in collaboration with the musician Giannis Linardakis. It contains mainly his own musical compositions and some old Cretan songs, with “mantinades” from the collection “Cretan Mantinades” (1933) of the great folklorist Maria Lioudaki.
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/A.Leontidis/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/antonis_leontidis/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4kLrAmrVlQiPab7uelZO4h
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRkSod7ZgxHdxHhKjcl75IQ
Bandcamp: https://antonisleontidis.bandcamp.com/releases
