TALKING JAZZ with JAZZ TRIAD
Wednesday 29 January 8pm
Louis Ivi Mare Hotel Paphos
Free Entrance
Reservations: Tel: 26913555
Information: www.paphosmusiclovers.com
The band plays jazz standards and some of their own original fusion jazz compositions with Tasos Gkoumas (guitar), Vasilis Prasodas (bass) and Rafael Kyriakides (drums). They are currently recording their new CD due for release in the Spring of 2020.
Tasos Gkoumas (guitar) was born in 1965 and is a Greek jazz fusion guitarist and composer with three released studio albums. He started playing guitar at age nine, he played with his own progressive rock band Rejoyce at the age of sixteen in small clubs and festivals. Aged twenty, he started performing with famous Greek singers whilst at the same time studied jazz and fusion music which he found more interesting. Now he plays with Jazz Triad and is also involved in other side projects.
Rafael Kyriakides (drums) is the first Cypriot drummer to achieve the certificate Awarding The Contemporary Art Of London, RSL Level 3 Certificate Popular Music Performance and the Diploma in Music Performance DipRSL(Perf) at level 4. In 2018 he completed the curriculum at the Conservatory Of Neapolis Sikeon in Thessaloniki Greece. Rafael has been a member of various jazz, pop and rock bands as well as performing as a session drummer with many singers from Cyprus and Greece. He is a drum teacher and coach for the RSL exams of London and also teaches online around the world via Skype. In Cyprus he is the owner of the Art of Tempo School.
Vasilis Prasodas (bass) is from Alexandroupoli Greece and performs as a session bass guitar player with many Greek many singers. He also teaches bass guitar.
Directions: The hotel is located on the coastal side of the Poseidonos Road coastal hotel strip towards Geroskipou, just before the mini roundabout, between the Leonardo Cypria Bay Hotel and the Aquamare Hotel. LOUIS IVI MARE HOTEL, 12 Theas Afroditis Avenue, 8204, Geroskipou, Paphos. Tel: 26913555. Email: ivimare@louishotels.com.
