Stephanos Demetriou

Stephanos Demetriou was born in Limassol, Cyprus in 1992. From an early age he was inspired by guitar and began to study himself as well as with various teachers. Costas Apokides is the first teacher that he leads him to the world of the classical guitar. Subsequently, he continued his education in Sofia, Bulgaria with Rossen Balkanski. In 2017 he graduated with a bachelor’s degree and a year later with a master degree at the National Music Academy “Pancho Vladigerov”. During these years he was participating in masterclasses with teachers such as: Evgeni Finkelstein, Darko Bageski, Liviu Georgescu, Ricardo Barcelo and others. He participated in competitions and he has won 3rd places in the Kyustendil Guitar Festival, EGTA Cyprus, 2nd place in the Pleven Guitar Festival in the acoustic guitar category and others. He played in concerts with various ensembles and as a soloist in Cyprus, Bulgaria and Switzerland. Since 2016 he is teaching, composing and arranging. From September 2019 he is a guitar teacher in the National School of Arts “Panayot Pipkov” in Pleven, Bulgaria.