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Heather Millette, clarinet
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Alexios Pogrevnois (1990-) born in Thessaloniki, Greece. He studied on a Master's program with Mr. Ronald van Spaendonck at the Royal Conservatory in Mons, Belgium. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Clarinet Performance from the Ionian University, where he pursued clarinet and bass clarinet performance studies with Yannis Samprovalakis and Chamber music with Pr. Lambis Vasiliadis. He began music studies at the Municipal Conservatory of Stavroupolis-Thessaloniki, Greece, with degrees in "Music Harmony" (2006) with Petros Bekiaridis and Clarinet with Fotis Terzis. He graduated from the Music High School of Thessaloniki (2008) having clarinet studies with Stergios Moschogiannis.

He has participated in several masterclasses by Ronald van Spaendonck, Spyros Tzekos (principal clarinet in National Opera of Greece), Dimitris Leontzakos, Melos Brass, Idee Fixe, Theofilos Sotiriades, Szatmari Szolt (Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra and Liszt Academy of Music). He attended clarinet performance courses with Robert Hill, principal clarinetist in London Philharmonic Orchestra in January 2013. He also attended in Orchestral and Choir conducting workshops by Kostis Papazoglou and Petros Bekiaridis.

He was a member of the Youth State Orchestra of Thessaloniki in 2006, co-principal in Camerata Stavroupolis, principal and co-principal in the Ionian University Orchestra, and Bass clarinetist in “Big Band Stavroupolis”. He collaborated with the Academica Orchestra of Athens, the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Greece (NERIT), the New Conservatory of Thessaloniki, Woodwind Chamber Orchestra of Stavroupolis, Jazz Ensemble of the Municipal Conservatory of Stavroupolis, and Ionian University Orchestra and Contemporary Ensemble. He performed under the baton of Myron Michailidis, Carolos Trikolidis, Byron Fidetzis, Kostis Papazoglou, and Miltos Logiades.

In January-February 2013 he was honored to make his internship in the London Philharmonic Orchestra, performing near Sir Robert Hill and Nicholas Carpenter and educated in wind ensemble performance by Paul Beniston, as well.

He works as a freelance clarinetist and is a member of the BEARTIVE organization.

Leah Paul is an Los Angeles based composer/ multi-instrumentalist with her own ensemble of dynamic musicians that regularly perform her genre-bending chamber music.  Press Copy Downloadable Here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/to6bhgc2u82invq/AABo90PK-h9iYX-tZhoeF_Z4a?dl=0

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