Telis Dimitrakopoulos was born in Ioannina. He grew up in Preveza where he set out his first music steps by attending and finishing Music Junior High and Music High School of Preveza. 
He is a graduate of the Department of Music Science and Art, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, with specialization in Poetics [(Art of Composition)(class of Ilias Papadopoulos, Stamatis Pasopoulos)] and studied saxophone and Jazz studies at “Thessaloniki Contemporary Conservatory” (class of Haris Kapetanakis). He holds a Master;s degree in Musical Arts, with specialization in “Early Music and Modal Musical traditions of the Mediterranean”, at the Department of Music Science and Art, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece.
As a composer and performer, he explores, studies and investigates new ways of approaching and applying traditional, classical world and modal music via contemporary art and creation, which is characteristic of his work and his performing act. Another element characterising his work is improvisation and its interaction in performance and composition, too.

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