Artists

Vasilis Vazouras

saxophone

Vasilis Vazouras was born in Athens and raised in Agrinio. From an early age he started lessons in classical guitar in a local conservatory school with Nikolaos Dimousis. His passion for music, and wind instruments, made him switch to alto saxophone and become a member of the big band, of the local conservatory school in Patras, named “Polyphoniki Chorodia Patras” under the supervision of the clarinetist/saxophonist George Bourdopoulos. He took part in many gigs with the band in Patras and Zakynthos, in many local festivals.

In 2017 he enrolled at Athens Conservatorium, to study classical saxophone, under the supervision of Athanasios Zervas. There he practiced the classical saxophone for two years. Along with his main instrument, he took private lessons in piano with George Micros. All these years, his strong desire for learning the jazz idiom, made him quit his studies in classical saxophone, and start learning the jazz language on saxophone on his own.

In 2018 he was accepted in a jazz combo created by guitarist/band leader Andreas Papagiannakopoulos, where he started learning the jazz form and the perspective of jazz improvisation. With this combo he took part in many jam sessions and jazz gigs. Since 2018 he is taking lessons in jazz saxophone under the guidance of Yannis Papanastasiou at Conservatory School “Musical Praxis” in Athens.