I was born in Thessaloniki in 1972, though the story of my hands really begins in 1993 — the year I first held a piece of wood and understood, almost instinctively, that it could hold a voice. That fascination, with how raw timber is coaxed into something that breathes and sings, has never left me. It's the thread that has run through more than three decades of my life. I began with traditional Greek instruments before turning my attention to the classical guitar, a discipline that would come to define my craft.

In 1998, alongside my brother Yannis, a physicist by training, I helped found and teach at the first lutherie school in Kastoria — established under the auspices of Greece's Ministry of Culture. It was here that I began to shape not only instruments, but also the next generation of makers.

From that point on, I devoted myself almost entirely to building classical guitars. My work has traveled beyond the workbench, into exhibitions and festivals across Greece and abroad: the European Parliament in Brussels, the Athens International Festival, the Veria International Guitar Festival, the Brno Guitar Festival in the Czech Republic, the first-ever exhibition of Greek classical guitars at the "Phoebus Anogeianakis" Museum of Musical Instruments, and the Salzburg Classical Guitar Festival in Austria, among others.

In 2019, I made a deliberate choice to step away from the workshop for three years — not to abandon the craft, but to rethink it. That pause became a turning point, the bridge into what I consider the second, more mature chapter of my work as a luthier.

Today, drawing on decades of experience and pushing forward with new ideas in design and construction, my goal remains simple: to take the art of instrument making one step further with every guitar I build.