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Charalampos Makris
He was born in Corfu in 1981. He studied music at the Corfu Philharmonic Society and the Corfu Conservatory from which he received degrees in Harmony, Counterpoint, Fugue, Orchestration and Wind Band Conducting as well as Choir Conducting Diploma. He also studied orchestra conducting at the Corfu Conservatory with Kimon Chytiris and Theodore Antoniou acting also as assistant conductor of the conservatory orchestra.
He has attended trumpet lessons and seminars with Panagiotis Kaisaris, Socrates Anthis, Gerasimos Ioannides, Timofey Dockshitzer and Anatoly Salianine. He studied Conducting in Italy at the Istituto Superiore Europeo Bandistico (Corso Superiore di Direzione di Banda, 2010-11) and at the Libera Accademia DAS of the Associazione Musicale Amadeus in Fermo, Italy (2013- 14) with Jan Cober, Andrea Loss, Carlo Pirola, Franco Cesarini, Mirco Barani, Fulvio Creux and Robert W. Smith. He also attended orchestra conducting courses and seminars with Andreas Pylarinos, Miltos Logiadis, Bart Picqueur and José Rafael Pascual Vilaplana, Eduardo Portal Martin and Francesco Navarro Lara.
As guest conductor, he conducted many wind orchestras in Greece and abroad (Denmark, Italy). In July 2018, he conducted the wind orchestra of the 3rd International Conference of Philharmonic Orchestras, organized by the Hellenic Philharmonic Society in Tyrnavos. He has collaborated with leading musicians such as Alberto Capiello (IT), Richard Jones (UK), Ruud Mourik (HOL), Grigory Volobuev (RU), Spyros Kritikos and others.
In 2004, he formated the Banda Ionica wind ensemble, devoted to the study of the original wind orchestra works of the composers of the Ionian School of Music. Under his button, Banda Ionica recorded works of the corfiot composer and conductor George Peroulis.
In 2013 he composed and directed the music for the theatrical play Vita, morte e miracoli dell’ illustrissimo San Nicola, a production of Teatro Pubblico Pugliese written and directed by Paolo Panaro. Performances took place in Greece (Corfu, Patras, Parga) and Italy (Monopoli, Fassano, Grottaglie).
In 2020, together with Francisco José Rosal Nadales (ES), Francisco Manuel Relva Pereira (POR) and Ilio Volante (IT), composed the music for the Suite 2020 for Wind Orchestra, a project inspired by the global crisis caused by Covid-19 pandemic. The Royal House of Spain and the President of the Portuguese Republic Marcelo Nuno Duarte Rebelo de Sousa honored the four composers with congratulatory letters. The premiere of the Suite 2020 for Wind Orchestra is scheduled to take place in Portugal during January 2021 but postponed due to Covid-19 local restrictions.
During summer 2019, he organized the 5th Panhellenic Conference of Greek Philharmonic Orchestras in Lixouri, Cephalonia with great success. Five major greek and italian wind orchestras as well as more than twenty conductors from Greece and abroad where participating. Franco Cesarini acted as guest conductor and clinician.
His works and orchestrations are performed by many orchestral and vocal ensembles in Greece and abroad (Italy, Denmark, Spain, Portugal). He is emphasizing to the rescue of the original wind orchestra works of the composers of the Ionian School of Music through musicological research, restoration and critical edition aiming to highlight and disseminate their music. As a conductor, he has performed for the first time in Greece many original works for wind orchestra enjoying performing new and contemporary music.
He is teaching advanced musical theory and Orchestration and Wind Band Conducting at the Corfu Conservatory. He has acted as a conductor of many instrumental and vocal groups in Corfu. He was associate professor at the Music High School of Corfu. He has made announcements at conferences (Panhellenic Conference of Greek Philharmonic Orchestras - Hellenic Philharmonic Society 2018, 2019, 2020, Panionion Congress 2018 and elsewhere), speeches on various historical and other issues concerning the wind orchestras as well as publishing articles in the local newspapers.
Nowadays he is working as Director of Studies and conductor of the Palli Philharmonic School of Music in Lixouri, Cephalonia. Under his button, the Wind Orchestra has given numerous concerts in Cephalonia and in Greece (Athens, Zakynthos, Tyrnavos, Andros) including high artistic performances of Theodorakis’ Axion Esti and Pnevmatiko Emvatirio and Hatzidakis’ Gioconda’s Smile. It is considered that is the first - time performance of these full works by Wind Orchestra.
He is acting as guest conductor of the Italian Rimini Chamber Orchestra. He is a regular member of the committee of the Hellenic Philharmonic Society. At the same time, he composes, harmonizes and orchestrates works for vocal and instrumental ensembles.
He is postgraduate at the Open University (UK), Master of Arts and Humanities MA in Music. For the academic year 2020-2021 he is planning a lot of musical activities that includes concerts for the Bicentennial of the Hellenic Independence, composing and arranging music for wind orchestra concerts in Spain and Portugal, teaching wind orchestra conducting seminars and workshops in Greece and abroad, collaborating also with the Asociación Directores de Bandas de la Republica Argentina and Sociedad Musical G. Verdi (MX).
