Demo_Deux are Anastasis Sarakatsanos (piano) and Spyridoula Baka (vocals). They have spent a decade wading through musical waters together. They both graduated from the Music School of Pallini, Athens, in 2001, taking parallel routes into the music business. Common projects in discography, film and theatre productions led them to a highly creative collaboration in December 2007. In the next 5-6 years, Demo_Deux weaved melodies into a repertoire that stretches across Eastern and Western Europe, from Greece to the Balkans, passing into the Mediterranean. Only one motif to the choice of a song: that it will be able to «speak» to the heart of the audience. With their eclectic repertoire and the openness of the duet, Demo_Deux succeeds in transcending barriers of geography and culture, seeking to communicate the discoveries of their musical journey.
Spyridoula Baka, vocals
Spyridoula Baka was born in Athens in 1984. She graduated from a music high-school, where she focused her study in the Mediterranean folk music. She’s been having singing lessons, in several vocal techniques, ever since, along with her studies in Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Athens. Among others, she has taken opera singing lessons and has attended Bulgarian, Turkish and Irish folk singing seminars in the Labyrinth musical workshop, arranged by Ross Daly. She has worked and performed in Greece and abroad with very important musicians and groups, such as Ross Daly and the Labyrinth, Saz Grubu, Checkmate in 2 Flats, Takιm, Passed-Isolated, Nikos Grapsas, Giorgos Hatzimihelakis, Dimitris Psonis, Sanades, Efren Lopez-Los Caminos de Serceci, Demo_Deux.
Anastasis Sarakatsanos, piano
Anastasis Sarakatsanos was born in Athens, Greece. He uses music as a means of communication with the audience and is mostly interested in its visual aspect, hence his special interest in theatre and film music. He started his music education at the age of 6, with piano and music theory lessons. Graduated from the Music School of Athens, did his BA in «Folk and Traditional music», in Greece and for the last 5 years has lived in the UK. Completed his MA in «Composition for Film and Media» at the University of Sussex and is currently a Music PhD candidate at Royal Holloway – University of London. Anastasis has worked as a Theatre and Film musician as performer, composer and trainer. He has performed as a kanun or a piano player in numerous occasions (concerts with the London Sinfonietta at the Athens Concert Hall, with the National Symphony Orchestra of Greece on national tours) and has collaborated with distinguished Greek directors and composers.
Anastasis Sarakatsanos, piano
Anastasis Sarakatsanos was born in Athens, Greece. He uses music as a means of communication with the audience and is mostly interested in its visual aspect, hence his special interest in theatre and film music. He started his music education at the age of 6, with piano and music theory lessons. Graduated from the Music School of Athens, did his BA in «Folk and Traditional music», in Greece and for the last 5 years has lived in the UK. Completed his MA in «Composition for Film and Media» at the University of Sussex and is currently a Music PhD candidate at Royal Holloway – University of London. Anastasis has worked as a Theatre and Film musician as performer, composer and trainer. He has performed as a kanun or a piano player in numerous occasions (concerts with the London Sinfonietta at the Athens Concert Hall, with the National Symphony Orchestra of Greece on national tours) and has collaborated with distinguished Greek directors and composers.
Petros Lampridis, bass
