Bio

George Polyhronakos was born in Melbourne (October 1964) and started playing drums when he was eighteen. He studied at the Victorian College of the Arts (Melbourne), completing his course (Jazz Department) with high distinction in 1988. During the same year, he was honored with the Gwen Nisbet Award for Outstanding Musical Talent.

While living in Australia he played and recorded with many prominent Australian musicians such as: Graeme Lyall, Tony Gould, Lisa Young, Ben Robertson, Linda Cable, Christine Sullivan, John Sangster, Joe Chindamo, Keith Hounslow and others, as well as visiting artists John Hoffman (USA), Peter Leitch (Canada) and Rudolf Josel (Austria). He became known as a composer while working in Melbourne with his own quartet under the title "Stringtalk" which performed mostly his original material.

He lived and played in Austria and Holland for a few months in 1992 before settling in Athens where he has been living ever since. Dimitrios Vassilakis, Takis Barberis, George Kontrafouris and Stratos Vougas are only a few of the well known Greek musicians he has worked with.

In his first personal CD under the title "blink", he performs his original compositions and arrangements along with 11 great Greek improvisers combined in various settings and playing styles.