Modern fingerstyle acoustic guitarist & composer
eva
Atmatzidou
Biography
Eva Atmatzidou was born and raised in Giannitsa, a small town in the North of Greece.
She has studied Music & Psychology and she is currently completing her Master in Philosophy and Arts (MA).
She has released 3 albums of different genres; songwriting, solo fingerstyle acoustic guitar music and fixed electronis.
She also publishes her (Greek) poems in hand to hand limited editions.
Since 2006 she lives in Athens.
Music Studies
Psychology Studies
Eva has studied Classical Guitar, Classical and Modern Harmony, Counterpoint and the Fugue. She has also studied Composing Music At Theatre, at the National Theatre of Greece, focused on more experimental and avant garde ways of composing.
She has a special interest in studying History of Art and she is currently completing her Master in Philosophy and Arts, with her research been focused on gender theory and experimental music.
Various classical guitar masterclasses, Jazz guitar improvisation and modern singing lessons, Old Music and Jypsy Jazz masterclasses are part of her younger musical education too.
In her fingerstyle acoustic guitar playing and composing this knowledge gets in dialogue with the experience and the "real music life" of an on stage performing musician, as Eva has also been involved with other musical instruments through the years, such as bouzouki, mandolin and the piano.
Eva has also studied Psychology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her special interest is in Educational and Developmental Psychology.
After receiving her Degree, she attended specialized education on Diagnosis and Rehabilitation of Specific Learning Disabilities and on Counseling Children, Parents and Teachers.
As a Songwriter
Her first album as a songwriter was released in 2010, a CD named “Mataio Roz”, including eleven of her songs, both music and Greek lyrics composed by her.
She has collaborated with many Greek artists (O. Peridis, L. Kalimeri), touring around Greece and abroad in live concerts, playing the guitar, the bouzouki, the mandolin and singing. She has also record as a musician for other artists' cds (H. Alexiou, M. Lidakis, G. Merantzas, K. Koullia and others).
Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar
In 2013 Eva presents her first composition for solo guitar, "Rondat", in hybrid acoustic guitar picking. In the same year she has been featured in the American guitar magazine Fingerstyle 360, while the same composition some years later was included in the list for VCE examinations on Contemporary Fingerstyle Guitar from 2020 until 2022 in Australia.
In 2014 Eva reaches a wide international audience for the first time, as with her second composition for solo fingerstyle guitar, "Tsouka Rossa", she was featured at the American record label Candyrat Records youtube channel, as a guest artist.
Her complete solo guitar album, "TRENOVA" was finally internationally released 2 years later, in 2016, through Candyrat Records, including 8 compositions for solo fingerstyle acoustic and 12string guitar.
Eva plays her music in concerts and festivals worldwide. In 2017 and 2018 she started organising Fingerstyle Invitations to Greece, inviting great Fingerstyle guitarists and composers from all over the world in Greece, sharing concerts and workshops. This idea remains open to the future.
On January 2020 her composition "Message to Tommy Emmanuel" was released by Candyrat Records as a single, sharing an idea of what she is working on. "Message to Tommy Emmanuel" is dedicated to the guitar legend and is one of the compositions included in her expected album.
She is one of the G7th Capo and Lakewood Guitars artists.