Takis Barberis is a Greek, Athens based guitarist, composer & educator. His music is jazz with a lot of elements from Indian, Funk, Rock, Balkan & Greek music. He was born in Athens in 1963. Started with music at the age of 10 studying at the National Conservatory of Greece. Simultaneously he played guitar in many rock groups. His interest in jazz began in 1979. In 1982 he presented his first compositions with "Jazz Fusion Quintet" & later with the group "Iskra" ('85). He formed the rock group "Montelo 63" ('88-'89) and since then till now he preforms his compositions with "Takis Barberis Group". He has rich personal discography in which has participated almost all of the greatest greek jazz players and worldwide known musicians like Trilok Gurtu, Debashish Bhattacharya, Reshma Srivastava, Satnam Ramgotra, George Kontrafouris, Petroloukas Chalkias… He has collaborated with Glenn Corneille, Ilhan Ersahin, Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Takis Paterelis, Takis Farazis, Dionysis Savvopoulos, Alkinoos Ioannidis, TriCoolOre , he has also taken part in many live performances in Greece & abroad. Since 1981 Barberis teaches modern guitar & improvisation at the Philippos Nakas Conservatory-Athens. Discography: "Iskra-A New Day" 1986, "Montelo 63" 1988, "Something From July" 1990, "Are You Happy" 1992, "Episodes" 1995, "Naiva" 1998, "Porto Kayio" 2004, "In Parallel" with Petroloukas Chalkias 2011 , ''Jargon'' 2013, ''Sleeping Revolution'' 2018. https://www.takisbarberis.com