Miaris Jazz Trio

The Miaris Trio invites you at Technopolis 20 garden, on Friday, 26th of June, at 8pm, in a different jazz music event dedicated to the bebop, a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s, characterised by a fast tempo, instrumental virtuosity and technical complexity.

Dimitris Miaris on keyboards, Costas Halloumas on double bass and Marios Spyrou on drums, will present compositions by Thelonius Monk, Bud Powell, Charlie Parker and more.

Join us in our beautiful garden, at the second of the summer jazz music evening series for this season.

Entrance: 12 euro

ONLY with reservations and presales. Limited number of seats due to the measures announced by the government to deal with the pandemic of COVID-19.

RESERVATIONS by phone at 70002420.

A few words about the musician

Dimitris Miaris was born in Nicosia in 1991. He started playing classical piano from 6 years old. At the age of 16 Dimitris had his first connection with Jazz through the “Jazz Futures” workshops that took place in Nicosia with great musicians such as Sacha Perry, Vahagn Hayrapetyan, Ari Roland and Chris Byars. Since then he took part in almost all the “Jazz Futures” workshops and had various live performances in Cyprus and Greece. He also attended the monthly Bicommunal Workshops with Charis Ioannou. The last two years he participated in Dr. Barry Harris’ workshops in Rome. He is also a member of ‘Neorebetes’, a Greek traditional band, where he plays the accordion. The band has performed in Cyprus, Greece, Kazan (Russian), Sydney and Melbourne (Australia). He received his Bachelor Degree for Jazz Piano at the Ionian University's Jazz Department in 2009 under the instruction of George Kontrafouris.

Costas Challoumas was born and raised in Larnaca. He studied pedagogy at the University of Cyprus, where he graduated in 1999. He studied double bass and music theory with Nikos Ioannou and continued his studies at ‘The Collective School of Music’ in New York with Sean Conly and Joe Fitzjerald. For twenty years he is a member of various musical ensembles (traditional, jazz, latin etc) and also of music and theatre performance groups. Amongst others, he was a member of the musical ensemble of ancient instruments “Terandros”, the original Cuban band “Havana Noche” and “Turnaround Jazz Quartet”, while the last years he is the artistic director of “Makam Ensemble”.

The drummer Marios Spyrou was born in Nicosia in 1990. He was inspired from an early age by his father, who is also a jazz drummer. He has played extensively with the top Cypriot jazz musicians and has a Masters in Jazz from the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Holland.