Christos Samaras was born in 1956 in Doxato, near Drama. He embarked his music studies at the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki (1969-76) studying Music Theory - Harmony with Ioannis Damianos and Counterpoint with Kostas Nikitas - as well as Flute with Emmanuel Ekaterinis. In the autumn of 1976 he continued his studies at the University of Music and Fine Arts in Vienna, studying Composition with Friedrich Cerha and Erich Urbanner, and Flute with Louis Riviere and Robert Wolf. In 1981 he gr...