Name Paul Avgerinos | Education Peabody Institute Music director If I Tell You | |
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Albums Maya: The Great Katun, Garden of Delight People also search for Jason Simon, Jefferson Kitt, Bob Runk Nominations Grammy Award for Best New Age Album | ||
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Paul Avgerinos (born November 21, 1957 in Norwalk, Connecticut) is an American composer, performer and producer of new-age music whose recordings for Round Sky Music are also classified in the genres of ambient, space, world, World Fusion, electronic and drone. Avgerinos also owns Studio Unicorn in Redding, Connecticut, which produces a wide variety of music for film, TV, commercials and albums of all kinds. Avgerinos is recognized as “One of the Giants of New Age Music“ by Jim Brenholts, All Music Guide.
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Paul Avgerinos | Composer, Producer, Musician
Overview
Paul Avgerinos is a GRAMMY® winning composer and producer whose music is broadcast all over the world. Avgerinos graduated from The Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University in 1981 as a full scholarship honors student in Bass Violin. He served as Principal Bass in the orchestras of Italy, Hong Kong and Venezuela and toured with Charles Aznavour and Buddy Rich before opening his own recording studio in 1985, Studio Unicorn.
Most of the Avgerinos New Age albums are careful blends of acoustic and electronic instruments, both well known and obscure, from around the world. Known for his sound design and layering talent, Avgerinos also plays Bass Violin, Cello, Guitars, Keyboards and Sings on his recordings. Inspired by Enya, Tangerine Dream, Vangelis and his orchestral background, Avgerinos often uses Romantic and Impressionistic techniques as he composes and arranges his New Age productions.
Often employing wordless choirs, he sometimes uses lyrics as in his album of Sacred Chant, Phos Hilaron, and his album GNOSIS, which utilizes Greek Orthodox Chanting. Garden of Delight is his most critically acclaimed recording to date having won awards for Best World Album of the Year and CD of the Month on Echoes. Collaboration with Peter Kater on his Red Moon album yielded a final five Grammy Nomination in 2004. Best Album awards were also earned in 2006 and 2005 as well. Avgerinos's music has been in constant steady rotation on Music Choice, Sirius XM, Echoes, Hearts of Space, Musical Starstreams, Ultima Thule Ambient Music, and Star's End, since the inception of each broadcaster, many of them for more than twenty years. Avgerinos has created 10 music videos.
As an engineer and producer, Avgerinos has worked with Aerosmith, Jewel, Run DMC, Willie Nelson, Deana Carter and The Celtic Tenors.
A member of ASCAP since 1986, the music of Paul Avgerinos has been used in Hundreds of Films, TV shows and Commercials around the world.
Paul Avgerinos lives in Redding, CT.
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