Effective period / Period of releases: 1982 - 1983

Thanks to his numerous tours all over the world and his recognition by the audience
as well as by the musical critics, Costas Cotsiolis is nowadays considered as one
of the greatest guitarists of this time.
He has appeared in great concert halls like the Auditorium De Madrid, Grant Auditorium
Radio France, Concertgebow Amsterdam, Concert Hall BBC, Alt Opera Frankfurt,
Palais de Beaux Arts Brussels, Concert Hall of Athens (Megaron),Palais de Congress
(Paris), Herodium (the Acropolis Theater) etc. co-operating with great symphonic orchestras
like the ones of the Broadcasting of Frankfurt, Paris, Brussels, BBC, The Junge
Deutsche Philarmonie, the soloists of Sofia and Belgrade, the symphonic orchestra
Queen Sofia of Madrid, Cordoba, Cannes,Lithuanian, etc.
He appeared at the biggest guitar Festivals of the world like Cordoba, Liege, Canarian
Islands, Tijuana, Paris, Martinique, Leverkusen, Koblenz, Havanna, GFA of the USA
etc..
He worked together at concerts with great artists like John Williams, John
McLaughlin, Maria Farandouri, Milva, Jose Antonio Rodriguez, Patrice Fontanarosa, Al
di Meola, Larry Corryel, Jean Jacques Kantorow, Stanley Jordan, Vicente Amigo. Great
guitar composers like Leo Brouwer, Ernesto Cordero, Sergio Assad, Dusan Bogdanovich,
Anton Garcia Abril have dedicated their works to him. Besides he played many
premiéres of composers like Mikis Theodorakis, Theodore Antoniou, Leo Brouwer, Ernesto
Cordero, Sergio Assad etc.
Costas Cotsiolis has been the art director of the Volos International Guitar Festival
since 1978 ( since 2006 called the Naxos International Guitar Festival ), where more
than 9000 students as well as about 400 professors and soloist appeared from all over
the world. Many fabulous guitarists started their international career as young talents at
this festival.
He is professor of the Conservatory of Athens, the New Conservatory in Thessaloniki
and the University of Indianapolis, Athens Campus, creating an exemplary school of excellent
guitarists who have been awarded all over the world and have international career.
He gave seminars abroad at great universities and music academies like the Manhattan
School of Music, Weimar, Berlin, Dallas, Oslo, Mozarteum of Salzburg etc.
In 1998 he became an honorary citizen of Dallas (Texas).