Dimitri Fampas

Dimitris Fampas (Δημήτρης Φάμπας, Dimitris Fabas) (December 22, 1921 – May 3, 1996) was a Greek classical guitarist. Fampas was born in Milina of Lafkos, a small village on Mount Pelion near Volos, Greece. As a child, he played traditional music on lute and mandolin. In 1939, he pursued musical studies in Athens. He studied Advanced Musical Theory with Theodore Vavayiannis and counterpoint with Costa Kydoniatis at the Athens Conservatory. He studied with Nicholas Ioannou, and by 1953, he received a diploma in classical guitar performance cum laude from the National Conservatory of Greece. In 1955 and 1956, he received a scholarship from the Italian government to study guitar with Andrés Segovia and musicology with Emilio Pujol at the...