Filippos Manoloudis was born in 2001 in Kavala, Greece, and began guitar at age seven at the Municipal Conservatory of Kavala under Fotis Koutsothodoros. He gave his first solo recital in 2015 and has taken masterclasses with Leo Brouwer, Ricardo Gallén, Marco Socías, Marcin Dylla, Aniello Desiderio, Hubert Käppel, and Oscar Ghiglia. He graduated with honours from the Academy of Music in Darmstadt (2023) and completed a master’s degree at the University of Alicante (2024), and is now pursuing the Master de Concert at the Geneva University of Music with Judicaël Perroy.

Manoloudis has won 16 prizes in national and international competitions, including first prizes at the Volos International Guitar Festival (2016) and the Guitar Art Festival in Belgrade (2017), and has since won the 65th Tokyo International Guitar Competition, marking him as one of the notable rising guitarists of his generation.

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• https://www.siccasguitars.com/blogs/guitarists/filippos-manoloudis