Apostolos Paraskevas is a Grammy nominatedcomposer and guitarist. He was born in Volos, Greece. Parents of Apostolos were Panayiotis Paraskevas and Chrysoula Paraskevas. Apostolos Paraskevas is a published recording artist and recently an award-winning Film Director/Producer. Gold Level Award at the 2010 California Film Awards, Silver Screen Award in the 2010 Nevada Film Festival. Classical Guitar Magazine/London acknowledged him as the only guitarist ever to have a major orchestral piece performed at New York'sCarnegie Hall and the international press as the only musician who performed at Carnegie Hall in a Grim Reaper's outfit He has received five First Prizes in International Composition Competitions. "Lukas Foss" Composition Competition 2000/USA, "Pappaioanou Composition" 1997/Greece, as well as performing with Lukas Foss at Carnegie Hall, Paraskevas has performed at Weill Hall/New York, Wertheim Performing Arts Center/Miami, /Boston, Capella Hall/Russia, and the /Greece etc. His eclectic compositional style arises as an idiosyncratic integration of seemingly conflicting influences – from avant-garde approaches to harmonic structure, form, and timbre, to pop-folk modal and rhythmical concepts – amalgamated into a personal evocative musical language, characterized by rhythmic verve, melodic grace, dramatic gestures, and ritualistic or theatrical elements-' Paraskevas' profile is included in the publication by photographer as one of 80 most innovative living guitarists. He is a Professor of Music at Berklee College of Music and a composer in residence at Northeastern University in Boston. Paraskevas was the founder and the Artistic Director of the International Guitar Congress/Corfu. Paraskevas' compositions and performances are published by Centaur and Bridge Records/USA, Berben/Italy, Schott/Germany, Silver Sickle Productions and PaNas. Apostolos Paraskevas was struck by Focal Dystonia to his right hand in 2009. He fully recovered in 2013 after 7,000 hours of work in re-constructing his technique. He was able to decode the condition as an unconscious behavioral habit and returned to performing professionally again. His article ' was published in London in the His latest recording 2018 was received as 'the triumphant return to recording' by the
