Yannis Markopoulos Overview

Biography

Yannis Markopoulos was one of the top film composers in Greece during the 1960s and '70s. Born in Crete in 1939, he learned the mandolin as a boy and at 13 began studying the violin and the clarinet, and he later attended the Athens Conservatory. He began writing scores for movies with Poia Einai i Margarita at the outset of...