Aris Papadopoulos

The double bassist Grigoris Theodoridis was born and raised in Agrinio. Despite the difficulties of
living in the Greek countryside, he managed to get seriously involved with music from an early age
and to indulge in jazz and improvisational music. Later, at the age of 17 he moved to Athens and
studied jazz and classical double bass. In 2011 he moved to the Netherlands to study jazz
performance at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and received his diploma with honors in
2016. Since 2017 he has traveled and played music all around the world, at festivals in Europe and
jazz venues in New York,Tokyo, Shanghai, London, Copenhagen etc. During his travels to New
York he was a student of the legendary double bass player Ron Carter as well as of Orlando le
Fleming. He has attended seminars and lectures by Larry Grenadier, Joe Martin, Brad Mehldau, Jeff
Ballard, Enrico Pieranunzi, Mark Guiliana, John Patitucci, Vijay Iyer and David Liebman among
others. He has collaborated with many of the best jazz musicians in Europe such as Juraj Stanik, Eric
Ineke, Rik Mol, Attila Gyarfas, Thomas Maasz (the latter two are also members of his trio) and is
preparing a collaboration with the Japanese pianist Mikiko Nagatake, which is going to involve
Japanese and and Greek music traditions.

Discography

As a co-leader:
Aris Papadopoulos, Grigoris Theodoridis: Anapolontas (Irida Jazz) 2021

As a sideman:
Christina Psycha: Violetera (seld-released) 2021
Christos Kladas: Jazz Suite No.1 (self-released) 2022
Menios Gounaris: Set in motion (Irida Jazz) 2022

Grigoris Theodoridis is a professional jazz musician from Agrinio, Greece who plays double bass.

Despite all the difficulties of the Greek countryside, he achieved to play music professionally and to soak into jazz and interpretated music. In the age of 17 he moved to Athens, where he studied jazz and classic double bass.

In 2011 he moved to Holland, to study in the Royal Conservatory of the Hague receiving a diploma of jazz performance/double bass. He has performed in several music halls and jazz festivals all around Europe and in New York, Tokyo and Shanghai as well. In New York he became a student of Ron Carter and Orlando le Fleming. He has also attended seminars and lectures of Larry Grenadier, Joe Martin, Brad Mehldau, Jeff Ballard, Enrico Pieranunzi, Mark Guiliana, John Patitucci, Vijay Iyer and David Liebman.

He has Collaborated with many of the best jazz musicians in Europe, like Juraj Stanik, Eric Ineke, Rik Mol, Attila Gyarfas, Thomas Maasz. The last two are members of his own trio. In cooperation with the Japanese pianist Mikiko Nagatake, they work on the recording of his first personal album. From 2011 to 2016 he was the organizer and artistic director of Agrinio Jazz festival.

He has experience in teaching the bass, jazz harmony-history and he loves teaching the combos. He also worked as a bass player for Royal Caribbean and Holland America Lines. This summer he created an interpretating trio with the saxophonist Dimitris Pantelias and the drummer Stefanos Chitiris. With this trio, they toured around Crete.