Electric • Classical • Acoustic Guitar
Dionisis Kanakis
Guitar artist, teacher, composer and performer with more than three decades of teaching experience.
Guitar lessons with structure, technical precision, musical thinking, and personal direction. From electric and rock/blues to classical foundation, acoustic guitar, improvisation, and creation.
1995
Started Teaching
31+
Years Experience
3
Electric • Classical • Acoustic
60′
Lesson Duration
Technique • Tone • Expression
Real progress. Personal sound.
Professional Biography
A teacher with stage, didactic, and creative identity
Profile
Dionysis Kanakis is a guitar teacher, composer, performer, and educator active in Patras and Athens. He has been teaching guitar since 1995, working in private lessons, conservatories, music schools, online lessons, and workshops.
Guitar teacher, composer, performer, and educator active in Patras and Athens.
Teaching since 1995 in private lessons, conservatories, music schools, online lessons, and workshops.
Has taught children, teenagers, adults, beginners, intermediates, advanced students, and professionals.
His style ranges between rock, heavy metal, blues, ambient, experimental, jazz, and cinematic directions.
Studies / Training
- • Classical Guitar
- • Electric Guitar
- • Modern and Classical Harmony
- • Degree in Classical Guitar
- • Theory and Harmony
- • Recording, Production, DAW, Sound Design, and Engineering
Clinics / Masterclasses
Mike SternFrank GambaleJohn AbercrombieJohn ScofieldPat MartinoSteve VaiJosh Smith
Lessons
Lessons designed for real progress
Electric Guitar
Rock • Blues • Technique • Tone
Electric guitar lessons focusing on technical development, rhythm, creative playing, improvisation, phrasing, and building a personal sonic identity.
Classical Guitar
Foundation • Discipline • Musicality
Structured classical guitar education, aiming at a solid technical foundation, sight-reading, sound quality, interpretative cultivation, and discipline.
Acoustic Guitar
Rhythm • Harmony • Expression
Approach to the acoustic guitar through rhythmic patterns, harmonic perception, accompaniment, dynamics, clarity, and musical expression.
Improvisation & Performance
Ear Training • Studies • Stage Focus
Connecting technique and expression through ear training, studies, performing, clear goals, evaluation, and personal playing development.
Artistic Path
Bands, collaborations and creative journey
1997-2001
Agnooumenoi
Guitarist • Founding Member
1992-1998
Onar
Guitarist
2013-2026
Marooned in Blues
Guitarist
2009-2024
Night and Day
Gypsy / Jazz Ensemble
2012-2015
Nerve Nets
Experimental / Ambient Project
2016-2018
Boudoir Duet
Guitars • FX • Loops
2014-2016
The Bukofsky Ensemble
Music Ensemble / Project
Collaborations
Babis Papadopoulos, Eivind Aarset, Sotiris Ntouvas, Katerina Kyritsi and other creative partnerships.
Gallery
Official website gallery
Book a Lesson
Start with focus, sound and purpose.
Online and in-person lessons, 60 minutes long, in Greek and English. Emphasis on electric specialization, blues identity, and classical discipline.