George Lignos

George Lignos was born into a musical family in Athens, Greece and spent most of his life surrounded by musicians and artists.

He is a graduate of the American College of Athens (Bachelor In Arts-Music), and he has graduate diplomas in Music Technology, Audio Engineering (SAE Institute), Jazz and Classical Music Theory, Counterpoint, Fuge, and Orchestration (Anagenissi Conservatorium, Athens).

He has studied classical and jazz piano, flute, trumpet, drums, music theory, songwriting, music technology, and audio engineering. He spent over twenty years in pop/rock bands, choirs, military marching bands and symphonic orchestras. He has released with his bands ten full albums and participated in dozens of recordings as a producer, session musician and mix engineer. In addition, he has given more than 1.300 concerts in many major music festivals, venues, clubs, and T.V. and Radio programs all over Europe, Australia, and the USA, including the Jazz Hall of Fame in Alabama, and performing as a support act on the European "The Damage Control" tour with Soto in 2013.

Today he is an Audio and Music Lecturer at JMC Academy, Australia's leading creative industries institution. George is also the co-founder of the ELLINIKES FONES Choir and Committee. Brisbane’s first community choir.

He is the owner of Parafonik music studio in Brisbane, which provides comprehensive and artistic sound production services for bands and artists around the globe—and also studying for an MCI (Masters in Creative Industries ) at SAE Institute Australia.

Creativity at its core cannot be taught, but is discovered through constant exploration of ourselves, of art, of the small world, the great.

Experientially, as we listen to our environment. A metastatic journey realized through the process, friction and osmosis of infinite ideas.

It requires the concept of gradual development through systematic work, aesthetic sensitivity, passion and the ability to self-criticism.

Its ultimate purpose is the completion of an endless cycle, the communication of a message, a radical message, which waits to resonate sympathetically with a new world, causing it to be emotionally charged.

• Don’t wait for creativity, make it. GL