Anatoliama Ιnc specializes in performing and teaching the rich musical traditions of Greece, Cyprus, and Eastern Mediterranean regions. Our founder George Lernis and artistic director Vasilis Kostas are two Grammy-nominated musicians and educators from Greece and Cyprus as well as graduates of the prestigious Berklee College of Music. They have studied their musical traditions in depth and they currently present them in the United States and around the world.
Their story began in 2017 in Boston, Massachusetts where they both met through the Berklee College of Music community, with a common passion for various musical eastern traditions, and since then, they have built an audience amongst Greek and non-Greek communities around the world.
Their mission is to present and preserve Greek traditional music, through live concerts, in the United States and abroad as well as to offer music educational programs for the youth to academic institutions and various communities.
Both artists have a long list of credentials that include performances with Petroloukas Halkias, Christos Zotos, Danilo Perez, Dave Liebman, Anat Cohen to name a few and appearances in prestigious venues such as: the Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Princeton University, MIT, Harvard University, Cornell University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Megaron – Athens Concert Hall, WOMEX in Poland and the 2018 Annual Archon Weekend event in New York City.