George Christou
Associate Head of Sound Design Group Cyprus
Sound Designer
Professional work
Managing Director
Soundbizz plus Lights Ltd hire company, Cyprus. 2008 – 2012
projects include: main event for the celebrations of Cyprus 50 years of Democracy, tours by Deep Purple, Vanessa-Mae, Beauty and the Beast on Ice, Armin Van Burren, Tiesto, The Charlatans; September-Fest Beer Festival. Motor Shows. Ayia Napa Youth Festival.
Managing and supervising of crews, set ups and installations. Consulting with clients and production companies in order to carry out the realization of projects. Designing complete sound systems within a given budget. Sound engineer and technician.
Head Technician, Sound Engineer.
RED. Live music venue, Cyprus. 2004 - 2012
major artists who played in the venue:
Demetra Galani, Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Giorgos Mazonakis, Pegky Zena, Vasilis Papakonstantinou and Michalis Hadjigiannis.
Liaising with companies and artists coming into the venue, in relationship with their audio-related requirements. Organizing sound and light set ups. Operating, set up, programming and maintaining house PA system, mix FOH and monitors for live bands and variety shows. Isolate and correct audio problems, such as buzz, hiss, feedback, and signal loss. Routine maintenance, repair and storage of sound and light equipment.
Freelance sound engineer and technician.
2001- ongoing
Setup and operation of PA systems and all associated components, including analog and digital mixing consoles (FOH and monitor), power amplifiers, loudspeakers (mains, fills, subs and monitors), proper gain structure, signal path and signal processing (effects, dynamics, EQ), positioning and strike of microphones (dynamic, condenser, wired and wireless), DI boxes, snakes, playback devices, and recording devices
Sound Engineer.
Thoc. National Theatre Organization of Cyprus, Cyprus. 2004 – 2008
Participation in Hellenic festival Athens Greece, Theatre month of Northern Greece, Cairo international festival for experimental theatre.
Sound design, designing sound effects and cues, and operating sound for a variety of theatre shows. Dealing with directors and production managers. Set ups and programming of sound systems and consoles and sound-check for each show. System optimization and troubleshooting.
Earlier Education & Certificates
HND in Sound Engineering and Arts.
Papantonopoulou college of cinema. Sound Department. 1998–2001
Certificate in Fundamentals of System Design, implementation and optimization.
Meyer sound. 1999
Certificate on System Design.
Peecker Sound. 2002
Certificate for Venue 210V Live Sound Production II.Venue 110V Live Sound Production II.
Avid-Digidesign. 2005
Certificate in Line Array Curving and equalization .
Cadenbach Acoustics. 2010
