Biography
Yannis Markopoulos was one of the top film composers in Greece during the 1960s and '70s. Born in Crete in 1939, he learned the mandolin as a boy and at 13 began studying the violin and the clarinet, and he later attended the Athens Conservatory. He began writing scores for movies with Poia Einai i Margarita at the outset of the 1960s -- his third film assignment,
Young Aphrodites (1963), got wide distribution in the United States on the arthouse circuit. Markopoulos moved to London in the wake of the 1967 military coup in Greece. He returned to his homeland in 1970 and began establishing himself as a popular composer with a series of ambitious musical works, and his film activity became far less frequent after the 1970s. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide