Petros Filipidis Petros Filipidis Petros Filipidis (; also written as Petros Philippidis, born 31 December 1962 in Athens, Greece) is a Greek actor of modern times, who has appeared in many television series during the last two decades. In 1986, he graduated from the Karolos Koun School of Theatre. Filipidis has taken in many ancient Greek comedies, such as "Thesmoforiazouses" and "Ornithes". He achieved widespread fame starring in the 1993 Mega Channel's comedy "High Rock" along with actor Tasos Halkias. Since then, he has taken part in numerous television series as well as in movie productions. He is perhaps best known for
Petros Peloponnesios Byzantios, Georgios Raidestinos II, Iakovos Nafpliotes, and Konstantinos Pringos. Petros' reputation was not limited to the field of Orthodox chant, he also "composed" and transcribed other genres of Armenian and Turkish music (even composers of the 14th century), including Ottoman makam genres like Peşrev, Taksim and Saz semai which were usually included in cyclic compositions known as Fasıl, but also makam compositions following usul rhythms over Greek texts (Tragodia rhomaïka). According to Kyriakos Kalaitzidis between three and five manuscripts with Makam transcriptions written by Petros' hand have survived, where Petros did also suggest their cyclic organisation as Fasıl. With the