Apostolos Tsardakas was born in Thessaloniki in 1969.

At the age of 12 he began to play the guitar, studying mainly Greek music. Shortly thereafter he participated in the Youth Orchestra of Panagouda's Church for 8 years, performing throughout Greece and abroad.

After graduating from highschool he began his professional career working in various music scenes of Thessaloniki, next to renowned Greek artists. He also attended the School of Byzantine Music of the Metropolis of Thessaloniki, completing his studies by the great teacher and cantor of the Ecumenical Patriarchate Eleftherios Georgiades.

In the early 90s he focused his interest to the music and instruments of the Eastern Mediterranean. First he studied the oud, but subsequently devoted himself to the kanun, taking lessons from Greeks and principally Turks virtuosos.

From 1993 to 2004 he was member of the musical ensemble En Chordais, with which he recorded five albums and has given numerous performances in Greece and abroad.

At the same time he worked in the Musical Ensembles of the Greek Radio-television (ET3), in the Traditional Ensemble of the City of Thessaloniki and in the Orchestra of the Museum of Ancient, Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Instruments. He collaborated with prominent artists of the Greek art and Greek traditional music, and with foreign artists from Turkey, Persia and the Arab world.

In 2003 he represented Greece at the International Meeting for the kanun held in Beirut under the European program MediMuses, giving recitals and series of seminars (Master Classes).

He has taught oud and kanun at the Music School of Thessaloniki for 6 consecutive years. Since 2001 he teaches at the Department of Traditional Music (TEI of Epirus), where he was elected in 2010 as a permanent member, in the category A of the Music teaching staff.

In 2008 he published his first book entitled "The kanun in the 78 turns" (Fagotto - Editions of the Department of Traditional Music of the TEI of Epirus).

The academic year 2010-2011 he began studies in Greek Culture, in the School of Humanities of the Open Greek University.